Having read many mixed reviews we still decided to give the Riadh Palms hotel a shot & I am glad we did. It’s by no means the nicest looking or most modern hotel but it has everything you require to make it a good & enjoyable holiday. …
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Plenty to eat and drink on AI although the wine is an aquired taste. The room was cleaned every day to a high standard but some areas of the hotel were not as clean (courtyard rooms). The location of the Park El Kebir Hotel is not very good if you expect to find bars and entertainment outside the hotel and the staff are good if you tip them - but sometimes ignore you to look after the German holiday makers! …
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We booked this holiday about five weeks before we were due to travel. While reading other reports it had came to my attention there was building work going on at the hotel, but we weren’t informed by Thomson when we booked up, only by letter a week later. The building work did go on all through our holiday but it never spoilt anything. It ended up as a bit of entertainment. The health and safety on these building sights are scary! …
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I’ve just returned from a week at this hotel with my mother, who needed some help with the many stairs to the dining room, pool, lifts ect…
staff seemed very happy to help, even letting us move rooms for a better view over the lovely pool and gardens and right out to sea.
The entertainment was dire and the entertainment team were more than a little smarmy.
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hotel has a no cash policy, you need to get a card from reception (5 dinar diposit) and charge it with cash. good idea but would have liked to be told rather than getting to the beach only to be told i needed a card..get card..back to beach…told to go back to bar at the pool to pay for sunbed and towel…back to beach with ticket…told that he only does sunbed have to go back to poolside for towel!!!….aaaaahhhhh. Just put some signs up, it’s that simple….
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we had a great holiday here my son loved every min just have to say i readed the reviews after booking and thought oh my god what have we done. and all i can say is dont read the bad ones because they are so not ture they are just the kind of people that dont like anything and get a kick out of wineing if u have kids then this is the hotel for you there is also a lovely beach bar that if all in you can eat there to and it is lovely down at the beach and as for never have clean plates or glasses i never had one that was dirty nor did my hole family and there was 10 of us and the drinks was alway ice cold so dont listen to gumpuy people it just what they do best i think they would not be happy even if they stayed at the rizes have a happy hoilday we did and book to go again in 2009
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One of the most fascinating destinations in Africa is the exotic seaport of Stonetown on the idyllic island of Zanzibar. Historically significant, Stonetown is vibrant mix of architectural and cultural influences such as arabic, indian, african and european. With out a doubt the best seafood experience weve ever had was at the Forodhani Garden. The garden has a carnival-like atmosphere with a frenzy of people buying and selling food and curios to the light of gas lamps and flaming woks. There are stacks of kingfish, tuna, barracuda, white shark, red snapper, blue marlin, small prawns, large prawns, lobster, mussels, and clams all on kabobs. Behind the kabobs are piles of crab claws, calamari, octopus tentacles, cassava, breadfruit, falafel, fried potatos, salad, nan bread, and chapatti. Forodhani is definitely the best and the cheapest seafood anywhere.
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