Sousse (Tunisia)

...Sousse is a town about half way down Tunisia’s Mediterranean coast. It has a commercial harbour and miles of sandy beach. The town has many shops, stores, cafes and there is a big outdoor market every Sunday where haggling is the done thing. The currency is the dinar which is a closed currency, ie. You cant get any before you arrive and you can’t take any home with you. We went with sterling Travellers Cheques and these were changed at ...
...there and found the hotel’s exchange rate favourable. We had heard many stories about shortage of booze since this is an Arab country, we were told you’d only get it in your hotel and it was expensive. What a load of poppycock, while there’s not a bar/café every 100 metres as in Spain, Portugal etc anywhere we ate we could have as much alcoholic drink as we liked at prices slightly cheaper than home. I must admit I didn’t ...

petersmyth1 30.08.2001 · Read full review
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...could be forgiven for missing Sousse off the itinerary whilst visiting Tunisia. After all it is Tunisia's second largest City, but unlike Tunis the Capital, Sousse has a reputation of being a lot more industrialised. During my recent visit to the Country I stayed in a Holiday Resort called Port El Kantaoui, which is a purpose built Resort just 12 Kilometres from Sousse. FIRST IMPRESSIONS My first glimpse of Sousse was from the transfer Coach from ...
...Sousse seemed like a bustling, lively, place with plenty of traffic and People, but it did look rather run down and not the sort of place where one would spend a Holiday. THE LOCATION The City is located on the Coastline but sprawls inland for several Kilometres and the Coast is only a relatively short stretch of around 3 Kilometres. This is however the Mediterranean Sea and the same Sandy Beach that is found at Port El Kantaoui. It has a population ...

micksheff 01.08.2006 · Read full review
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...finally decided to travel to Sousse in Tunisia (only 1000 Marks or 320 GBP). At first I was really afraid. It‘ s nation of the Islam, we had no boy with us, we would fly with TunisAir and we would be in Hotel Phenix, which has only two stars. Well, the flight was OK. If I had known that there was no plane of TunisAir which yet crashed down I would have been much more relaxed and would have ignored all the noise the machine made. Tunisia has ...
...it. The beach in Sousse is fantastic. For only one and a half Dinar (I think this are 75 cents) you could have one matt and a sunshade for the whole day. This is really neccessary, because it’s always more than 35º Celsius. It’s a soft wind which make it much more agreeable, but which also make your clothes full of the sand. After this holidays I have to buy a new photo camera, cause my one was full of this. However, there are no toilets ...

SoerkeKlein 29.03.2002 · Read full review
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...The hotel-Royal Beach in Sousse seemed very basic but ok. The next day we had breakfast-some dodgy choices but I found some pastries so stuffed my face with those! We decided to hit the pool as soon as possible. We were there for about a minute when the attendant demanded 4 Dinar (the Tunisian currency is Dinar-4 Dinar is approximately 2 pounds) just for the privelage of putting our towels on sunbeds. We paid him and settled down to catch some rays. ...
...kantoui for dinner to escape Sousse for the evening and found a haven amongst the madness! It was lovely, the beach was clean!! We didn't even mind people trying to drag us into their shops and the kids following us down the street, because at least they weren't offering us drugs or feeling us up! We transferred there the next day, and spent the rest of the holiday sunbathing. Port al kantoui was better than Sousse but we didn't have a good holiday, ...

theblonde2000 25.02.2005 · Read full review
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Shopping in the bazaar in Sousse is very exiting, and can be very revarding if you look carefully at what you are buying. Note however that if you like to bring back spices, only buy from proper "Spice merchants" where you can smell and taste the goods. All stallholders are selling ready packed varieties of spices typical of Tunesia for as little as 1 - 2 Dinars. When we came home with our "nice" spice bags, they only contained coloured powder ...

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...you. I have visited Sousse on a number of occassions now and love it. It is a great all round resort with plenty of culture and as for the hotels, well you cannot find a bad hotel in Sousse and believc me I have stayed in a few. Even the 2* hotels are beautiful, clean and friendly. A 3* hotel is the equivalent to our 5* hotels with a marble reception area and chandaleers. As for the beaches in Sousse, picture this-white sand, clear blue sea and not ...
...resort more to couples and families as the night life isnt pumping but its not non-existant either. If you enjoy a stroll along the sea front of an evening with plenty of atmosphere then its right up your street. So give it a try, you wont be disappointed. ...

olli 02.08.2001 · Read full review
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I recently visited Tunisia, Sousse to be precise and found it an enjoyable place to visit. Sousse is the 2nd largest city in Tunisia - there is a large market and other attractions include the citadel and mosques. There are several good day trips from Sousse and there is a reasonable train service to all the major towns, but travel 1st class unless you like travelling on wooden benches. Kaioran is a holy city which contains many mosques,matmata ...
...Tunis itself is nothing special but it is worth visiting the site of nearby Carthage as is the picturesque village of Sidi Bou Said. Nightlife in Sousse is centred mainly around the hotels and alcohol is quite expensive.The best buys in Tunisia are probably carpets and spices. ...

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