Hotel Riadh Palms 4 * (Tunisia) is located in the center of Sousse, on the outskirts of one of the most beautiful beaches, surrounded by a green palm garden. If you believe the advertising, this luxury hotel combines tradition and advanced modern technology, offers guests a pleasant atmosphere and the necessary comfort for a good rest. Travel agencies assure the guests that Riadh Palms 4 * (Tunisia) has an indoor warm and large outdoor pool, a fitness center, a beauty salon, a spa, restaurants, a snack bar, pool and beach bars, a tea room and cafe, night club and numerous shops. Such information about the hotel is provided to all comers by tour operators. Riadh Palms 4 * (Tunisia) presents reviews of vacationers who were lucky to visit there in a slightly different way. What we will talk about in our review.
Tunisia, Sousse, Hotel Riadh Palms 4 *: location
It is more than profitable. Hotel Riadh Palms 4 *, Tunisia (photo shows its external design), is located in the center of the resort town of Sousse, on the first coastline. The airport of Tunisia is located 140 km from it, Enfid - 40 km, Monastir - 20 km.
Riadh Palms 4 * (Tunisia): description
The hotel was opened in 1992, the last renovation was carried out in 2010. It is a 9-storey building with 6 elevators. On the territory of the Riadh Palms 4 * (Tunisia) there are swimming pools: serpentine open (there are 3 bridges), indoor (heated in winter).
Infrastructure:
- Oasis, restaurant (buffet).
- Le Baron, restaurant (a la carte).
- Restaurant Neptune (beachfront).
- Le Snack-bar (English Pub).
- L'Horizon (lobby bar).
- American bar.
- Coffee house.
- Beach bar.
- Pool bar.
- Zen (tea shop).
- Night club.
- Conference rooms (8).
- Business center.
- Serenity (spa).
- La bella rose (beauty salon).
- Casino.
Hotel Riadh Palms 4 * (Tunisia) pets are not allowed.
Accepted payment cards: American Express, Master Card, Visa,
Services
Those who want to relax comfortably under the hot southern sun go to Tunisia. Hotel Riadh Palms 4 * provides guests with the following services: Wi-Fi, gift shops, supermarket, postal services, medical room, laundry, massage, sauna, car rental, parking, exchange office.
Facility Orientation
Hotel Riadh Palms 4 * is designed for leisure adults, seniors, business people, youth, companies, parents with children.
The hotel provides a mixed national composition of vacationers. The design style is ordinary.
Types of relaxation provided for in the hotel: active, SPA, business, beach, youth, quiet, sightseeing.
Rooms
As the advertisement promises, guests will find oriental-style, comfortable, spacious rooms with comfortable furniture. The number of rooms in Riadh Ualms 4 * (Tunisia, Sousse) is 650 rooms (there are Interconnected rooms).
- Standard room (area: 22.62 sq. M; balcony size: 7 sq. M), number of rooms: 616.
- Family room (area: 39.9 sq. M; balcony size: 7.98 sq. M) - roomy room (one-room) with four beds. It is possible to put an extra bed. Number of rooms: 8.
- Suite room (Area: 80 sq. M.). Number of rooms: 34
- Rooms for disabled guests. Quantity: 8.
- Connecting rooms, consisting of 2 standard rooms, which are connected by a door.
- Junior suite. These rooms consist of 2 bedrooms and a lounge, there is a large TV.
- Senior suite. The rooms consist of a cozy living room and a large bedroom. It also has a large TV.
Room facilities, service
- Balcony or loggia (with sea view: 80%).
- Air conditioning (in summer).
- Bathroom, shower.
- Hair dryer.
- Telephone.
- Wi-Fi (free).
- TV (there are Russian channels, the remote is provided on bail).
- Tile (ceramic) or carpet on the floor.
The rooms are cleaned every day, served by the system: 24/24. Linen is changed three times a week. A safe and mini fridge are available upon request, for a fee.
For children
For accommodation and entertainment for young guests in Riadh Palms 4 * (Tunisia, Sousse), there are:
- mini club;
- animation;
- children's pool;
- children's menu, chairs for children in the restaurant;
- children's bed in the room (on request);
- nanny (on request, paid).
Food concept
For guests in the hotel Riadh Palms 4 * (Tunisia, Sousse) AI food is provided (all-inclusive), which provides breakfast, lunch, dinner with local alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks (free of charge) during the day:
- Breakfast (buffet): 06:00 -10: 00, in the Oasis restaurant.
- Late breakfasts (continental, buffet): 10:00 -12: 00, in the Aziz restaurant.
