Hotel Maxim is an excellent choice for travelers visiting Bozava, offering a family-friendly environment alongside many helpful amenities designed to enhance your stay.
Rooms at Hotel Maxim provide air conditioning and a minibar, and guests can stay connected with free wifi.
In addition, while staying at Hotel Maxim guests have access to a 24 hour front desk, room service, and a gift shop. You can also enjoy a pool and an on-site restaurant. Need a place to park? There is paid public parking available nearby.
While staying in Bozava, you can check out a popular Mediterranean restaurant like Boxavia, which is serving up some great dishes.
Plus, during your trip, don't forget to check out a lighthouse, such as Božava.
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The room itself is big and clean. However, there is not enough plugs to connect a laptop, the tv quite small for such a room. Despite that it is ok.
What is absolutely terrible is the breakfast, it’s been long time I did not see so poor choice, and if you stay a week, you’ll get bored very fast.
The dinner inclusive is not to recommend, here again the choice is very small and quality acceptable but nothing wow.
On Sufi took, prices in restaurants are quite reasonable, therefore, I would recommend trying the local restaurants rather than the ones in the hotel.
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Date of stay: August 2021Trip type: Traveled as a couple
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View from the hotel is beautiful, you can see all the boats coming to marine and the sea as well as distant islands. Sea is very clean so it is excellent for diving. Bozava is small place so if you are looking for peace and relaxation, this is place for you. There are only 3-4 restaurants nearby. Hotel is clean and staff is polite, just the dinner is not adequate for 4 star rated hotel - variety of the food and type (although it was well prepared).
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Date of stay: August 2020Trip type: Traveled as a couple
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Room Tip:Â We were told that all the rooms are the same no matter which floor you choose.
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Stayed in apartment 4; there is a problem with the plumbing and the bathrooms smell badly of urine. Hotel give excuses - offered to swop the smell for a smell of strong bleach! Something is wrong. Dated and strange food and beverage in restaurant. Overall place feels like a Soviet Union hotel, staff look depressed.
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Date of stay: August 2021
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Most hotels these days seem to oversell themselves on their websites with flowery prose and flattering, wide-angle, specially lit photos while some rely on flat out lies and a talent for trick photography.
The 4-star Hotel Maxim in Bozava, Dugi Otek is the opposite! It is a fabulous hotel in a unique location where the sea actually laps onto the hotel and it is surrounded by pineforests ... but you would never guess this looking at its photos on the very few web sites tht it is featured - including its own hoteli-bozava.
We particularly wanted to stay in Dugi Otek on our Croatian Island tour and the only reason we picked the Hotel Maxim was that it looked the best of a fairly uninspriring lot.
The Hotel Maxim is part of the hoteli-bozava group which has three (maybe four) hotels in the same location in Bozava and are all within strolling distance of each other, hidden away in one of the pine forests that Dugi Otek is famous for.
We did not look too closly at the other hotels which are all (I think) 3 star, but we did drive past the Mirta which is not as close to the sea as one of the other 3 star hotels in the group which is right on the water's edge, like the Hotel Maxim.
The whole situation is beautifully still and quiet and very romantic with the village of Bozava literally just around the corner from the hotel and the ferry at most a 15 minute drive. The Hotel Maxim has it's own lovely private beach, lovely pool with decking which is actually on the sea so you get the feeling you are in the pool of a cruise ship and also there is a very cute mini train which brings Hotel Maxim guests down to a bigger beach where the hotel has its own cocktail bar! It was wonderful!
On checking in we were given a lovely welcome, even though due to there not being very many ferries to Dugi Otek, we arrived quite late. We had requested a sea view room with balcony and in fact were upgraded in this amazing suite.
All the rooms have their own private balcony, but ours was somthing else - huge, with cabin steamer sun beds, breathtaking view and literally waves breaking on the rocks below - we were in heaven.
Tragically one of us was so eager to ensure that no mosquitos got into the room that he slammed the sliding gass door to the balcony shut behind us and locked us out of our suite.
Stuck out on our balcony I envisaged us spending the night on the cabin steamer sun beds but luckily we managed to wave to one of the other guest on a lower balcony and they rang reception. It was then he told me that he had double locked our door. Arghhhhh!!!!
Luckily a very friendly manager was up in a flash to liberate us from our balcony and we went back into our suite to explore. It had a massive flat screen tv, a beautiful brown leather serpentine sofa which could fit ten people easily, table and chairs for four, an armchair , mini bar, enormous wardrobe- and there would have been still room for dancing - the sitting room of the suite (or apartment as the hotel calls them) was just VAST!
Everything was spotlessly clean and brand spanking new with lots of lovely designer touches. The bedroom, while not quite as big was also of very genereous proportions with its own balcony which looked out over the cute min-train and out to the pine forest.
The bathroom also was light, bright, ultra modern with a lovely designer basin which you could almost bath in, it was so big. The shower was great and all in all the apartment/suite was the nicest accomadation I think I have ever stayed it - all that coupled with waking up to the sound of the waves lapping on the rocks below was just like a fantasy!
Every morning we would get up and open up the big glass sliding door to the balcony and just lie in our huge bed listening to the sea - it was incredibly romantic!
We were on half board and I was so impressed that when we arrived in late form the ferry (I think about 10pm) although dinner was finished they had kept us a special dinner and served it to us on arrival.
Half board also included wine or beer so it was fantastic value.
