My 9 year old daughter and I have just returned from a weeks stay at Hotel Apis, Rimini. Overall we found the hotel very good although it did not match the expectations we had after reading up online.

All of the hotel staff were very friendly and helpful, day and night and really made us feel welcome, speaking several languages. Our twin room was fairly basic but comfortable with working air conditioning, shower, t.v. (Italian channels only) and cleaned (very well) daily.

Buffet breakfast was plentiful, available for 3 hours and fantastic. Cakes, pastries, cereals, yoghurt, meat, cheese, fruit juice ..... Wonderful cappuccino, espresso, etc., tea or chocolate self service. Made it easy to get up early in the morning!

The swimming pool at the front of the hotel was a lovely depth - about 4-5ft, clean, lots of sunbeds, very relaxed atmosphere. Fairly busy most of the time but plenty of room. Ping pong table (buy a ball for 1 euro and keep it, free bats from reception) and billiards table (2 euro coin) were well used by us and others and helped create a jolly atmosphere.

I was a little disappointed that there was no sauna or gym at the hotel after reading about it on several websites and choosing this hotel partly because of those facilities. The Hotel Apis has an agreement with a gym on a separate site (about 10 minutes away) which you have to book in advance, hence we never made it there whereas had it been in the hotel as expected we would have used it in the evenings. We also found out on the last day that there is an agreement with beach No. 5 for guests to use although it was not clear whether there is a charge for the umbrellas/sunbeds which cover all of the beaches. We hired 2 beds and an umbrella one afternoon on beach No.6 which cost 10 euros but which we only used for 2 hours. This could increase costs of a holiday quite significantly if you plan to spend a lot of time on the beach (and that is what Rimini is all about!)

Overall we had a great stay here and I'm glad we booked Hotel Apis.