- Lunches (buffet): 12:30 - 15:00, in rest. Oasis; 12:30 -15: 00, in the Neptune restaurant in the summer season.
- Mini-buffet (pasta, pancake pizza,): 15:00 - 17:30, in the restaurant "Neptune", in the summer season.
- Dinner (buffet): 18:30 - 19:45, from 20:00 to 21:30, in the Oasis restaurant.
- Late dinner: 22:00 - 00:00 - in the Aziz restaurant; 19:00 - 22:00 - in the restaurant A La Carte.
- Le Baron Restaurant serves dinner once per stay (reservation is required).
Entertainment and sports
In the Riadh Palms Hotel 4 * hotel (Sousse, Tunisia), for the full relaxation of guests, there are evening and day programs, live music, animation, dancing, disco, show programs (folklore), karaoke, cabaret shows, darts, volleyball, bingo , ball games, water sports, board games, gym with exercise equipment.
There is a private beach (sandy). Sun loungers, umbrellas, mattresses on the beach and pool are free. Beach towels are not provided.
Tours
A multi-storey building located on the seashore, with its own sandy beach, well-groomed green territory, located 1 km from the center of Sousse, with a high level of service of the Marhaba network, recommended for a quiet comfortable stay is Riadh Palms 4 * (Tunisia). Tours to the hotel are offered by agencies at a price - from 84 846 rubles. for two. Operators advertise the hotel as well located, large and comfortable, an excellent choice for a respectable relaxing holiday.
Hotel category: 4 stars. Number of rooms: 650. Address: Avenue du 7 Novembre - 4000 Sousse - Tunisia.
Ratings
- Hotel number 1 in Sousse with the optimal ratio of quality and cost of services.
- SPA hotel number 4.
- Hotel on the beach number 5.
- Family hotel number 5.
- Luxury hotel number 6.
The best prices for tours
- 3 nights - 49 678 rub.
- 4 nights - 54 313 rub.
- 6 nights - 56 255 rub.
- 7 nights - 69 515 rub.
- 8 nights - 58 629 rub.
- 9 nights - 62 748 rub.
- 10 nights - 72 874 rub.
- 11 nights - 67 994 rub.
- 12 nights - 85 075 rub.
- 14 nights - 92 110 rubles.
Good to know
- Check-in time at the Riadh Palms 4 * hotel: 14:00 - 00:00.
- Departure time: 06:00 - 12:00.
- All children are welcome.
- Extra beds are not available.
- Pets are not allowed.
- Credit card transactions, including prepayment in the amount of the daily cost (commission: 3% of the total payment).
- The first and last name of the guest indicated at the time of booking must be the same as the first and last name of the owner of the credit card used at checkout. This credit card is required at check-in.
- A prepayment is deducted from the card in the name of the company acting on behalf of the hotel. The company name will be indicated on the bank statement.
- The hotel does not allow unmarried couples. All couples must present a marriage certificate upon check-in.
Impressions of vacationers
Riadh Palms 4 * (Tunisia) reviews of 2016 characterize very contradictory. Many are inclined to believe that you need to experience everything yourself, the only way you can learn about something thoroughly. Nevertheless, mainly tourists base their choice of tour on a thorough analysis of the experience of other travelers.
Flight, airport
The first vivid impressions that tourists receive are flights. If you fly Tunisian Airlines, then the impressions, according to the reviews of passengers, are not at all pleasant. In all likelihood, the task of the carrier is to seat people as many as possible, since the seats in the cabin are installed extremely close. In a passenger below average height, his knees rest in front of the seat; a tall person during this four-hour hour flight experiences a real nightmare.
At the airport, travelers are greeted by smiling Tunisians with very annoying offers of various services, for example, to help bring things for free to the bus. Near the bus for services from the traveler will insistently require money.
Hotel
Truly unforgettable, vivid impressions gives travelers Tunisia. Hotel Riadh Palms 4 * (Tunisia, Sousse) reviews are characterized as corresponding to the category 3 *. It is striking that everything here, in the opinion of tourists, is "some very shabby."
The pool may turn out to be hot, and African mosquitoes may attack vacationers who leave it.
The building of the Riadh Palms 4 * hotel is not at all as white and beautiful as can be seen in the photo, vacationers say. In general, they share, the hotel is not bad. Two large stairs go down from the reception, there is a good bar with comfortable sofas. In the evenings, music sounds here.
