The reservation process for the hotel was good, with staff fairly fluent in English. The rooms were cheap but still a little overpriced for what you get. The rooms were rundown but clean, except for the floors. The best feature of the room was a good bathtub with a shower wand, but the window screen had a hole in it, allowing in plenty of mosquitos. The bathroom overlooked a small interior courtyard, but the room overlooked a dark alley. The breakfast is a copious amount of cheap baguettes and coffee, and we found it hard to communicate that we wanted just coffee or tea, with a main breakfast elsewhere. This was easy to find, for the hotel is just off the main avenue in the very center of town. The metro station is fairly close, as are numerous restaurants and patisseries. The Medina and the Monoprix are a few blocks to the left on Rue d'Yougouslavie.

I reserved a room with bathroom for one person via the website, and doubled-checked with the reservation twice beforehand to make sure it was fine. They assured me - by e-mail - it was. Naturally, when it came to checking in, it wasn't even there.

Nevermind, it was low season and I easily got a twin-room with a sink (22 dinar), and was promised I would get an en-suite the next morning. In the end, I left 12 hours later and moved to another hotel because I didn't really like the Salammbo. The room in my window wouldn't shut properly, and I ended up spending the night being bitten by a dozen mosquitoes. I kept on killing the little buggers throughout the night, only for it to be a never-ending exercise. I also saw a tiny little cockroach in my room. The communal shower (2 Dinar extra - pay upon check-out) was pretty good, but its door was locked in the morning which I thought was a bit strange (just ask the porter to unlock it). I guess the last reason for moving out was that I didn't fancy lugging my baggage up three flights of stairs.

Location is pretty damn good though. There's no in-room TV or internet at the hotel, and the breakfast was terrible.

If you want to spend one or two nights in the capital of Tunisia this is a good place. It is 500 meters from the main Railway Station of Tunis. Also the Medina is not far away from the hotel (1000 meters).
The hotel looks like a student hostel but with 2 bad. You can find 3 pictures about it. In the room there were the bad the shower corner. The toilette was on the corridor.
The night was cold outside there but the heating was on so we haven't had cold.

I recommend this hotel to the people who are happy with the poor hotels and wants to spend some nights for low price.

I stayed at the Salammbo on two occasions and it's not too bad for what you pay. It's in a great location, 10 minutes walk to the Medina, and the front desk staff are friendly. We got a room on the forth floor (good for the legs). It was a corner room, very large, bright and clean. The shower/bathroom was good too. I think it was 56. Ask for it if you go there as the second time we stayed there they gave us a room on the first floor. It was smaller, more run down and the shower was no where near as good. So we switched back up to 56. You also get a basic breakfast. I think we paid about £10 a night.