Veselukha!) But we don’t go to Tunisia anymore)
Well, first a few words about the country and the city. A typical Arab country with typical Arab residents, they make noise, want to chat, sell something, going through greetings in different languages in the hope of stumbling upon the right one. There is a tactic: I see a bracelet with the name of the hotel - I say: oh hello, remember me, I'm a bartender with the "name" of the hotel, where are you going, what to tell you... you should go with him and spend the money from which he will have a share (well, if so, and not an attempt to deceive or steal. ) So it’s better to silently pass by and not greet any of the intrusive passers-by, but look away completely and ignore it.
Girls in the city should not go in short sexy outfits, there will be a lot of "attention" if you go to a store or to the city, then more in closed summer clothes (not a hijab, but just an ordinary dress, skirt, trousers) and it is better to go accompanied by men.
Yes, the city is touristic and there are not particularly radical Muslims, but it’s definitely not worth the risk.
In the city itself, as well as in the country, it is dirty, but there are no factories and factories that pollute the air and toxic waste, but the population itself is not particularly worried about cleanliness. The urns are always overflowing and seem to be cleaned out no more than once a week, and papers, bags, cups, cigarette packs, food packages are thrown right under your feet and then the wind showers rare trees and shrubs, garbage is everywhere! There are problems with the sewage system (the desert), it stinks in places, oh, how fiercely, and in places it’s not very fierce, in some places it doesn’t even stink at all, but you need to know the places)))
The most populous and noisy hotel in Sousse - Marabout Aquapark. The rooms are old, about the basement first floor, immediately go into denial, if you check into a standard room in the old building without additional payment, then from the 2nd floor and above, if you want to check in before 12.
00, and not hang around at the reception, you will need to pay an extra 60 dinars, in principle, for an extra charge of 60-70 bucks, they can settle in a new building with very decent rooms (consider if you eat together and for 10-12 days, then for a day in a good room is generally tolerable) there are NO air conditioners anywhere, but there is forced ventilation (which they call air conditioners), it works from 16.00 and if leaving the room you leave the electricity on, it generally cools the day ahead. If the toilet is leaking or the faucet falls off (and this is a common thing), then you need to demand very persistently to correct the situation, you should not expect that after the first appeal they will react (either we stand without leaving the admin until the technician gives or we run every five minutes to remind you that you did not forget about the promise to fix). Of course, there is no service, that's for sure, the braked Hamlo crawls like snails.
The hotel staff are all very, very slow when contacted - they try to pretend they didn't notice or don't understand and in other ways try to ignore you. If you start looking for the truth, then rudeness is not a rare occurrence. Only aggression and an impressive threat from a man can calm them down here, and they try not to notice polite guys, and especially women. The cleanliness is very conditional, there is really no wet cleaning, so they will collect garbage from prominent places and empty the bins, well, they will shake the sheets and cover them (the same one, of course))) nafig-nafig, let the locals ride, who, like in a water park, get daily bracelets. The worst thing is the organization of the canteen?? ? ? The dishes need to be checked before use, washed very relatively. Food is ok but repetitive.
If they would normally organize distribution by zones and quickly change empty dishes for full and independent choice of dishes, then it would be tolerable. And then they will lay out the instruments on the tables, one person sat down at the table - and three sets disappear, but others go and look for where to snatch a fork, you can’t wait for the workers, stupid, slow, untidy creatures ?? ? ? Well, so that the "waiters" do not flicker, for them to remove from the table is to shake off the tablecloth on the floor (well, on the chairs on which you sit). In short, you need to drive the head of the dining room under the ass with a filthy broom and it will be normal. There are no non-alcoholic drinks! What they call fanta, cola and sprite - water with soda, a huge amount of sugar and appropriate flavoring, juice - the same thing, but without soda and gas??????? ?
Animators - goner bastards for the most part, arrogant, trying to squeeze into the company, shoot whitefish without asking, drink booze, well, invite heifers "on a tour. " After the evening program, they really like to gather narrow-minded tourists and take them to a disco in local clubs, well, further according to the program) And it’s a complete disaster with the Internet, you definitely can’t use it during the day, send a text message at most from the reception area or bar, there is no signal in the rooms at all, so if you need to do business online, then only at night after an hour in the lobby. In general, it’s definitely not worth going there nervous and violent. But if you are going to have fun in the company (even if you go in one helmet, then there will be a company), hang out in the pool, sunbathe, lie on the beach (which are right on the territory of the hotel), then it’s not bad for yourself!
To score on the service, not to roam in the canteen and not to choose, I took a soup, a piece of meat or fish, a little rice and norms - once or twice a day you can go to the canteen and not stand with the crowd, but take what is free a little a little, nevertheless, we didn’t come to eat and in the heat you don’t really want to, even to push in line... then you go to the bar, play cards with the same simple guys and girls (and pretentious people don’t go to this hotel), drink beer before the bar closes, and after closing the stocks that I bought in the store during the day, have fun, sing, walk, play "crocodile" and have fun. Many come here again, on the first day it was wildly amazing for me, but then when I started talking in companies, getting a little drunk and having fun, I understood the trick)
