Atlantida Boutique Hotel

The facilities and decor were very good. We enjoyed having the wellness Center included in our rate.

This is the only hotel that has made me pay extra to charge up my electric car. It could so easily include it in the hefty room rate!

Cleanliness and friendly staff

Everything was fine

Location, staff, nature all around! Beautiful!!

On arrival, the Hotel Atlantida presents as a high-end hotel, with an impressive entrance, foyer and reception area filled with quirky colourful armchairs. The reception staff on each occasion were polite and helpful and talked us through the access to the parking (€10 per night in the hotel garage), the pool area (conveniently on the same floor as our room which proved very handy) and issuing us with vouchers for welcome drinks from the bar. Our room was very nice indeed - spacious, well-equipped, with robes, slippers and towels all provided for use in the pool area. There was also a minibar (which we didn't use). The bathroom was very nice - huge bath, separate shower and very spacious. All very clean and nicely presented. The room had its own balcony overlooking the front of the hotel with plenty of room for two to sit out on. The swimming pool complex is very nice indeed, with a 20/25 metre pool, jacuzzi, Finnish sauna (Americans beware - no costumes worn here, but you can protect your modesty with a towel if you must) and plenty of recliners indoors and out. We had dinner and breakfast in the restaurant and, whilst the food was good and plentiful, the set-up of the service, which is partly self-service, felt less hotel and more cruise ship. However, we left the table on both occasions feeling well fed and having enjoyed our meals. The bread was especially nice...! Rogaška Slatina is very much a spa/resort town, and feels as much. Lots of big hotels, an interesting history of wellness/spa activities and an interesting and very well-presented little museum directly across from the hotel (with a discount voucher available from reception).

Whilst the hotel describes itself as a 'boutique' hotel, I think there may be a difference in interpretation here. My understanding is that a boutique hotel tends to be small, quirky, with rooms uniquely furnished to a high-end design standard. Whilst very attractive in a corporate sort of way, Hotel Atlantida is not a boutique hotel in the true sense of that description, but a fairly shiny and slightly generic four-star hotel, which was a little disappointing, having expected otherwise. In terms of the restaurant, when we arrived for dinner there was no-one to show us to a table which felt initially confusing in a hotel where it seemed as though that should be the standard. In the end I asked a waiter and was told to pick a table and sit where we wanted, but it felt like they were missing an important touch of welcome. Maybe it's a cultural thing... Similarly, since the starters and desserts are self-service, buffet style, the waiter's task is to take orders for the main and for drinks only. The net effect of all of this was that it felt like we were on a cruise ship rather than in a nicely appointed hotel restaurant. It wasn't always easy to catch a waiter's eye when we did need something - some of them seemed particularly well-skilled in that well-known school of eye-avoidance...! As I said above, the food itself was nice, although once we had picked up the cruise ship vibe it was hard to shake it off. It was the lack of personal touch in the restaurant that made the difference between what could have been a really nice standard of hotel and something that felt just a little impersonal.