Hotel Residence Mahmoud

The hotel is a 3-star hotel and the technical condition is satisfactory. However, they try very hard and it is very clean. On the plus side, despite arriving early, we got a room around 10 without having to wait for the day to start. There is an exchange office on site, you can exchange dollars, euros and also pounds, yen or francs and Danish crowns. They have their own piece of beach and 6-7 positions with sun loungers. There is a small swimming pool. There is a restaurant on the patio, good prices, pleasant and very large portions. Breakfast I read a lot of opinions that it was a roll with jam. Today, however, there was cold meat, eggs, white ricotta cheese. , jam, yogurts, baguette, cucumbers, tomatoes, plain and chocolate croissants, and sand cake. Coffee, tea, orange and peach juice, very nice service. The downside is that we have a room above the patio and it is very noisy at night until 2:00, there is music, voices, it is a lively restaurant. Considering the price - a very good choice

The hotel is bad in general (very very old, walls that are falling apart, the pool is brown because it is so dirty), but the trea**ent of the staff is shameful and regrettable. They shout and insult. Not recommended, AVOID

I really liked the decor. Patio. Everything can be seen with love. Towels were changed daily. Bed linen was not changed for 7 nights. Breakfasts are monotonous, but dinners are just excellent. Lunch was taken in a cafe at the hotel. Fine. But not Michelin) The beach seemed better to me in the nearby five-star Sinbad. But you need to go for about 5 minutes along a not very well-maintained road. It is better to enter the water to the right of the buoys on a common beach. But when there are no waves, it is also normal in the territory fenced with buoys. The water is clean but if you don't swim, the fish will bite. Not much, but unexpected. In the reviews I read earlier that there is high traffic on the roads that need to be crossed. Normal, worse in India) What I didn't like: 1. Pillow on one bed: the filler is already crumpled. It's time to replace it. you order food at a bar on the beach and sit on the sun loungers. You come after dinner, but there is nowhere to lie down. Beach staff do not control where tourists will be accommodated. It's good that it was only 2 days, the vacation did not blur, but you need to keep in mind. The rest of the time on the beach is great.

In general, a good hotel, there are some minor drawbacks, but the sea redeems everything. A couple of tips and information: 1. Water in the hotel is paid, 3 TND (Tunisian dinars) per liter (1 dinar = 0.36 dollars), there are no coolers, it is recommended to go to some shop in the morning (towards the center - Aziza), there 1 dinar for a liter or two of water. Currency exchange at the airport and at the reception, when exchanging, ask for and keep a check, you can’t take dinars out of the country, change back at the airport with a check, change back only banknotes - spend coins first, try to quickly learn the difference between millimes (a thousandth of a dinara) and different dinars + there are very small numbers on dinars, sellers can cheat. At the hotel, Wi-Fi catches ok, sometimes it is interrupted, however, they don’t know about mesh networks under one SSID and you need to connect to 10 networks. There are no beach towels. Sun loungers and umbrellas are free, in the late afternoon a larger percentage is occupied by locals vacationing in the same hotel. Shampoo, toothpaste and brushes - no, soap in a matchbox. 2. Depending on the room, it can be noisy in the evenings until midnight, the hotel is surrounded by a bar-restaurant, and a couple of minibars are adjacent to it from different sides, the locals rest, then until two in the morning they can go to their rooms with songs and dances, especially on weekends or windows can face a busy highway, take earplugs :-) If the air conditioner is on and the windows are closed, conversations are barely audible, but sometimes screams, laughter and basses are heard. The staff is purple. With us, some Arab long and stubbornly yelled at the security guards, they just stood and listened. 3. In the sea, on the territory of the beach, fenced with buoys, from 5 to 40 meters in the water there are hefty stones, and even two concrete rings with a diameter of a meter (one lying down, the second flat), but all under water. When the waves are difficult to notice, this dark spot is incomprehensible - either a stone or algae. Also take ear plugs for swimming, if the waves are big, if you just stand chest-deep in water, a wave can fly into your ear (if you swim, the wave just lifts you up with it) Ask old-timers for entry schemes into the sea. We were told one of the trails - the sea is fenced with buoys in the form of the letter P (the beach is below the letter P), looking at the sea from the side of the beach, on the right of the beach, where all the fungi and the canopy end, the right border of the buoys also passes there, there are noticeable lush green bushes, here from them you have to go in a straight line into the sea, keeping the same distance from the buoys, and when you get to the far right of the buoys, you can already wander as you like. The entrance to the sea is gentle, on the border of the buoys of water approximately to the neck. In the photo I attach the same bush with a red arrow (only a photo from the sea, so there it is already on the left, well, I hope you figure it out :-). As well as a couple of stones and one of the concrete rings. 4. If you stand still, especially in calm weather, fish biting (for calluses) swim in the sea, it doesn’t hurt very much, it’s not up to blood, it’s more like a pinch, but suddenly. They say there are jellyfish, we didn't see any. 5. These are rather peculiarities of the country: a) I saw exactly 1 pedestrian crossings for 5 km. I did not see traffic lights