Holiday to Tunisa

i was considering Tunisia this year but after posting on another forum for good/bad reviews - i got loads of bad reviews. Decided that it wasn;t a good idea. To many horror stories about not being able to leave the hotel etc.

not actually been - just posting what responces i got when i asked a similar question. :(

check the hotel out on

www.holidaysuncovered.co.uk if you can.
 
Been to Tunisia, never again.

The people make the place bad, and it was really expesive, and finding cheap local food was a pain too.

Avoid IMO, Try morocco instead, people are much nicer.
 
nice place i liked it when we went but pls pls pls when the first time you go to the big city you WILL goto the market place just take £5 with you for the taxi back to the hotel

not that they will steal it its just they are very very very persuasive we went the first day an hated it then went back the last day with no cash an it was great knowing i couldnt buy anything really made it more fun

great place really nice food an hotels are massive !!!
beware of the rude germans though
 
brother went there and LOVED it, realy nice place, I think it depends where you go realy.
 
Went to Port El Kantaoui last year in a hotel called Abou Sofiane and it was 10/10.
The people were absolutely amazing and the entertainment team were top notch although they were overpowering at times.
I never went hungry but it was hard to get drunk in the hotel.
Port El Kantaoui has been set up as a holiday resort and they love the British (money).
It was that brilliant that my eldest daughter has been twice with her mates to the same hotel.
One day we took a trip to Sousse and it was like another world. After two hours we fought our way out of the markets and caught a taxi back to El Kantaoui.
No way will I ever venture to Sousse again.
 
I used to work there for 6 months (well off shore) but got a lot of free time there.

Mainly visited Djerba, the hotels (complexes) were stunning 5 star marble everything but very very german, its been their secret retreat for a while now.

the actual country is boarderline 3rd world, its a stink hole. I really dont enjoy walking arround places with open sewerage.

The weather can get overpoweringly hot so be careful, it was 40oC for a fair ammount of the time i was there.

Stayed in Tunis as well, mad place mad people, mad enerything.

its cool tho and suprised myself with how much french i could still speak.

so in all, good if u live in a hotel complex private beaches etc.

I did the markets once, luckily i was with some Rig worker type people that said what they thought lol, i was way too polite for thatplace they ware you down, be strong!

Oh and Imported drinks JESUS avoid imports i paid 7 quid for a single whisky and coke.

Celtcia! beer all the way
 
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to late for me we are going to Port El Kantaoui in november for our wedding anniversary. did quite a bit of question asking on various forums and got spot on answers here.
 
I went there when i was a kid about 20 years ago and hated it. I was speaking to someone the other day and they said it was now really modern and bustling. I stayed in Monastir.

The only good thing about it was visiting Matmata to see where some of Star Wars was filmed. Oh, and the camel ride. :)
 
gc123 said:
to late for me we are going to Port El Kantaoui in november for our wedding anniversary. did quite a bit of question asking on various forums and got spot on answers here.
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I put some pictures of Port El Kantaoui here -

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/d.poole410/tunisia

I don't know if its still there but look for The English Bar. Its run by a Cockney woman and they show premier football. There is a very poorly drawn diagram in that directory on how to get to it (not to scale) but its only a 10 minute walk from the Riviera Hotel.
 
Some of thos pictures look cracking, seems just what im looking forward to

Ive slight worries about the heat (more for the avoidance of nagging form the gf :p ) But I should be cool with it

Im not big on drinking in foreign countries, so the £8 JD wont be on my list

Thanks for the advice on the markets, ill leave the money at home...Ive heard about the huge array of pickpockets too, so just another reason to do so....Will still be a fun day dosing around them though I hope

As for those camels...as long as I can get 2 for the gf ill be a happy chappy!
 
I took photo's of those very same fountains.

Well there were fountains in that big pool when I was there anyway....
 
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I thought it was good. It made a change from spain and that.

As mentioned above, in the market place they love you british fat cats.

Nothing in the market place will have prices on, you have to haggle on everything, and these guys will try anything to get ever single penny you have.

