One of the most popular resorts of the state of Tunisia, the island of Djerba, is known all over the world for the combination of exotic nature, delightful mild climate, monuments of ancient culture and excellent service of European level. Hotel "Sun Club", reviews of which are left by Russian tourists who visited the island resort, offers its guests an excellent all-inclusive stay at a relatively low cost. What living conditions can this hotel complex provide? And what can the reviews of 2016 on tourist forums say about the San Club Club hotel on the island of Djerba?
About the hotel complex
The hotel complex "San Club" 3 * is located on the island of Djerba in the south of the African state of Tunisia. Djerba Sun Club, reviews of which can be found at most Russian tourism forums, includes a complex of several hotel buildings in a fenced and guarded area.
A special feature and visiting card of the hotel complex is the unique local flavor, visible in everything: in the interior of the premises, the landscape design of the territory, the hotel kitchen and the decoration of dishes.
The hotel is located near the small village of Medun, near the island capital - Houmt Souk, only 20 km from the city and the international airport. By car, the main city of Djerba can be reached in 10-15 minutes.
The infrastructure of the hotel "Sun Club"
What, in addition to residential buildings, is located on the territory of one of the most popular hotels on the island of Djerba - "Sun Club"? Reviews 2016 (see the photo of the hotel grounds below) very positively characterize the complex of pools and aqua hills of the hotel. The hotel has an indoor pool, where you can comfortably swim even in the cool winter months, and outdoor children's and adult pools, equipped with water attractions - slides. In addition to water activities on the territory of the Djerba Sun Club hotel, reviews of which are also very positive, there is a hotel restaurant, eight different bars, grocery and souvenir shops, a pizzeria, a Moorish restaurant, a post office, a laundry room, a hotel doctor’s office, an exchange office, playgrounds for sports and outdoor games. Wi-Fi is free in the lobby.
The hotel infrastructure includes a range of services for additional health and beauty treatments: a hammam and sauna, a hot tub, spa, beauty salon, hairdresser.
For the convenience of guests, the hotel has a luggage storage room, and car parking is available on site.
Hotel beach
Separately, it is worth talking about the conditions for a beach holiday at the Djerba Sun Club Hotel. Reviews about the beach of this hotel complex guests leave mostly positive. Here's the difference between a vacation here:
- The hotel is on the second coastline. The beach is located at a distance of about 50 m from the nearest residential buildings, but no further than 350 m from the farthest buildings of the island hotel. There is a road between the beach and the hotel complex.
- The beach is sandy, the sea is of medium depth, which is especially good for families with children or for the elderly.
- Sun loungers and parasols at the hotel beach are provided free of charge. You can pay extra if you wish for a soft mattress for a deck chair and beach towels.
- Less - a large number of algae in the sea. All marine vegetation carried out on coastal sand is cleaned daily by tractors in the morning, simply raking it in heaps and dragging it to the territory of neighboring beaches. Moreover, the hills of algae lie for several days. It is for this reason that guests of the Djerba San Club 3 * complex express their dissatisfaction, reviews contain references to the unpleasant smell of musty algae and the spoiled sea landscape. It is worth noting that many algae do not interfere with many.
- Animals on the beach - the most controversial "attraction" of the beach of the hotel "Djerba Sun Club". Reviews of hotel guests on this subject are very different. Someone like camels walking along the seashore, horses and a small donkey very much. Animals, according to tourists, are very peaceful, calm and, in addition, for a relatively small fee you can ride them or take some photos. In addition, all traces of the vital activity of animals are removed by their owners. But there are also many people who are extremely indignant at the presence of animals on the beach.
Rooms
What can the 2016 reviews say about the rooms in the three-star hotel “Djerba Sun Club” (see photo in the article below)?
The rooms are designed to accommodate from 1 to 4 guests. The hotel complex includes more than 300 rooms equipped with everything necessary for relaxation: each has sleeping places (single and double beds), shower or bath, telephone, TV with satellite TV (with several Russian channels), air conditioning, exit to the terrace or a balcony. For an additional fee, the room is equipped with a cot.
On the conditions of stay at the hotel often leave positive reviews. The rooms are called cozy, comfortable, convenient, although equipped with no frills, only the most necessary.
