Hotel Plavi Plava Laguna — Hotel in Grad Poreč

A perfectly acceptable and well run 3 star hotel. The food was perfectly acceptable ( trust me i am very picky!). The Lunch proposal was very weak and not a lot of care was taken in preparing the food. The staff were very friendly and helpful. The location was perfect and there was so much to do ( snorkelling, kayaking, webit, cycling …) The water was very clear and there were some very beautiful parts to explore.

The only negative and very dangerous aspect was the total lack of COVID precautions to which we are used to in Italy. All the other tourists not using masks and social distancing. They were living in cuckoo land. I actually asked the Hotel organisation whey temperatures were not taken before entering and why masks were not made obligatory. Apparently the Croatian guidelines did not foresee it - so they are at fault! I found totally absurd when other tourists looked at you as if you were an alien with a mask on and would day COVID.. NO COVID IN CROATIA…. sniggering. It just shows how one of this terrible illnesses allies is IGNORANCE.

The tourist standards that lodged in this area were from medium to low and prevalently from eastern block nations. Only a minority respected hotel hygiene and manners ( feet on the sofas, walking around with bare feet, bluetooth speakers in the swimming pool area …) making the life for the hotel workers harder! more work cleaning - which they did as much as possible.

I highly recommend the PLAVA LAGUNA hotel chain. I think we will be back but maybe in a different structure where there are more educated tourists. Ah I forgot! the sunsets and sunrises were...

Prime example that a picture can lie a thousand words.. ||Hotel from outside is looking alright, of course it’s a old building, but it holds up okay. At the lobby we were a bit surprised that the reseption took our passports and they were just in a open locker behind them… (if anybody wants to make an ID scam and steal someones identity, thats the place to rob some passports…) they gave them back when we signed out. The whole hotel gives a bit too much negative ”eastern europe vibe” if you know what I mean.. Staff never smiled and they seemed to be in a bad mood.||About the room, they were SMALL, after we opened our suitcase to the floor (cause there were no other place to it) the room was full. Bathroom was also small, as well as the shower. Room was very out-dated, no renovations had been done and you could hear everyhing what was happening outside the room, no noice-cancelling at all. Breakfast wasn’t so great either, also no gluten free food but rice cakes... ||I used one of the upstair lobby’s bathroom and it was very filthy!! 2 of the 4 toilets were clogged with feces and paper still on there.. and the one ”clean” i used had the most disgusting toilet cleaner brush I have ever seen.. Only pros that I have to say about the hotel is that it is located extremely well. The lagoon outside is stunningly beautiful, water is crystal clear, there is clean and showers everywhere outside as well as chairs to take sun. But still, I will not be...

Pros: Very good breakfast and dinner. A wide selection of food. Drinks incl with dinner. |First line to the beach. No street with cars in front of the hotel. Pleasant early season prices.||Cons: The hotel was built many decades ago. Therefore, there is no elevator in it and you will have to drag your suitcase up the stairs. First from the reception to the lobby, then depending on the building where you were settled. If in building C in second floor, then 3 more floors on your own with all the luggage.||I do not know the reason, but the smell at the reception and in the lobby is very bad: periodically it smells of sewage. The lobby looks very nice with new and good furniture, and we would really like to sit there, chat, maybe play something, but the smell of drain forced us to leave this floor as soon as possible. The same smell is observed in other places on the peninsula when you walk around the pools of other hotels. Maybe the reason for the smell in the lobby is the pool, which is located on the same level behind the wall? Well, knowing that doesn't help with the smell. Dear management, please fix it.||The rooms are VERY small. I've never been in such a small bathroom before. I've never sat on such a small toilet. I've never showered in such a small shower. Well, but everything was clean and seems to be recently refurbished. ||It is OK for short or...