Hotel Palata Venezia

This hotel’s best feature by far is its stunning location, but that does little to compensate for everything else. We had. 2 bed apartment that felt quite dated. The only aircon unit was in the living area, the furthest it could be from the bedrooms and given it was nearly 40c, this felt like a bad design. While we didn't plan to self-cater, it would have been quite tricky given that the kitchen contained no plates, nothing to cook with, just a handful of cutlery. The bathroom was small and also felt dated. The breakfast was really poor. The hot choices were pretty poor quality (watery scrambled eggs, etc.) while the cereals consisted of 3 ultra-processed chocolate sugary choices, and the museli was a bowl of dry, uncooked oats with a couple of raisins in it - yuck! There was fruit but nothing looked fresh. The worst thing by far was the noise. The hotel is positioned above the nightclubs, which meant that on both nights, it was impossible to sleep until the music stopped at 1am. Our room was probably in the worst possible location, being right on the edge, but there was no escaping how loud it was. I asked reception for earplugs, but they didn't have any. If we hadn't been at the end of our holiday, we would have left after 1 night and gone elsewhere. We didn't venture to the beach because honestly, it just looked awful! Literally, every inch of sand was covered by a parasol or lounger, this is not our idea of a nice beach. Thankfully, the hotel's pool, although small, never got that busy, so after exploring the old town, which, to be honest, didn't take long at all, we just relaxed by the pool. The only good thing was the staff. Everyone, apart from the lady who checked us in and didn’t show us where the pool was, was really friendly and helpful. The transport up the hill with our luggage on the golf buggy was fun and in the heat, a saviour!

Food is quite honestly a disaster most of the times.. ordered food once, pasta was tasteless and oily and risotto plain and so basic.
No parking, so you must pay for one nearby (if you find a spot), quite expensive if you stay for a long period there..
Rooms were... ok I guess, luckily we had 2 bathrooms because one of them was useless. Leaking smelly water from the celing every time someone upstairs was showering!
Local TV channel crew was basicaly living there, recording and live streaming every day, so you couldn't use pool or sit at specific tables in the restaurants because of that... so bad! once, we (whole family of 4) were literally asked to leave the pool for half an hour so they can live stream... c'mon!!!!

Couple of positive things too: view, free parasol at the nearby beach, pool...