El Faracha — Hotel in Sousse

My wife and I have just returned from our holiday in Tunisia. We used the Hotel El Faracha in Sousse as a base for our backpacking trip around the south of Tunisia.||||We stayed in rooms 404 for two nights at the beginning of the week and room 505 at the end of the week. While room 404 was a corner room, a double bed and a single bed, my wife Heather preferred room 505 as the en suite bathroom was bigger. Both rooms were clean and the beds comfortable. The shower fixtures and fittings could have done with a with a bit of love, but the hot water was hot and the cold water was cold, so not a problem. ||||Both rooms had balconies, with a view over the neighbourhood. Both rooms had a tv with local channels. Both rooms had air conditioning, which we didn't need (it being January and all)||||The reception staff were friendly and helpful, they all spoke English and French and let us leave our luggage at the hotel while we travelled around the rest of the country.||||Breakfast was hot fresh coffee served in a pot along with a pot of hot milk, baguette bread slices butter and jam, croissants and or pain chocolate and on some days a boiled egg or a yogurt. Simple, but a good start to the day. My wife loves her coffee in the morning and was happy with the freshly brewed coffee served to us.||||The room cost us 25 tunisian dinar, per person per night for a non-smoking double room with en suite toilet and shower and continental breakfast. This is the low season rate and both my wife and I thought this was great value for money.||||The Hotel El Faracha is walking distance from both the town centre and the railway station. There is an ecumenical church 200 metres away with a Catholic Mass at 9.30am and a Protestant service at 11am on Sunday mornings. The sea front with a sandy beach is 200 metres down the hill across the road. If you don't want to walk then a taxi into town should cost you no more than 2 dinar or 3 dinar to the louage station. There is a cafe on the corner and shops where you can buy water, soft drinks, sweets and toiletries etc on the main road. There is also a small supermarket open during the day, less than 5 minutes walk away down the main road in the direction heading away from the town centre.||||So if you are looking a great value for money hotel, simple accommodation without any extra frills and thrills in a location close to town, then the Hotel El...

The hotel El Faracha offers cheap, comfortable bed and breakfast.||It is situated near to the centre of sousse, and approximately 200yds from the sea front.||The rooms consist of a double bed, (single room as well) TV, Fridge, air conditioning, and a built in wardrobe with full length mirrors, the bathroom has a shower, sink, and toilet. ||There is a lift to all floors.||The lighting along the hallways, to your room, has timer switches, gives you about three minutes to get to your room.||Breakfast consists of, pot of coffee, or tea, 1 pot of milk, some bread, a croissant, fig or apple spread, a yogurt, or boiled egg, and margarine.||The down sides to this hotel are, the noise, there are a lot of children who play out till all hours along the same street as the hotel, there is a cockrel that starts crowing around 3.30am and keeps going till 6.30am, it is also situated on a dead end street, which is very dirty, with a lot of litter on the pavements, there is also building work going on at the end of the street.||The view from the room is not that great, just a load of houses, with flaking paintwork, the rubbish bins are placed at the end of the road and are emptied around 10.30pm, ||In the month I stayed in sousse I found it to be a very dirty city, people are not using the litter bins and are just throwing there waste on the beach or leaving it on the road and pavement, sousse is not the best place to be as there is a big gay community in sousse and they all converge on the sea front, so if you are a single male you will be approached by a Tunisian male and asked if you want business, the hotel itself scores a 4/10 Sousse itself scores 1/10 - price per night / £10 / 30DNT||There are no british tourists in this hotel, French, german, and Libyan, plus some Tunisian, the Tunisian people have told me that they do not want the tourists to return to Tunisia, as they are the cause of the problem, without them the attacks would not have happened,||I will be in Tunisia for the next year and I will be visiting several hotels, my reviews are honest and down to earth, and I will tell it...

The El Faracha is a clean, less expensive option for travelers looking to stay in Sousse Corniche, the neighborhood by the beach. It's located on a dead-end side street just two blocks from the sea.||||My room was small and had a balcony. Doors and windows all locked. I stayed there for three weeks and regularly left electronic equipment in my room; it was not disturbed. In that time I saw one large cockroach in my room and noted that the staff seems to clean around (but not under) the furniture.||||The staff was friendly but not particularly helpful when it came to restaurant recommendations and locations, directions, and basic city geography. The WiFi worked fine, but was only available in the lobby and breakfast room. The breakfasts were OK, but the same every day. ||||This area of Sousse Corniche is distinguished by a number of empty buildings, run-down shops, and garbage in the streets. I never feared for my safety, but it was a rather ugly, depressing environment.||||Given prevailing room rates in Sousse Corniche, the El Faracha offers decent value for the money. However, if I had to stay in a Sousse hotel again for any length of time, I'd...