been twice to this hotel , no pool , no entertainment , no choice of food chips and cake everyday no buffet . food was hot but if you didnt want what they cooked tough. smell of sewege during day and night . rooms ok , beach lovely , a lot of germans hardly any english , about twenty people in hotel . staff great. dull dull dull no english channels , only world news . other hotels were busier .we know tunisian people out there so they made our holiday . no shops outside you have to go to monistair . lots of con men taxi drivers rip you off .won't be going to that hotel again . proberly different in season .

I have stayed at this hotel 4 times now and it is fantastic when people here write bad reviews they forget this is a third world country and not benidorm, don't go to Tunisia if your not going to embrace the culture, I also stayed here for five weeks over Christmas in 2008 and the staff are great if you show them respect you get it back , my cleaners iesia and fatamar used to come in in the morning and have a cup of coffe and they are people with hard lives who enjoy to have a laugh. Mr shoukri the hotel manager is a gentleman and will go over and beyond for you I always get the same room rm 404 got a beautiful beach view. Don't listen to these bad reviews this is a great place with great people could not say a bad word about the place.....

Overall, a very dissapointing stay. The excuses we got were "out of season".

The hotel is basic, with basic food, which is the same on all nights, no diversity. Very bland food, same flavour of food on all days of our all inclusive holiday.

The hotel is situated approximately 10 minutes from Monastir. Very easy to get to on the bus, and cheap too. Local taxis expensive.

Hotel rooms, very basic. For an all inclusive, no kettle, iroining facilities, hair dryers...need I say more. Bedding very stained and soiled. Dirty rooms and bathrooms with permenant stains.

No activities or events were organised by the hotel, at most 3 emtaintainers in the bar which did the same acts on the 2/7 nights of our stay.
Many locals turn up at the hotel during the night for the disco, which can be a bit off putting.

Travel rep excursions are very expensive. Organise your own trips safely where possible. 40TND for camel ride by the travel rep, local cost is 6 TND at the back of the hotel on the beach.


Overall, if you are after a weeks relaxing holiday, and nothing more, this is the place for you to be stranded with nothing to do, otherwise pay a bit extra and go somewhere else.

We stayed at the skanes el hana hotel between 13-20th october this year, we chose this one as it had the best reviews and was very close to the airport (infact about 1 1/2 miles, but dont let that put you off i hardly heard any planes from the hotel), after speaking to people in the local town we were right to pick this hotel, the hotel dates from 1985 and has hardly changed since being built, expect loose door handles etc in the rooms. The room was a fair size (we upgraded for £10 to a sea view family room), with view of the sea, we were abit disappointed to find the aircon was switched off, it gets switched off after 15th september, luckily it wasnt that hot of a night during october, i would like to stop there with no aircon during septemer though, the only other point to note is that if you have a room overlooking the outside bar/stage it can be abit noisey and it doesnt get turned off till midnight. There are lifts to the rooms (one of which was switched off half way through out stay and will get switched back on again next year, which meant abit of a wait at peak times). You are seated at the same table in the restaurant with teh same waiter, which we werent used to. The food was great, no two days were the same (except for chips and salads obviously) we were told not to eat the salads but we all did and we were fine, the food is a mixture of english, european and local dishes.
There are 5 bars, the two outside bars we closed half way through out stay for the winter, there is a fantastic retro 80s american bar which i loved. The beer is ok, abit like carling, the wine is ok too, id stay away from the spirits though, if you tip the waiters they tend to get the best stuff from under the bar. The entertainment is ok for kids, it was wound down half way through the week as it was getting cold outside of an evening, theres a nice pool area outside with 3 pools, though the main pool was 3m deep all way around which was abit deep for me. The entertainment around the pool again was stopped half way through the week but was turned on again after a guest complained. the beach is right outside the hotel which is semi private for the hotel.
there is a discoteque which opens every night (except sunday) from 12am til 2am though this isnt all inclusive, and mostly full of locals of a weekend, which can cause abit of tension.
The shop is abit of a joke really, tho the bus to the local town is only 20p! There is a medina (market) where you can get virtually anything (as long as its fake!)
The waiters said the temperature in summer is 40°c which is way too hot for me it was about 28°c when we were there which is about right, he also said the ques for the bars were huge in summer.
To sum up, we paid £300 each which was about right, i dont think i would pay more than about £400 even in summer, i would go again but maybe in late may or early september as things were closing up when we were there, the food is great, the hotel is nice but expect things to be falling off, location is great. The guests were from russia, uk, germany and france a good mix.