Park Plaza Histria Pula

We stayed at Park Plaza Histria in September. We found the staff extremely helpful, friendly and professional. Our room was fantastic. A beautiful sea view and balcony. We used the local buses to travel everywhere and they were really good value, clean and always on schedule. ||The hotel has excellent facilities for everyone. I used the indoor pool every morning before breakfast and I was the only person in it.||There was a conference and a wedding reception happening whilst we were there. Neither had any negative impact on our experience of the hotel, bar areas or dining.||The food in the hotel was fabulous. Breakfast and dinner. Every night we had multiple choices of salads main courses and sweets. Each night was different and so tasty. It was first class food every morning and night. They catered for food intolerances, vegetarian and vegan. If you want chips with everything then go somewhere else. ||We had a lovely lady come to our room every evening and she offered extra pillows, towels, tea and coffee. She was really pleasant and helpful. ||We read quite a few negative reviews about this hotel before we booked. We are really pleased we ignored them. ||We would definitely recommend this hotel and we would return.

The Park Plaza is located on a beautiful peninsula and we loved the spacious hotel and our luxurious sea view room with a balcony. It was well equipped and very comfortable.|The food on offer for breakfast and dinner was outstanding.|The outside patio area and the indoor/outdoor pools were a pleasure to use. We also visited the Wellness Centre and emerged feeling refreshed and relaxed.|It’s a short bus ride to the historic heart of Pula and the stunning Roman Amphitheatre.|The GM Mr. Sirola and all his staff did all they could to make our 5 nights stay comfortable and enjoyable.

This hotel is excellent in every respect. Entrance foyer is huge and nicely decorated , the pool area and gardens are very well maintained and kept tidy. We had a sea view room which was large and airy with very good air conditioning control. The room was cleaned daily and the bed linen was changed once during our 1 week stay. There are excellent public bus links into Pula and the bus station where you can easily make a connection to visit Rovinj. We had no problems with loungers around the pool area (possibly because the guest profile was older, as the kids are all back at school) towels where issued and room number recorded, there are also lots of loungers in the garden areas surrounding the hotel building. The pool itself is great ,cool and refreshing on a boiling hot day. |What can I say about the restaurant, I do not usually stay half board in hotels. The breakfast is first class with plenty of variety very well presented , there is an egg station where the omelettes are fantastic, they cater for every dietary requirement. The choice at dinner is amazing and not at all repetitive the quality is excellent we even had sushi and scallops on various evenings they will cook a stir fry to order.|The staff are what help to make this hotel a success, they are friendly and efficient and nothing is too much trouble for them.|I would have no hesitation in recommending this hotel , stay half board and get a room with a view, you will not regret it, can’t wait to return.

This is a beautiful hotel. The rooms are comfortable, the position by the Adriatic is ideal, the food is good and the hotel has good amenities (gym, indoor pool etc.).|However, I have only rated this s two-star and this is why...|We arrived on the Saturday. On Wednesday evening we came to dinner and the reception was like Piccadilly Circus. By chance, the general manager was walking past. We politely asked him what this influx of people was . He had the opportunity to be courteous, but instead he chose to be rude and patronise us by lying to us saying that the extra guests were ‘just more holidaymakers’. They were not they had arrived for a conference.|This conference was attended by over a hundred young people. We were told, as paying guests, that there were now areas of the hotel that we were prohibited from entering. Indeed, this had happened on our first day when the hotel hosted a wedding reception, and we were told that the terrace and terrace bar were out of bounds to us.|Dining was no longer enjoyable as the dining room was now like Waterloo Station during the rush hour. At times, there were not even seats available.|The other issue, of course, was that the young people attending the conference behaved as young people on a freebie do and partied into the night, causing sleeping disruption until 0300 in the morning.|So, don’t be fooled by the glossy brochures...this hotel is:=|1=. A conference centre|1=. A wedding reception venue|3. A holiday hotel|We, and another set of guests, complained to our holiday representative, from Tui, who was utterly sympathetic, quite shocked at what had happened, agreed that the state of affairs was unacceptable and we agreed a compensation package.|If you chose this hotel and you are unlucky enough to book at the same time as a conference, prepare to be treated as second class guests. If you want to call and check the dates of any conferences, don’t speak to the general manager as he will tell you that there has never been a conference there.|My final bit of advice would be, don’t risk it, find another hotel.

