We Booked our Holiday through Thomson and was good value for the money.
The Kristal is a 1960s Concrete hotel.
Although only rated 3* The welcome, service and Hospitality at this hotel is of the highest order. The hotel rooms although not large are well kept and clean with well appointed bathrooms. The public areas are recently renovated and very well maintained and cleaned almost constantly.
The Buffet style restaurant was on a half board basis with a wide plentiful range of tasty food available at the evening meal all being carefully cooked and nicely presented .we enjoyed free self service local wine, beer or soft drinks with our evening meal. In the restaurant the tables were laid with table cloths and linen napkins. The staff in the restaurant were cheerfull & welcoming . There is a wide choice of Hot or cold buffet style breakfast plenty of fresh fruit available at all meals.
The swimming pool is larger than most ,with a good sized sun terrace pool bar sun beds and sunshades (but you will have to supply your own mattress for your sun bed as they are not supplied). The pool dates from when the hotel was originally built and will probably renovated in the near future.
On Most nights there was live music/dancingwith a duo or trio in the hotel lobby bar but the sound did not travel to other parts of the hotel, so this did not disturb us.
Hotel is pleasantly situated in a district called BRULO near to 3 other hotels: Rubin Diamand Mirreaedian and situated up a short slope amongst the conifer forest that stretches down to the edge of the sea which is about 3 or 5 minutes stroll.
Near to the water there is mini golf, Tennis, Table Tennis etc. available at a small charge and there is a choice of cafes/tavernas near by where you can enjoy a snack/lunch away from the hotel . The town of Porec is 15 minutes walk away throught the trees or you can follow the coast line which is then a 30 minutes stroll.
( you can also walk along the tree lined coast path in the other direction ) which will take you to other hotel complexs and cafes. If or when you are too tired there is a mini train sevice running along the costal pathway linking the various hotel complexes with town of Porec. (There were two trains running this, when we were there-so the service was about every half hour).
The fare was 100 Kuna( £1 ) for the a single one way fare from Brulo to Porec or Porec to Luguna was 150 Kuna (£1.50)
Food and drink in the cafes was not cheap but also not very expensive.
£1.50 for 0.50 litre of local beer £1.30 for a coffee £ 5 for a fish or meat pizza with salad garnish.
The hotel Kristal is managed by Valamar who look after many of the other Hotels around Porec and they seem to be a well run Company.
It was my wifes birthday whilst we were there, so I gave here a card,which she left on the dressing table in our room. When we returned from our day outing the was a complimentary bottle of wine and a card from the Hotel Management which was un-expected by both myself and her and was a very nice gesture.
