Idassa Palace — Hotel in Grad Zadar

Would not recommend. If you are looking to stay at a semi-cheap place, in the old town of Zadar, that isn’t a hostel, and you don’t care about quality, this Idassa Palace may be for you. If you don’t care about making your own bed and a little mold on the air conditioners, then stay here - this is why I am giving them two stars, because while it may have been one star for me, I think if you know what you are paying for, there may be more value. I didn’t know.

I outline this later, but one of the most enjoyable things about staying in a hotel is getting to your room to a freshly made bed, but here you have to put the sheets on yourself, which I don’t understand.

I don’t think we realized the rooms were as small as they were. And there were many things that didn’t help us feel comfortable in our room:

The room was hot, and you have to put your one and only copy of your key in for the electricity to work. Now I’m all for environmental stewardship, however there’s a way to do that so your not returning to a hot room after a day of touring Zadar. You only get one key so you have to take the key out if you leave your room. Well this shuts of the air conditioning. Our room was 26 degrees Celsius every time we came in.

Speaking of the air conditioners, ours wouldn’t work, despite us lowering the temperature, it didn’t get under 24 degrees. Additionally the air conditioners were moldy (see my pictures).

I said this earlier, but sheets should be on the bed. One of the most enjoyable things about staying in a hotel is getting to your room to a freshly made bed, but here you have to put the sheets on yourself, which I don’t understand. This is so easy to do and there is no reason not to do it. We didn’t stay for more than a night, but I saw in other reviews that the cleaning staff just gives you new sheets and doesn’t do anything. I cannot confirm but can totally imagine this is correct.

I could see why people would say it is noisy. We stayed in the annex apartments which were a little quieter, although we got some of the noise from the people going out for the night.

The place did look a little run down. There was a broken glass window to the door of the annex rooms. It looked unprofessional.

Also be warned if you are driver, there is no parking - which we knew - but you will probably have to park just outside of the old city which you can get an all day pass for not that expensive, if you can find a spot.

Overall, I probably wouldn’t stay again, unless I was penny pinching. There doesn’t seem to be a lot of staff members to help you if you do need...

Friendly welcome on arrival and receptionist gave us lots of information and a map. Our room (number 303) was in the annex, nicely decorated with parts of the old walls showing.||The room seemed clean enough but a little dusty. There was a fridge (not very cold), safe, AC, kettle, hairdryer supplied in the room. We had a small balcony with a little view of the sea. The bed was big and a little hard but comfortable enough, it could have been a little smaller as the space around it was very tight on one side. The bathroom area was a separate toilet, and a decent size shower with good hot water but no hanging space/hooks for towels next to the shower. The area in front of the sink was very tight.||The TV in the room was picking up no channels at all, not even local ones. The receptionist tried to fix it but couldn't.||There was no breakfast but there are plenty of options closeby, as the accommodation is well situated within the Old Town.||We were there on Friday and Saturday nights and the local area was very noisy. We could hear some music which was fine, but the main noise was coming from young people hanging out on the streets and shouting. If you kept the balcony doors closed it helped. It seemed to stop by around 2am. It is not the fault of the accommodation but something to bear in mind if you are sensitive to noise. We wouldn't have wanted to stay longer than a couple of nights but we did think that the location was excellent for...

I stayed in one of their apartments on the half-island of Zadar for three nights. The room was in a building behind the elementary school and the window had a view on other street. The room is recently redecorated and is modern and nice but very small for two persons. It was relatively quiet and had air-condition. However, the TV had outside receiver that did not work properly at the beginning and it was situated too high to be reached easily. But I was very disappointed that they did not clean neither room nor even washing bin during whole three days, and they emptied the bin only on my request. The breakfast was in one of the restaurants around 7 minutes away what was pleasant walk on nice weather but I wander how it is when it is raining. It is good to know that the reception desk is in one building and the apartments are scattered around the area and that the desk is not open during the whole day if you need something. The staff on the reception is relatively kind but sometimes not enough refined in their communication. On the good side the apartments are near the University and the seaside walk. Value for money is not...