What are the tourists dissatisfied with with negative reviews about the conditions of their stay? Tunisia, the Djerba Sun Club hotel and the island itself were remembered by many people as a real African heat, therefore, the presence of a working air conditioner in the room is a very important condition for relaxation. In some rooms there is only shared air conditioning, some of the guests this is not enough.
Another note concerns the interior and furniture in the rooms. Many tourists note that the furnishings in the rooms are far from new, and repairs in the rooms would not hurt to refresh. At the same time, there are practically no complaints about the sanitary condition or cleanliness in the rooms.
Important: smoking is not allowed in the rooms!
Paid services
As in any hotel, the Sun Club hotel complex has a number of services for which you will have to pay extra:
- Installation in the room of the refrigerator. A hairdryer can also be provided upon request - it is not included in the standard equipment of the room. In order not to overpay, a hairdryer is often advised to take with you.
- Minibar in the room.
- Babysitter services for children staying at the hotel with their parents.
- A safe for storing valuable property of hotel guests.
- Billiard room.
- Bath, massage services.
- Water activities on the hotel's beach: windsurfing, water skiing, parachuting, surfing and more.
- Horseback riding.
In addition, if desired, hotel guests can change room to room in the comfortable Kerim Residence building. In the 2016 season, this service costs about eight dollars a day.
Service and staff
It is no secret that the reputation of any hotel is not least dependent on the work of the staff and the quality of service for guests. What can tourist reviews say about the service in the hotel complex? Hotel “Djerba Sun Club”, according to most vacationers, can be proud of the good work of its staff. There are many stories on tourist forums about the courtesy, friendliness and calm nature of employees. Tourists describe the attendants, mostly consisting of local residents, as very reserved, unperturbed people who are not characterized by excessive fussiness, obsession, conflict when solving problems. The following is especially noted by vacationers:
- Daily cleaning of rooms, maintenance of cleanliness in residential buildings and on site.
- Towels and bed linen are regularly changed in the room.
- Ability to communicate with hotel staff in Russian. Given that the main language of communication on the island is French, the hotel staff, making efforts to learn the language of the client, deserves the highest rating. Also at the San Club Hotel there are employees from Russia who can be contacted if a language barrier has arisen.
- Rescuers work daily at each pool of the Djerba Sun Club Hotel. The 2016 reviews of the work of these specialists are simply excellent: vacationers talk about the fact that lifeguards even look after the children in the pool, if necessary, calming the babies lounging in the water.
- Active work of sports instructors and animators.
Nutrition
Catering for hotel guests is organized on an all-inclusive basis in the hotel restaurant Djerba Sun Club (Tunisia). The reviews of 2016 of our compatriots who had a rest in this hotel complex are mostly positive. Tourists often talk about such features of hotel cuisine:
- Excellent food quality and beautiful appetizing design of dishes.
- Big variety. Many dishes of meat, poultry, delicious fish dishes, salads, seafood. Great selection of fruits and desserts. A good assortment of side dishes and sauces.
- Food is served in sufficient quantities, all guests have enough seats in the restaurant.
- Tasty daily afternoon snacks - “snacks”, during which pancakes and ice cream are served.
- For young children, it is possible to install a children's chair.
Negative moments a bit. You can highlight, for example, such comments:
- Inadequate, from the point of view of restaurant visitors, the quantity of clean dishes on distribution, claims to the cleanliness of the plates.
- Poorly fried, tough street barbecue meat.
- Incorrect behavior of tourists from Asian countries.
From alcoholic drinks in the restaurant and hotel bars, tourists can be offered wine (bottled or from barrels), beer, whiskey or various cocktails.
Of particular note is the provision of drinking water and drinks, as well as the quality of water at the Djerba Sun Club Hotel. Reviews of Russian tourists who admire the quality and variety of food at the hotel often contain comments about drinking water and drinks. Most often you can find such opinions:
- Water for making tea and other hot drinks, as well as drinking water in the hotel restaurant uses desalinated, slightly salty taste. What is quite common for the African continent creates a problem for tourists from Russia and European countries. Therefore, most often you have to buy bottled water.
- Coffee and tea are served in the hotel restaurant only in the morning. The rest of the day, these drinks can be ordered in one of the bars.
- Drinks at the hotel's vending machines end quickly.
From the positive aspects, the following can be distinguished:
- There is always enough drinking water in coolers located around the hotel.