About rooms
Tunisia never ceases to attract lovers of relaxation under the hot southern sun. Reviews Riadh Palms 4 * hotel is characterized as a place that impresses with its contradictory, full of incomprehensible contrasts service. Conceived as comfortable rooms, according to reviews, impress with scruffy, dirt, dust, unwashed floors and wallowing tufts of other people's hair. Guests can get a room with a view of the construction site or trash cans, air conditioning, plumbing, etc. can work poorly in them. Sometimes, according to vacationers, the balcony door does not work in the room. Often the window smells like an extract from dry cleaning.
Nature
Nature and weather will not deceive anyone's expectations. Heat, palm trees - that is what everyone who wants to rest in Tunisia strives for. Some tourists call nature beautiful, but monotonous. Many people call the climate here mild, and the water here, according to vacationers, is “amazing - warm, clear blue.”
But all the tourists who have been there are shocked by what they have seen already on the way from the airport to the hotel. According to them, "everything is filthy terribly, everywhere dirt, stink, garbage."
Excursions
The hotel offers many beautiful interesting excursions: Solonchak, Colosseum, Berber dwellings, decorations for Star Wars, which, according to many guests, are carried out by a good, prepared guide. But in general, excursions to Rriadh Palms 4 * (Tunisia) reviews 2016 characterize ambiguously.
On the one hand, travelers are recommended to buy them, calling them very interesting and fascinating. The most important thing is not to miss a two-day excursion to the Sahara, which will give a sea of ​​impressions. The trip is called very busy and interesting. This is the most expensive tour of all offered, but it is worth it to not skimp on it. They also advise you to visit the "stunning, simply fabulous, Fridgia Nature Reserve" and generally not spare money on excursions.
On the other hand, reviewers point out flaws.
About the ride offered in Riadh Palms 4 * by ATVs around the Ssus, guests respond as an excursion to a local dump. Sometimes at the same time tourists are not given motorcycle goggles. The eyes of holidaymakers can be affected by wind with dust and sand rising from the quadro in front. In addition, partly the route passes along the freeway, where trucks and buses pass, the drivers of which, according to tourists, their cultural level is very similar to some domestic minibus drivers.
In general, many may like the two-day excursion to the Sahara. But you should prepare for the fact that the bus will have bad air conditioning (this is typical for Tunisia), and you will have to experience all the delights of a trip through the desert in the 45-50-degree heat.
At the ostrich farm, which was offered for tourists to visit, “3 ostriches walk”, in the zoo (“in a cage behind the curtain”) you can see one monkey or “Pekingese on a chain”.
In the water park in Port El Kantaou, it is difficult to withstand more than an hour, as many have shown. It represents "3 small slides, a pool with artificial waves that often do not work."
In shops where it is proposed to stop on the road, there is nothing special to buy, in addition, a special agreement between the owners and the guide on the delivery of buyers to their establishments is noticeable.
Shopping
There are a lot of shops and shops in the district. This is noted by all living in Riadh Palms 4 * (Tunisia). The reviews of 2015 and previous years are not much different in this from the impressions of tourists this 2016. Sellers are still inviting tourists as they pass by, but if you do not go in, you can hear a lot of unpleasant words about yourself in the back.
Those who wish can purchase relatively inexpensive souvenirs in Tunisia. Especially valuable purchase made here, travelers call a relatively inexpensive and high-quality olive oil.
About the culture of local taxi drivers
Staying at Radh Palms 4 *, Tunisia (reviews of tourists inform about this), it is easy to get acquainted with the working style of local taxi drivers. Those who have refused their services, vacationers can “unobtrusively” pursue for quite some time, dropping the price. In case of a decisive refusal, they will “cover” them with selective non-literary expressions.
City, nightlife
Sousse is advertised by travel agencies as a youth party area, where there are many clubs, discos and other entertainment venues. Not so characterize Riadh Palms 4 * (Sousse) reviews. Tunisia is famous for places where you can have fun and interesting day or night activities. But, according to the guests of Riadh Palms 4 *, this hotel does not apply to those. This, in the opinion of tourists living there, is rather a “sanatorium for pensioners”.
In the city itself, the streets, according to vacationers, are unsafe, especially at night. The shock of what was seen in the Tunisian city of Sousse by some tourists is beyond description. “It's something on the verge of good and evil,” they say. Arabs shout something to travelers, Tunisian flags hang from open windows, local music sounds very loud. There are three times more cars at night than during the day, they drive at a terrible speed, they constantly honk. All this can be seen and heard, riding along the night streets.
Reviewers do not recommend tourists wandering around the streets of Sousse at night. The city has a very high crime rate. If you want to go to the club, it is better to take a taxi.
For shopping, you should go to Medina, but alone - in no case! Souvenirs are best bought in a shopping center (souvenir) near the market, although there they are a little more expensive, but it is safer and calmer. Walking around the city is better in the morning, experienced travelers advise.
