Your rating of this hotel:
7.0
from 10
Hotel ratings by criteria:
Rooms:
7.0
Service:
8.0
Cleanliness:
7.0
Food:
9.0
Amenities:
6.0
We went in threes: two adults and a 3.5-year-old child. Especially not choosing, because there was no hour to wait for the next charter (from Lviv to Zadar on Saturdays). After reading reviews on foreign sites and deciding that you can go, because the average score of this hotel is 7 out of 10. And it is especially suitable for a quiet family vacation (which, in fact, was necessary). I can confirm these 7 points, but everything is in order.
Organization.
Everything was well organized. Upon arrival in Zadar we were met by a Ukrainian-speaking guide with a sign and our group settled down near a comfortable bus that was already waiting for us. 40 minutes drive on the perfect road we are already in Biograd na Mory in the lobby of the hotel "Adria" where, standing in line at the reception, got the keys to the room.
During our trip from the airport to the hotel, our guide tried to give as much information about the tour: told about all the possible tours offered and said that we will have two information meetings with her during the week where you can get answers to our questions if such, of course, will be.
We arrived at Zadar airport just as comfortably and on time, when we were already flying home.
Number.
We got a room on the second floor of the hotel overlooking the opposite sea. This is a room of 19-20 m2 + bathroom. In the room: a double bed with two bedside tables on the edges, a single bed with a bedside table, a sofa, a coffee table, a bedside table with a TV (it has a trash can), a chest of drawers, a built-in wardrobe and hangers at the entrance. The floor is completely covered with a strip of not perfect purity, but thoroughly cleaned with a vacuum cleaner, smooth (not very smooth) walls are painted with beige water-based paint.
The room has a balcony, quite spacious, tiled, with two plastic chairs (but there is no table on the balcony and drying for speeches). The balcony overlooks the square in front of the main entrance and the pine forest, behind which looms the tiled roofs of private houses. The TV is very small with many European channels and two Ukrainian ("Channel 5" and "news one"). Hidden in the ceiling under the drywall, the air conditioner had a remote control on the wall and fully coped with its functions. Most claims to the bathroom. It was necessary to make a titanic effort by pressing a button in the door handle to open the door from the middle, which eventually led to the breakdown of that handle. The water in the shower and sink flowed downright badly and nothing could be done about it. In addition, in the shower form of careless movement constantly fell to the floor element of the holder per shower.
And not a single shelf for soap or shampoo was found in the shower. Towels were changed on time (two large, two small and one for the feet), the room was also cleaned without any complaints: they washed the plumbing, took out the garbage and vacuumed. The website states that each room has a minibar and safe, but in fact there was no safe or minibar.
Hotel.
This five-storey building, built during the SFRY, looks quite fresh after the renovation: doors with photocells, modern elevators, outdoor pool with children's section and bar, large restaurant with outdoor terrace. While swimming in the pool or having lunch on the terrace, there is always the opportunity to admire the large pine trees growing around and smell the needles of pine and lavender. On the ground floor there is a cafe, a room for children's animation (animation is poorly delivered), a room for spa treatments (including a salt room, one 20-minute visit which is included in the tour price).
The hotel is located on the outskirts of the city in a pine forest. There are tennis, volleyball and mini-football courts on site, but it's a bit "tiring". There are benches everywhere. There is a large parking lot where Lviv and Kyiv license plates were spotted. The contingent of vacationers is European: Croats, Slovaks, Slovenes, Czechs, Germans, Hungarians, Ukrainians. A large number of children of all ages, because the hotel operates on an all-inclusive basis.
Kitchen.
European cuisine was prepared, everything was delicious and everyone had enough.
For breakfast, many products in small packages (as in an airplane): cheese, honey, oil, jam, pate, "nutella". Cheese and sausage slices, sausages and bacon, omelet, muesli with various ingredients, salads, cookies, seafood and more. From coffee drinks, different tea, different waters, red and white wine, beer. The coffee was cold and not tasty, so we bought coffee in a cafe (10 kuna).
For lunch, different meat, different fish, two first courses, a lot of side dishes and salads, fruit, pastries. The drinks are the same, except, in my opinion, coffee.
For dinner there are also different options for meat, fish and side dishes. Brandy was poured by the pool from 10:00 to 22:00. There you could also drink wine, water or beer, eat cookies and ice cream during the day. It was forbidden to bottle and take food in the rooms, but no one monitored.
Sea and beach.
400m from the hotel is one of the few sandy beaches in Croatia "Soline", where it is convenient to go into the sea: there are no pebbles and the bottom is very empty. On this beach you can do without special bathing shoes, which are offered here to avoid meeting with a sea urchin and the convenience of moving on pebbles (50-60kun). The pine forest is close to the sea and many vacationers enjoy the shade of pine trees, saving on umbrellas.
