Hotel Palas Reviews

Arrived at 10pm to find that they had double booked our room but had found us accomodation at The Oliva Villa apartments opposite the hotel, this turned out to be what i can only describe as clean but very tatty with doors hanging off,broken toilet seat and when you sat on the bed you bottomed out, we eventually moved into hotel Palas after 2 nights here,

When we first got to our new room the room had not been cleaned from the previous occupant so we just left our cases ther e and went to the beach it had been cleaned when we come back,The room was ok with a fridge, sheets changed every 2 days but the room was not cleaned properly every day, the bath was only cleaned once a week.
The restuarant does not have a smoking or non smoking area so if you are a none smoker you could find yourself sitting next to one. The food was awfull nearly always luke warm and rearly hot, waiters seen handling food with bare hands and you had to check the butter in case it was moldy which happened to me on 3 consecutive mornings we both ended up with bad stomach complaints as well many others.
On both the Tuesdays we were there the water is turned off from the early hours am to mid morning.

We were at the front of the hotel with a sea view but every morning a bar which was 50 mters from the front of the hotel on the beach would turn his music on at between 6-6.30am loudly and this would go on till late into the night.

The pool had cracked tiles and green algea growing on the bottom and is not very child friendly it starts at 1.50 meters and at the end of the day the terrace around the pool was hosed down with the water going into the pool.

The beach was stoney and a very coarse sand and very dirty it was like sunbathing in an ashtray, you could hire sunbeds and umbrellas for 2 euros each. the beach would get very busy and very noisey approximately every 20 mins or so a taxi boat would come with its music blearing out very loud you could catch these taxi boats right off the beach and go to any of the other of the beaches along the coast.

Petrovac has a small prominade along the front which can be very busy at night with lots of bars and stalls selling seaside tat, this is the only holiday we have brought half our money back as there is nothing to spend your money on.

Went on 3 tours the Skardar lake 38.00 euros pp this was a lovely trip and well worth the money, The fish picnic by boat 35.00 euros pp and the Montenegro tour by bus for 30.euros pp this was a great tour the mountain scenery was great the only thing that spoilt for me was when we passed a group of school children they waved at us first then proceded to spit at the bus and flytipping is a huge problem in the mountains,but you will see some fantastic sights like The bay of Kotor from high up in the mountains.

Montenegro is a very poor country and has a long way to go before it catches up, the staff at Hotel Palas were not vey helpfull and we had no apology for double booking our room and just about every other english holiday client that arrived on the 5/9/04, they had booked in a seminar ( we booked in January) and it was these poeple that took our rooms, apparently according to our rep Hotel Palas has done this before