Valamar Club Tamaris Hotel in Porec

Review of our stay as a couple at Valamar Tamaris hotel mid september 2025.

The hotel looks nice and the complex is situated in a beautiful green environment with lots of trees and nice flowers. The hotel has 2 pools: 1 activitypool focusing on children and 1 relaxpool focusing on people who love a more quite surrounding. During the first days of our stay there were many families with small children. It was a bit overwhelming in the beginning, but we managed to find the more quiet spots and times in the restaurant, so it was acceptable. We stayed mainly at the relaxpool. The hotel is very family-oriented. Dogs are also welcome, they didn't bother us at all.

All-inclusive concept: the concept was unclear to us in the beginning, so a little explanation. There is a breakfast (7-10), lunch (12-14), snack (15-17) and dinner (18.30-20.30). During these moments and in between you can get free drinks in the restaurant, lobby, taverna or poolbar. Local drinks are free of charge which include softdrinks, beer, wine and some cocktails. For example: a "jeger" is included but if you want an original Jägermeister you have to pay. You can check the beverages-book @ the bar. All drinks with * are included. We never made use of the snacktime, so we don't know what is served at that moment. The breakfast was very complete. Fruit, joghurt, bread, eggs, pancakes etcetera. The lunch was a variation of cold and warm foods with some desserts Also very complete. The dinner also had enough to choose from, but we found the meat and potato products a little oily/fat). But it is probably local-style. When waiting your turn in line to get some food at the counter, mind the hungry fellow tourists who act like zombies with their focus solely on a specific product. Unbelievable how impatient people can get when they are "on the hunt" 😉

Room: the room in the resort was ok. It was clean, but could be a little more modern. Lamp-shades and curtains definately needed an upgrade. Beds were ok too. We had a balcony but the view was really bad. We looked against the roof of the restaurant, full of cigarette-butts from the rooms on upper stores. We think it's the worst room you could get, so hopefully you'll get a better one. Rooms have airco and a small refridgerator. Wifi is good. Cleaning regularly.

Staff: cleaning-ladies (no offence, but we only saw ladies) were very polite and friendly. Felt like they are instructed to greet everybody, but that's better than being ignored. Staff at reception and bar was ok, but hard to make a deeper connection. Staff in restaurant works hard to prepare the table for new visitors. On my birthday found a bottle of wine in our room with a card from the hotel, that was a nice and thoughtful surprise!

Entertainment: during out stay only 3 times live-music. That could have been more. Maybe because we were late in the season. For children there's a kids club, they seem pretty active. After dinner, there's a shortage of sitting possibilities on the terrace or in the lobby. So if you dinner late, chances are you don't get a seat without you having to hustle for some chairs.

Facilities: the sunbeds at the pools are included. If you would like to rent a sunbed or umbrella at the beach they cost 9 euro each a day. Too bad they weren't in the all inclusive concept, because 27 euro a day for 2 beds and an umbrella is pricey for a whole week. Towel on the shore is allowed though. There is a sauna with steamcabin and a jacuzzi, some people go naked some go with swimsuit, not sure if there are rules. During the day there's a towelservice where you can swap your towelcard or used one for a fresh towel.

Overall: We enjoyed our stay very much and are very positive in general. The location is beautiful and the pools are great. Nice cities nearby: Poreç and Rovinj. The thing we disliked is that there are no designated smoking area's outside. There were a lot of smoking people. As non-smokers you are forced to sit or walk through clouds of smoke at the pool or on the terrace outside the lobby.

Lots to do and fantastic food/drink. Kids club is adequate and there are other kid activities in the evening. Surprised that everything else costs extra. The inflatable on water, sunbeds/umbrellas, paddle boards, etc. That being said, it had a hefty price tag. Dogs are 30€/nt each and if you get a villa, there is a substantial stroll in the weather.

This is a heaven for kids: animation team is doing their best to make sure kids are entertained and parents are having the best vacation possible. In general, service is great: at the lobby, lobby bar, restaurant, cleaning team (rooms ave very tidy). The down side is the long line up in the restaurant, the AC that didn’t work 6/7 nights, the cocktail menu is narrow and staff strictly had to stick to it. Overall, we had a good time thanks to staff who took care of us.

We had a very pleasant stay at this hotel. The rooms were clean and well-equipped, and the location is ideal – quiet but still central. Breakfast was varied and of good quality!!

A special thanks goes to Dora, who always greeted us with a smile. She was not only incredibly friendly but also consistently helpful – truly a great asset to the hotel team.

We will definitely come back!

A beautiful, comfortable hotel with excellent services in a wonderful location. The coast is rocky, stony, sandy, everyone can find their favorite. A varied menu of delicious, tasty dishes. The staff was polite and helpful, the cleanliness was fine. Parking is easy in the huge free car park. WIFI was fine. Enjoyable all inclusive, although there could be more local drinks. We will return if possible.

We stayed at the Valamar Tamaris Resort all-inclusive hotel. Staff is friendly and helpful. Maro Club was a great place for the kids and to earn some points and get some presents. Gabrijel, Ivona and Patricija. Food was deilcious and well organized. Spacious room we had and no noise at all. We would be happy to go back again to a Valamar location.

Very helpful reservation team, they provided us with the exact room wanted, excellent food, great children program, unfortunately rooms were not cleaned well, not vacuumed at all, 2 old filthy carpets on the floor.

Everything was perfect. Thank you very much. :-)

My family of 5 enjoyed the resort. My kids loved the pool and the buffet.
The air-conditioned could be better.
The elevator was broken after 4 days out of our 6 days stay. That made a little harder with a baby stroller.