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August 13, 2024
You know that feeling when you realise you just did something for the last time….? Jumping from a 10 meter cliff at 45 years of age, hurting you back and understanding you are to old to do that, or a clothing you don’t feel well wearing and throw it away just to make sure you don’t accidentally wear it again. Well, this hotel will help you make a decision for life not to book any similar hotels ever again. It’s huge, loud, crowded, totally without identity, tasteless food, expensive, grey, hard and with a general quite unwelcoming atmosphere. We booked 1 week with a family of 5 with two rooms via TUI. All considered adults in pricing as the youngest kid is 13. In the room (which turned out to be in a different and even more container-like building) there was a double bed and a mattress on the floor. When complaining about having paid full price and being asked to sleep on the floor the guy in the reception just shrugged and told me to go away with a cold look and talking frustrated muttering to himself in Croatian. The first impression with a grumpy, anti-serviceminded and arrogant receptionist turned out to also be the somewhat lasting impression during our week at this hotel. A typical example of how lots of the staff always seem annoyed that the hotel actually have guests. You feel like you are always disturbing even though you are just in the same part of the hotel. (Worth mentioning is that the always smiling cleaning staff were super friendly.) In the overcrowded and very loud restaurant you will want to sit on the balcony towards the sea. The issue is there is a heavy balcony door moving inwards which is hard to operate with a plate of food and maybe a cup of coffee. There are always staff standing there talking to each other but almost no one even attempt to acknowledge your presence and need for help with the door. The bread is dry, the risotto overcooked, the bacon just cooked, there is a lot of choices, but almost all tastes nothing or rather bad. It’s big, boring, lots and still nothing you feel you want to eat, and the staff is just standing around sighing over you being there. Outside the hotel there are several ok restaurants which we ended up going to even though we had paid for having dinner included in the hotel price. The sea is great (the main reason for choosing Croatia in favour of other countries around the Mediterranean Sea) but the beach is rather crowded and every day, for 45-60 minutes, the Animation Team (oh, how I cherish the thought of never again staying at a hotel where there is an “Animation Team”…..!) plays extremely loud and horrible music to the whole beach, while trying to persuade more than 7 people to join the water aerobics. To end this long text I would like to thank Medora Auri for helping me finally decide to never ever visit a hotel in this category again. Mass tourism like this is from now a thing for the past for me and my family. Point taken! You need to hurt your back to understand you are to ol