Tunis & Carthage Very cheap
Brik à l’oeuf, couscous on Fridays, and lablabi for breakfast in winter. Harissa is on every table and is hotter than the Moroccan equivalent. Mint tea with pine nuts in Sidi Bou Said is the ritual worth doing.
Budget travel in Tunisia
What a visitor's money does in Tunisia: every guide rated from very cheap to very expensive, cheapest first, then the things that cost travellers money without buying anything — the ATM, the taxi, the SIM.
Very cheap average across 1 guide · 5 is very cheap
Money
Tunisian Dinar (TND) · 1 EUR = 3.4 TND · 1 USD = 2.9 TND
The dinar is a closed currency: you cannot buy it before arriving and you cannot legally take it out. Exchange at the airport or a bank, keep every receipt, and reconvert what is left before departure — the receipts are what let you.
ATMs
Avoid: relying on cards inside the medina — almost nowhere takes them
Use: BIAT, Amen Bank, Attijari, BNA
The dinar cannot leave the country. Keep every exchange receipt: they are what let you convert what is left back before departure.
Getting around
A short ride in Tunis & Carthage: 3–8 DT across town — very cheap
From the airport: Tunis airport to the centre 10–20 DT
Level with a metered yellow taxi, which is already cheap. The app is about the meter being used.
City by city, cheapest first
The cost rating is this site's own, for a visitor, from the guides' authors and the corrections readers send in. The general rules — the conversion prompt, shoulder season, the airport taxi — are in budget travel tips.
