Hotel Rivijera

On the plus side the staff were great, but after that it’s not a 4 star by any stretch of the imagination. Hotel is very dated. The pool was not clean, and I did not see anyone use it . The gardens are full of large trees which make it dark and the sap makes the chairs and tables sticky. It also attracts lots of bitey flies and we got really bitten every day. The hotel is overlooked by two unfinished hotels , which is awful. There was a tureen collecting water from a pipe in the dining room. The breakfast is okay, but the dinners were awful. The food was always cold, nothing choice and they don’t even serve drinks with dinner, only a glass of water when you ask for it. The view from our room was a pile of rubbish!

The only good thing about this holiday was the location—it made it easy to escape this disastrous hotel. Other than that, Petrovac itself is amazing. Unfortunately, the hotel experience was a nightmare. The staff were unprofessional, the owner was rude and dismissive, and our room was dirty and reeked of cigarettes. Not to mention, we found cigarette ashes on the balcony floor, and the plug sockets were hanging on by a thread of cables, making the place feel more like a safety hazard than a 4-star hotel. The food was a complete disaster—every meal felt more like a punishment than nourishment. Imagine stale bread, vegetables so sad even a rabbit would turn them down, and dry old meat that had seen better days. NOTHING WAS FRESH; everything was drowned in vinegar as if that could magically keep it edible. Each meal was a challenge, not to mention a constant source of dread.My daughter had to discreetly spit out bites because it was that bad. We asked for water, and they had the nerve to charge us 4 Euros! We flat-out refused to pay since we had supposedly paid for the "full board experience"—whatever that means in this place. The so-called "garden view" was just a view of another hotel with overgrown trees, old sunbeds and a view of a very tall abandoned building. The "private beach" advertised was non-existent—we had to pay £25 just to sit by a nearby beach with a sunbed. If you're visiting Petrovac, my advice is to enjoy the beautiful location but stay far away from this hotel.

Do not go this hotel if you have just a little bit of standard and cleanliness in you. The pictures of the hotel is deceptive. It’s a very old hotel that is not maintained well at all. The pool was a very sad sight and it feels like if you ever get in it, you could contact skin infection. The reception area/lobby was nice enough but that’s where it ends. Once you step into the elevator, you fear for your life as it doesn’t seem solid. Getting into our room (which was supposed to be an upgrade), I would have rather stayed back in my house. Very dirty. We saw a bug on our bed. A killed bug on the wall. More killed bugs around the room. Toilet looked like something from the 1920s and wasn’t clean. We checked out 2 hours after checking in and booked another hotel in Budva. If it cost me 2k Pound Sterling to book another hotel, I would have (thankfully it didn’t). That’s how bad I couldn’t stay there for even 1 more hour. Really pathetic