Nutrition
Dining at the hotel, according to tourists, is good, varied. According to many vacationers, the food here is “amazing, they cook meat very well”. There are always a lot of vegetables and fruits for every taste. But seafood, according to hotel guests, the choice is small. It seemed to some that the meat was first cooked first, and then stewed or fried, so some vacationers do not like its taste. And still, no one leaves hungry from dinner. Also, vacationers report that for lunch and dinner it is necessary to come strictly at the allotted time and take a table reserved for the tourist. If you want, you don’t want, but at a certain time you should have lunch (breakfast, dinner), otherwise you can miss the meal time, because after the allotted half an hour the table will be given to other guests next in line.
Waiters, tourists share, will smile, clean dishes and bring water if you tip them. Otherwise, they’ll never go to vacationers for the whole lunch. It is necessary to give the waiter 10 dinars on the first day, and every next day vacationers will expect a humanly set table: flowers, drinks. All vacationers do this, do not be greedy. Otherwise, you will have to sit down to dinner at an uncleaned table, push aside other people's dirty appliances, or watch the waiter simply turn the tablecloth over on the other side, without changing it after having finished the previous queue.
Service
According to vacationers, the service at the Riadh Palms 4 * hotel leaves much to be desired.
On the beach, they complain, you cannot take water with you. If you want to drink to quench your thirst, you need to go to the hotel.
Daily cleaning of the rooms, in their opinion, is very superficial. In addition, it can be carried out “at the most inopportune moment”, in the presence of vacationers. Just without knocking an employee will open the door and begin cleaning, despite the dissatisfaction of the residents.
Staff
Vacationers at the hotel are mainly Germans, French, British. There are fewer Russians; without English, they have a very difficult time here.
The attitude of the staff towards the Russians, as tourists say, “spoils everything”. According to the authors of the reviews, in Riadh Palms 4 * “for some reason they don’t like the Slavs,” and this is manifested in many ways. You will have to face this for the first time at check-in: Russians arriving at 8-00 will have to wait until 12 hours to check in.
At the same time, waiting, they can watch how they will be resettled immediately upon arrival of Europeans who arrived later, give them the best rooms (which provide a view of the sea, not the construction site).
Animation
Reviews characterize her as "weak, boring and monotonous." There is nothing special to see, the authors say. During the day, the animators “seem to be trying” to entertain the holidaymakers: they carry out exercises, dances, and games. But the animators especially fail to arouse the desire of vacationers to join the “fun”. They do not insist, to the pleasure of the residents of the hotel.
It is unpleasant that the authors of the reviews share that, for example, it is very difficult for a Russian to get tennis rackets and play before dinner. “Only after dinner,” without any explanation. Although other vacationers (Europeans) play at any time. “Have they come to rest with their rackets?” - the Russians are asking.
Beach holiday
The sea is clean, white sand, everything is wonderful on the beach, tourists respond. A lot of algae in the morning, but you can put up with it. The presence of a large number of jellyfish - this, they believe, is also not scary. The bad thing is that the urns are located near the water itself, sometimes they roll over in waves, and all the garbage falls into the water.
Local merchants, constantly “snooping” along the beach, are bored. Bedouins can also show up on the beach. In general, the beach in Riadh Palms 4 *, in the opinion of vacationers, looks like a passage yard. Here "local men constantly roam", allowing themselves liberties in relation to the guests.
Conclusion
Determining where to go on vacation, tourists usually read a large number of reviews about the hotel, as well as about the city in which it is located, and, in general, about the country.
The advantages of the Riadh Palms 4 * hotel include a wonderful warm sea, a wonderful clean beach, animation, varied and well-fed food, convenient location, some note the courtesy of the staff. The downsides are called dirt on the territory and in rooms, poor service in the restaurant, “unrealistic” lines for food, to the elevator, to the bar, lack of cutlery and crockery in the restaurant, old furniture, lack of repair and poor housekeeping, the need to pay even basic services. In addition, many are saddened by cases of rudeness of staff and disrespect for Russian tourists. A lot of reviews about Riadh Palms 4 * are sharply negative.
Those who are scared by the abundance of minuses noted by tourists, the authors of the reviews advise not to forget that Africa is not Europe. There is no need to complain and be upset about the dirty streets of the city, "arrogant and annoying Arabs" and other things. Everything should be perceived, they believe, as the color of the country. In this case, the attitude to the flaws will be different, and, accordingly, the mood will improve.
They come to Tunisia for their impressions of Africa. You should not expect to see a European resort here. With such a mood in Riadh Palms 4 * a lot can be liked.