Port El Kantaoui

Advantages: Beautiful Beaches
Disadvantages: Mainly For Couples, Hassle From Local Shopkeekers

...Port El Kantaoui is a purpose built Holiday Resort on the Northern Coast of Tunisia in North Africa. It is situated just a few kilometres North of Sousse, Tunisia's second largest City after the Capital Tunis. It was built in 1979 with a modern 300 Yacht capacity Marina as its focal point. In recent years this Marina has become a popular mooring location for the rich and famous undertaking their Mediterranean Cruises and the Marina here is said to rival those long established Marinas of Nice and Marbella on the Southern Coast of Europe. It is now also Tunisia's most popular Holiday Resort. I stayed in Port El Kantaoui between the 2nd and 9th July 2006 and found the experience to be a rather interesting one. Since it was my first visit to Tunisia I was a little unsure of what to expect and as my Holiday approached I began to hear...

micksheff 22.07.2006 · Read review
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PORT EL KANTAOUI

Advantages: NONE
Disadvantages: NONE

...PORT EL KANTAOUI This is a lovely port, when we went to TUNISIA we stayed right in the centre of Port El Kantaoui and Sousse. I recommend the Tuk-Tuks there great. The port itself is based on an old fishing village, which has been extended ? from what I have been told. There are many shops and restaurants, but, beware of the toilets. They are not very clean ? for example we went for a meal in the port and the toilet were right next door to where they prepared there food and the toilet weren't' very clean ? I couldn?t bring myself to go, so I waited until I got back to the hotel. There a lots of things to buy there special is leather and it is really cheap, I bought some belts and my dad who is crazy about sandals bought 3 pairs of leather sandals. The jewellery beware some of it isn?t stamped like our jewellery is, I...

KIWIMULLAN03 10.07.2007 (11.07.2007) · Read review
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Port El Kantaoui staying at the Vincci Hotel

Advantages: Good weather
Disadvantages: Night Life

...down to the beach then you'll enjoy Port El Kantaoui. For me I found it a little boring so booked up for an overnight trip to see some sites in Tunisia. There are several trips you can go on, and we chose the Desert adventure which was fantastic! The coach will collect you quite early from your Hotel (for us it was 630) and you will visit many sites including the ampitheatre where they shot scenes for "Gladiator", then onto the original "Star Wars" set, and a chance to ride a camel through the Sahara for an hour........great! The Hotel was fine and an ice cold beer was very welcoming! You'll be woken at 4am and off again to see the sun rising in the Sahara..........beautiful! A wild 3 hour trip in a 4x4 up the Atlas Mountains and of course all meals on the trip are included. If you can manage, do the full 4 day trip, we wish we had...

rossko1 07.08.2006 · Read review
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Port El Kantaoui Tunisia Far from home

Advantages: Brilliant Weather, people
Disadvantages: Not much to do

...We took our holiday on the 17th November for 7 nights stay and Marhaba Palace in Port El Kantaoui. The resort itself is beautiful, scenic and clean. It is a purpose built resort mainly for tourists. When we were there we seemed to find mainly older people who had gone for 6-8 weeks. They were either going around the country or relaxing. The hotel is wonderful as were all the other hotels in Port El Kantoui. I think all the standards are good. Marhaba Palace was excellent. The service, waiters and general workers were very friendly, especially towards young kids. We had our 1 and a half year old daughter and every Tunisian stopped to play with her, say hello or in some cases to kiss her. We were amazed by this as this never happens in the UK when you go to a hotel. My daughter found it enjoyable as she had enough space to run around...

G210 07.01.2005 · Read review
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Port el Kantaoui & Tunisian sights '04

Advantages: sun, sea, sand!
Disadvantages: resort built solely for tourists

...I stayed in the Tunisian resort of Port el Kantaoui, Hotel Marharba Palace for 2 weeks during August 2004, with my boyfriend. We had a fantastic holiday as a one off, but would not consider revisiting Tunisia. The hotel itself definitely lived up to its 4 stars with beautiful sea views, decent sized clean swimming pool (although you do have to reserve sun beds at the crack of dawn!), and excellent maid and waiter service. The food was the low point of the holiday, lacking in variety, but was certainly edible. We booked our holiday through Thomson who remained helpful and supportive throughout the stay. I strongly recommend the execursions that Thomson had to offer. I am very much a sun lover but, at 40 degrees, even I found I needed to take a break from the sun bathing and swimming. Trips to the Capital Tunis, Sidi Bou...

