Gianmaria Gastaldi
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Jali Resort is a nice boutique hotel, with 16 little cottages - being the guests rooms, which are spotless clean; the furniture is cute and one can remark that attention to details was paid. Once entering the room, masks and snorkel sets are awaiting for you free or charge. Flowers and towels, including beach towels, are nicely set on the bed.
In case of need, you can rent a bike for daily 50k - which is a little above average but still fair.
The highlight is the wonderful pool (narrow, but at least 25m long - you can really swim!) and the private sunbeds in front of the rooms.
Being a boutique hotel, there is no breakfast buffet (we booked the room with breakfast included): it is a La Carte (served from 7 to 11 AM) and it only has the possibility to order one dish, accompanied by fruit juice, coffee and a shared fruit platter per room (we are two big men, we found the breakfast tasty but really not enough - and you cannot order anything else as extra). The service in the morning is not so careful - the waiters are often using their phones and not really caring about the guests - dishes are sometimes served with no cutlery. Nothing really bad, but when I am on vacation I personally don’t want to bother keeping on asking for the same thing.
In the evening, the restaurant is always full: we did not try it, but the food must be very tasty and the service better than in the morning (otherwise I could not explain why it is always so packed: there was no empty table, and the location of the hotel is not on a Main Street - you have to look for it).
On day one we needed to ask to fix the air conditioning - it was immediately done and we had no problems afterwards.
Warm water was for the whole stay an issue: both in the morning and in the evening, the water was cold (in 3 days, I managed to take only one hot shower - and I say hot, as I could not have it warm. Hot or cold). A little bit a pity, because I would have loved to really enjoy the shower, which is a beautiful open-air private one.
All in all, it is a cute hotel where to spend a couple of days in a chilled environment in an inexpensive hotel.