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Sime Ljubica 4A, Zadar 23 000, Croatia
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Hotel Venera
Ranked #18 of 20 hotels in Zadar
2.5 of 5 stars 20 Reviews
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croatia
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5 reviews 5 reviews
Reviews in 5 cities Reviews in 5 cities
3 helpful votes 3 helpful votes
“central location, but it is not really a hotel”
2 of 5 stars Reviewed 18 August 2010

location is really great . our room was clean, but tight. the most important: this is not really a hotel, it is a renovated house in the old town, with cca 5 rooms (with bathroom) on each floor. "reception" is in a house next-door and there is no dining room. but there are hotel prices. it is not expensive, but maybe you could find a room with bathroom in the old town for less than 60 euros per night.

  • Stayed August 2010, travelled with friends
    • 1 of 5 stars Value
    • 5 of 5 stars Location
    • 1 of 5 stars Sleep Quality
    • 3 of 5 stars Rooms
    • 4 of 5 stars Cleanliness
    • 1 of 5 stars Service
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Munich, Germany
2 reviews
Reviews in 2 cities Reviews in 2 cities
1 helpful vote 1 helpful vote
“The only hotel in the old city.”
3 of 5 stars Reviewed 5 August 2010

After the reception lady couldn't find the key and asked us to return later (we had reserved far in advance) we were able to enter our room which was clean, small and generally ok.
As it's the only hotel in the old city, you can't beat its location...

  • Stayed September 2009, travelled as a couple
    • 3 of 5 stars Value
    • 5 of 5 stars Location
    • 4 of 5 stars Sleep Quality
    • 3 of 5 stars Rooms
    • 5 of 5 stars Cleanliness
    • 1 of 5 stars Service
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London
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16 reviews 16 reviews
Reviews in 12 cities Reviews in 12 cities
19 helpful votes 19 helpful votes
“Did not honour reservation”
1 of 5 stars Reviewed 19 July 2010

Please be warned that this hotel may not honour your reservation. Fortunately this has never happened to me before (having stayed in many hundreds of hotels worldwide), but it was deeply unsettling when it did.

I amended my reservation from 2 nights to 1 a week before we were due to arrive. I provided the hotel with my mobile number and email address should there be any problems. The hotel confirmed that the reservation had been changed.

The evening before we were due to stay I emailed to confirm my reservation, as per their (rather unusual) request and again provided my mobile number should there be any problem.

It was therefore shocking and deeply disappointing to find out that our reservation had not been honoured upon our arrival and we had to find accommodation elsewhere.

A terrible end to our holiday. I will be doing all I can to make sure this hotel is blacklisted throughout the travel industry and will be passing on a complaint to the Croatian tourist board.

Stayed July 2010, travelled as a couple
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2 of 5 stars Reviewed 5 September 2009
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Dingy, not overly clean, surly staff and the tiniest twin share room ever. Very, very hot in summer. It's certainly not the sort of place to unwind for a few hours.
But it was cheap, the location is handy and I only needed a place to lay my head. I only spent one night there. Any longer and I would have gone stir crazy.

  • Stayed July 2009
    • 5 of 5 stars Value
    • 4 of 5 stars Location
    • 2 of 5 stars Rooms
    • 2 of 5 stars Cleanliness
    • 1 of 5 stars Service
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“Just adequate but cheap, great location for Zadar old town and island ferries”
3 of 5 stars Reviewed 31 May 2009
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I had been impressed that I'd found such a good location and that my booking via the hotel's website was rapidly answered, with no request for a credit card, and a helpful reply to my warning of our late arrival.

Off-putting first impressions, with a scruffy reception area and distinct lack of warmth in the welcome (it reminded me of those scary air cabin attendants in the old days of Jugoslav Airlines who had obviously attended the Josef Tito school of customer care!). No surprises here, as TA posts said the place wasn't luxurious.

The rooms, while small, unstylish, without balconies and lacking views from the window, were perfectly adequate, very very clean, and at the quivalent of 50 Euros per nite off season, really cheap compared with everything else we'd found on the web. They seem to have been designed for the students who throng the bars in this university area, as they had more storage- built in wardrobes, bookcases and desks - than you'll need for a short stay.

While you wouldn't want to stay too long here, and while I guess that as they lack aircon, they'd be very warm in summer, the location is really great. In a scruffy residential alley right in the heart of the historic old town on the peninsula where all the bars and restaurants are, so a really lively atmosphere and no bus or taxis needed.

And best of all, a few minutes from the ferries to the islands where you'll fine great quality and value in the many apartments- so overall- go for it for a night or two.

  • Stayed May 2009, travelled as a couple
    • 3 of 5 stars Value
    • 5 of 5 stars Location
    • 2 of 5 stars Rooms
    • 4 of 5 stars Cleanliness
    • 1 of 5 stars Service
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Sime Ljubica 4A, Zadar 23 000, Croatia
Price range (per night):* INR4,626 - 6,075

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