Stayed here as part of a group, wasn't expecting much as 3 star hotel but very pleasantly surprised. Buffet food was very good, good choice and freshly cooked. Room was clean and spacious.The bar had entertainment a couple of nights. I went out of season so the pool was not open but looked quite big and well kept. Hotel has a bus stop outside which takes you into Dubrovnik, really easy, tickets can be bought from the hotel shop. Staff very helpful. No complaints at all.

The hotel has a nice breakfast, and the rooms are sufficiently spacious. However the hotel is quite a distance from the sea, and we couldn't see the sea from our balcony. The hotel next to ours had better views.
The mattress is very soft; not my preference. But overall, no complaints.

My fiancé and I stayed in Dubrovnik 3 weeks ago and what a beautiful place!

The Tirena Hotel was a good find and I chose it having read others' positive reviews about it. It's in a complex of hotels all owned by the Valamar Group. You can use all of the other hotel facilities like their beaches and pools (some charged) but the Tirena Hotel's outdoor pool is awesome! The pictures shown really show what it's like!

The receptionists were helpful and nice. The first night we did get placed in a room facing the car park which unfortunately was noisy with coaches of people coming through the night so we asked to be moved to a sea-view room and were upgraded for free! I believe this was because we were in off-peak season though so I would request a back-facing room at least when booking.

The balcony and sea view room was brilliant. The bathroom lovely and spacious and room massive. The best thing about it was the cleanliness - completely spotless and flawless and every morning the cleaners said hello and were really friendly.

The restaurant was so good we pretty much ate every night. There are some reviews on here moaning about the food but honestly for the price we couldn't complain. The only problem we had was one night it got packed with new holiday-goers and some of the food ran out but it was replenished quickly and those poor chefs worked their butts off! I ate like an absolute piggy and was extremely pleased with the choices!

The only negative I have is the excursions lady could do with a bit of an attitude adjuster and not seem like it's a massive hassle taking a lot of money for a trip then telling you nothing about it! But that didn't really affect anything - we are adults and can figure it out for ourselves :-)

The location was great too - bustop at the top of the road, Number 6 straight into old town for 12kuna takes about 10 minutes. A taxi cost 35kunas.

We would definitely go back - brilliant holiday all around!

We would definitely go back!

We stayed here for week as part of an organised group. The hotel is definitely more than a 3* all told but fell down badly on a couple of points. I'll deal with the good stuff first. We had a beautiful room overlooking the water where we could see the cruise ships coming in and out to Dubrovnik. Our room was comfortable, very clean, comfortable bed, well fitted bathroom and plenty of storage space.

There is a minibar in the room which is handy for storing water, milk, etc. There is no safe in the room but you can obtain a key for small safe down behind the reception. The TV had a couple of Sky channels which we looked at for the short periods we were in the room.

The first couple of days were quite warm, low 20's but then it became very cool, particularly at night. We found the bedroom to be freezing cold despite trying to use the aircon which seemed to be not working at all. The reception rooms downstairs, i.e. the dining room and the bar/lounge were also very cold in the evening time and the heating did not appear to have been put on.

The food was of a very high standard. They served a buffet for breakfast and evening meal and there was plenty of choice for everyone. You just could not be disappointed with the food. Buffets were usually repetive.

As a previous reviewer said you could not get water with your meal without having to pay for a bottle. This, I felt, was a bit mean considering water in Croatia is safe to drink. There was no tea or coffee served after the evening meal so it meant going up to the bar to order same and depending on who was serving you would get a half-filled, or fully filled cup of either cold or warm coffee. The drink measures were a bit on the small side also and some people were complaining about this.

This hotel seems to be doing very well for itself from groups like ours who were there for a week but if they start cutting corners people will wise up and they will loose the business. Its in a good position surrounded by at least 3 other hotels in the same group. We visited the President hotel just up the road and found it to be very nice but a bit more up-market than the Tirena. You can get a frequent bus into the Old Town with tickets obtained at the kiosk in the hotel. It took about 10 minutes to get into the town.

All in all, it wasn't bad but it wasn't great either but I think the good points outweighed the bad points. The issue of the heating was unacceptable and we go no response from staff when mentioned at reception on checking out.