Jinene Hotel

The rooms where clean maids were lovely waiters were great too always there to serve you right away with a smile.
Wasn’t keen on the food but that was personal taste all staff in restaurant were great. entertainment staff were fantastic they all worked so hard all day to get you to join in no matter what age you were and in the evening they still kept smiling and entertaining overall my holiday was great and I would most definitely go back to see them all again.

GREAT! how anybody can complain I don’t know, chill out people!
This hotel waz brill, I've bin b4 bt never to this hotel and woz just as pleased with the outcome, I love Tunisia and am defo going back as soon as i can. The entertainers work brilliant and are good with all ages. The food is ok there is always something you like! The location is fab and only a small taxi trip away to the nightlife, starbar is a club just down the road we were taken to. The people are wonderful and do as much as they can to please.
I was very satisfied with this holiday and me and my friend will be going back shortly to see my good friend Sam and sniper from the hotel.

People are saying that the Jinene is horrible. This isn't true. It has not gone down the pan (answer to the lady who went in 2004) we were there then to and this year! its the same apart from the entertainment people, there’s more of them and there loads more fun so don’t be put of! The entertainment and lifeguard staff work really hard trying to please every1 even the awkward ones. The DJ plays a wide range of music what do you expect Mozart and Beethoven it isn’t possible! The food is nice and the pizzeria is quite cheap we had a 2 course meal for £6, which was really cheap to us! The location couldn’t be better close to the port, airport, bars and shops & taxis are very cheap. The pool was lovely and the daytime activities are very good fun every1 joins in even the dances are done during the day. Were definitely going again this year and next!!!!!

Heres goes... I read all the reviews on here before I went, and thought ...OH NO it going to be a dump. So my expectation was very low.
The appearance of the Hotel is impressive, set about 15 mins walk out of Sousse centre, which we didn’t mind because we like walking, if you don’t get a taxi or the Noddy train.. they’re for nothing (Taxi about £2).
Room 431 was not the best room in the house - the door looked like it had been forced in the past...but the room seemed ok. It faced away from the pool, onto the main road, not a terrific view but it did capture the sunshine on the balcony after 1pm which was nice.
The food - well to be honest I thought it was OK, and I do all the cooking at home. The breakfast consisted of several choices from toast to eggs to sausage or muesli or cereals , yoghurt etc. The coffee was absolute Poo, I don’t mind saying, but there were other choices like mint tea for example. Evening food and service was good, plenty to eat , good wine Chateau Mornag and the waiters were very friendly.
here comes the bad bit: -
The carpet in the room and hallways was disgusting, never vacuumed , full of bits, which were there day after day. The downstairs bar was full of 70's armchairs and I don’t think they had been washed since the 70's either - it didn’t feel hygienic to sit in them. The drinks in the Hotel were very expensive...about £2.15 for a beer, when it’s about a £1 downtown in most of the other better hotels. Irish coffee was 7 dinar (2.3 dinar = £1)..we thought it was expensive. A bottle of water for the room 1.5ltr was 2 dinar....out on the street across the road there was a supermarket selling the water for 0.5 dinar and the downtown hotels had water for about 1 dinar.
Out at the pool you could get a pizza, beer and a water for about £5, this was substantially dearer than other hotels downtown. There were at least 8 -10 staff in view outside during the day. get this, 3 of them manually pulling weeds from a lawn, which barely covered the land. A deckchair attendant brings you a cushion for your lounger, but them sits down doing nothing for the rest of the time. A DJ plays rap music at loud volume to guests whose average age is from 35-50...not good. The evening entertainment is a little 'holiday camp style'...maplins actually. There were 2 guys circling the pool area bringing you drinks to order (there were about 50 max around the pool so there was overkill of staff).Another staff member tries to sell you a camel ride by showing you his folder (it costs £7 to go on it)...but when he has finished he sits with the pool attendant and DJ talking. So many staff...so why cant any of them use a vacuum cleaner instead of sitting about.
The staff were however friendly, there was a hot pool and sauna and gym at the sister hotel Royal Jinene which shares the same pool and you can use these. The cost of the holiday was very cheap so I should not complain really, you get what you pay for and the standard we received was in excess of what we paid for the holiday - so inspire of the areas for improvement above, it still exceeded our expectations.
Hotel Rating - good for the money
Staff Efficiency - they need a good Manager who organises people.
Staff Friendliness - more than helpful and always smiling.
Area - if you get out and about there are many tourist attractions, if you are a beach or pool bum you would be suited to this place.

Well I was going to book again for next year (06) until reading the reviews.
When I went it was fantastic, the kids cried when we were coming home.
The entertainment was great every night then dancing afterwards. Nouri the entertainment manager was great, he took me the pharmacy for my ear infection.
If anyone reads this and has been this year recently please put my mind at rest as I have just come back from Hammamet, Le Saphir/Hammemet Village and it was absolutely pants, don’t believe what you read in the brochure, it is nothing like.
The kids wanted to come home the 1st week it was that bad.
Anyway please let me know if Jinene has gone down the pan since last year.