Caribbean World - All Inclusive

( 2 stars , Tunis , Tunisia )

Went May 2007. Overall it was a really good stay. For what we paid it was more than we expected. Accomodation is very good, clean, and recently refurbished. Food is good. Entertainment staff are fantastic... They are around from 9am and put on a performance every evening on the stage, dance, music, etc. Must only get midnight to 8am off. Hotel staff are very helpful. Have a lovely beach and water sports. Two big swimming pools, one with slides. Here's the buts... Limit English people there. Mainly German, French and Russian. Limited English with staff. Speak French, German more. Dinner finishes at 9pm. Bar closes at 11pm. There is a cheesy disco after. But nothing else to do after as there is no local town. You are just there, stuck. Local beers and spirits in the all inclusive take getting used to, but work! The relax centre was the only let down. A guy comes around the loungers and sells you an amazing sauna, mud and seaweed and massage session for about £37 each. When you go there, it is rubbish, dirty, smelly and you end up, more or less, taking turns to be treated by one girl. The guy is really persuasive and friendly, but when he takes your money, he is brash and then doesn't really want to know your experience. Be warned.

I went to this hotel for 14 days. it's a simple hotel, but not too simple. We had great fun there, the swimmingpool is amazing, the animation team knows their job, the food was good, the room was nice and the staff was friendly. Every evening there was an interactive show for the smaller children and aftre that there was a show for the others ( cabaret, dancing, ...). We saw the lion king, aladdin, grease and many more... all performed by the animation team. In the day there where games, arobics, dancing lessons,... and once a week there's a mini souk (market) where you can buy souvenirs. The animators can speak several languages like english, french, german, italian. I've had a great two weeks and I would go back any time!

I thought the holiday was one of the best i've ever had. The Staff were really friendly. The food was good. It had a range of different dishes! In the evenings the Animators perfomed a brilliant show! There was always a range of activities to do throughout the day and the beach was very close. I enjoyed a lot and would recommend it to anyone!

This is the worst place I have ever been to. Had a terrible experience there all at the hotels fault. The place is dirty, the food is uneatible, the staff are extremely rude, the rooms are BAD, and the location is undesirable. I would not advise anyone to go there, I went for a week and hated everyday of it and was then sick for about two weeks after.

Well, the title says it all. First of all we couldn't beleive how long it took us to get there, something like 3 hours with no warning or stop en route!! The complex itself is okay, our room was good and kept to a hig standard, the flies were a pain but you can hardly blame that on the hotel, although they could maybe do a bit more to prevent them in the dining room. The Animation team were great, good laugh and full of energy. Food was hit and miss, one day it'd be great but the next pretty average and bland. All in all though a holiday is what you make of it and we had a great time, there were some language barriers because the resort seems to cater for mainly German, Polish, French and Russian guests but they can soon be overcome. In all honesty, in the first week all we heard from a bunch of Brits was how they wanted to escape because it was full of Germans and there was no chips, thankfully, they only stayed a week and then went home, leaving us to enjoy our holiday without their continued bleating on how fed up they were...........maybe Blackpool should becon for them next year!!

I went with my wife during the May half term holiday, and I have to say that after reading the reviews we were a little nervous! It turned out that the worrying was unneccessary! Here are our views of some of the comments posted here. 1. People complaining about the transfer time are coming from Monastir airport, as from Tunis Airport (where we got off) it takes about 45 mins. Check your arrival airport. 2. The hotel is not expensive, therefore do not expect a week in an all-inclusive Hilton. The free drinks include wine (the red is better than the white) Brauhaus german beer (tasted fine to me) and a selection of Tunisian spirits such as Muscat and Bourkha. Coke, Sprite and Fanta are there also, as well as fruit juices (made from concentrate and sweet as hell!) On the food front it did seem to be the same things most days and nights. However we never went hungry as there was always something to eat. Items included lots of salad ingredients, pasta and sauce(s), pizza (usually cold) and fries, there was a whole range of vegetables cooked and the chefs served up stir fired meat and veg, and lets not forget the Tunisian speciality in the corner. 3. The rooms are basic. We had a King size bed, vanity area, TV (didn't work but didn't go on holiday to watch TV), wardrobe and bathroom. They are huge rooms and they all have a veranda/ balcony with chairs and table. If you are on the ground floor around the pool, then there are 2 sun loungers outside on the grass as well! Cleaned and mopped everyday. Beware mosquitoes in the evening. 4. Tunisia speaks arabic and French. This hotel caters primarily for French, German and Russian guest (the latter were noisy) if you are unsure if your school French, German or Russian is enough, and you think you may do a lot of talking, then don't stay. Luckily for me my wife speaks excellent French, so we didn't have a problem. Even so most of the staff will try in English for you. Overall, for a little over 300GBP per person for the week, we enjoyed our stay. We were not there in peak season and it was nice having only 200-250 people in the resort. It can hold a lot more! If people are really unhappy then there are always tours to go on. For families, from where we were lying, it looked like the animation team were doing their utmost to entertain the childtren with lots of activities. Can't really fault the place this time.