Sandro, at the front desk, was superb and made check in very smooth after a long drive from Venice. His restaurant recommendation was outstanding- Konica Boccaporta! The view from the room was post card perfect and the breakfast was a cornucopia of culinary delights!

Situated on the Veredula peninsula which has a number of hotels and apartments, it is one of a number all owned by the Radisson Arena group. It's well managed and maintained with a wellness spa, indoor and outdoor pools, fitness gym, hairdressing, massage and beauty treatments are available. We went half board. The standard of the breakfast and dinner, which was on a self service basis offered a wide variety of choices. The main problem being avoiding over eating as there were so many options to choose from. The sea is just a short step away with a choice of small pebble beaches if you fancy a dip in the warm waters of the Adriatic. The staff were all very friendly and accommodating. One minor bugbear was the complementary teas, coffee, milk, etc. were not always replenished, but this was resolved by a trip down to reception if things were below standard. We would be happy to return.

Comfortable hotel, rooms new (side sea view room), balcony and outside of building show its age, especially sea-side. Wide food choice. Staff friendly. Why I knocked 2 points down is 1) swimming pool ice cold 2) but above all: value for money on drinks is horrenduous. All cocktails expensive to start with and on top the smallest amount of alcohol is used. Tried a few cocktails (first holiday foe years!) and across the board the same disappointment. All the hotel complexes with bars on the small half island belong to one group, hence the drinks card(s) are identical, so also the prices and low quality. Wine prices in resaurant eye wateringly expensive. |Other niggles: The shops in the "avenue" to the hotel(s) was empty mid september, and hence looked delapidated. All equally expensive though. The supermarket had no water, decently priced juices or wines. So no alternative except going to town by bus? |Dinner late, especially for the many young children who are understandably cranky and tired. No "family corner" in large restaurant area, would be beneficial for both parties. Raises high noise level quite a lot. |If you are non-alcoholic and love ice baths, the hotel is comfortable, clean, and will suit you best.

We stayed at the Park Plaza Histria Pula, we always stay 5/4 stars hoping for the same standards and were not disappointed. We booked a Platinum room and it is nicely decorated, clean and supplied with coffee/ tea, slippers etc and serviced twice each day in our first week.|Food at breakfast and dinner was plentiful, fresh and varied, everything you could wish for. Well done to the chefs.|The restaurant and reception staff are very helpful, nice, polite, professional and take time to speak to you. The staff are truly an asset to this large hotel.||Now the negatives, in short it is a free for all for non hotel residents and locals, you are not guaranteed a lounger near the pool or even on the terrace as a hotel guest ( sad I know but I counted 56 pool side beds and 32 terrace beds, so you do the maths for this size of this hotel!). If you are lucky you may get an odd lounger on the walk way which is not what you expect when paying a high price for a holiday. Please don’t get me wrong we have stayed during high season in popular places around the world before but nothing like this.|We did raise the question about loungers but were told they should be for the hotel guests only, I can sure you it is not the case. |You are expected to pay €14 per wooden lounger or €44 for curtain pagoda beds each day near the sea if there’s no room at the pool but on each occasions I am very sure we were the only ones who actually had to paid. Again there are a lot of “free loaders” with dogs and kids running up and down, setting up camp for the full day and parking motorbikes on the pathways. |We raised it several times but staff do not acknowledge it. This totally sits with management not supporting their staff.|Speaking to other people and reading the reviews for the same Group hotels ie Grand Hotel Brioni and Belvedere at Medulin they have the same issues. |I believe you will find local people, along with the people staying in the beach apartments and villas next door to these hotels using the pools, towels, hotel toilets and sun loungers/terraces and bars. One lady wanted me to use our room card to get into the indoor pool facilities. |With the amount of hotels rooms, apartments and villas on this small peninsula at Verudela there is not enough pools or lounger access for all.|Just one last thing, laying on your paid bed, you will also encounter several times the “want to be guests” posing in front of you for pictures with their families or selfies against the beautiful view you have paid for. Don’t get me wrong I like a good view too but not of someone’s else’s shorts at my eye level several times a day!||We did love the hotel, staff and location and have been to Croatia before but find this hotel would improve if they accepted how much they are being used by non guests/ locals. We can’t recommend this to our friends and family as it stands at the moment but would if the lounger and pool situation improved which is reason we all book holidays aboard.||If you book then good luck! I feel ripped off paying for additional sun bed loungers.