Hôtel Lafayette — Hotel in Tunis

We are a group of 3 friends trying to explore Tunisia in holy month of Ramadan.

Area : For us the area is a bit shady as surrounding area has shops that are run down or closed. At night, there will be teenagers loitering in front of hotel entrance which I do not know what they are doing late at night even midnight.

Room : Room was however very clean. The cleaners clean our room every morning so we are very happy for it. The only thing we do not like is our mini fridge is broken so we cannot get our beverages put inside the fridge. Few blankets are inside the big cupboard in the room so we can use it if we are cold. There is no AC but only central heating aircond which we end up do not use as we open windows at night for ventilation otherwise it will be super hot and stuffy inside.

I usually jog when I travel but here I did not since I cannot speak Arabic/French so I do not want to have any trouble and I feel a little bit not safe considering the street conditions outside.

Receptionist was very friendly and tried hard to help you even sometimes communication breaks down due to language barrier. Tunisian in general are really friendly, but street vendors selling souvenirs may force you as I read they are really struggling hence why the behaviour is normal.

From airport to hotel would cost around 20DT with midnight surcharge and baggage surcharge 2DT/bag. But in daytime just cost us 10DT with 2 baggage on normal metered taxi.

Taxi is far cheaper than Bolt so use metered taxi just hail them at the roadside.

Shops around the area mostly are closed maybe not surviving but you have Monoprix and Carrefour to buy foods 5 minutes walk from hotel.

We are Muslim so hotel prepared our suhoor everyday in this holy month. When we ask them to get us eggs and bread for suhoor, they did prepare it for us during our stay.

Tunisia do practice capital control so you cannot exchange the TND in your home country. So what I did is supermarkets do accept cards so for small purchase I use cards to not deal with coins.

But to use taxi you need coins so I would just round it up as taxi are cheap, to get around from 1 place to another just cost around 20DT at most. Even to Sidi Bou Said from Hotel only cost 12DT.

To improve : I hope hotel takes care of the fridge in the room as it is a very essential amenities especially if we stay long. There is no cups in the room. If there is kettle also would be good or have the water dispenser at the lobby to work again.

I read on Reddit Tunisian are really struggling so I hope the conditions improve in future. Their French influence are so strong and people are very nice. I believe they have a lot of potential especially in Tourism sector. Just need a little of fine tuning. It is also said it is normal to see garbage bag flying on street in Tunisia. I don’t know why.

During our stay there we somehow lost and ended up in a weekend morning market. From there we gauge the prices that the locals pay, it is super cheap like 7DT for 1kg of strawberries.

Near the hotel there is Turkish restaurant named Saray in Google Map. We break our fast there.

Nothing opens at night in the area except for small pizza joint 2 streets away. So if you want nightlife better be at La Marsa or maybe can try the Medina area if you are Muslim since it is in Zitouna mosque compound so lots of Halal eateries there.

Overall we love Tunisia and the people, and the cost there is cheap. Metered taxi made us very easy to get around but I know people there are struggling so I do not mind giving taxi drivers a little tip like sometimes I feel it is too cheap like cost us 3DT after a ride so I just gave them 5DT instead for the effort through the busy streets.

Thanks very much for taking care of us during our stay especially preparing our suhoor every morning and making sure we are in good care. The cleaner also very friendly as she use Google translate to talk to us. We felt very happy and...

This hotel was really nice place and the staff super wonderful. I stayed here 2 nights and I must say they were hospitable and let me even overstay until it was time to go to the airport. The food was good and the breakfast could been better but it seems like, what they serve is the norm in most small hotels. The room was very clean and clean bathroom. They also give you a bottle of water to drink and the one girl was nIce enough enough to give me the following day another one. It is not close to Avenue Bourguiba but it’s still not far to walk to get there. I recommend this place to anyone that comes to Tunis to stay and I’ll come here again on...

Spent there one night ,the heating wasnt working but the room was clean and the bathroom too. There is extra comforters in the closet but they werent clean . The view wasnt pretty as the hotel is in a dark alley .

The breakfast was not good ,we can have biscuits, bread,elben and jam and butter and cake. It wasnt tasty at all and its...