My sister and I went on a trip to Croatia between 12/09/2011 - 17/09/2011. She is still a student, so she want to hold the budget as low as possible. We saw the Verudela beach & villa resort first on www.booking.com. It looked very nice, the location, the facilities, the accomodation and the pictures. The revieuws on Tripadvisor where good, so we booked this hotel.

We arrived at the airport of Pula. We had to use the public transport to get to the hotel. I must say that it was very easy to get to the hotel. At the airport, there is a shuttle bus to Pula Kolodvor. This is the place where the most of public busses stops. We red on tripadvisor that the busses 2 and 3 were the right one to the hotel. From Pula Kolodvor to the hotel you have to take bus 2. Bus 3 is the good bus for the other direction (hotel to Pula Kolodvor). You pay 11 kuna for 1 person. The bus stop is named VERUDELA.

The check-in in the hotel was very nice. The reception was friendly, very helpfull, and quick.
When we arrived to our appartment, we were supprised. It was not that big, bus it was enough for two persons. I would mention that we reserved an appartment for 4 persons, but we think it is a little bit small with 4 adults. In the app. we had a little kitchen with the most of the things we need. The bathroom was also small, but good enough for us. In the bedroom, the only thing that was a little bit negative where the hard beds. It didn't disturbed our sleep, but at the morning we had a little bit of pain at our back. The appartments are close to the sea en in the nature.

During the 5 full days we stayed there we had one time they came to change the towels. The only thing I think they forgot was the toilet paper. The last day we had almost a problem. :-)
The facilities: there are a few restaurants, a little supermarket and shops nearby the reception. At the evening/ night there is a night club nearby. The resort has 2 big pools. Positive: in September there were not too much people. Negative: the steps in the pool were dirty and the lighing chairs were not free. There is an animation team for adults and kids. At the evening there was a karaoke, dancing, ...at the pool.

Conclusion: a good place to stay for young and old. Also perfect for families and friends. It was verry good for the money that we payed. We would deffenitly go back to this resort. I would recommend it.

Just back from this resort.

All in all had a really nice time, resort is pretty big with lots of hotels, restaurants and swimming pools. It is more expensive than downtown Pula but I suppose convenience costs.

Lots of places to swim, no sandy beaches, it's all rocks or pebbles, didn't bother us but may bother some. Snorkelling was pretty good.

Apartment was ok, clean, good shower, not much in the way of cooking facilities (3 electric hobs), beds were quite hard and the 'pillows' not up to much. No kettle, but for tea you can just run hot water through the coffee maker that's provided, take your own teabags!! I ran out of Tetleys and couldn't find any UK brands on site. We went for a sea view and are so glad we did!

Our fellow holiday makers were nearly all German, only met 2 other UK parties in the week we were there, so don't expect much socialising, pretty much all the locals speak English tho' so no worries there.

Pula is well worth a visit in the day and the evening, special mention to the ice cream parlour 25 metres past the historic arch going towards the forum square, the servers in there do 'cocktail bar' type tricks with the ice cream, very entertaining. Last bus goes back to Verudela at 2240, we made a lot of use of the bus service, including a trip to Rovinj (well worth it, especially the church), buses go from the bus station every hour.

Went on a boat tour on our last day and personally was less than impressed, we went on the boat 'Ana' - they take you on a trip around the Bryoni Islands and drop you on on of the islands then pick you up later, it's nothing special although the snorkelling was good. Lunch on the boat was very poor value and drinks on the island were very expensive from the only outlet there (about £1.70 for a coke) so take your own picnic would be my advice.

All in all I'd go back no problem, but I'd like to fly with someone other than Ryan Air - £40 for 15kg of luggage is outrageous in my opinion.

We have just returned from a very enjoyable trip - staying at the Verudela beach resort. As there wasn’t a huge amount of info on TA I hope this may help.

On arrival we had been advised that the Taxi would cost approximately twenty pounds, when speaking with a taxi driver (slightly rude) I was told that the fare would be nearer thirty pounds. After a very brief discussion and again being told it was impossible to get to Verudela for less than thirty pounds we opted to get the bus into the centre.

The bus was only a few pounds (11 Kuna I think) and took about twenty minutes. On arrival we then jumped into a cab and was charged just 100 Kuna to get to the resort. You can jump on a 3 or 2 bus for another 11 Kuna, but as we had just arrived we were unsure of where the busses went from.

On arrival the reception gave us our key, then gave some rather vague directions to get to the apartment. I think 90% of guests arrive by car - so the hotel may not use to be giving directions for guests that are walking, anyway after approximately a twenty minute walk with suitcases (and a few wrong turns) we arrived at the apartment.

The apartments were off a nice size with everything you might need. Air Con was extra but we opted to sleep with the windows open and, this was fine in June.
The only negative is that we didn’t see a maid during the time we were there, I think that they may only clean the apartments once per week.

There are a few restaurants on site that cater well if you like pizza and pasta dishes. We ate in a restaurant on the sea front in Verudela called Ambrella - the food and wine were good, however, we had a rather nasty shock at the end of the meal - being informed that the restaurant didn’t accept debit or credit cards. As we had no cash, I had to walk a round trip of nearly an hour to find an ATM and withdraw cash, whilst the restaurant kept my partner as “insurance” This could have been avoided if the reception would have informed you that the restaurants do not take credit cards, or a brief mention on the menu!
Anyway don’t let that put you off just take cash.

In front of this restaurant you can hire a couple of beds an umbrella for approximately 90 Kuna for the day, but the beds do not come with mattresses and none are available for hire?? Perhaps it’s just me that likes to lay on a comfy bed??

Other average prices both in the town and resort are:
Fish 250 Kuna
Mussels 50 Kuna for half a kilo
Pizza 40 Kuna
Pasta 50 Kuna
Beer 20 Kuna
Wine 80 Kuna a litre
Taxi from Pula - Airport 120 Kuna
BTW you can go into the hotels for a breakfast which was about 50 Kunas pp. The best we found was the Histria.
Overall a nice short break, and would defiantly return some day.

we were situated in two bedroom apartmant. it was clean and very nice. Furniture and everything in apartmant is quite new. We had a big balcony park view, but we were very sorry we didn't pay extra 6 euros and book an apartmant with sea view,
Resort is very big, like a little town, and you have evrything you need in it. There is a big grosery shop, little suvenir shops, resorans, bars, tennis corts....
Dogs are wellcom, you have to pay 10 euros per day which is too much, but.....
We realy like it, and it is a good place to come back