Adoral Boutique Hotel

"We enjoyed our stay very much. The location is so scenic, overlooking the beautiful bay at Rabac. The bed was comfortable and the room was very clean. The breakfast was a standout with the most lovely host for breakfast, Nevio looking after us. His kind smile and best scrambled eggs were a highlight, but better still, he treated us like family! Bringing us a bottle of his special home made rakija..such a treasure. The location is perfect and we enjoyed swimming right in front of our room in the spectacular Adriatic sea every day. We hope to return again one day soon."

"This hotel has a great location on the pedestrian promenade of Rabac, with numbered parking spaces allocated to guests on the road behind which is great (you're given a key for a padlocked space on arrival, if you advise them in advance that you will have a car). Breakfast (included in our rate) was a good buffet selection with particularly nice fresh sliced fruit and fresh bread to slice yourself. Breakfast staff were very helpful and provided hot drinks and were generally very on the ball. Our double bed was comfortable. Rooms feel rather corporate and impersonal but are fine. Standard rooms are below the level of the walkway so you only have a sea view when standing up but it was nice to have chairs out on our own section of terrace even if not private, given people can look down on you from outside! If you want more privacy, ie a room with a balcony on a higher floor, then you need to choose a more expensive room category. The terrace gets the sun most of the day so is very hot, with the glass screen by the walkway keeping any breeze away. There were no proper chairs inside our standard room, just one stool by the desk/mirror table. There is however a wardrobe complete with minibar fridge and kettle and supplies for hot drinks, plus a safe. A complimentary bottle of water was provided in the room on our 1st day but not replaced on our second day. It was a shower over the bath. Personally we prefer walk in showers, but it was a decent pressure and hot. Plenty of dining options very close by, plus a bakery next door. Just to note that reception was a bit odd - it was not obvious from outside as we approached. It turns out that the reception office is really just a cubicle inside a door marked with room numbers. Once inside, then there's a round table marked Reception immediately outside of the cubicle, but it would be good to have a Reception sign on the outside wall to help new arrivals know they've come to the right door! But once we were in, both receptionists we met were helpful. Beach towels are available on request from reception and we spent a day on the main Rabac beach which is 5 mins walk around the promenade. It's a pebble beach but we were pleasantly surprised to find that just a few metres out there was a lovely sandy bottom. 2 sun loungers and a sunshade were 25 euros to rent for the day. There's a decent pizzeria behind, belonging to one of the big hotels, where we enjoyed a pizza and Greek salad lunch. If you prefer small hotels then the Adoral is for you - there are some huge hotel complexes locally which seemed popular with families but they aren't our thing, so we were pleased with our choice! Rabac is a busy small resort but is surprisingly scenic, set at the end of a valley below Labin, and there's a nice harbour area just around the corner from the hotel with some bars and more restaurants. We used the local tourist "train" to scope out the local area on arrival - it costs 3 euros for an adult single ticket and runs about every 10mins, starting at the roundabout by the main beach and then running along the promenade for about 20 minutes, with a stop at the harbour and ending at a resort complex, before returning."

"We had big expectations considering the online ratings/reviews and the fact that it's a 4 star hotel but were later extremely disappointed. We have quite a lot of experience with 4 and 5 star Croatian coast hotels and have never been this unpleasantly suprised before. Our room (D1) had spider webs, damaged wall corners, flies and mosquitos. The bathroom looks like it was built 20 years ago, a sink that seems to be designed to splash water everywhere, a bathtub/shower with a cracked shower handle, the shower glass is not placed properly, so you have to be very careful while showering in order not to flood the whole bathroom. The room had no slippers, no beach towels. The breakfast is very generic, nothing special but what bothered us were the flies...indoors...at the buffet, on the food, tables, chairs...everywhere. Wifi is very weak, every room has it's own wifi router and password so as soon as you leave your room, you lose the signal, so there's no wifi at the hotel restaurant (at breakfast). Upon leaving the hotel we were suprised that the hotel manager didn't even ask us how was our stay/if everything was ok...she was completely unbothered and seemed only interested in us paying and leaving. Nevertheless, we have to say that Ana (who was at the front desk reception when we checked in) was very kind and helpful regarding information about the town, beaches etc. All in all...the hotel is definitely not worth the money."