Tunisia

Suzanne Robinson on 03 September 2022
The opportunity arose to have a weeks stay at the 5* Les Orangers Garden Villas & Bungalows, Hammamet, Tunisia. So we decided to have a family break, consisting of 4 adults and 2 kids aged nearly 4 and 21 months. (So not a relaxing break!!) the first week of September. It has been a while since I have visited Tunisia and I was reminded how warm and welcoming the people are and how keen they are to have more visitors from the UK.

We flew into Enfidha Airport with Easyjet, which is a pretty modern airport, given that it is only a local one, and then had a private transfer of around 35/40 mins. The hotel is situated right next to a stunning soft sandy beach with lovely well tended gardens to enjoy. We had two ground flooor rooms with terrace which were modern and spacious. If your budget allows then it would be nice to have a sea view and they also offer bungalows if you fancy some extra room.

The hotel has three pools. The main pool is right next to beach and has plenty of beds and parasols. No childrens section but there are steps down into it that our kids played on. The second pool is near the spa and does have a childrens section and there is also a nice indoor pool too. The spa offers a range a of treatments and we all enjoyed a 30 mins massage, which was lovely.

The beach is soft sand and again there are plenty of beds and shade, which was a must in the 36c temperatures we were experiencing. The ocean was clear and inviting and there are a couple of watersports operators nearby with a range of activities on offer (at extra cost), plus camels going up and down the beach for anyone who fancied a ride. A beach bar offering waiter service or get your own that also did burgers/pizza at selected times. We found that tipping the pool/beach waiting staff a few dinar every day or so gave us better service as they were very busy and by the last few days we had them bringing us buckets of drinks as soon as we sat by the pool!

The hotel has lots of indoor and outdoor seating areas and there are two nice bars, one on the roof and the other inside with a terrace option too. As the hotel offers all inclusive, we ate in the main restaurant which had a good selection of food with chefs cooking fresh options like grilled meats, pasta and stir fry. We ate in the outside terrace set menu waiter service area one night but I felt it lacked atmposphere and the food was not as good as in the buffet. In the Winter months they have an inside a la carte restaurant that perhaps offers a better proposition.

Unfortunately there was no after dinner entertainment which I found was the only negative, but you could visit the sister hotel next door that did have more going on. There was a kids club too but we did not use this facility.

Overall we had a lovely family break, I would recommend this hotel for a relaxing break or time with kids where you do not need lots going on. I would definitley visit again.