Houda Golf 3 * (Tunisia / Monastir): photos and reviews on tourists.

The Mediterranean coast of Tunisia is open for recreation for almost a year: in the winter months, it is not cooler than 16 degrees, and the African summer heat is perfectly tolerated by refreshing sea breezes. One of the tourist offers, rapidly gaining popularity - located on the north-eastern coast of Tunisia is the ancient city of Monastir, the former religious and historical "capital" of this state, which received a second life as a resort. All those who, in addition to historical sights and the Mediterranean climate, are looking for an inexpensive hotel for recreation, will certainly be interested in Houda Golf Beach Club (3 stars).

Hotel information

Hotel Houda Golf Beach 3 * (Tunisia) is located 13 km from Monastir, in Skanes - a special resort area with a lot of hotel complexes and entertainment. The hotel is a two-building, built in the mid-80's, on a large green area. In the advertising brochures, including those placed on the sites of Russian travel agencies, the Houda Golf Hotel 3 * is listed as a hotel complex for a "quiet family vacation", working on the most convenient service system - "all inclusive".

The buildings of the hotel are decorated in the spirit of the picturesque Arabian color, many flowers and green plants.

For the safety of tourists staying in the hotel, the hotel territory is provided with a secure fence, the windows of the rooms are equipped with protective grilles.

The infrastructure of the Houda Golf Beach Club 3 * includes catering facilities (two bars and three restaurants), shops of different orientations, a TV lounge, a SPA, sports grounds and a fitness center, car rental, a water park, three equipped swimming pools with aqua parks.

"Three star" rating Houda Golf Beach Club 3 * - a sign that first of all rest in this hotel complex can interest vacationers, whose budget is limited. The hotel provides more than five hundred rooms at very democratic prices, but not the highest comfort and a limited number of services. The best way to help describe the level of accommodation and service in Houda Golf Beach 3 * (Tunisia) reviews our compatriots who have already visited this hotel complex and who have managed to evaluate the quality of the services provided. What do the hotel guests tell about the hotel?

Beach: services, sanitation

If you consider that the hotel is located in the north of the African continent, one of the most unstable in the health situation, then information about the state of the nearest beaches should certainly interest any tourist. About the beach area, located about 50 meters from the Houda Golf Beach Club 3 * (Tunisia), the reviews are quite similar to each other. What do the hotel guests say about the nearest beach?

• Good sandy beach. The beach zone was created artificially, so it differs from the usual sand and pebble coastal strip in these places.
• The shallow sea that most likely will please the parents of small children.
• Some algae and jellyfish. Here, the opinions of holidaymakers dispersed: many found the level of pollution by algae quite common for Tunisian beaches, although some tourists complain of burns from jellyfish and a large number of "islands" of marine life.
• Lack of beach lounges and other equipment. The same remark applies to the pool equipment.
• Too obsessive are the merchants on the beach.
• Beach towels are not available for hotel guests.

Service level and staff

Studying stories about trips to Tunisia and living in hotels in this country, you can distinguish such features of local staff as slowness, slowness and restrained politeness. So restrained that tourists, accustomed to the broad smiles of Turkish and Egyptian employees, may even find the Tunisians not too hospitable. This definition can also describe the work of employees Houda Golf Beach Club 3 * (Tunisia), reviews of which leave Russian travelers. A lot of inconvenience to our tourists is caused by the "language barrier". Tunisia, as is known, is the former colonial territory of France, and, accordingly, all the local staff speak French. Employees of Houda Golf Beach Club 3 *, able to understand Russian and even more to speak on it - are rare, despite the growing number of tourists from our country. Explain in English, too, will not work with everyone - this language is pretty passively owned by administrators.

As for tips for hotel employees, you can meet at tourist forums the indignation of tourists about the fact that the staff not only accepts small bills and even small presents with pleasure, but also quite clearly hints at "material gratitude". We have to admit that a small amount of money in this hotel is able to change the attitude of the staff to the guest for the better: when resettlement they will give the room a little more comfortable, the cleaning is more carefully carried out.

Rooms

What numbers are offered to holidaymakers who chose a "three-star" vacation in the state of Tunisia? Houda Golf Beach Club 3 * provides rooms of four categories:

• Standard , an area of 16 square meters. M, designed for two people.
• Two-level (duplex) , 18 sq. M. M, in which up to 5 guests can be accommodated.
• Family (Family Room), 42 square meters. M, for accommodation up to 4 people.
• Room Suite, 18 square meters. M, for accommodation up to 4 guests.

