Hotel is very big, there are two kind of rooms renovatede and unrenovated. We got unrenovated although we asked for the new one (price is the same, they don't allow you to pay extra for the new room).
Our room had an old dirty carpet with stains all around, like all carpets in the hotel ( on the corridors, in the dinning room). Bed on my side was ok., but on may husband side was broken. We stayed there for 10 days, cleaning lady was cleaning the room partially (one day she didn’t clean the bathroom, other day the room). They change our sheets only once. But in that 10 days she never cleaned balcony, although we know she was on the balcony because she moved chairs, but she didn't sweep pine needles, or the water (it was raining quite a lot). Renovated rooms have a wooden floors, and completely new bathrooms.
Restaurant have a big terace and you can eat outside and that's about it. Food preparing does not include any imagination, almost the same food every day, and they use really cheep groceries.
In hotel bar prices are really normal, i should say cheep comparing to the other bars.
Children animation is great, animating girls are relaly nice, funny and they are working really hard.
Beach... what to say, it is not "normal" beach, it is more like little teraces and you have to jump from one to another to come to the sea. Prices in bakery near by the beach are huge, and food is not tasty, and sandwich in bar across the beach is 30 kunas, wauuu.
Jelsa is small town, not much too see, but it is nice to walk around.
From original souvenirs you can buy only lavanda (native herb) and nothing else.
Staff in restaurant and cleaning ladys are polite, but stuff on the reception is rude and very unfriendly.
You can go to this hotel, but without big expectation, and than you maybe find it ok.

Hotel is in nice location, with sea view and 10 min walk from the cosy center of Jelsa town. For children there is a beach with shalow water and sand just a few min walk away. By car, there there are great places to visit around (Soline, Zavala, Pakleni otoci - Jerolim...).
The food was great, rooms are ok, lacking aircondition in hot and humid days. Its a great stay if you are not over-expecting.

Nice hotel situated in a good place - walk down hill to the town of Jelsa, there is also a small sandy beach at the foot of the hill. Really enjoyed the break here, would definitely go back. Visited Hvar town one day which was nice and worth a visit . Restaurants in the town all really helpful and excellent food - Italian popular here.

We last stayed at this hotel 29 years ago in 1981 when it was the Hotel Mina. To our delight we found that not only had the hotel maintained the same character after so many years but incredibly our waiter from 1981, Dragan, was still at the hotel, although these days he works at the Pool Bar.
There were obviously changes, back in 1981 it was waiter service in the restaurant, now it is buffet style. However the standard of the food has improved tremendously and we were impressed with the variety of choice.
The hotel provides entertainment most nights, this is fine when it is outside on the terrace, but on nights it is inside unfortunately the bar really lacks any ambience.
All the hotel staff were very friendly and always found the time to talk.
As with the hotel, Jelsa has not altered and still retains an olde world charm.
The only disappointment was that the FKK boats no longer operate to Zeveco Island.
We took a day trip from Jelsa Harbour to Bol on the island of Brac and were fortunate enough to encounter a pod of 12 dolphins on the way over and would recommend this trip.
We booked our holiday through Balkan Travel and would do so again as their representatives at Split Airport and en route to the Hotel had everything well organised, from arranging a late meal in the overnight hotel in Split, (the flight arrives too late to catch the last ferry), having the ferry tickets ready and waiting, to the minibus at Starigrad port.
After so many years we wondered if we would be disappointed but in fact we thoroughly enjoyed our vacation.