Villa Amalia

Good
Traveller Type: Family with Young Children
  : location and staff
  : Tired and faded

Disappointing
Traveller Type: Business Traveler
  : unfortunately this gem hotel got down rotten but the new owner will hopefully rebuild its former glance & will restore fresco's & wall artifacts. so it will hopefully shine again in may 2024. because the location is priceless !!!
  : that almost all of this historical hotel got not well maintained or art even over-painted over years. after 1st world war and yugoslavia & not well maintaining of this hotel lost its glance and spirit.

Fair
Traveller Type: Traveling as Couple
  : The Villa Amalia Junior Suite was a spacious one BR apartment, with spacious bathroom, sea views. Use of Hotel Kvarner pool. Private beach has clean water, no rocks, and and showers. Staff were brilliant e.g. desk chair and suitcase racks that were missing from the room on check in, were immediately supplied by staff when requested. Huge range of food choices at breakfast. F & B staff tried very hard to please.
  : It transpired that Villa Amalia is an annexe of Hotel Kvarner. Access from Kvarner checkin is via multiple steps, past overflowing waste bins and bomb site carparks. Very unappealing. Fortunately, we found an alternative route to breakfast and the pool, which was going offsite onto the public Lungomare walkway, then back onto the Kvarner terrace. Breakfast on the outside terrace is ruined by mobs of pidgins, scrounging for food, swooping onto tables even with guests present. Extremely unhygienic. Shower over bath becomes an increasing safety issue for older guests. Multiple steps everywhere are a major issue for guests with prams and wheelchairs. Be aware that the beach is not a real beach. You sunbake on lounges on a concrete boardwalk thats several metres wide, accessing the water via a steel ladder. A significant area of the sea is roped off as a private area for hotel guests.