I stayed in this hotel for 6 night during February 2008. Initial impressions are good, with a nice clean entrance area to the hotel. Check-in was relatively quick. The hotel has apparently been refurbished in the past few years. My room had lots of dark wood panelling. The bed was comfortable (on the firm side, but I prefer it that way). Separate toilet to the bathroom which was just your typical marble hotel bathroom. Plenty of hot water and no problems with water pressure for the shower. There are two restaurants in the hotel, plus a coffee/snack shop in the open foyer area just beyon reception. The Italian restaurant serves a variety of pizza and pasta meals, with a selction of salads to start with, plus some other dishes like fillet steak with pepper sauce and a selection of fresh seafood. Prices aren't too expensive as hotel restaurants go, with starters at about 6 - 14 Dinars (?3 - ?6) and main courses from about 12 - 25 Dinars (?5 - ?10). The pizzas are slightly different from what are normally servced in the UK, but the pasta dishes are all fine. I had the steak a few times, which they tended to overcook slightly. They are also happy to servce additional things like fries and garlic bread (pizza style) if you ask, even though they aren't on the menu. This restaurant can get quite busy, so service can take a little while during busy times. The other "bistro" restaurant is behind some mirrored doors on your left as you enter the hotel. It doesn't open on a Sunday evening. It has a different selection of meals, with the grilled prawn skewer being a popular choice. Large, fresh tasty prawns, but you do have to peel them youself. Despite being a more upmarket restaurant, the prices are virtually identical to the other one, and service is both better and faster. Drinks in both restaurants are relatively inexpensive, with the most expensive bottle of wine being 32 Dinars (?12), and a bottle of local beer is 3.5 Dinars (about ?1.50). Breakfast is a buffet with a selction of hot stuff, tea, coffee and the best freshly squeezed orange juice I've tatsted anywhere. Lots of French pastries, croissants, and other local delicacies were also available at breakfast, plus a small selection of cereals, fresh fruit, a choice of breads and omlettes on request. There is an indoor pool in the hotel, but it's quite small (about 20 feet by 10 feet). It's not well sign posted, but you can find it in the fitness/beauty area which is at the rear of the coffee/foyer area and to the right. The gym isn't up to much, and consists of a few treadmills and a couple of bikes and some free weights. I think they charge 5 Dinars per hour to use the gym, and again I never saw anyone use it during the time I was there. They do charge for internet access at about 5 Dinars per day. There aren't many instructions supplied, but you do have to go through their proxy server which means www access only. You won't get VPN access, Skype won't work or anything else that connects directly to a server. Once up and running, you also have to type in a username and password for each browser session which is just chxxx where xxx is your room number. You also have to ask them each day to switch on the internet access, as it's just done on a daily basis. Once up and running it's OK, but not blindingly quick, and it does slow down during the evenings when everyone else is using it. Opposite the hotel there's a small park/garden area where you can sit and watch the world go by. There's plenty of nearby shops - mostly mens fashion! The medina is well worth a visit - it's full of hundreds of small stalls and shops in all directions, very narrow lanes and very busy at times. Some real bargains to be had, especially locally made goods, fruit and veg. We didn't get hassled at all by anyone in there - everyone was polite and courteous. Unlike other cities, 99% of the customers are locals so there's not a lot of tacky souvenirs. We went to two restaurants outside the hotel. One called Coral is near a hotel on the edge of the promenade is the best seafood restaurant in the town allegedly. Seafood is very fresh and well cooked, and tasty. The otehr one was called Baghdad restaurant, which was nice enough inside, excellent service, good food and very reasonable prices. We were about 50 Dinars (?22) for a 3 course meal with a half bottle of wine and some water and coke for two. LIke all restaurants, including those i the hotel, everything is in either Arabic or French, but the waiters can speak enough English to explain what's on offer and take your order.