Best place for Holidays in Zadar, Croatia. Luxury 4 star hotel located only 80m from the beach, luxury part of City. Zadar Center-2km, Airport of Zadar - 14km. Hotel President with 27 luxury rooms, is a magnificent hotel that creates a magic atmosphere of beauty, quiet, and refinement. The rooms have been eleganty decorated with exquisite taste, delivering to the host a feeling of class and luxury. The village is nice and quiet, restaurants are only 100m from the hotel.
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HOTEL STYLE
Quaint
Mid-range
Languages Spoken
English, Croatian, German, Italian
Location
Ulica Vladana Desnice 16, Zadar 23000 Croatia
Hotel President
55 reviews
Getting there
Somewhat walkable
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As a 5 star rating, it should be excellent. Nice dining room. breakfast great. Rooms small for the money. however, prices can be negotiated down depending on circumstances. They did recommend us to see the "ORGAN by the Ocean", interesting site in Zadar near the OLD TOWN. Tourists on a budget should search for Pensions.
A summary of our 12 nite trip from Zagreb to Dubrovnik. Rented a van. Our plan was to drive the coast and stay in places we liked with no timetable. Our only plan was to spend the last 3 nites near Dubrovnik. We stayed 2 nites in Opatija, 2 nites in BELI on the Island of Cres. (stayed in Pension Apartments). Arrived in Zadar late, no time to search for pension, stayed 1 nite. Trogir 1 nite in a nice reasonable pension (30E), then on to Makarska Riveria Hotels for 3 nites. Then drove to Dubrovnik with a stop in Medugorje. BOSNIA. Stayed 3 nites at the Albatoss Hotel in Cavtat. (will review hotels later). Cavtat is a great place to stay when visiting Dubrovnik. Water Taxis are the way to go. Stayed in Hotels 7 nites, Pensions 5 nites. (ALL without Reservations). Trip went very well, the Croatin Coast is beautiful. Highly Recommended. Flew back to Zagreb and returned to Chicago.
Exception: we had resevations in Opatija the first 2 nites, I have learned that flying to Europe you need a definite place to recoup in case of delays etc. Also, always stay near the departing airport the last nite. Cavtat was perfect.
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Date of stay: May 2005
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We had a little troubke finding the hotel and when we arrived they had lost our booking even though I had an email confirmation from them. It did not matter as they had plenty of rooms available. The room was comfortable. We had an excellent dinner in the restaurant that night. It suited us for a one night stay passing through enroute to Slovenia but we would not stay longer than that.
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Date of stay: May 2006
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Stayed there for one week, our impression is the hotel needs some improvements. The room are clean, the bed extremely comfortable and clean, wi-fi good and the service an the desk very good, the staff was exceptional, friendly. But the breakfast was poor... We were in two ** stars hotel and the breakfast was much better. No espresso machine, no toaster.
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Date of stay: August 2015
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Trip type: Travelled with family
Room Tip:Quieter room.
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Do not under any circumstances consider staying at this hotel. The outright 'cheek' of the management of this hotel to brand itself as 4 Star and charge €200 a night to stay here is nothing short of immoral.
We spend 16 days travelling around Croatia and had a wonderful experience. We were on a varied budget, opting for reasonable self-catering / apartment accommodation in some places while treating ourselves to little more luxury elsewhere. All in all, we were relatively happy with our accommodation choices until of course we arrived at the Hotel President in Zadar.
We hadn't pre-booked anything. We decided we would 'treat' ourselves for this last stop on our destination and go for this ‘luxurious 4 star accommodation’ Hotel President. Well…we were in for a shock. When we arrived, the first thing we noticed was the very shabby entrance. The canopy was filthy and was badly ripped and thorn. But to be honest, that doesn't bother me so much...but it certainly isn't something you'd expect to see from a 4 * hotel. When we arrived into the lobby, everything including decor and design was so average and dated. I could imagine that perhaps 15 years ago or so this hotel would have stood up a lot better. But it now has the appearance of an old run down cheap hotel. As per the previous person’s comment, if they were charging €60 a room, I wouldn't be writing this review. But I think is the most annoying thing about this hotel is the way it advertises itself and charges prices that don’t ever remotely reflect the service and value you would expect. It boasts all this nonsense like the 'aperitif bar' etc, whereas the reality is simply a shabby old room with a couple of old chairs. At most there is one or two staff that runs the hotel, acting as receptionist, bar man, porter all in one. It would nearly remind you of a Faulty Towers type operation.
Furthermore, in a massive contradiction to how the hotel attempts to present itself, we experience what only appeared to be rogue and dodgy dealings. Like the other reviews we got the whole only two rooms left, but the hotel was like a ghost town…not one other person was with us in the restaurant for breakfast. We were also offered the 8% discount for paying by cash…which is all very ‘Dell-boy’ like. I don’t mind that kind of offer from a local who is offering a room for the night, but not from a hotel which boasts such grandeur. And when we initially arrived, we had the choice of a Queen or King room. We chose the Queen but by no means did we get the ‘Queen’. I’d say even if we chose ‘King’, we’d still end up in the same room.
