we enjoyed our short stay 3 days at this hotel, very friendly helpful staff
cosy large rooms tunisian style with flat screen
large swimming pool outside and inside
long walks on the beach
we truly enjoyed our stay at this hotel

The only down side to this lovely spacious place that includes a huge gorgeous spa is that the pool closes at 7pm. The beach is divine, and one can dine right next to it with excellent fresh fish. Nightly music by a terrific group of young singers and a composer/keyboardist from Madagascar. Abundant delicious breakfast, but if you plan to indulge also in the dinner buffet, go early (everything was room temperature when I arrived around 8:30 pm). My massage at the spa was by a qualified physical therapist and there is a house doctor who will see you at no charge if you are having problems.

After a week in the hotel with my family my conclusion is that the hotel is not worthy the five stars and that's mainly due to a poor, poor service-level. The majority of the staff do not speak english, though they pretend to understand (even worse). They all speak French however, and they will approach you in French. The waiters in the restaurants are plentiful (especially in the morning buffet), however none of them seem to do anything - they sure dont serve you. You have to ask for coffee, bring the child-seat to your table your self and I could go on. The last night we had a very early check-out and I asked the reception to settle my bill the evening before - I was told this would take 10 minutes so I returned to the reception 15 minutes later. The bill was still not prepared and when I asked what was going on, I got the message that "they were busy". I have never experienced anything like that - not even in a 2 or 3 star hotel!
Besides from the poor service, the hotel is clean and the rooms are fairly spacious. We had a "Seaview room" but the balcony is really tiny. The general price level for the restaurants and mini-bar is completely out of reason for a hotel like this - very expensive and you dont have much other opportunities outside the hotel.
The beach was definitely not like the pictures - every morning a tractor drove up and down the beach to pile up the massive amount of sea grass. Going swimming you had to cross a big belt of sea grass and the smell was quite unpleasant.
I will not be coming back anytime soon :-)

Park Inn Ulysse is a great hotel if you are traveling with small children. It's a really calm place, the hotel is simply beautiful with the arabian influence present everywhere. When night falls some of the corners of the hotel changes into almost mystical places with help of lights, cushions and rugs. The rooms are beautifully decorated and the beds excellent.
The pool area is splendid and the beach is great. Staff is helpful, especially if you are French or Arabian speaking.

The food at the hotel has great variation. We didn't get fed up eating the dinner buffet every evening of the week we stayed there. Food quality was generally great considering it can sometimes be hard to find the exact ingredients to some dishes. As a result of this there could maybe have been more Tunisian specialities included in the buffet, but as a whole it was great. You are in for a treat if you like desserts, we have never seen a greater choice at any hotel ever.

It would have been great with a micro-wave oven at our disposition somewhere on the premises. It would have prevented us from disturbing the chefs with heating up our baby food three four times a day. It's not easy to get luke-warm water out of an espresso machine etc... This was a bit of a hassle for us but no real problem.

The prices at the hotel is also a bit on the high side. Water or soft drinks costs four-five times more at the hotel than at the convenient store just outside the hotel. That is simply too much.

All in all our stay was very pleasant.