In addition to a small amount of furniture, each room is equipped with a mini-bar, TV, telephone, hairdryer, bathroom (shower or bath, toilet). The rooms have access to a terrace or balcony with sea views, a hotel with a swimming pool or a golf course. Air conditioning in the rooms is mostly central. During the cooler months, the rooms are heated.

Opinion of holidaymakers about the rooms

What are the positive aspects in the service of the rooms can be distinguished based on the feedback of tourists?

• The rooms are clean enough. Cleaning is done daily, although not always in the absence of guests. Mention of cases of loss of things from the room in the reviews does not occur.
• The rooms are made in the same national style with a common interior of the hotel.
• Equipment in the rooms is serviceable: the lights are on, the bathroom is working, the doors are closing. If there are breakages and malfunctions, they are corrected during the day after a call to repshen.

What are the complaints about the quality and service of the rooms you can often meet in the tourism forums?

• Long settlement, queues at the reception. Officially 14:00 hours are considered the time when new arrivals arrive in most hotels in Tunisia. Houda Golf Beach Club 3 * - not an exception, but during the "hot" season, when a lot of tourists stay on vacation every day, guests have to wait their own time for at least an hour. This is especially annoying if we take into account that the already mentioned "unhurried" pace of personnel work does not change at the same time. It remains only to put up or spend this time on the beach.
• Close rooms, "Spartan" furnishings of the room - quite a frequent occurrence for three-star hotels. Mention of this in the discussions of the hotel Houda Golf 3 * are found most often. Although the holidaymakers themselves admit that the numbers are quite worth the money that they paid for.
• Episodic interruptions with water supply in the rooms. For an African country, perhaps this phenomenon is not considered something unusual, but vacationing Europeans about the days when the water was turned off for several hours are remembered with outrage. The inability to take a shower after the sea or after a tour of the dusty Tunisian roads, the bad smell of "dehydrated" toilets - all this does not correspond very well to the "three stars". But I want to emphasize that disconnections are of a temporary nature, and there are not too many stories about it.
• The room is rarely changed bed linens, towels. But this problem is quite simply "corrected" by the tip, as already mentioned above.
• In the room you can hear the music from the disco of the hotel. If you consider that, according to tourists, dances and loud musical entertainment are held in the hotel constantly and until late at night, the absence of noise insulation is a big minus. However, our tourists are willing to share the "life": music is almost inaudible in the rooms located in the eastern building, and if you want you can move there.

Food

Catering for hotel guests is organized in the hotel restaurant according to the principle of "buffet" with the distribution. Additionally, you can order food and drinks in the bars on the territory of the hotel complex.

From the positive moments about the kitchen of the hotel Houda Golf 3 * most often remember the following:

• "Buffet" in the hotel restaurant is replete with national dishes of Tunisia, which gives an opportunity to fully familiarize yourself with local cuisine.
• Many different fruits and vegetables.
• Nicely served and delicious local desserts.
• A good choice of meat, fish and poultry dishes. Sometimes the menu includes seafood - how often it depends on the season.
• Pizzeria on the territory of the hotel, where until late at night they prepare delicious pizza.

In fairness, it should be noted that a lot of negative reviews about nutrition can be found. What dissatisfied guests Houda Golf Beach Club 3 *, reviews of which are left on the Internet over the past few years?

• Very large queues at the tables with food - the most common claim to the hotel restaurant.
• Local cuisine, the dishes of which are daily present in overwhelming quantity, very sharp, with a lot of spices.
• Complaints of poor sanitation: not enough clean dishes and appliances, not always well-washed tableware and not enough clean tablecloths, there are cockroaches in the restaurant hall, after dinner, the restaurant staff can start cleaning from the tables only the next morning.
• Small portions of meat dishes, and with a large check in at the hotel after a long waiting in the queue, some dishes may not be enough.

The latter is often refuted by other tourists who have rested in the hotel. Such a contradiction, most likely, is connected with a season when people passed on rest. If you compare periods, then a wave of negative reviews about the diversity and number of dishes falls on the summer months, as well as September - the main "holiday" season in our country, when the tourists in the hotel the maximum number. This will certainly be useful for those who plan to leave in the spring or autumn.

Separately it is necessary to tell about drinks and about alcohol. Most travel agencies necessarily warn that it is better to abstain from using Tunisian tap water. In the hotel complex, guests are provided with bottled drinking water. The hotel restaurant and bar in the territory presents a worthy choice of soft drinks, including the famous Arab coffee. With alcohol, everything is much more complicated: tourists who have been on holiday in Houda Golf Beach Club 3 * unanimously assert that almost all alcohol except beer is served in a diluted state, and for drinks "included in the price" you have to stand a long queue. Buy alcohol outside the hotel in Muslim Tunisia is not easy, but you can. In Monastir there is a large supermarket, where all foreigners are bought.