There is a beach infrastructure (cafe, trade), toilet (2 kuna), automatic shower (for 2 kuna water flows for 30 seconds). Sunbeds and umbrellas cost 40 kuna. To the left of this beach stretches, also a busy pebble beach. The forest that approaches it is equipped with European savages - people from Germany, Austria, France, Italy, Holland, Norway come here with their houses on wheels, connect them to the networks and live there long and relaxed. To the right of "Soline" stretches a pebble beach all the way to the city center and throughout the beach there is a souvenir shop and various cafes and bars. Above that beach is a blue flag as the highest mark of purity of the sea and the shore. The sea is really very clean everywhere and twice as salty as the Black Sea. Fish are swimming, crabs are crawling. There is almost no wave, perhaps because the entire coast is protected by islands that stretch from edge to edge so that the sea horizon is almost nowhere to be seen.
The beautiful Adriatic Sea is, in my opinion, the main thing to go to Croatia.
Excursions.
We were offered 5 excursions. In my opinion, three of them are worth noting: Plitvice Lakes (54 euros per adult), nat. Kornati Park and Zadar in the evening (24 euros per adult). In Zadar, which is another city in demand (after Dubrovnik), there are two modern attractions: "Hello Sun" and "Sea Organ". "Sea Organ" is a pipe built into the waterfront, on which the melodies of the sea itself play: the waves beat and the organ sounds. "Hello Sun" is a model of the solar system on the waterfront, where the Sun and the planets consist of LEDs. During the day, the solar panels that power this system charge the batteries and in the evening it all automatically starts to glow and flicker. Very reminiscent of the dance floor in a nightclub. These things attract here the power of tourists, which is created by the crowd, similar to the Yalta in the peak season.
In addition, Zadar is 3000 years old and here are the remains of Roman buildings and a beautiful museum of archeology.
The most popular nat. . the park is "Plitvice Lakes", there is 2 hours by bus. This is a cascade of 90 waterfalls on lakes of extraordinary purity. You have to walk everywhere on narrow wooden bridges, and walk a lot. All this, of course, is very beautiful, but anyone who has seen the Carpathian waterfalls and nature, it is difficult to impress. Children under the age of six or seven are strongly advised not to take on this tour: it is dangerous and difficult. They did not go to Kornati, but they say that there is something to see: on a ship to the island, and there swimming in a salt lake.
Roads in Croatia are excellent, Croats are friendly and for those who speak Ukrainian, there is almost no language barrier, because there are a lot of similar or identical words.
Organization.
Everything was well organized. Upon arrival in Zadar we were met by a Ukrainian-speaking guide with a sign and our group settled down near a comfortable bus that was already waiting for us. 40 minutes drive on the perfect road we are already in Biograd na Mory in the lobby of the hotel "Adria" where, standing in line at the reception, got the keys to the room.
During our trip from the airport to the hotel, our guide tried to give as much information about the tour: told about all the possible tours offered and said that we will have two information meetings with her during the week where you can get answers to our questions if such, of course, will be.
We arrived at Zadar airport just as comfortably and on time, when we were already flying home.
Number.
We got a room on the second floor of the hotel overlooking the opposite sea. This is a room of 19-20 m2 + bathroom. In the room: a double bed with two bedside tables on the edges, a single bed with a bedside table, a sofa, a coffee table, a bedside table with a TV (it has a trash can), a chest of drawers, a built-in wardrobe and hangers at the entrance. The floor is completely covered with a strip of not perfect purity, but thoroughly cleaned with a vacuum cleaner, smooth (not very smooth) walls are painted with beige water-based paint.
The room has a balcony, quite spacious, tiled, with two plastic chairs (but there is no table on the balcony and drying for speeches). The balcony overlooks the square in front of the main entrance and the pine forest, behind which looms the tiled roofs of private houses. The TV is very small with many European channels and two Ukrainian ("Channel 5" and "news one"). Hidden in the ceiling under the drywall, the air conditioner had a remote control on the wall and fully coped with its functions. Most claims to the bathroom. It was necessary to make a titanic effort by pressing a button in the door handle to open the door from the middle, which eventually led to the breakdown of that handle. The water in the shower and sink flowed downright badly and nothing could be done about it. In addition, in the shower form of careless movement constantly fell to the floor element of the holder per shower.
And not a single shelf for soap or shampoo was found in the shower. Towels were changed on time (two large, two small and one for the feet), the room was also cleaned without any complaints: they washed the plumbing, took out the garbage and vacuumed. The website states that each room has a minibar and safe, but in fact there was no safe or minibar.
