Laico Djerba

Just returned from a week, all inclusive, standard room (garden view) at the Royal Kathargo in Djerba. This, in my opinion, is my honest review. Overall it’s an ok complex, relatively tidy, good sized main pool and the lobby lulls you into a false sense of security. On the negative side… The cells are dingy, broken toilet seat, a bath/shower that really needs a ladder it’s that high! Make sure you pack a multi adapter as there’s one free socket. We booked a room for 3, 2 adults 1 child. The second bed, is actually a bench seat and you need to remove the cover. The “garden view” is quite a generous description of a couple of trees in a small square of sand. There’s absolutely no outside space with the room so once you’re in, you’re in. Food is available. I can’t be more specific because it’s either an unlabelled tray of something or the translation needs a little work. I’m not sure what crunchy soup or carrot ice cream are but they don’t sound appealing. I stuck with bread for the last couple of days. Pool wise, it’s a good size, relatively clean with the standard virtually all toweled up beds from 6am onwards. Animation team lurk around most of the day, but if you’re English don’t worry some will go out of their way to avoid you. Pool bar wise, some good staff badly let down by the disinterested or the one individual who gladly informed me that my regional accent was one of his most hated. Not the top one, that was reserved for visitors from Birmingham. Sorry Brummies! Quite the welcome to our first full day there. Aside from that, it’s in the middle of nowhere, transfer back to the airport was a very long slog through the wonderful landscape where the national flower appears to be discarded plastic bottles or bags of rubbish. I’d start on the check in and departures at the airport but at this point I can’t be bothered. Glad to be home!

Hotel was fantastic and so were the staff were really friendly. Rooms were clean and so was the pools. The animation team were really good and access to the private beach which was also clean and well kept including the grounds which was larger than we expected. Lots to do including the spa, games, shops and even an onsite medical unit with doctor should you need one! Highly recommend this and could easily be a 5 star hotel with a few small tweaks.