My husband, myself and two friends have just returned from El Mansour and can't recognise the last review. Our room No.402 overlooked the pool with views of sea and was wonderful, great view, everything spotless and working fine. yes animation a little basic but this was more than compensated for by enthusiasm and friendliness and everyone was encouraged to join in as much as they wanted. Staff were wonderful contributing to the relaxed atmosphere around the hotel and the range of nationalities staying at the hotel added to the holiday. We had a great stay.

Friendy people, good food.. The downside : the flies over the food by the swimning pool's restaurant, which I found very anti -higienic. the animation team needs to improve a lot, as their so called " showes" were hard to follow...we were expecting something tipically from the Country and instead we had " chinese school" theatre (a disaster) and latino nights.
The room was not very impressive for a 4 star hotel - the shower was awful, just " dropping " and sometimes in the hours that everybody came from the beach, we hardly could wash under it. The fridge in the room didn't work, the toilet was not very well cleaned.
The beach was OK, apart from the very annoying sellers.

As this was our first visit to Tunisia we came away not sure if what we experienced was the norm. Im glad the other two reviews help clarify what we also saw! I think if you visited this hotel at a quieter time it was be a different holiday - for us it was too busy and the food disappointing also out of the hotel the area is shocking with litter and rubble everywhere. Sorry Tunisa we would not come back to Mahida but may try another resort - good points are the staff who were friendly the beach,sea and the sunshine.

Please dont listen to previous bad reviews about this hotel ! i dont usually do this but felt compelled to write this reviews as the previous comments from those tehre on the 54th paint an ufair picture.

The staff cannot be more helpful and friendly as they always are at Riu hotels nothing was too much trouble in particular firas,jo and bar man Hamdi made my holiday very memorable and fun they went out of there way to interact with guest and get to know everyone personalLy.

if you are thinking of booking this upgrade to a superior sea view as it is well worth it these rooms have been refurbished.The beach was amazing crystal clear water which was a lovely temperature watersports are great value for money you can haggle to get a ticket for 5 goes on any for a discount rather than paying as you go.The scuba diving is a must great guys and a fab experience even if you dont dive.We went into the medina at night which we loved as it was buzzing never felt threatened or pestered at all not like in egypt.Entertainment staff work really hard all day and night and there is always something on if you want it no pressure if you dont want to join in.The food was good most of the time the italian and the tunisian are well worth booking into really enjoyed these.
Hope this has helped if you go have a great time hope you enjoy it as much as we did.