Maistra Select Astarea Hotel

Die Hotelanlage an sich ist schön sauber. Die Zimmer sind ziemlich klein. Im Bad viel zu wenig Licht.

Vsetko super, izby ciste, personal mily a priatelsky

Nice, clean, tight on the beach.

The location was amazing for having a relaxed, quiet and local feeling during our stay. With easy access to Dubrovnik Airport and Town it felt like a haven!

The hotel is very beautiful, with newly renovated and well-maintained rooms. The beds are comfortable for everyone, the pools are excellent, and the view is stunning. It is in a great location right next to the Mlini harbor.
Whenever we ran into an issue, it was addressed very quickly.
The cleener was very nice and always eager to help.

La ubicación excelente.

We recently returned from a 10 night stay at the Astarea hotel, which we all really enjoyed. We were greeted by a very friendly gentleman on the front desk on our arrival, who checked us in and answered all our questions.

The hotel is situated in a beautiful location, with stunning views of tall mountains to the rear, and equally nice views of the coastline in the front. It is really well looked after, clean, well staffed and well managed. All the staff we met during our holiday were helpful and friendly.

The bar in the hotel has a lovely view out over the pool and to the coast, with comfortable seating. It was rarely busy as the bars and restaurants at the beach are more popular, but we thought it was great.

The waiting area also has comfortable seating and is well air conditioned, so was a nice location to catch up with our holiday rep.

Most evenings, we would have a stroll around the headland to Srebreno Beach and have a couple of drinks on the way there or on our way back. The buildings are beautiful and historic in the area with quaint side streets and interesting settings. Mlini Harbour was hosting a Water polo tournament on one of the weekends we were there and this was really interesting to watch.

Rooms:

We stayed in an interconnecting family room. Our two rooms, although small, were perfectly adequate for our stay. With teenage children, it was great having our two separate spaces - especially our own bathrooms and this worked really well for us. Historically, the kids have had to make do with sofa beds and strange sleeping arrangements, so to have their own proper beds was a real upgrade! Our bed (made from two singles joined) was nice and firm, and I have to say, one of the best beds I've ever had on a holiday - an excellent night's sleep. We didn't hear much noise from adjacent rooms, so not sure if we were just lucky but no issues like other reviewers. The chairs and on the balcony have little slots in them for drying clothes which were very handy. The rooms were cleaned every day and the maids did excellent work.

One day, we ran out of hand soap, so I reported this through the housekeeping option on the app they provide. It was replaced literally within 5 minutes - incredible service!

The air conditioning in the rooms was perfect, I rarely had to adjust the controls.

Safes:

Each room is provided with a safe. The only issue we experienced was that both the safes in our interconnecting rooms were closed on arrival and you can't reset the code for the safe unless you can get to the green button on the inside! This was quickly resolved by a visit to reception, however, one of our safes was temperamental and didn't always open. We had to return to reception later in the holiday to have the other safe in our children's room opened, which worked fine. It would be a better experience if all the safes are ready and open on arrival by default, but it really wasn't too much of a problem.

Buffet:

The buffet is certainly smaller than we're used to and for the first couple of days our kids were struggling to find anything they wanted to eat. At the end of our second meal, we finally discovered the 'kids food' area which is tucked away to the rear of the restaurant where there is pizza, chicken nuggets, fries etc. This isn't very well advertised to be honest, I feel like they should position this closer to the main buffet or at least put up some signage to direct people! Not sure why it has to be such a secret?

My wife and I enjoyed the salads and daily options of the main buffet however, which worked for us. Some of the desserts were nice and had good flavour (Jaffa cake!), although others were less flavoursome and the offerings were fairly repetitive. The melon provided alongside was delicious.

The coffee at breakfast was drinkable, the nectarines were delicious and there was plenty of choice. The marmalade for toast was great!

Pool:

The pool is nice although small for the number of guests. We preferred the sea to be honest, although you'll need some swim shoes! The usual battle is on with sunbed reservations, which just has to be done, ideally before 9am. Someone even stole one of our sun umbrellas whilst we were swimming in the sea... couldn't believe it!

On the first day, we were too late, so had to pay 40 euros for 4 sunbeds on the beach. Once you've been burnt, you have to get with the routine.

Shops:

We braved the hill up to the road above the hotel once to get to the local Studenac supermarket. There's not much there, but it provided snacks for lunch etc. There's a bakery next door. The road is very busy and there is not very many safe places to cross it, so less than ideal with children. There are also steps at the back of the hotel which we returned on. Probably better to buy provisions when out and about visiting other places.

Experiences:

We went to Cavtat for the day which is a beautiful village. Very easy to get to using an Uber. There's a lovely walk around the promontory there and we had a relatively cheap lunch at a bakery in the centre. Treat yourself to an ice cream from House Of Ice Cream - great price and delicious!

We also did an Elaphiti Island cruise which was great - lovely views of the coastline all with a cooling breeze.

And of course Dubrovnik which is a must visit!

All in all we had a great holiday in Croatia, really relaxing, fun and beautiful. Thank you!

Proximité de la plage, piscine, petit déjeuner e demi pension. Tout était parfait.

Cistoca hotela, osoblje u samom hotelu, super dorucak, cistoca okolisa, izgled hotela. Cista plaza, nije prenatrpana, more cisto, lijepa setnica do Srebrenog, dostupnost raznih izleta iz Mlina brodom, doslovno 200 m od hotela. Blizu je Cavtat, blizu je Dubrovnik, blizu je zracna luka, sve dostupno i javnim prijevozom, i brodom, i taksijem.