It's quite an experience, but they will typically double the price when they see you coming.

The best bit was when we went on a 2 or 3 day tour around the country. We visited an old coliseum..

We visited the salt lakes, where there was some market type stall in the middle of no where, that was selling those rocks with crystal type structures inside them. I can't remember how much I payed for them, but the guy wanted £x for 1 rock, in the end after walking away several times (which really works for a good haggle) I ended up taking pretty much all of them.

We visited these cave "houses" where they filmed some of the original Star Wars movie.

We rode into the Sahara Desert on camels, this was done in the evening, obviously way too hot to do this during the day.

There was a train ride into these rocky mountains that stopped every now and again, this is where I spotted a small black scorpian!

Typically the people are [censored], the're rude and push in line etc. The one word I picked up from there was "imshe" (the im rymes with inn, not as in i'm). It bascially means go away/move out the way.

However one of the waiters we had in the resturant in the evening was very nice, and exetremely hard working. He worked around 12 hours a day, so we tipped him a lot.

One tip: In customs (Britian) buy a bottle of whiskey, since alcohol is rare over there (because of the religion). When we was haggling in the market place, we could have got anything in the shop for that bottle of whiskey, it's like gold to them.
In the end we decided to give the bottle (without anyone watching) to the waiter for all his hard work.

Also, when we went on this tour, it was some religious day there, so they was slaughtering a lot of camels and goats, skinning them, and then hanging it out to try... with the blood all dripping out on the road. It was awesome :D

Oh, and you should see some of the driving around there when it get's busy, people are just looneys, it's very funny to watch. If you've ever seen clips of what it's like in India, it's similar to that (not as bad as India though).


Make what you will of all that, but I really liked it, but only because we went on that trip. Maybe I can dig out some photo's.
 
No need to buy whisky if you're going to Port El Kantaoui.
They've built little supermarkets now with has much alcohol as you want (whether its real whisky is anybodys guess though).

Another tip - when you get there and go and get your sunbed on the first morning let one of the attendants do it and give him a £2 tip and he'll do it every day and then give him another on the 2nd week or at the end.
Do the same in the bar if its all inclusive. Give them a nice tip on the first night and you will get a lot more alcohol in your drink. My lady was bladdered every night but I couldn't get drunk on the fizzy beer.
 
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Another tip - when you get there and go and get your sunbed on the first morning let one of the attendants do it and give him a £2 tip and he'll do it every day and then give him another on the 2nd week or at the end.
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True.

When we was there, the damn Germans put there towel on the free sunbeds at night, so they had it in the morning, whilst everyone else had to use the paid for sunbeds.
 
Longbow said:
True.

When we was there, the damn Germans put there towel on the free sunbeds at night, so they had it in the morning, whilst everyone else had to use the paid for sunbeds.
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Now theres a subject all to itself -

SUNBEDS.

I didn't have a problem in Tunisia but in Tenerife the year before I became the SAS of getting sunbeds.
Now matter how bladdered I was I'd get up at 6am, go for a 5 mile run, get back to the pool and sit by a rack of sunbeds that me and another bloke knew had a false chain on it.
We'd get our breakfast and sit there chatting for an hour and if other Brits came our way we'd let them in on the secret.
As soon as 8am came, the chain came off and our beds were in place.
During that wait every morning (which I really looked forward to for the discussions we had) we'd see people bringing sunbeds out of their apartments which they shouldn't do. One German family would have a young lad setting up 14 sunbeds and 6 umbrellas and they all came out of one apartment.
They would then put their blankets on and go out for the day, come back about 3pm and carry on as though nothing had happened. At 7pm they would pick the beds up and take them back inside.
It got that bad that during the first 10 days we saw 6 fights break out over sunbeds.
On the wednesday the manager with 20 staff went into every apartment and took every sunbed out and there were so many beds that the following day there were towers of them unused.
However, that was the best holiday I had because of that friendship of the first couple of hours. There was about 16 blokes (of all nations) who got really friendly and we took part in everything that was going on.
 
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