I’ve wanted to do this kind of tour for years but had a fear of it being a shambles. The Tunisians certainly know how to arrange a tour, great coaches, amazing tour guides (Manny) and sights and experiences that you would pay a small fortune for in another country. It all started with a 6am pick up from our hotel and then a 2 hour coach journey before the stop in El Jem for the Colosseum. It’s amazing here and lots to see but not a lot to do. Be prepared for everyone asking you to buy things but a polite no is enough. Buy a drink from the last shop outside before getting back on the coach as it’s the cheapest. Another 2 hour journey before the next stop at the Troglodyte villages and traditional lunch and a visit to a 500yr old cave home. After this we made our way to Douz where the hotel is and where you get a choice of the quad bikes or camel rides or both!! I’ve always wanted to go in a quad on the Sahara desert and it’s brilliant fun, men will appear on mopeds with desert foxes for you to have pictures with so take money if you want to do this as it’s not for free. Same with the baby camel before the Troglodyte village. The only let down was the hotel overnight. It’s very basic and the food is terrible but the beer is good and the swimming pool is lovely. Bedrooms very basic but comfy. Day 2 was a 5AM!! Wake up and a chase to see the sunrise in the middle of the desert. Amazing. Once in a lifetime feeling and experience. Then onto Tozeur for the 4x4 drive deeper into the desert OVER the dunes to the Star Wars set. This was again a bit of a let down and basically a market. More camel pictures here and some odd trinkets to buy. Back in the 4x4’s and a race at 70mph over the sand to the Oasis tour via horse and cart. The horses here are slender beasts and they work hard. The oasis tour is very random but fun and you get to try fresh dates of course with the option to buy. Everyone had a price on these tours and it’s best to tip them if you can as it’s a very cheap tour. After this we were back on the coach for 3 hours (with toilet and drink break) to Kairouan for the largest Mosque in Tunisia and a rug shop next door. This is the obligatory shopping part and was a bit of a let down but plenty to buy and fixed prices so no bartering allowed. Last part of the journey was 2 hours back to our hotel and just in time for dinner. The driver and guide were brilliant. And all of this for £108 per Adult and 1250km covered almost reaching Algeria!! And everything included except drinks. Take cash and get cash when you can. Get snack if the hotel food isn’t great from the cafes you stop at but crisps are not crisps so if you see a market the day before you go then stock up. Take a big suitcase as it goes in the hold of the bus. Take lots of clothes if you want and maybe cards for the coach as there is a lot of travelling. You get time to sleep and rest and most coaches have usb charging onboard.

Both the driver and the tour guide were very nice and polite. My needs were being catered and taken care of. I would highly recommend the tour.

Beautiful excursion and experience. We paid £100 pp includes 2 x lunch, 1 x dinner and 1 x bed and breakfast. Also includes 4 x 4 ride. We paid extra for camel ride and horse and carriage ride but wasn't much. It was a very interesting excursion but very tiring. We travelled North of Tunisia Matmata, Berbers village, star wars, salt lakes, travelled 150km away from Algeria, Kairouan City, Camel ride in desert, 4 x 4 ride and much more. Second day we set off at 4.30 am in the morning. This excursion was last minute booked with MrAmor WhatsApp 216 98 358 097. We stayed at Yasmine Hammemet

Everything was outstanding over the 2 days and I highly recommend this trip. Colosseum, camel ride, quad bikes, horse and carriage, visit to Star Wars movie set, visit to Oasis, 4x4 safari jeeps. See the sunrise and sunset in the desert among the many stops during the trip.

We have been on a lot of tours. Bottom line - this was not good. We were greeted on time but in an oddly cold manner by the guide, and we were driven in a very old and slightly rusty 4x4. Immediately, we were beginning to regret it. We don’t like super chatty and overly gregarious guides, but this elderly gentleman was pretty stoic. Not unfriendly, but not friendly either. Not a lot of value or interesting information. We were shown some less-than-exciting sites to start, and candidly it was boring. Seeing and walking through the actual Carthage ruins was neat, but you can do it in 15 minutes. The white and blue town was pleasant with some nice souvenir shops, but I don’t know that we would have made the trip for it - but visiting it is fine, if you are looking for something to do. Lunch in a restaurant was provided as part of the tour. They don’t give you a choice, and you aren’t given their menu - they just bring out courses with no explanation. However, the food did taste good and exceeded our expectations. After lunch, we just called it quits and said we wanted to go back to our hotel. Based on the first part of the day, we could tell that it wasn’t going to get better, and we’d rather have our time back to relax or do something else. I would not recommend this tour, nor the guide and the vehicle they used.

I did a day trip from monastir to tunis, sidi bou said, port el kantaoui. Very prompt service, the driver was exactly the heure we said at hotel. Thank you very much munir, you drive very good and you take good carre of me and my daughter. I recomend this agency, they did exactly what we speak previosly on watap. Thank you very much for evrything!

I’ve got real conflicted views on this one. I organized a private tour during winter given my fixed travel dates. Firstly on the actual Sahara sights it’s pretty good. For day one - the El Jem coliseum is pretty well preserved, while the camel safari is only good for camel photos with the desert not so impressive with only very small dunes right next door to town that looks more beach rather than desert. For day two - the salt lake is just ok - those who have been to Bolivia or Danakil won’t find it particularly impressive. Highlights are the desert country near Algeria where you can see the camel mountain, larger dunes and the old Star Wars sets in close proximity. I’d say those sights make the tour worthwhile. I was given both a driver and guide - and I found my guide a bit underwhelming versus others I’ve had touring Africa. My guide’s english wasn’t so strong so communication was an issue at times. He seemed very focused on delivering facts you can get from your smartphone. Personally I think the better guides I’ve had are those who can talk beyond the facts which I would have expected for a private trip. And him and the driver spent the ride largely talking between themselves in Arabic Lastly on logistics - things weren’t run particularly well. Organized a private car back to Tunis through the agency - but had to wait 35min for the car to arrive for the 100min trip! Overall the desert tour was good so no regrets. But if you choose to use Sahel voyages - i would suggest setting expectations at the right level because their service is just average versus comparable trips I’ve done through Africa, Central Asia, central and south America and Eastern Europe

I was on a trip to sahara and the quality of services was just awesome: They do trips from 4 or 5 people. Same price as the above and as Thompson / Tomas Cook / etc but you get a private tour with a jeep. Much more to see with them specially when the number of travelers is never above 5 person per trip. the guides are pro. Their website http://www.sahelvoyages.com.tn