We stayed here as part of a tour group and I must admit that having seen multiple rooms for the same price, there is quite a bit of discrepency between some of the rooms. Fortunately for me, I had a corner room on the second floor, with a harbor view. The stone walls were accented with lovely green shutters.

The staff was friendly, assisting us with phone calls and letting us access their computers to check e-mail, etc. The continental breakfast was adequate, but guests can order tasty ommelettes from the kitchen.

I would recommend this hotel without reservation.

I have been in two minds whether to write this review but purely for somewhat selfish reasons. My wife and I loved our stay at Hotel Maestral on the island of Prvic and part of me wants to keep it our little secret. A relaxing, car-free oasis is a perfect antithesis to our daily lives in London and this is what this little island offers, while the staff at the hotel complement this with their professionalism and quiet efficiency. We first found out about Hotel Maestral two years ago and stayed there for four nights in July 2005. Even though it was its first full season in operation we were so pleased with our stay that when we decided to visit Croatian coast again this year, we chose to spend our holidays at Hotel Maestral. Our stay this time was for 6 nights at the beginning of July 2007. While I think more than half of hotel’s rooms have great views of the harbour, we actually chose a room facing a narrow side street as it is a little quieter and because we didn’t spend much time in our room and instead enjoyed the same great views from the restaurant terrace every morning over breakfast.
Our room was of good size and we liked the décor – the contrast between the modern, minimalist furniture and the original stone walls of the building work really well. The bathroom could perhaps have been a little bit bigger, but overall, the quality was at the very top of what can be expected from 3* accommodation. Air-conditioning is standard in all rooms – particularly useful this year (July 2007) with the temperatures constantly above 30C during the day.
The room was cleaned daily and we found fresh towels every day upon our return from the beach.
We chose to stay on a room and breakfast basis as we wanted to be able to sample the food from all the restaurants on the island – not as difficult as it sounds since the island has 6 or 7 restaurants, including the hotel’s restaurant. This isn’t to say that we didn’t eat at the hotel. We had two dinners there on this visit and thoroughly enjoyed them. The hotel restaurant is actually better known for its ‘peka’ meat dishes (veal, suckling pig, lamb) which are cooked in a ceramic pot under hot coals. All I can say is that the veal was excellent.
Finally, our comments regarding the service at the hotel – courteous, friendly and professional.
Filip Horvat, the owner, personally contacted us before our first visit to provide us with information on the best way to get to the island (we drove to Croatia that year) and in fact organised transport from a nearby town (there are boats that run regularly from Sibenik aand Vodice however).
Oh, and for those who just can’t live without their Internet access (I resisted until the last day), the hotel now has a broadband connection with Wi-Fi connectivity for the guests.

I've just read marci16's review and am really surprised. We stayed for four nights June in the same room i think. (large with six windows, view of the harbour) for around 100 euros a night. The staff were very friendly and took us out on boat trips twice. (see photo attached) The great thing about this island is that you can travel easily to other islands and plunge into the sea in deserted bays with out a soul around. The food in the hotel is normal croatian cuisine. The fish on the grill was the best thing. Maybe the lobby could be more comfortable and we would like to have had better internet access, but the hotel staff said the island doesnt have broadband. But the rooms were clean, and the design has a very fresh feeling to it. We live in the region (slovenia) and know that hotels in Croatia can be pretty average, and the service can be rough. Not here though. This place was good value and we will be going back.

We stayed 6 nights halfboard in the 3 * star Hotel Maestral on the car-free island of Prvic Luka, near Sibenik. The Time Out Croatia guide praised it a lot, but boy are they wrong!
The island is beautiful, the scenery lovely and the location of the hotel - a renovated former schoolbuilding - super. We had the best room of the hotel, with 5 windows and a magnificent view and paid quite a lot for that (=140 euro/night) - considering the region. We saw some of the other rooms in the house and they are pretty small.
It is such a shame and wasted opportunity the hotel is so bad: "stylish" here translates as 100% Ikea and the common areas have a distinct youth hostel feel. It is badly kept: in 6 nights, the sheets were NOT changed ONCE, there were hairs on the floors and hardly no cleaning of the (bath)room during our stay. The terrace smells of the sewer that flows directly into the sea and the food was VERY bad: never before have we been offered fishsticks with french fries and cornichons as salad, dessert wasn't included anyways! Extra side orders were unappropriate expensive (for example 20 kuna (= about 3 euro) for a handful of cooked potatoes - for Croatia VERY expensive); the a la carte prices were the most expensive ones compared to the 4 other restaurant we saw on the island, service was hardly friendly, with the only exception the guy responsible for the grill, Sascha, who was very nice.
Breakfast is served form 8-9.30 in the moring, quite early in our opinion for a holiday hotel.
The advertise having TV and Internet. Well, there is a TV in the room - but it only has HR 1 on it - all in Croatian - so that helps only if you understand Croatian. Internet is next to the reception, a very slow connection thats costs 1 kuna per minute - ridiculously expensive compared to internet café's in Zagreb or the classy 4* Hotel Park in Split, were we stayed as well.
The hotel caters to swimming & sailing groups so during 5 out of 6 nights of our stay there was a big group of 14-16 people around - and that is were all the attention goes to. We got a very second class guest feeling there, not only because of the food: the air conditioning was turned off the night there was no group in the hotel.
The prices they are charging are in NO relation to the value they are offering. We would never return and recommend for this pretty island to rent an appartment - there are plenty that seemed nice on wonderful locations.