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i decided to go here for my holiday because i opened the brochure and it really jumped out at me, beautiful white sand and Mediterranean temperatures, my boyfriends offered to pay for this holiday for my 18th birthday. so we went and it cost £1000 for the hotel and flights for 2 weeks bed and breakfast.

we landed at monistir airport to absolutely gorgeous weather, it was a scorching 41 degrees, there were smiles on everyone's faces. We got into the airport which was fully air conditioned, got our luggage and got on the coach all within an hour, the coach driver got on and to our relief put the air conditioning on. we did the first drop off, and finally we pulled up at ours, mine and my boyfriends faces dropped, as we pulled up. We stayed in the 'skanes el hana', it was beautiful just like the brochure, we got off the coach to bell boys who took out luggage into the lobby, we were escorted to the seating area, marble floors lovely comfortable slouchy chairs, it ws great. we filled in our forms, that we were Given (we still dont know what they were for.), and handed then in to be told our hotel room wasn't going to be ready, so we decided to change some money at the hotels bank, we got their to be told they had run out of money, eventually we decided to go for a walk on the beach, dying for a drink and tired, we set off on the pure white sand only a stone through away from the pools edge.

we got down to the shore, when a young local male came up to us and give us a free gift each, he said its a gift for arriving safe, so as we said thanks and started to proceed he stopped us and asked for money, we said we didn't have any, in the end up we gave him £5 just to get rid of him in english.

we got back to the hotel, got our bags, up to the room, got changed and went to get some money changed, ahha they had some a drink at last was the only thing on my mind.

the second day with it being so warm, i decided to go for a swim in the sea, eventually i got out, and layed down, i took 15 minutes to persude my boyfriend into coming for a swim, when we got in we splashed and swam, then i got stung by a jelly fish, it total agony we got out. we saw many people get stung many children who were splashing about.

the sea was extremely safe as the beach was patrolled by life guards and police, the police actually swam in their uniforms to cool down which i thought was funny.

The food in the hotel was absolutely appalling we queued for breakfast, as the half board got served first, and the meals in the pizzaria wasn't impressive it served pizza (surprise surprise), steak well done only, skewers, omelettes, and cheese and chicken sandwiches which after the first 4 days became extremely boring.

One night we decided to go up to the Cocktail bar on the 5th floor with 4 couples we had met, we all got in the lift, went to the floor to be greeted by darkness, so we went downstairs and asked what time it opened we were told it is shut forever, so we toddled off to the American bar which served £200 champagne and soggy crisps, and a few other drinks, this bar had never seen an american or anything american.

it was useless, the nightclub on the site was full of locals and rubbish music, building work and a staircase with no banister, which wasn't too good as i was not in the soberest of states.

on one of the morning we were up late, we sat on the balcony as we got over our hangover to find paint all peeling off the balcony and the side of the hotel, one good thing about where our balcony was, was that it looked over the locals taking their camels for walks. which was amusing to say the least.

the Hotel i would give 6 out of 10

the waiters in the hotel expected a tip everytime you ordered a drink, although they waited on you hand a foot they reluctantly gave change. drinks were expensive for a vodka and orange and bacardi and coke..half the measures we have over here came to £4.50.
the shop was expensive, crisps £2.50 and unfortunately i had to buy girlie things (tampons) which cost me £6.50!!!!.

service and prices 4 out of 10

PLACES TO GO

there are many places in Tunisia, that the reps recommend but we only went to sousse and monistir, in sousse we got dropped off in the madeena (to you and me..the market), we were harassed left right and centre, being blonde i stood out a mile. they said they were cheaper than matalan, cheaper than tescos and asda, and that they werent violent if you went in their shop.

finally we got out to a quite little restaurant, where surprise surprise served pizza, burgers and sandwiches, my boyf had a burger and Duncan who we met their both got food poisoning the day after, they both had it for about 5 days.

one night we went into monistir and visited the marina, it was beautiful full of locals and beautiful boats and warm sea air, the restaurant were brilliant and served amazing tasty food. the service was also brilliant in Monistir.

over all the outings were 6 out of 10

Most of the people we spoke to said they had, has sickness and Diarrhoea, we went through 6 immodium on the first 3 days and had to buy 20 more, we came home with 4.i really suggest taking plenty if you go, and take some stuff to ease jelly fish stings.