- Drinks sold in vending machines in the hotel complex, including coffee and tea, are of good quality.
Animation, entertainment in the hotel complex "Sun Club" (Djerba)
Reviews of tourists in 2016 about the work of hotel animators are most often enthusiastic. Many tourists are wondering whether people who are busy entertaining guests generally have a rest. Every day, the work of the hotel's animators begins in the early morning and ends almost nightly with an evening show. Guests of the hotel are offered games and entertainment for every taste: water aerobics, archery, ballroom and Latin American dance classes, beach volleyball, darts and many other ways to have fun and actively spend time. Perhaps, it can be considered a minus that entertainment events are held in French.
On the territory of the hotel complex there is a night club with a disco, admission there is free. Fans of gambling can have a wonderful and profitable time at the largest casino in North Africa, Le Grand Casino de Djerba, which is literally a few minutes from the hotel.
Sports, physical activity, outdoor games.
The hotel has all the conditions for playing sports or outdoor games. There are volleyball courts, including beach, indoor soccer, badminton, mini-golf, table tennis, tennis courts and more. On the beach of the hotel you can do water sports, and, according to tourists, the prices for rental equipment and instructors are much more affordable than in Turkish or Egyptian resorts.
Near the hotel there is an excellent golf course: the Djerba Golf club, opened on the island in the mid-90s.
Facilities for families with children, animation and leisure for children
The hotel complex "Djerba Sun Club" is a great place for families with children. Vacationers often note that a lot of small tourists from different countries have a rest at the hotel. For this reason, reviews about the San Club Hotel (Djerba) very often contain a lot of information regarding leisure and entertainment for children. What can a child do in addition to a beach holiday?
- The hotel has two shallow pools with water slides, a playground, and a mini club for children.
- Children's entertainment programs are held daily. The work of animators is often praised by tourists.
What to see? Excursions, sights
At different periods on the island of Djerba and on the nearby coastal territories of Tunisia, the French, Spaniards, Turks, Jews, Sicilians, Berbers lived, built, fought, fished and traded. The Tunisian culture and architecture also reflected the ancient Carthaginian civilization, the raids of the Phoenician navigators, the era of the conquest of the Roman Empire. Tunisia and the island of Djerba for centuries have absorbed and preserved the ancient heritage of the peoples inhabiting these lands. The historical monuments of this African state are not so well known to Russian travelers, as, for example, Egypt with its pyramids and Bedouin settlements. But both in Tunisia and on the island of Djerba, there are many cultural and historical sites, which will be very interesting to look at.
Guests of the San Club hotel complex can see the sights either as part of an organized excursion, or simply by renting a transport and buying a guide. The second option will cost much cheaper. You can start with the island capital - the city of Houmt Souk. One of his business cards is the stone fort of Bordj el Kebir. Tourists will certainly be interested in a familiarization walk to the medina, the old part of the main city of Djerba. These neighborhoods are a real labyrinth of low houses in the Arabic style and intricate narrow streets.
In the medina there are beautiful monuments of Muslim architecture - three ancient mosques. Is it possible to get acquainted with the traditional life of the population of Djerba? visiting the local history museum of the city of Houmt Souk. A few kilometers from the capital is a former Jewish settlement. Here is one of the oldest religious buildings of the El Ghrib synagogue, whose age is more than two thousand years.
In addition to the capital, tourists are usually recommended to visit the small village of Gellala in the southern part of the island. It has been producing famous ceramics for many centuries - the main souvenir product of the island. In a small village there are more than 450 traditional pottery workshops that carefully preserve the ancient secrets of the production of light and amazingly beautiful pottery. In Gellala there is a museum of ethnography, which presents elements of the traditional life of the Djerbins: samples of ancient ceramic products, traditional jewelry, national clothes and household items.
Exciting trips can also be made to the mainland along the “Roman road” - the land route built between Jerba and the main part of Tunisia by the ancient Romans. The most popular excursion route among tourists is a trip to the Sahara desert. As a rule, the trip lasts at least two days with an overnight stay in one of the local hotels. Tourists will be able to admire the unusually beautiful desert landscapes at sunset, get acquainted with the traditional life of the Berbers, visit the legendary location of the Star Wars saga, an oasis with date palms, a zoo and a crocodile farm, the ruins of the Roman amphitheater and much, much more.