Lara-Kate 12.09.2004 · Read review
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  BIG IS BEAUTIFUL

Advantages: you get to experiance more of our world
Disadvantages: you have to come back home

...My husband and I were fortunate enough to stay at the Marhaba Palace Hotel, at Port El Kantaoui, Tunisa. with my son and his girl friend, this sept. what an amazing time we had. at this 4 star hotel. First off, I would like to advise people that the flight time is just over 2 and a half hours and not 4 hours like suggested in several Holiday brochures. When you change from the plane to the coach for transfer, you will drive through several other places including Souse. Whilst doing so, you may have an 'oh my god' thought running through your head at the sight of some of The Hotel's but I assure you it just makes the Marhaba Palace look even better than it already is. It is a bright white hotel in a very good central location surrounded by palm trees. On arriving we were greeted very warmly by the staff and given a very...

micheledog 28.10.2005 (30.10.2005) · Read review
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Chill Out Time In Tunisia

Advantages: Lovely hotel with great facilities
Disadvantages: Doesn't have it's own beach

...My boyfriend and I took a week long holiday to Port El Kantaoui in Tunisia in May 2008. The Occidental Allegro Riviera Hotel is a 4 star hotel. We mainly booked this holiday just to have a cheap, chilled out week in the sunshine. We also wanted a fairly short haul flight and we felt that Tunisia would be perfect for this. Travel Time from The UK We flew from London Gatwick and our flight took 2 and a half hours which was lovely as I am used to really long haul flights. The Occidental Allegro Riviera is located about a 40 minute bus journey from the airport, with a few other drop offs included on the way. Our transfers were included in the price of the holiday. Price We paid £455 per person for 7 nights on an all inclusive basis which I thought was pretty reasonable. This hotel also has a sister hotel called...

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CLASSY HAVEN FOR BEACH LOVERS

Advantages: great hotels, perfect sandy beaches, no need to haggle, continental feel
Disadvantages: none

...For anyone put off by the thought of having to haggle your way through a holiday in North Africa, you should try PORT EL KANTAOUI Visitors to either Tunisia or Morocco who are not used to the ancient custom of haggling for ‘bargains’ when shopping find it exciting at first. But, after a while it becomes tiresome – well it did for me. Then I stumbled across a relaxing resort which had fixed prices in the shops and did not try to rip the tourist off at all points. Port el Kantaoui was built around 20 years ago as a 'purpose made' resort. It is centred around a very smart marina. Ringed with Bars, shops and Restaurants - it has very much a 'Mediterranean Riviera' type feel to it. One thing we noticed straight away after having previously been the resorts of Hammamet and Sousse - you didn't have to haggle for anything...

flashpointz 13.07.2001 · Read review
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Acqua Palace

Advantages: Clean, modern, fun slides, great day out
Disadvantages: Not as large as I thought it would be

...Myself and my boyfriend visited Tunisia in May 2008 and while we were there we decided to take a walk into the main town, where we found Acqua Palace. About Acqua Palace Acqua Palace as you would imagine, is a water park and it's the only water park in Port El Kantaoui. It was closed for a while in 2007 while renovation works were carried out and it opened its doors again for the summer season of 2008, boasting bigger, better and faster slides. Location Acqua Palace is located about a 5 minute walk from the main town of Port l Kantaoui. It is not very well signposted but we still found it very easy to find. Prices Admission was 15 dinars for adults which works out at £7.50. Prices for children were 7.50 dinars which is about £3.00. I thought the prices were very reasonable and although the park is not massive, I still...

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The Hotel Royal Kenz, Tunisia

Advantages: Very Clean, Good Food
Disadvantages: A Fair Distance From The Main Resort

...The Hotel Royal Kenz in the Resort of Port El Kantaoui in Tunisia was recently my Home for 7 nights between the 2nd and 9th July 2006. The Holiday itself was a last minute booking but the Girl at the Travel Agent's said that She had stayed at this Hotel and that it was superb. The price for the total package, including Flights and transfers was incredibly cheap at just under £200 Half Board for 7 nights and so the booking was made. FIRST IMPRESSIONS I had seen a picture of the Hotel in the Brochure so I knew that this was one of the largest Hotels in the Resort with 405 Rooms. I also knew that it had only three Floors and that it was therefore spread out over quite a wide area within its own Grounds. On arriving in the Resort the first point to note was that the Hotel was quite a distance from the main hub of the Resort...

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