Internet is next to the reception, a very slow connection thats costs 1 kuna per minute - ridiculously expensive compared to internet café's in Zagreb or the classy 4* Hotel Park in Split, were we stayed as well.
HOTEL MAESTRAL PRVIC TV
Well, there is a TV in the room - but it only has HR 1 on it - all in Croatian - so that helps only if you understand Croatian. Breakfast is served form 8-9.30 in the moring, quite early in our opinion for a holiday hotel. The terrace smells of the sewer that flows directly into the sea and the food was VERY bad: never before have we been offered fishsticks with french fries and cornichons as salad, dessert wasn't included anyways! Extra side orders were unappropriate expensive (for example 20 kuna (= about 3 euro) for a handful of cooked potatoes - for Croatia VERY expensive) the a la carte prices were the most expensive ones compared to the 4 other restaurant we saw on the island, service was hardly friendly, with the only exception the guy responsible for the grill, Sascha, who was very nice. It is badly kept: in 6 nights, the sheets were NOT changed ONCE, there were hairs on the floors and hardly no cleaning of the (bath)room during our stay. It is such a shame and wasted opportunity the hotel is so bad: "stylish" here translates as 100% Ikea and the common areas have a distinct youth hostel feel. We saw some of the other rooms in the house and they are pretty small.
HOTEL MAESTRAL PRVIC WINDOWS
We had the best room of the hotel, with 5 windows and a magnificent view and paid quite a lot for that (=140 euro/night) - considering the region. The Time Out Croatia guide praised it a lot, but boy are they wrong! The island is beautiful, the scenery lovely and the location of the hotel - a renovated former schoolbuilding - super. We stayed 6 nights halfboard in the 3 * star Hotel Maestral on the car-free island of Prvic Luka, near Sibenik. Oh, and for those who just can’t live without their Internet access (I resisted until the last day), the hotel now has a broadband connection with Wi-Fi connectivity for the guests. Filip Horvat, the owner, personally contacted us before our first visit to provide us with information on the best way to get to the island (we drove to Croatia that year) and in fact organised transport from a nearby town (there are boats that run regularly from Sibenik aand Vodice however). Finally, our comments regarding the service at the hotel – courteous, friendly and professional. All I can say is that the veal was excellent. The hotel restaurant is actually better known for its ‘peka’ meat dishes (veal, suckling pig, lamb) which are cooked in a ceramic pot under hot coals. We had two dinners there on this visit and thoroughly enjoyed them. This isn’t to say that we didn’t eat at the hotel. We chose to stay on a room and breakfast basis as we wanted to be able to sample the food from all the restaurants on the island – not as difficult as it sounds since the island has 6 or 7 restaurants, including the hotel’s restaurant. The room was cleaned daily and we found fresh towels every day upon our return from the beach. Air-conditioning is standard in all rooms – particularly useful this year (July 2007) with the temperatures constantly above 30C during the day. The bathroom could perhaps have been a little bit bigger, but overall, the quality was at the very top of what can be expected from 3* accommodation. Our room was of good size and we liked the décor – the contrast between the modern, minimalist furniture and the original stone walls of the building work really well. While I think more than half of hotel’s rooms have great views of the harbour, we actually chose a room facing a narrow side street as it is a little quieter and because we didn’t spend much time in our room and instead enjoyed the same great views from the restaurant terrace every morning over breakfast. Our stay this time was for 6 nights at the beginning of July 2007.
HOTEL MAESTRAL PRVIC FULL
Even though it was its first full season in operation we were so pleased with our stay that when we decided to visit Croatian coast again this year, we chose to spend our holidays at Hotel Maestral. We first found out about Hotel Maestral two years ago and stayed there for four nights in July 2005. A relaxing, car-free oasis is a perfect antithesis to our daily lives in London and this is what this little island offers, while the staff at the hotel complement this with their professionalism and quiet efficiency. My wife and I loved our stay at Hotel Maestral on the island of Prvic and part of me wants to keep it our little secret. I have been in two minds whether to write this review but purely for somewhat selfish reasons.
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