The restaurant has huge floor to ceiling windows, and as the hotel is right on the water, you get the feeling that you are having dinner or breakfast aboard a cruise ship - it is just amazing.
Everything in the dining room is done to perfection with crisp tablecloths, glistening glasswear and very attentive service. Every night we really enjoyed the buffet dinner and one night we chose to have it on the decking beside the pool. It was such a starry night, the pool has mood lights which fade from one colour to another and the sea lapped gently beside us - it was simply unimaginably romantic and totally unforgetable!
Breakfast was simply wonderful too, naturally in part due to the scenic dining room, but the buffet was extraordinarily good too with plenty of choice of hot and cold dishes, salads, fruit, yogurts, omlettes, bread, rolls and cake!
The staff were very nice and service was excellent. Check in and out were speedy, courteous and professional with all bills clearly explained and totally accurate.
If you could tear yourself away from the fasbulous views from your room balcony or the lovely pool/beach the hotel also had an internet spot downstairs and lots of things like tennis courts which we did not have time to explore.
Also for children there is the most amazing huge wooden play fort which really is a work of art - I think maybe there is also a childrens pool too.
The hotel looks out across the water past a tiny marina to the also tiny town of Bozava, which you cannot actually drive into. You park your car in the car park and walk down the little winding paths (5 min max strolling!) into the village which reminded me a little of a Greek island.
Then there is a jetty where there are a string of fabulous and very reasonably priced seafood restaurants and cafe which are ideal for lunch. We sat there one sunny day, having lunch gazing back at our hotel across the small harbour, listening to the jangle of masts of the yacts moored nearby - it was paradise - and so close we considered swimming the short distance back to the hotel across the harbour instead of taking the horseshoe shaped short drive back.
We also went for a drive to the other end of the island to Sali, but as there seemed to be nothing much there bar a marina, we were so delighted that we had chosen to stay in delightful Bozava instead.
We went at the middle of September and apparently the season was just ending but we were told that in the high season Bozava is a great place for diving and watersports and was more lively, thought I have to say we loved it just the way we saw it, with very few tourists all slow, sleepy, quiet, lazy and totally magical.
The hotel does have a brochure at the hotel which shows the many facilities and charms of the hotel off much better than the website photos, so if you were thinking of going you might ask them to send you one of these to get a better picture of just how great this hotel is.
We booked with Travel Turist a Croatian firm on the internet, as we booked it a long way in advance but I see booking.com also has the Hotel Maxim now as well as the hotel's own website. I can't remember exactly what we paid per night for half board but I think the whole thing was close to 100 euros a night - which I think has to go down offically as the best value ever, so great food including wine/beer, a palacial suite with two private balconies, so many great hotel facilities,all in such a unique, romantic and idlyic setting on such a beautiful island filled with the aroma of its many pine forests. It was simply heaven.
Thank you Hotel Maxim for giving us one of our most wonderful and romantic holidays ever!!
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Date of stay: September 2010
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Trip type: Traveled as a couple
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This hotel has a perfect position, right next to the sea. The food was absolutely fabulous. Clean rooms, a nice swimming pool (even though too small) and a bar close to the swimming pool. On the other hand, you have to pay for simply everything. In the hotel catalogue they write that there is wi-fi, fitness centre, tennis court and wellness. Well there is but: you have got wi-fi free for only 60 minutes for 5 days. Then you have to pay if you want to conect to the Internet. Tennis court: not maintained at all and of course you have to pay if you want to play tennis. Fitness and wellness is not actually within the hotel. It´s in another hotel and guess what: you have to pay to go there! I have visited a lot of 4* hotels and these kind of services were free.
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Date of stay: July 2014
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Trip type: Traveled with family
Room Tip:Â All rooms face the sea!
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If you want calm holidays, that is what you are looking for. Hotel offers good food and service.
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Date of stay: July 2011
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Small relatively new hotel near the sea, some rooms above the rocks and sea. If you are a nature lover Božava is a place for you, with crystal blue sea and dozens of small bays shadowed by pines. Room was nice with balcony with a stunning view of the bay and all the islands around. There is a pool as well, but the sea in front is much better. Breakfast was decent, but not much variety. Halfboard is not what 4 star hotel should offer, we chose to eat in their restaurant (Konoba Kadulja), where the food is good.
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Date of stay: July 2019
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Trip type: Traveled with friends
Room Tip:Â Quieter floor 1st floor, higher floor nice view but some noise from boats
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Splendid location next to a serene small port village of Božava. This hotel has so much potential but fails to live up to it. Staff needs a bit training, some areas in hotel need cleaning - it al has that feeling like somebody has forgotten about their job. Overall a pleasant stay, food is more than decent.
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Date of stay: June 2016Trip type: Traveled as a couple
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Hotel Maxim is a little paradise situated in small bay overlooking the Adratic Sea. It's exceptionally beautiful and the hotel has everything you need as well as very friendly staff. The pool was great especially for the kids. Not many downsides to this experience other than: We only had wifi by the recetion and he food was middle in standard. Apart from that everyting was wonderful. We warmly recommend this place!
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Date of stay: July 2015
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Trip type: Traveled with family
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There are more places to choose from in the Bozava area.
PRICE RANGE
$101 - $154 (Based on Average Rates for a Standard Room)
LOCATION
CroatiaDalmatiaZadar CountyBozava
NUMBER OF ROOMS
23
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