A nightmare holiday. One of the worst I ever had. One week of pure torture. For starters, the place was filthy. Beach full of cigarette butts. Almost hurt myself on a what looked like a piece of broken glass. Funny but I found a used condom too. To top it, there was horse manure laying around one day near the restaurant (populated with zillion of flies). Very appetising. Restaurant? Knives; forks and plates with food particles; chipped glasses. Food. Not exactly haute cuisine but more your hamburger and pizza type cuisine. No variety either, every day the same old food. Bar service: long queues at night. Cheap, non branded alcoholic drinks. Bar staff; not a smile to be seen. Drinks were served at times in plastic cups. To continue with sports. Tennis courts, bumpy with holes in the fences (spent more time getting the balls on the next court). The GOs? Apart from two, the rest forgettable. Chef De Village was in love with his own voice. Reception? Not really interested in helping you. If you are not French or speak the lingo, do not bother going there. Loud music well into the early hours of the morning (was forced to have afternoon naps to catch up with my sleep). Shall I go on? Entertainment? If you like disco and crazy signs, this is the place for you. Some good news? The pool. Good size (but be aware of the posers). In all, my best moment was when I stepped on the bus to go back home. Really, Club Med, you are doing quite a bit of harm to your image with Djerba La Fidele. Word of advice to the management in Paris, clean up your act with this club. You say it is a three trident. No way, more of one trident (and that is pushing it a bit). In conclusion, this one week Club Med has made me realise not to venture again with Club Med.

I have just come bac from la fidele and feel like i have been brainwashed by the whole club med experience...

I love club med and have been to about fifteen around the world. Normall you canot go wrong as the food is amazing !!! the g.o (staff) are fantastic and whole resort is run like clock work

This place did not live u to the club med standard. It was dirty and the food was not very good although there was lots of selection. The music went on untill 4 and there was no escaping it where ever you stayed. The snack hut had flies everywhere and had two weirdos doing the food ....

the chef de village was no where to be seen also.... unlike normal club meds and the g.o only appeared after the fifth day

the rooms are great little bungalows. the gym is great .... the pool and beacha re lovely. Watch out for the posers around the pool !!!! my god !!!!!

Very french no english whatsoever !!!! The whole entertainments is alittle full on and you dont get a brake but if you liekt aht its great as they do foam parties, beach bbq.s pool parties and a white night which is amazing !!!!

the bar staff are ok and you get seved with a smile but you get plastic cups which is really annoying and child like ... the clientel is very young ....

towards the end of the holiday i had so much fun and would return but think Kemre in turkey is a better bet and it is more classy , better food and better facilities and the staff are better !!!!! if you fancy a crazy week then go here but Kemer is better by far....!!!!

If you like the sound of a Club 18-30 holiday (foam parties, sticky cocktails, pizza, pasta, burgers and chips, techno music thumping until 4am), almost exclusively populated by 19 year old French, Italian and Belgians, then please read on.

If you can't think of anything worse, then please don't go anywhere near this place. Go to Djerba La Douce instead, it's super nice.

OK, so I admit this place is not quite aimed at me. I ended up here by accident, having booked blind by phone while already in Tunisia (interestingly the telesales people didn't bothe to mention any of the above...) So I won't criticise Club Med's choice to target fun-loving, mostly young, French and Italians. What I WILL criticise is the fact is the quality of their attempt to do even that. There is no way, NO WAY, this is a three trident resort, and no way it is worth the considerable price it charges.

Bad things: the dead cockroach in the washbasin that greeted me when I arrived. The filthy old grouting in the shower. The GOs, who with just one exception, were rude and unhelpful, entirely focused on their own social lives and often catatonic with hangovers and exhaustion until lunchtime. The poor and unwelcoming layout of the club, which required endless schlepping through burning, deep, white sand and dust. The sloppily made cheap drinks, mixed by surly bar GOs. The terrible, terrible Euro-techno-slash-macarena music banging out at 100 decibels from 11 am to 4am, which can be heard in every corner of the club (don't believe them if they tell you that you won't be able to hear it from your room). The bruised and damaged fruit offered at mealtimes. The sad, resigned faces of many of the chefs, several of whom had trained with the top chefs in the world, who apologised for the poor quality and quantity of ingredients they were forced to cook with. The fact that most of the decent activities cost extra. No beginners sailing lessons (or at least none advertised). The baggage trucks, which rumble constantly through the village from 4am onwards, only inches away from your ears on the other side of a flimsy wooden hut wall. The lack of any internet access at all (who under 30 doesn't want access to the internet?)

Good things: the white sand beach and the sea (although you get that at Djerbas La Douce and Meridiana too). The cheerful local femmes de menage, who sprinkled flowers on my bed every night. The kind local sous chef who offered to make me a packed breakfast and lunch when he heard I was leaving the next morning at 5am. The super helpful local head of night security, who made it his personal mission to sort out my missing drivers licence, the noisy French menage a quatre going on in the hut next door to mine, and the transportation of my rucksack to my car at 5am.

What made this experience all the worse is that on my last day I discovered, by accident, Djerba La Douce, a five minute drive down the road. La Douce was like arriving at an oasis in the desert. Not only were the buildings were much nicer - brighter, cleaner, newer, better equipped - but the staff had a completely different attitude. Within 45 minutes of arriving (I blagged my way in to use their internet, but really just wanted a snoop round) no less than five GOs had greeted me, stopped to chat with genuine friendliness, offered me a cold drink and begged me to stay for the rest of the day. One even offered me a tour of the whole property, despite being on his break. The food and entertainment was in a different league - done with care and genuinely imaginative. It was such a difference, that until I got home and looked up in the brochure I thought La Fidele must have been a two trident resort and that La Douce was a four trident - in fact unbelievably, they are both three tridents.

If you have any discernment at all, please don't go here. Please. If you want to party, go to Nabeul - they have foam parties and GO Chippendales there too, but the village is much nicer and there's a bigger range of sports. If you don't want to party, go to Djerba La Douce and ask to stay in the Calypso section.

I went to Djerba La Fidel in september of 2008 with my girlfriend. Already at the airport I had a bad feeling about the place. The police officer who stamped our passport gave us a weird look when we said we were going to stay at LaFidel and the taxi driver told us all sorts of stories about La Fidel: ``people dancin naked, orgies...`` which might sound nice for some. We got there around 1 am after having traveled many hours. We got one of their filthy bungalows that does not have real walls or windows. With the music blasting til 3am and people shouting to 4am (this happens everyday) dont expect any quite nights. The next day at breakfest (don't know how one can make it before it closes at 10am) there were flies on the food and nothing was edible. They have a clinic in the compound which gives you an indication of what you are up against... Left the same day.
Recommended for singles who like to party really hard and are not concerned with quality of food or hygiene.