Hotel.
This five-storey building, built during the SFRY, looks quite fresh after the renovation: doors with photocells, modern elevators, outdoor pool with children's section and bar, large restaurant with outdoor terrace. While swimming in the pool or having lunch on the terrace, there is always the opportunity to admire the large pine trees growing around and smell the needles of pine and lavender. On the ground floor there is a cafe, a room for children's animation (animation is poorly delivered), a room for spa treatments (including a salt room, one 20-minute visit which is included in the tour price).
The hotel is located on the outskirts of the city in a pine forest. There are tennis, volleyball and mini-football courts on site, but it's a bit "tiring". There are benches everywhere. There is a large parking lot where Lviv and Kyiv license plates were spotted. The contingent of vacationers is European: Croats, Slovaks, Slovenes, Czechs, Germans, Hungarians, Ukrainians. A large number of children of all ages, because the hotel operates on an all-inclusive basis.
Kitchen.
European cuisine was prepared, everything was delicious and everyone had enough.
For breakfast, many products in small packages (as in an airplane): cheese, honey, oil, jam, pate, "nutella". Cheese and sausage slices, sausages and bacon, omelet, muesli with various ingredients, salads, cookies, seafood and more. From coffee drinks, different tea, different waters, red and white wine, beer. The coffee was cold and not tasty, so we bought coffee in a cafe (10 kuna).
For lunch, different meat, different fish, two first courses, a lot of side dishes and salads, fruit, pastries. The drinks are the same, except, in my opinion, coffee.
For dinner there are also different options for meat, fish and side dishes. Brandy was poured by the pool from 10:00 to 22:00. There you could also drink wine, water or beer, eat cookies and ice cream during the day. It was forbidden to bottle and take food in the rooms, but no one monitored.
Sea and beach.
400m from the hotel is one of the few sandy beaches in Croatia "Soline", where it is convenient to go into the sea: there are no pebbles and the bottom is very empty. On this beach you can do without special bathing shoes, which are offered here to avoid meeting with a sea urchin and the convenience of moving on pebbles (50-60kun). The pine forest is close to the sea and many vacationers enjoy the shade of pine trees, saving on umbrellas.
There is a beach infrastructure (cafe, trade), toilet (2 kuna), automatic shower (for 2 kuna water flows for 30 seconds). Sunbeds and umbrellas cost 40 kuna. To the left of this beach stretches, also a busy pebble beach. The forest that approaches it is equipped with European savages - people from Germany, Austria, France, Italy, Holland, Norway come here with their houses on wheels, connect them to the networks and live there long and relaxed. To the right of "Soline" stretches a pebble beach all the way to the city center and throughout the beach there is a souvenir shop and various cafes and bars. Above that beach is a blue flag as the highest mark of purity of the sea and the shore. The sea is really very clean everywhere and twice as salty as the Black Sea. Fish are swimming, crabs are crawling. There is almost no wave, perhaps because the entire coast is protected by islands that stretch from edge to edge so that the sea horizon is almost nowhere to be seen.
The beautiful Adriatic Sea is, in my opinion, the main thing to go to Croatia.
Excursions.
We were offered 5 excursions. In my opinion, three of them are worth noting: Plitvice Lakes (54 euros per adult), nat. Kornati Park and Zadar in the evening (24 euros per adult). In Zadar, which is another city in demand (after Dubrovnik), there are two modern attractions: "Hello Sun" and "Sea Organ". "Sea Organ" is a pipe built into the waterfront, on which the melodies of the sea itself play: the waves beat and the organ sounds. "Hello Sun" is a model of the solar system on the waterfront, where the Sun and the planets consist of LEDs. During the day, the solar panels that power this system charge the batteries and in the evening it all automatically starts to glow and flicker. Very reminiscent of the dance floor in a nightclub. These things attract here the power of tourists, which is created by the crowd, similar to the Yalta in the peak season.
In addition, Zadar is 3000 years old and here are the remains of Roman buildings and a beautiful museum of archeology.
The most popular nat. . the park is "Plitvice Lakes", there is 2 hours by bus. This is a cascade of 90 waterfalls on lakes of extraordinary purity. You have to walk everywhere on narrow wooden bridges, and walk a lot. All this, of course, is very beautiful, but anyone who has seen the Carpathian waterfalls and nature, it is difficult to impress. Children under the age of six or seven are strongly advised not to take on this tour: it is dangerous and difficult. They did not go to Kornati, but they say that there is something to see: on a ship to the island, and there swimming in a salt lake.
Roads in Croatia are excellent, Croats are friendly and for those who speak Ukrainian, there is almost no language barrier, because there are a lot of similar or identical words.
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