Astarea Hotel

The hotel is situated in a very pretty bay with great views of the clear waters of the Adriatic Sea. The hotel was spotlessly clean and the rooms more than adequate in size. Could have benefited from tea/coffee making facilities.The food served in the restaurant was buffet style and a very good selection of everything from vegetarian,meat and fish dishes as well as plenty of pudding choices. Breakfast was excellent again with a huge choice. Our only criticism was that on the last two days of our stay the hotel appeared to have an influx of children staying there. There appeared to be no one supervising their behaviour in both the restaurant and the lobby as well as in their rooms. It was noisy, and loud and the hotel staff seemed more than happy for the chaos to continue!

First of all the positives - the hotel is on a beautiful bay, absolutely fantastic views and great transport links via water taxis to cavtat and Dubrovnik. I would vote these views 5/5. The town itself is tiny, a few restaurants and even less bars, so if you’re the kind of person who likes to spend time out of the hotel maybe this place isn’t for you. Nearby restaurant puntizela is amazing if a little pricey but you are paying for fantastic quality food. The room - bathroom is very modern and bedroom is fine, however the room is unbelievably hot - when asked at reception if anything could be done about this they said it was controlled centrally for all rooms and the heating was in fact ON despite it being over 20 degrees our entire week there!! This made it very difficult to sleep. Food - the breakfast is cold but lots of options, dinner is passable but often a bit mismatched with not a lot of items going together well. We ate out 3 of 8 nights depending on what was on offer. The 3 a la carte restaurants closed Sunday 27th October even though the hotel was open until 3rd nov which was quite disappointing as there isn’t many places in town to get lunch. Our biggest issue whilst staying at this hotel was upon check out, we paid what we thought was our city tax, but on inspection of the receipt I noticed we had been charged for some food eaten in the beach bar on our 2nd day - we had paid in cash for this but it was also charged to our room. - the waiter had asked for our room number pertaining to the 10% discount we receive in the bars owned by the restaurant, and we had paid the bill. Whether the waiter pocketed our cash I do not know, but after explaining, the reception staff handled it well and reimbursed us. Just thought it needed mentioning for people to be wary, as the reception staff then said that the 10% discount can only be applied when charging food to the room. All in all the location of this hotel makes up for its many set backs, if only the town had more bars and restaurants it would be the perfect place to spend a week.

The location is perfect, could not imagine a better view from the terrace. Everthing is clean, staff friendly and helpful. Food varied and plenty of it, Could be a bit noisy when the restraunt was busy. Lovely walk along the coast, evrywhere clean. Take some of the boat trips to the island and Cavtat Would we go again YES