Hotel Materada Plava Laguna — Hotel in Grad Poreč

Public areas are very clean and pleasant to walk into and plenty of indoor and outdoor seating areas. Reception staff are mostly pleasant. There are lifts but they refuse to move sometimes. Good wi fi in our room and public areas. Rooms are modern but small with limited storage space. Really nice grounds and pool area but there are not enough parasols and people drag them around by the concrete bases a lot. There are lots of sunbeds but not all around the pool. Towels are placed on the beds in the early morning. Lovely pool but too cold in May. Now the restaurant is what lets this hotel down massively. The food is of fairly poor choice and quality. It improved from our first couple of days but not by a lot. Some pizza, crispy chicken, pork, turkey and fish as usual but poor fayre to be truthfull. Salad is tomato cucumber and lettuce. Breakfast is worse, fatty bacon and boiled sausages. Scrambled egg ran out all the time, the fried eggs were only cooked briefly from underneath leaving the yolk runny but UNCOOKED. The cereals are worse than any smartprice range. Muesli with chocoballs in? The coffee ranged from luke warm to empty. The staff are aloof and only top anything up when asked. Covering the drinks up 30 to 40 minutes before the restaurant closes shows a complete lack of regard for the guests.( Drinks in the restaurant being included was a bonus though.) Porec can be reached by walking to the Hotel Pinia (15 mins. walk) and getting the road noddy train. Walking to Porec takes around 40 minutes and 50 minutes to the centre of the harbour area. Taxi is from 80kuna upwards. Until the management make the dining experience better it'll keep getting poor reviews. Its a shame because its a nice hotel. A suggestion to the management....There are lots of tables for 6 people but not many for 2. There's plenty of room to pull 2 seats slightly away from the table for 4 so 2 people can sit there without feeling they're intruding and have their own space. Two people could often be seen at a table for 6 with the...

Before we booked the room, we called the hotel to check security measures due to the Covid19 virus pandemic. We received information that it is obligatory to wear a mask indoors. They lied to us. Except hotel staff, almost no one wears masks inside the hotel (not even in the elevator, lobby, restaurant while standing in a long line to take food) and the hotel staff does nothing regarding that.

The hotel, swimming pool, restaurant and other parts of the hotel complex are too crowded at the time of the Covid19 pandemic, which indicates that the profit is a bigger priority for hotel owners than safety of guests.

Rooms are cleaned and towels are changed every two or three days.

Breakfast is to be avoided. You should wait in line at least for 15 minutes every morning where over 40 people are standing without a mask, without distance, to take very poor food choices (eggs and cheap salami sausages every day). Check out the photos of the breakfast queue I added.

Most of the staff is kind, but several of them are very rude (a man who works in the parking lot and a man who serves food, both over 50 years old and about 185 cm tall) which indicates that the hotel management does not train and control the staff.

They charge 5 €/sunbed for their sun loungers on the hotel lawn.

I could write a lot more, but this is enough to see that it is better to avoid this hotel.

The only good thing about this hotel is the great dinner with a large selection of food that changes on a...

Check in strictly after 2. 3 lifts however only 2 go to dinning/pool. They also break down due to the amount of people using them. The rooms on both side are the same it's just the view that's different. Rooms are clean, bathroom is good, no tea or coffee in the room. We went to Lidl for a kettle etc.|The pool is freezing but the sea is ok, however, it is difficult to get in if you have mobility issues. Night time entertainment is ok but not done by the animation team, they have local acts come in. Service for drinks is good, they would still like Kuna instead of Euro and I suggest you pay everything in Kuna as the exchange rate somewhat changes by the hour. Sunbeds can be a problem by the pool. Towels at dawn!|The car park get very full and you will not get the same spot when you come back.|The taxi firm is 13 euro into Porec we used Taxi Porec Marko, google and use messenger, lovely man. Parking in Porec can be hit and miss and is 1 euro p/h.|Boat trips book on the harbour.|The hotel is a lot of money for what you get, we drove and for the same price, 4 B&B on way down, 6B&B on way back, fuel, ferry, lunches and dinner, could have got Jamaica AI for 2 weeks.|This is not the best coast line in Croatia, and it will be out last time, (we have...