Finally, to add insult to injury we put ourselves through the ‘breakfast’ ordeal. An absolute shambles. Toast was like cardboard. The croissants were at least 3 days stale. We got our white coffee served in a milk jug….but I think they must off milked the local stray cats, because I have never tasted such vile stuff in all my life.
I think it was this experience that annoyed us the most. For a hotel to present itself as 4 * and to boast its grandeur as it does (e.g. look at the website) and then to offer us such crap for breakfast…really annoyed us.
I’ve said enough. All I can say is do not stay at this hotel under any circumstances. This place needs to be honest and either revert to being cheap hotel option and cut its prices dramatically or else undergo a huge renovation and management change to bring it up to the standard reflective of the prices it charges.
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Date of stay: August 2008
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Trip type: Travelled as a couple
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Really beautiful hotel orginaly decorated with stylish and modern furniture. Here you really feel like a v.i.p :) Rooms are spacious clean and very comfortable , staff is nice and helpful. A great value for money ! Exellent breakfast! I recomment it.
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Date of stay: April 2014Trip type: Travelled on business
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It is not just a hotel! Feel there like at home! Perfect, clean and luxury rooms! Good food and vine! More than great staff! Close to the see and city centre. The best place for stay in Zadar! I'll be back for sure!
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Date of stay: March 2015Trip type: Travelled on business
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Stayed in hotel during bussines trip .really exellent service , great breakfast.hotel is located in quiet area some 150 m from the sea and i needed 10 minutes to the city center. Rooms are big and confortmable with balcony..i recomend it!!
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Date of stay: January 2015Trip type: Travelled on business
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Problem on my stay not previously experienced by reviewers -- credit card machine is broken and I had to pay in cash. Desk clerk at check-in said it had not been working "for a long time". Next morning desk clerk said repairman was coming that afternoon.
He didn't show up so I had to make two trips to ATM to get enough cash. This is the first hotel I have ever stayed in where if machine was broken they couldn't hand process the charge.
I would think anywhere in the world you can get a credit card machine repaired if you really wanted it. . .. could this be a way to avoid the small charges for using credit card.
Previous reviewers wrote wifi did not work above first floor. I was on second floor and no signal. I could walk down the steps to the first floor to send and receive or go tot he lobby. And Desk Clerk seemed surprised it didn't work on second floor.. he should read Trip Advisor.
One other problem.. hotel made me a reservation for dinner in Zadar and marked restaurant on the map. Got there and it was a teenage disco. . .. I didn't have address and no one knew the location. ... Had to walk back to car to get guidebook. . . then I was able to locate.
Breakfast was okay and staff tried to be helpful even if they didn't succeed.
One other note. .. .other readers seem to be catching on. . first night I was the only guest. .. and second night I believe there were two other rooms occupied.
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Date of stay: April 2008
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Trip type: Travelled solo
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The hotel is inconveniently located, outrageously overpriced and has a indifferent and/or hostile staff that seem to feel they're representing a Ritz, not a very pretentious Croatian B & B. We requested a sea-view room, but didn't receive one even though the hotel was empty. They encouraged us to have dinner in the hotel restaurant, and then charged us over $100 for a bottle of mediocre Croatian wine and several more $100s for the dinner which was marginal at best, and they wouldn't adjust the price when we complained. The over-the-top bordello decor looks like something from a bad movie. This is by far the most egregious example of a hotel ripping off its guests that I have ever experienced.
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Date of stay: May 2007
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Trip type: Travelled as a couple
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We booked this hotel through Agoda for wednesdsy 7th of August. Michael received confirmation of booking by email from the Hotel. when we arrived at the Hotel early afternoon the receptionist asked for our passports and then we were told that the hotel was booked. she told us she gave the room to guests that wanted to stay another night! even though we had a booking. This is absolutely ridiculous and totally unacceptable.It is bad for business they got on to the manager and still no joy. In fairness the receptionist was okay as she had been off . we booked an apartment but it was just the total inconvenience of it all and the unfairness. we were not treated fairly. we called Lydia the manager the next day directly and we were tod that she had emailed agoda and she was to send us a copy of the email, which she never did! kept fobbing us off and her manner was not nice either . now have to wait a long time for the money back , which ironically was taken straight away after the booking....interesting. ! we were offered a night the end of august/sept. verbally. great.... considering going back home to work the next day. overall disappointing and really bad for business.
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Date of stay: August 2019
Room Tip:get one first !!!!
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There are more places to choose from in the Zadar area.
ALSO KNOWN AS
president hotel zadar
LOCATION
CroatiaDalmatiaZadar CountyZadar
NUMBER OF ROOMS
20
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Are there any historical sites close to Hotel President?
Many travellers enjoy visiting Church of St. Donat (2.0 km), Kneževa Palača Zadar / Rector´s Palace Zadar (2.4 km), and Fort Saint Michael / Tvrđava Sveti Mihovil (7.9 km).
