Jadran Residence

The building is an old mansion, now with divided rooms. They are basic, but hey. You'll spend most of your time (hopefully) exploring this beautiful town. The view is spectacular. There's a bar on the bottom that serves as a check in location and the best part of it all is you get to take your breakfast at the hotel that runs the rooms. It is located 100 yards or so up the quay. The ferry to the fabulous hotel istra on the island is also free of charge. You can't go wrong with a room here.

What did I like? Tough question - I guess the answers would be 'breakfast' and 'checking out' Breakfast was in a hotel down the street that I wished had vacancies so we could have stayed there instead. There was a volleyball tournament in town so rooms were far a few between. Breakfast was great, lots of choice, fresh and tasty. That's all we enjoyed about the Jadran residence. If this location had been advertised as a hostel then I wouldn't have been surprised. However, although the room didn't have many stars, I did expect more than we got. The room was basic to say the least, 2 single beds, sheets, 4 walls and a shabby cupboard in the corner. That was it. The bathroom was tiny so that your knees hit the door when on the toilet and the room was hot, no air-con, just above street level (so loads of noise until the early hours from the street party that must have been going on based on the volume) Worst night sleep on our holiday. Too hot, uncomfortable tiny beds, lots of noise outside, parking miles from the hotel and nowhere else to go. I think a tent would have been more comfortable. I have reviewed several hotels from our Croatia holiday and this is the only one that we think badly let us down. If you are a backpacker and just want a mattress and a shower for a cheap (ish) price, then this is the room for you, otherwise its worth staying further away from the old town to give you more choice of accommodation. Finally, when we checked in the hotel asked for our passports. I handed them over expecting a photocopy to be taken and then them to be handed back. He said that it was government policy to return them at checkout. I didn't like the sound of this but as we were new to the country I didn't complain. I am not used to handing my passport over so of course when checkout came, I didn't asked and they failed to hand them back. This error was only noticed when I was checking into a new hotel in Roving. I was told that no hotel should have kept my passport as a photocopy is sufficient. I therefore had to drive 45mins each way back to Porec to collect our passports and add another negative to our experience with this place. Didn't even get an apology when I got back!

I was there in August few days ago and my stay was awful. Not only the hotel is not particularly nice (no security, anyone can enter the building from the bar or the outside door that is never locked / it looks like a cheap youth hostel in many ways / NO WIFI in the room because as mentioned by the receptionist "it is only a 2 stars hotel" ) And it is extremely noisy : with a bar right below the rooms with loud music till late at night (we even had the pleasure to hear a DJ set from our bed with loud bass - the floor was shaking... really convenient when you try - thus fail - to sleep!), plus there is all the noise from the port that last till 6 am (seriously). Conclusion if you're looking for a hotel where you can sleep, which can sound logic, then forget about this one because it is definitely not what is offered!! On the other hand, breakfast is really good (because it is in the 4* hotel where you check in/out) and the hotel chain owns a private island where you can enjoy the beach resort. But note that the Jadran Residence is an expensive hotel (especially in August, prices are absurd) and you won't sleep (actually you can only enjoy the room during the day).