Laguna Bellevue

We loved this place. Went as a family with two 15 year old boys. Lovely spacious 2 bedroom appartment. Wardrobe in each bedroom and one in the lounge. Great lounge area with t.v on the wall. Well equipped kitchen with hob, microwave, toastie maker and coffee machine. No kettle but everything you'd need for basic cooking. Lovely balcony and large airer on there. We had a great sea view but from the kitchen window. Beds are super comfy and my son said best bed he's ever slept in! Safe can be rented 3 euros a day but air-conditioning is free and we had a unit in each room. Worked ok. Bathroom tiny but good shower and you get loads of towells and loo rolls. No cleaning which we knew but a broom in room and I took anti back wipes. Wash up liquid in there and tea towels and hand wash. We were on the middle of the main beach stairs. Just steps away from a great pool area and mini market. Shop is small but ok for basics and some baked goods. Pool area is fab. Some beds better than others but didn't have a problem getting beds but the later it gets less choice! My teens loved the pool and even enjoyed the aqua aerobics class. You get a pool card when you check in and swap to get pool towells so no need to pack! We had an early flight so knew our room would not be ready when we arrived so packed pool stuff to easily access so we could get the holiday started. Antonia's is the restaurant attached to the pool. Menu is good but we didn't eat at night only lunch. Burgers and salads were nice and ok price. Only small negative is no toasties and things like that. Beer was perfect whilst watching the teens in the pool! Access to the Plava laguna beach is down alot of steps. Great sunset views though and right by aqua inflatables which the boys liked. TAKE water shoes. Can buy in resort but it's very rocky and you mostly access the sea from a platform. Use the ladders not steps as slippy! Lots of fish so snorkeling is great! Also just to the left of the beach you reach a much bigger super market and the train stop. Be aware though the train gets busy at peak times. The walk into Porec will take half and hour but well lit and flat, you go past bars, restaurants and park and sports areas plus more beaches. We preferred our small one though! Porec is a stunning resort. Spottless clean with a fab harbour. We also enjoyed the fair and time in the byzantine church. The tower cocktail bar was quirky but pricey as you'd expect. Our favourite restaurants were Niki's, Marconi which has a lovely Garden and happy hour lunch. Also Realto terrace overlooking the sea and Sirena terrace over a square with live music. Kids really enjoyed the cotton club which had a varied menu. We enjoyed our historical trip round Istria booked with get your guide and the visit to Pula amphitheatre is a must. Also included Rovinj. Sampei boat trip snorkeling and lim fjord views was amazing. Overall we had a fantastic holiday booked with Jet 2 and would recommend this accommodation for active families.

We loved this place, its just superb - yes basic in terms of the accommodation but honestly for the cost of what we paid for our Jet2 holiday I thought the value for money was brilliant. ACCOMMODATION: All I want as family of 4 (2 teens included) is CLEAN accommodation - yep perfectly clean and fresh towels came every day and, more than enough towels for us all and bedsheets on one of the days. The apartment (e had a 2 bedroom apartment with sofa bed in the sitting room) was amongst the pine and olive trees, nice and quiet but enough hustle and bustle about the place for it to be interesting to sit out with a cold beer and enjoy the setting. The apartment itself is a little small but actually for us we didn't really care about that, we like to be out exploring more than sitting inside for a long time .The bathroom is tiny weeny and i had to be careful not to catch my toes on the door as its so close to the shower cubicle but again we all got on fine in there. The aircon - works great and had the best nights sleep as it was so cool and dark in the room. it was perfectly fine for us to enjoy breakfast on the balcony, or for the teens to flop about the place before heading out or after a bunch of time in the pool. POOL : The pool is brilliant, nice and fresh, clean tidy, well looked after - kids loved it and it was a great relaxed family atmosphere. I didn't seen any mold or missing tiles, its was perfectly lovely. There is a big pool and little paddling pool. When you arrive you get a towel card so you get nice fresh towels by the pool which was great! ONSITE RESTAURANT: The restaurant by the pool is great - the chap that served us our drinks and food each time we popped in was SO friendly and smiley and happy and made us so welcome. The food was spot on, served nicely and we all enjoyed capri salad, pizza and icecream together. Breakfast there was great and prices were fine for us, very reasonable. LOCATION: There are a lot of steps to the apartments - yes there are steps but its on a bit of a hill so how else do you expect to get up and down - it wasn't an issue for us at all and my son loves to moan about stuff like that but never said a peep as he was having a nice holiday. We found the location great and it is literally right next to the sea! POREC: - so for us with a 15 year old and 13 year old they were happy to stroll along the flat coast path to Porec most days and walk back on an evening - it was quite exciting for them to see the little bars on the coast. It takes about 40 mins just strolling not rushing and is mostly the in the shade. The land train uses the same path - no probs with that at all. Porec is great, loads of hustle and bustle, markets all along the harbour, loads of cafes and little restaurants and heaps of shops with touristy stuff in. Night time felt really safe and the waiters trying to get your custom are polite and not intrusive so its all very family friendly and relaxed and welcoming. TRAIN TO POREC: The land train is pretty cool, it stops outside the shop at the bottom of the hill and is inexpensive and quite nice if you want to get to Porec and it feels too hot to walk. Takes about 20 mins to chug along the same route that you can walk. The staff were polite and each morning they were all out and about tidying the grounds, watering plants and doing general maintenance. Will definitely come back. Thank you.

Thank you for animation team. Especially for Dušan, Fanni and Ion. We really enjoyed all program, minidisco… Animators were approachable understanding, and friendly. They made us feel very welcome, and we felt really comfortable at the kids club

We had a great time in a beautiful, pacefull location. I recommend for the family trips.If you want more parties go to the city center. Also I would like to thank Fanni, who made my daughter week unforgettable. The kids club was quiet small, but full of warmth and kidness. My girl very liked the facepainting and mini disco. Every evening the children enjoyed the party and they really waiting for pepi. I liked the pool, it was clear and organized and every morning we had aqua fit. So much fun and after the hard exercise, my shoulders were sore the next day:)) The resort is beutiful, relaxing and very enjoyable. The only small bad thing was the bathroom is small. I already wanted to book our holiday for next year here! Thank you for the kind servise and we hope the next year the same animation team will be back.

Just back from a week in these lovely apartments we had a one bedroom apartment with two bathrooms and two balconies a sitting area with table and chairs and a well equipped kitchenette .The views were lovely we could just see the sea from ours 222 and surrounding woodland .There is a restaurant on site and a shop which opens 7am - 2.30 pm needed to be open longer as there isnt another unless you do the 20 minute walk into Porec to the Spar. We were half board plus so our meals were catered for and we were so glad we had a ten minute walk to the Mediteran hotel where we ate breakfast and evening meal food was so much more than we expected beef , pork , chicken ,lamb , turkey and fish lots of veg ,salad soup cake icecream etc,Unlimited wine ,beer or soft drinks during meal time real value for money .All in all we loved it here . Only two minuses one the steps to the apartments 120 to ours from the seafront better to keep to the road when going up secondly there is a little train in to Porec but no buses the bus station in Porec only had buses running infrequently ,