It's a bit of a mixed review of this hotel really. We booked last minute and had never been to Tunisia before. Got a bit of a shock as the bus started to slow as it looked like we were in war torn iraq. We were thrilled however when we got inside by the beautiful complex which was immaculate. Not being able to take any Tunisian currency into the country we only had sterling in £20's when we got there and the porter very 'kindly' said he would take 'quids' when i explained this to him, which took some time as his english was virtually non-existant. Not that I should really criticise that as I couldn't speak his language! Considering £20 too large a tip for carrying our bags about 100 yards I told him I would tip him later once I had dinar. He still did not want to leave and I virtually had to push him out of the door to get him to go. My friend in her room with her son did not fare as well and ended up giving him £10 to get him to leave. He approached me then about a further 3 or 4 times to remind me that he had carried my baggage until I tipped him. Bearing in mind the place is very remote and there is only the resorts bank, a few shops and a salon for miles around I hadn't changed any money for a couple of days. It did feel like every member of staff was lurking waiting for you to give them money. This was with the exception of the cleaners who were fabulous. On our second day I gave our cleaner about £2 which was all the change I had and every day she left flowers in our room and greeted me with the most enormous smile like I'd actually given her £2000!! The animation team were great, very enthusiastic but sometimes a bit too much so. They kept coming round and trying to make you join in with various activities such as aqua aerobics etc which being truly English I was not interested in, but 'no' didn't seem to cut the mustard. Our children one day had stones thrown at them by some German children whilst on one of the kids activities and rather than excluding the stone throwers our children were brought back to us. More than a little unfair I thought. They also have a man who we nicknamed Captain Lovely Jubbly because that, along with 'You will come on my boat today only 30 quids' was all of his english. Same with the camel man, who constantly hounded us to go for a ride on his camels. The food was ok as long as you like German sausage which bizarrely seemed to feature in every dish including the bowls of veg! Breakfast was good but my children lived on mashed potato and bread all week as most dishes were very spicy and often difficult to ascertain what they actually were. That being said the resort itself was beautiful and very very clean. The staff were helpful once you could actually get them to understand you save for one waiter who grabbed my 8 year old son as we were walking out of the restaurant one lunchtime, marched him back to the table away from me and berated him in foreign tongue for spilling salt on the table. How I didn't assault the man I don't know! And the reception staff were less than concerned when I told them. Don't think we'll be back. The place does not live up to its potential.

Me, my wife and twin 6 year old kids spent 8 days at this resort at end of July. The resort itself is vast and great - the staff are extremely friendly and the 3 swimming pools are superb. The beach was not overcrowded and offered a variety of watersports. The beach, hotel complex and the guest rooms are kept extremely clean. Considering the variety of guests, the staff did a good job in keeping everyone entertained. The food was a big let down for us - not really suitable for kids, not much variation on the menu plus we all had belly troubles during our stay. I soon stopped eating the rice, cous cous and cooked meat and I was ok but my kids had problems throughout. I'm not 100% sure whether the kids got sick purely down to the food - perhaps the intense heat, the different cooking ingredients and long days of getting up early, splashing around in the pool and then going bed late also contributed. It would have been nice to have nearby restaurants to add some variety, but there isn't so we we're stuck with what they had to offer (or starve). In the evenings the Animation staff put on a kids disco (which my kids loved), then a spot of Bingo and then a show for the adults. The shows we're fun - some of the dancing was brilliant. My only other gripe was that most of the staff and guests only spoke French or German - so it was hard to get involved in the shows or make friends with the other guests. Still, it worked as a bonus because I used this excuse of not understanding the language when asked why I wasn't dancing to the "Birdie Song". Would I go again? Probably not in the immediate future - just because of the food factor. But if it was a break for just me and my wife or perhaps when the kids are older - then definately Yes.

On our arrival at Caribbean World we were welcomed by the Animators with a welcome dance. This made us feel welcome straight away. At the bar later that evening, the staff came over and introduced themselves and soon we were all laughing and joking together. Our rooms were extremely spacious and clean and the beds were comfortable. The room was cleaned daily and the maids did a great job with them. Everyday the Animators made a list of activitys that we could do. There was quad biking, tennis, areobbics, volleyball, bodywork, boules, salsa, darts and more. And that was all on site. Off site there was horse riding and camel riding and more. Also all the water sports including jet skiing, water skiing and swimming were also on site. In the evenings, the Animators put on shows. Dance ones and sketch ones. They were amazing. One evening we were there, it was a global dance show, and dances from Spain, Russia and Britain included. The River Dance was amazing. The food was good and a lot of it was cooked in front of you. The beach was clean and tidy, and so was the campus. All in all, my fellow travellers and I would give this holiday and hotel 100 out of 100. Definatly worth a vist!

we had read some terrible rewiews about caribbean world before we left for our holiday and were very worried . we have just returned on the 29th oct 2005. we had nothing to worry about, the staff were very freindly, the food was very varied and very much edible with plenty of choice even for our 2 small boys. the hotel was kept extremely clean, our room was large and very clean. the beach was beautiful, plentyof sunbeds. the pools area was spotlessly clean. i would advice anybody to ignore all the poor reports they dont know what they are talking about!!!!!!!!!!!!! go there and enjoy.