One evening in 2025, one of our travellers got a notification on his phone: “Your dinner has been delivered.” He opened the door, picked up his tray from the pass-through, closed it behind him. Without seeing anyone, without interrupting the children’s nap. That small gesture, multiplied across four villas, sums up fairly well what has happened at the residence over the last two years: quiet improvements, added one stay at a time, that genuinely change the way you live there.
This article is our complete inventory — the reference to share or re-read before booking. We tell it in the order you would experience it on arrival: what you eat, how you get in, what you do during your days, and what is growing in the gardens. If you stayed with us before 2025, some details will feel familiar, others entirely new. If you’re discovering us, you’ll have an accurate picture of what you’ll find at Ethic Village Djerba today.
A professional kitchen on site
The most visible change of 2025 came through the service door: a professional kitchen has been installed on site, dedicated to travellers’ meals. No more outside caterer delivering under cover — dishes are now prepared a few dozen metres from the villas, in a space designed for the job.
What that means in practice: we now offer the full range of meal formulas directly on site, delivered to your villa:
- Single meals (lunch or dinner)
- Half-board and full-board
- À la carte with dishes that rotate with the seasons
- Brunches in the morning, gourmet afternoon teas later in the day
- The standard breakfast remains included — as it has been for the last three years
The second change that goes with it: the pass-through hatch, installed on all four villas. The principle is simple. We leave your tray on the outside, you pick it up from inside. No one comes in, your privacy is preserved, and the family carries on uninterrupted. It is particularly appreciated when the children are napping, or when you have guests over — a setting designed to respect family privacy, as it has been from the start.
And to close the loop: once the meal is placed, the Guest Portal sends you a notification. No more “they said 7:30 pm, it’s 7:45, should I go check?”. Your phone pings, you open up, it’s hot.
An entrance gate that opens without an intercom
The residence’s entrance gate is now fully automated. The old intercom has been removed. Instead, two ways in — and neither requires you to step out of your car:
- A free phone call from one of the numbers you shared with us before arrival. The gate recognises the number, hangs up immediately (so no charge for you), and opens. You can authorise the numbers of all travellers by filling in the pre-arrival form in the portal.
- An “Open the gate” button directly in the Guest Portal, from your phone. Useful when you’re expecting a taxi, a delivery, or a friend dropping by.
In the same vein, a photovoltaic installation has been fitted on the Jade and Opale villas. They join Saphir and Diamant, fitted with their own panels since construction. All four villas now have their own solar installation, in line with the ethical commitment we set from day one: collecting dechlorinated pool water for irrigation, Tunisian materials, salaries above local standards. And, in each kitchen, a secondary tap connected to our filtered rainwater reserve — for drinking water that is healthier than the mains supply. Nothing spectacular, just choices made for the long term.
Your stay at Ethic Village Djerba in one place
This was the biggest project of all: the Guest Portal. A single link, opened from any phone, that brings together everything you need during your stay. Thirteen functions, accessible from the same dashboard:
- Dashboard with your stay and key info
- Wi-Fi — credentials and QR code
- Pre-arrival — arrival times, traveller count, preferences
- Arrival — gate code, map, practical instructions
- Breakfast — choice for the next day (standard included, premium version as a supplement)
- Meals — half-board, full-board
- À la carte — daily menu, dish-by-dish ordering
- Car rental (extra)
- Airport transfer (extra)
- Equipment — sport, leisure, bicycles (rental, see below)
- Beach service / concierge
- Pre-arrival groceries — fridge stocked for your first morning
- Open the gate of the residence
One thing mattered to us: not asking you to download an app. The Guest Portal is a simple web page, accessible via a personal link sent on booking confirmation. Nothing to install, nothing to update. The link works until the last morning of your stay.
Sport, play, relaxation — all available on site
This is probably the change that families with children and teenagers benefit from the most. A range of sport and leisure equipment is available for rent, directly bookable from the Guest Portal. The prices below are indicative; they may change, and the Equipment tab in your portal always shows the rates in effect for your stay.
Sports gear
- Basketball hoop (kids size) — €1/day
- Professional table tennis table — €20/day
- Badminton set — €5/day
- Stand-up paddle for two — €20/day
Mobility
- Adult bicycles (2 units, Decathlon Elops 100 and Rockrider ST100) — €10/day or €2/hour
- Children’s bicycles (2 units) — €2/day
- Electric bicycles (2 units, Decathlon E-ST100 and Riverside 100e) — €30/day or €6/hour
Enough to explore Tezdaine, reach Sidi Yati beach (6 minutes by car, a little more by bike), or simply head off to pray at Troujette mosque or pick up bread in the morning at the local bakery.
Indoor leisure
- Video projector — €5/night
- PlayStation 4 — €5/night
- Nintendo Switch 2 — €10/night
- Snooker table (junior size) — €5/day
- Foosball table (kids size) — €5/day
- Board games — Monopoly and Scrabble included; pétanque set €1/day, darts €5/day
The thinking behind this inventory: we looked at what families were renting outside, what they were bringing in their suitcases, and we made sure everything was already there, ready to use, with no complicated deposit. You decide the night before for the next day. It’s designed for long stays, the remote-work weeks with the family when the kids need new things to do, and the groups of friends who want a coffee on the terrace after dinner.
And in the gardens
Three final additions that touch directly on day-to-day life at the residence.
A covered car park for four cars
A covered private car park has been built within the residence. Four shaded spaces, shared and included for travellers from all four villas. In summer, when the car has spent the day in the Sidi Yati sun, the trip back is noticeably more pleasant. Families loading and unloading car seats and pushchairs feel the difference too.
A shared kitchen garden
A small shared kitchen garden has been laid out on a plot of the residence. Aromatic herbs, seasonal vegetables. You can pick what you fancy to cook in your villa, or simply take the children there so they understand where the mint in their morning tea comes from. Nothing theatrical — a square of carefully tended soil, part of the place, part of daily life here.
A rabbit and chicken area, coming in May 2026
One last update, coming in May 2026: a rabbit and chicken area is joining the gardens. The idea is simple: let the kids staying at the residence get close to a few animals, gather fresh eggs in the morning, and grasp a little of the rhythm of a small farmyard. The installation is in progress as we write this. If your stay happens to coincide with the delivery, you may see the first hens arrive.
Infrastructure that keeps up
Since opening, all the villas have been supplied by water softeners installed at the entrance of the residence — a shared filtration that reduces limescale on cold water. In 2026, we added on each villa a polyphosphate cartridge, placed just after the hot-water tank.
The reason is practical: heat accelerates limescale precipitation inside the hot-water storage tank. Annual maintenance had revealed these deposits — which then made their way back down into the hot-water pipes. The polyphosphate cartridge, placed at the tank outlet, dissolves that limescale before it reaches your taps — to preserve equipment and the quality of the water you use.
A word to close
None of these changes is life-changing on its own. A car park, an automatic gate, a kitchen, a kitchen garden, bicycles for hire. Put together, they still add up to a residence that is different from the one you may have known in 2024: more self-sufficient, more comfortable for long stays, more respectful of your privacy when you want to be left alone, more available when you need a service.
If May or June tempt you to rediscover all of this in the best conditions of the year — gentle climate, the island still quiet — the easiest thing is to check which dates are still open.
See availability across the four villas →
Looking forward to welcoming you, or to seeing you again, at Ethic Village Djerba — insha’Allah.
