Movenpick Movenpick

In general, I liked the hotel. And much more than the country itself. I must say that Tunisia (even according to local guides) after their velvet revolution noticeably dilapidated. It could not but affect the hotel itself.
On the bus on the way from the airport, the guide repeated several times that the hotel is the best in all of Tunisia.
At the airport, guards in a semblance of a uniform immediately jumped up to us and began to offer to carry luggage to the bus (and in fact to roll, everyone has suitcases on wheels), who did not have time to refuse, then bargained, because the porters asked for 10 dollars for 50 meters of help.
Money can be changed even at the hotel, the exchange rate is the same everywhere. It is better to spend all the dinars, because dinars are not accepted at the airport in duty free, and no more than 100 dinars per person will be exchanged back if there is a receipt for the exchange.

We were seated pretty quickly. Lived in a double Rooms in the main building with a view of each other or the sea. There are bigger rooms in the right and left wings of the hotel, with a winter garden. Everything is as promised in the rooms - two beds, a flat-screen TV (RTR-planet, Vesti, Euro-news Rus and Shanson-TV), a small refrigerator with a minibar, a free safe. Kettle, tea-coffee, bottle of water - free of charge. Pretty spacious closet. In the bathroom there are towels, bathrobes, shampoo, gel, cream, hair dryer, a large mirror and a magnifying mirror with lights. There is no hood, so you need to shave before taking a shower, otherwise the mirrors will fog up. Wi-fi is free in the lobby and in the restaurant, but in some rooms it was also possible to catch a signal, the speed during peak hours is bad, but bearable during the day. The rooms were cleaned regularly and not bad, we left a dinar and for that they twisted a pretzel out of our towels. Water and soap were also replenished regularly, but tea and coffee were never brought again. The air conditioner worked properly, no strange smells or sounds.
The breakfasts are not very plentiful. Lots of fruits and dates. Fresh orange, strawberry and kiwi, brut champagne. There were no drinking yoghurts or kefirs.
Lunch and dinner are not bad, the food is varied and tasty. Separately European dishes, separately local. There is no mixing of genres, as in Turkey, for example, they like to pepper European dishes. And the food is better compared to Turkey, there are no endless dishes from nothing. Separately Italian corner - pasta and pizza. Fish (tuna, sea bass, dorado, marlin) and seafood were often served. Several times there was even pork, next to these dishes there was an image of a pig in a red frame. The manager escorted you to the table and seated you at the table with cutlery. Dinner in two shifts, you must choose which shift you will have dinner on, a table is assigned to you and you have dinner every day on this shift at this table. The restaurant serves beer or wine. The waiters rush about as if stung, but they do not always cope. For a dinar, the boy served us very well. It must be admitted that they do not serve everyone equally kindly.
In addition to the main meals during the day, there are all sorts of snacks in different bars. From 16 to 18 in one of the bars it's time for Swiss chocolate, all sorts of sweets are prepared.

At the bar, you can ask for a drinks menu, where two pages at the end indicate what you can order for free. True, tequila should be poured for free, but it was allegedly not available. Alcohol here is much better than in Turkey, Egypt or Cyprus. The beer is not bad, you can drink brandy, the local Bukha fig moonshine is not bad, but for some reason it quickly ended. After the second time they repeat not very willingly, but one dinar does wonders. All bars make not bad coffee, not powder, but real espresso. There are a la carte restaurants, you need to book in advance. We went to the fish, the service is not bad, but the menu is poor. And others complained about the very long service. In the evenings, a musician plays a synthesizer in the lobby bar and sings old famous hits. And on Saturdays and at dinner. And on Thursdays for dinner, a Tunisian evening with local music, belly dancing, costumed waiters, etc.
The hotel is designed for a respectable vacation or family vacation. The staff calls you madam or monsieur, everywhere they open doors for you. The hotel has only Soft-animation, Pilates classes, sushi modeling lessons are not intrusively offered. There is a mini-club, quiet, the children quietly have fun there. Discos, loud entertainment, noisy water slides, etc. not on the territory. Lots of security. If you do not throw things anywhere and do not forget to close the safe, nothing is wasted.
Several pools. Large fresh, next to a smaller one with heated sea water and water cannons and a couple of children's. There is a hydromassage. Plenty of sunbeds, comfortable. Two changing cabins, next to them fresh shower. Near the pool and on the beach, the waiters serve for money, or you go to the bar yourself and take it for free. There are plenty of sun loungers on the beach, the sand is clean, very fine, the beach is well-groomed. The sea is shallow, you walk about ten meters - waist-deep. We had a storm for a couple of days, the water was dirty. Beach towels can be changed once a day. We were warned not to leave towels when leaving the room, otherwise they would be taken away and we would have to pay a fine for the loss. There are lifeguards on the tower near the pool and on the beach, the beach is fenced off from the water with a rope fence, the locals followed it (the coast is apparently in municipal property), but they could not go behind the rope - there were guards
Gym (free of charge) with sea view. They won't let you in without sports shoes. They provide towels and a bottle of water. In the hall there are 5 orbitreks, 5 treadmills, 5 exercise bikes, barbells, dumbbells, bench presses, a couple of benches, etc. True, on the 3rd day the water in small bottles ran out and was poured into glasses from large bottles. After training, they offer orange juice.

The fact that the hotel is "cool" by their standards, you can feel when you go out into the city. The locals immediately figure you out by the bracelet, shout “Hello Movenpick”, offer their services, considering you a rich man and a potential sponsor, and in the bazaar they sell you everything more expensive than the rest.
In general, everything is not bad. Of course there are a lot of small cons. This is peeling paint here and there, and rust streaks, even cobwebs on the lamp in the corridor. Of course, the managers are well-trained, and the junior staff is not very, not always quick, and they know English poorly, mostly French. Ours are treated a little differently, though not without reason, because our tourists basically don’t know either French or English and are annoyed that they don’t understand them. The pool is poorly cleaned, the bottom is in the sand, the tiles are sticky to the touch in some places. There are no paths between the sunbeds on the beach. If the sand is hot in the heat, you don’t look like barefoot. And in the evening you can’t walk along the beach in shoes. Despite the fact that the hotel is not small, there is nowhere to walk around the territory. In the room, the water drain button leaks when pressed, the magnifying mirror is poorly fixed. All malfunctions after complaints are repaired, but slowly. The restaurant, where the main meals are served, overlooks the pool, but there are no tables outside. Yes, and you can’t go to the pool from the restaurant - the doors are closed. It is necessary to bypass through the Reception or another wing. If the restaurant is considered the first floor (elevator button 1), then the reception button is 3.
But there are many more pluses than minuses. Of all the oriental hotels (Egypt, Jordan, Turkey) in which I have been, this one is the most Europeanized.