went to porec with portland holidays, stayed at the hotel mediteran 13th to 20th may 2008, very good hotel, lovely well kept gardens surround the hotel and very clean inside.we paid app £34 to upgrade our room to pool and sea view it was well worth it. room a good size and great views.cannot fault the meals! (need to loose a few pounds now!) and wine ,beer with evening meal included in price.some food cooked fresh in front of you! drinks a little pricey in hotel bar and just a band played each evening. only 15 minute walk into pretty porec, which we enjoyed very much, nice cobbled streets etc, lovely walks each direction from the hotel,sea so clean.good restaurant above the diving club for lunch. we took boat trip to venice, well worth it, and it does not smell! about 2 1/2 hour crossing, you need passport and euro,s for there.so much to see! shame weather was cloudy! alot of tourists and expensive , but what a fantastic place. would go back there , also to porec, croatia is a beautiful unspoilt country...lets hope it stays that way!

I loved this hotel. My husband couldn't join us so I was a "single parent" for the holiday. I had a terrific time. My 2 sons, aged 16 and 7 were accomodated in my room. We had a "triple" (I guess) which was 2 big singles pushed together and a "cot-bed" (which my 16 year old slept in comfortably).

The bedroom was great, the air-con was really efficient. We had a small balcony on which to dry our towels and store our lilo and inflatable boat. I used the laundry services which I thought were well worth it - a T-shirt was 70p to be washed, dried and ironed.

The bathroom was a bit "Soviet" looking but the toilet was west European standard and the shower was powerful. The bath was half sized, but adequate, definitely fine for kids. Though not for lounging around romantically!

The food was good, my youngest son is a bit of a fusspot but I was able to feed him easily every night. There are little coves about 100m away, nothing special, but the sea is glorious. Might be difficult with very small children.

The hotel pool is bigger than it looks on its website - but I think it does not really cater to babies.

The hotel staff were very sweet and helpful and I couldn't fault them. My only bugbear was a lack of an ATM - but you can walk to the nearest hotel and use theirs (5 mins walk). Also - Satelite TV - means German and Italian TV - the only English channel was CNN.

The food was good, but service could be a little frantic at times. If you just chill then it is great. Wine, beer and soft drinks are on tap at meal times.

The hotel was clean and tidy and looked modern, excluding the bathrooms which are in desperate need of a re-vamp. The food was excellent however it was manic in the evenings. The waiters obviously work long hours and very hard however a smile would not have hurt now and again. The drinks in the hotel were expensive especially the soft drinks. approximately £1.70 (170 kunas) for a small coke. To add rum it was just an extra 20p.
We only managed to get a sun lounger around the pool when it was raining as towels had been placed on them by 6am in the morning. Sadly the pool was quite small so no inflatables or balls were allowed in and no drinks were allowed around the pool.
The sea was only a 2 minute walk away and again sun loungers are hard to come by, but if you look hard you may find one. The sea was clean and excellent for snorkelling.
Porec was a busy town with lots to see and tasting the ice cream is a must. The costal path was lovely to walk along and the train is great if you can get on it as it was busy. The resort is ideal for young families and couples of all ages looking for a quiet, relaxing holiday. The majority of holiday makers are not English and conversation with others can be difficult.
The surrounding area is beautiful and the hotel as a whole was really nice and would definitely go back to Croatia again.

Just had a great holiday at the Hotel Mediteran, Porec. We went with Portland Holidays Direct. In our opinion the hotel is far better than the 3-star rating suggests - it is very light and airy with an abundance of public seating areas, an adequate pool area and salt water pools. For anyone preferring the sea it is only a few minutes walk to several paved bathing areas and a small shingle beach, but care must be taken as entry points to the sea are quite slippery in places and the sea bed is rocky. Lots of water sports and children's playgrounds are available all the way from the hotel, via the coastal path, to the town of Porec and in the other direction towards Zelena Laguna. The coastal path is quite well lit at night and we felt no threat walking home from the town at midnight. There is a fairly frequent tractor train service available for about 15 kuna. Porec city itself is very attractive and welcoming with plenty of shops, bars and restaurants - most of which are reasonably priced - ice cream parlours providing inexpensive and tasty Albanian ice cream.

The hotel has good quality entertainment at night and many daytime activities should you require them. Accommodation is roomy and very clean and the food extremely good with a wide variety of choice for anyone. The staff could not do enough for you and speak many languages adequately - you only have to ask if you have any problems. We mentioned that one or two of the lights on the coastal path were not working and this was remedied by the next morning.

We were so impressed by the hotel and resort that we will deinitely being returning in the very near future.

Jill and Jim Rey