We’ve been to the Marhaba Beach twice few years back. No stomach problems on both occasions.
People are nice but it can get a bit much if you’re not a haggler or find yourself being pestered by people in the market trying to sell stuff. Its hard to be rude but usually a firm NO works.
We found that we got “ripped” off for coffee in Sousse as the locals paid a couple of Dinars lass but as it was only 3Dinars we weren’t upset in the slightest, in fact, we didn’t blame them.
Port El Kantaoui is nice but I felt it might get a bit boring? There is a water park that way though and we had a great day there.
Its cheap, hot and not at all bad. We chose Sousse because in all the trip advisor reviews we read, there was one complaining that “there was only one English type pub” Brilliant we thought. If we wanted to drink Fosters in an English type pub, we’d go to a pub in England.
The beaches are nice round there and felt safe to us regarding tides and currents and so on.
We never felt at all in any danger walking about apart from when we went to the market in Sousse (not the souke that’s OK) and got really really pestered until I had to be slightly rude to a chap. He did leave us alone after that though.
One nice story we had was that as we were riding on a pony / trap ride thing along the street back from Sousse, my daughters had blew off and we didn’t realise until too late. We did see a taxi stop and a man jump out and get it. Never mind we thought but to our amazement, they caught us up and threw the hat to us as we went along. Very friendly people.
It is a Muslim religion out there but they aren’t into it as much as they are in Iraq. Saying that their religion still needs to be respected and women aren’t expected to be covered up, but not by the beach or pool etc. where it is OK for them to “get them out” 😉