Paid services

In any hotel that accepts guests in accordance with the all-inclusive system, there is a separate "price" for additional services, which will have to be paid extra for the cost of the voucher when calculating with the hotel. Which paid services are available at the Houda Golf Beach Club 3 *?

• Connection to Wi-Fi (Internet cafe in the territory).
• Safe for valuables at the reception.
• Services of sauna and hammam (Turkish bath), SPA and fitness center, Jacuzzi.
• Massage.
• "Hourly" babysitter services for children.
• Beach sports, including equipment rental and instructor services.
• Horse riding, car rental, golf, billiard.
• Hall of gaming machines.

Animation Entertainment

The services of any hotel, working on the principle of "all inclusive", is necessarily the entertainment of guests and the organization of day and evening leisure. What can tell about the work of the animators and leisure in the hotel Houda Golf 3 * reviews of holidaymakers?

According to the stories of former guests, it can be judged that the animators are most active in the "hot" tourist season, when the hotel is full of tourists. Disco, pool parties, karaoke shows do not cease almost all day and night. Animators give lessons of Latin American and Oriental dances, conduct master classes in archery, aerobics and many other active entertainments. In the evening, theatrical performances are often held. At the end of the year, when the hotel is most often half full, the animation a little "subsides." Rest at this time really takes on the character of "calm".

Conditions for sport, exercise

Hotel Houda Golf 3 * fully justifies its name - on the territory of the hotel itself you can try your hand at the mini-golf course, and nearby is the golf club. In addition, the hotel has facilities for football, basketball, volleyball, darts. There is a well-equipped fitness center and riding arena.

On the beach you can take lessons and rent equipment for any kind of water sports.

If the hotel guests will not have enough active entertainment in the hotel area, they can always make a trip to the city of Monastir, closest to Houda Golf 3 *. On the city coast there is a large club center for divers, a diving school for beginners and a respectable yacht club. In addition, its services are offered to tourists by modern spa-salons with quite affordable democratic prices.

Animation and leisure for children

Despite a sufficient number of negative posts on the Internet about the Houda Golf Hotel 3 * (Tunisia), reviews of children's entertainment are quite optimistic. Little hotel guests are not bored at all. Animators constantly arrange on the open areas of the hotel territory a variety of games and shows (including costumes).

Directly on the territory of the Houda Golf 3 * hotel there is a convenient, colorful water park for the guests. In one of the open pools a special section for children is allocated. A lot of good reviews about the children's club and thanks to club animators.

What to see? Excursions, sightseeing

Of course, sunbathing, sea water and medicinal Mediterranean air by themselves will allow for an excellent rest. But do not neglect the cultural program, which includes exciting excursions and familiarity with the centuries-old history of the Tunisian state.

A lot of interesting things can be seen in Monastir - "a living illustration" of the former heyday of traditional Arab culture. Founded, like most of the coastal cities of Tunisia, by Phoenician navigators, the city at various times of its life was under the rule of the Spanish invaders and Byzantine monks, soldiers of the Roman and Ottoman empires, sea filibusters and French colonizers. All this is reflected in the monuments of architecture, which the organizers of the excursion routes offer visitors to Houda Golf 3 *. Tunisia is also famous for the seaside town of Sousse (Sousse) - a major "resort for young people", which is only 24 km from Monastir. In the city there are all the indispensable attributes of tourist entertainment centers: night clubs, gift shops, colorful Arabian market, benches of handicraft craftsmen, cafes with local sweets and Arabic coffee, bars, casinos, restaurants, amusement park and bowling ... Sousse is included in the list of cities "World Heritage" by UNESCO. Visitors are sure to be interested in the luxurious everyday museum "Dar Essid", the Archaeological Museum of the ancient stone fort Kasbah and the traditional Medina quarter for all cities of Tunisia - the memory of the medieval past of the city. In the vicinity of Sousse are the legendary ruins and catacombs of Carthage and Ribat, a stone defensive fortress with two towers.

Guests at the Houda Golf Club 3 * can also take advantage of the longer excursion routes. For example, the city of Doug, founded by Roman legionnaires, the Tunisian "green garden" - the agricultural peninsula of Cap Bon, and the pearl of excursion tours of Tunisia - a two-day trip to the Sahara desert.