A group of six of us went for 4 nights at the end of May. The only good thing about this hotel is that it is 2mins from the beach, however, so are most of the hotels - so that is by no means unique.

The hotel was in general , appaling. The rooms are old, smelly, and delapadated. Dont be fooled by the pictures of the rooms, on various websites - we were! The rooms really are awful, and are extremely crampled - they basically just shove a bed in somewhere with no concern for the guests comfort.

The hotel swimming pool on the roof looks fantastic, but in reality is smelly, dirty, and not clean enough to use. Inside the hotel is very dated, and literally has not been updated since the 1970's.

Also, on many sites, it lists that they have a private beach, which is a plain lie. They have a very small strip of beach, which was not even ready for use when we went there, and we had to pay to use the beach. They also tried underhand tactics to make us pay for the 5-a-side football pitch - use of which is supposed to be free.

The breakfast was poor, and consisted mainly of packaged biscuits, and packaged cereals. If you get there even a little late, most of the food has gone, and the staff are very rude about replacing it for you.

In general the staff were very rude, and unhelpful, and were more concerned about making money, and even charged us for breakages in the room, yet we did not break anything. They only told us about all this at 6am on the day we were checking out, and to be honest by this point we were just sick and tired of the hotel, so we paid the charges, just to get out of there.

In conclusion, this hotel appears cheap, but you really do get what you pay for. I would never visit this hotel again - if you can, avoid it like the plague.

Stayed at the Rimini Waldorf for a long weekend (3 nights) at the end of August 06. The building, like most hotels in Rimini, is a late '60 construction, not very actractive from the outside. The main entrance is grand, with a terrace overlooking the main street in Rimini. The lobby is spacious and well laid out. The rooms, being a 1960 or so hotel are not too big, but not too small either. The forniture is somewhat old and needs to be replaced. On the contrary the bathroom has been recently refurbished with marble tiles, nice and complete fittings. The balcony, overlooking the sea, is quite small, again a 1960 legacy. Overall the room we stayed is just avarage. The hotel has two swimming pools, one on the roof, with a great view of the beach and the city, and a 25mts outdoor pool, which also used for swimming courses. The best part of the hotel is the restaurant. The menu is varied and complete. All our meals (we stayed full board) were above avarage. The menus changes every day with four different selections of first and second courses. There is also a very good buffet of "antipasti" and salads.
The staff is very helpfull and friendly. We had a pleasant and enjoyable stay. Recommended.

The Golden Tulip Waldorf in Rimini is a very nice 4 star hotel which offers good value for the money. Location is great -- as it is smack in the middle of the shopping district, with LOTS of places to eat around the corner. Service at the hotel is efficient and polite. Breakfast is very generous, with lots of selection. The view from the hotel is of the beach front. During the summer months the hotel has a spa, roof top pool and restaurant. Please be advised that during the winter months -- none of these amenities are available.

We had a good experience having stayed at this location for two weeks. The hotel is on the main road Vialle Vespucci (This did get very busy with people in the evenings) There are a good choice of restaurants within walking distance. Our room over looked the sea with a very good view, However there was some loud music played in the evenings but the rooms are soundproofed and this did seem quite effective but some of the bass could still be heard. The room very clean with all the bed linen and towels replaced daily. The Breakfast was nice but lacked a little interest, fantastic fresh OJ though! There are two pools one, on the roof and the large one in the gardens, This pool had lessons and classes in the morning lasting until about 2:30PM making this pool unusable, I found this very annoying. Overall we had a very good holiday with the staff very friendly and helpful.