The room is small but well designed and really beautiful. The beds were too soft for me, but that's always a problem for me at hotels. The location is very central, there is no parking but a short walk away you can park in a garage. I would skip breakfast and go eat at the market or one of the many nearby cafes (breakfast is in a cafe anyway).

First the good: the hotel is in a great, central location steps away from Carmel Market. The staff were all friendly, the views from the (heated) rooftop pool are glorious, particularly at sunset, and the lobby and common areas are any design lover’s dream. What really disappointed us, however, was our room. We booked a Poli Deluxe room without a balcony on the basis that (i) we were visiting in January and (ii) we’d read that the rooms fronting the Main Street were quite noisy. This category of room looked fairly spacious on the website. In actually fact we were given a rather small room with a balcony. Perhaps the hotel thought they were doing us a favour by giving us a room with a balcony but it was really noisy at night. The room itself was frustratingly impractical, particularly the bathroom. There were sloping shelves which were quite small anyway but their design meant our cosmetics slid off them. There were no hooks anywhere in the room to hang jackets/coats or towels and no tea/coffee making facilities. It is like the designer of the room never actually considered what staying in the room would be like. We only stayed two nights but I don’t think we could have tolerated the room much longer. We otherwise loved the hotel but the ridiculous design of the rooms alone is reason enough as to why we wouldn’t stay here again.

All in all I liked the hotel, there were just a few things that annoyed me. The first thing was the reception. For some reason it's on the topfloor of the hotel. Why not on the groundfloor? There was plenty of room. The hotel is situated in a beautifully restored Bauhaus building and the rooms are nicely designed and of a decent size. But why were there no hooks in the bathroom or in the room proper? My towels were draped over a chair in the room. I booked a room with a balcony of its own - great. But the chairs on the balcony were very uncomfortable. I tried bringing the chair (with the draped towel :-)) to the balcony, but it was too big. I'm sure the balcony chairs were designed by a very famous designer, but I really would prefer a less expensive chair that you can actually sit in without hurting your back. The hotel is located just next to the Carmel Market and very close to Shenkin and King George Street with a lot of cafés and restaurants, and it only takes about 10 minutes to walk to the beach. The rooftop with the bar and the pool is just great and the reason why I'm considering booking another stay a Poli House