Hotel Oceanic in Rimini

I’d give this hotel 0 stars if I could.

As an Italian living abroad who travels extensively, it saddens me that my worst hotel experience ever happened in my home country, at Oceanic.

This is supposed to be a family hotel, yet they wouldn’t allow us to sit together at meals. They assigned one table per room. We had four rooms under a single reservation, and since we were there to spend time together as a family, it was incredibly frustrating to be split up.

I simply moved one table so we could all sit together and even offered to put it back after every meal, but they refused. This rule was never written anywhere, nor was it mentioned to us before or during check-in. Ironically, the staff themselves were allowed to move tables around and sit together.

At lunch on the second day, after they once again refused to let us join the tables, we complained. The owner and the “chef” stormed out of the kitchen, yelling at us in front of the entire dining room. He shouted at my parents that if we weren’t happy, we should check out. Thankfully, we accepted his offer.

The hotel itself is very dated, and the rooms are tiny. The shower is so small that I could barely get in sideways, and I’m a very lean person. On top of that, you can hear trains passing on the tracks next door throughout the day and night.

As for the food, the hotel offers a buffet for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. The quality was simply appalling. Not only was the cooking poor, but the ingredients themselves were of an incredibly low standard. I couldn’t bring myself to eat most of it and ended up choosing a salad instead. It was disgusting. The tomatoes—almost green—smelled like garbage from a metre away, and the lettuce was nearly rotten. This wasn’t a one-off; it was the same from the day we arrived until the day we left.

My brother, the kids, and I stopped eating at the hotel after the first day. We only returned to the dining room to spend time with the rest of our family, but the food was still just as bad. The rest of our family ended up having stomach problems barely eating something just not to starve.

We were genuinely relieved to leave.

To be fair, they did refund us for the unused portion of our stay, and the staff were polite and friendly throughout. Unfortunately, the owners (the “chef” and his wife) were extremely rude, grumpy, and unfair.

We ended up finding another hotel that was cheaper and in a completely different league in terms of food, service, and room quality.

My advice is simple: if you don’t want to ruin your holiday—or your stomach—stay as far away from Oceanic as possible.

There is a nice welcome at the reception, but the bald man inside the restaurant is a very disrespectful devil :: Finally, know that when someone comes to this hotel, he is not coming for free. Respect your customers ::

Worst work experience ever. Starting from the owner Maurizio who, in addition to mistreating employees, insulting them and making them feel uncomfortable, did nothing else towards them. Yells, insults and stuff like that every day (it is no coincidence that she changes employees every week) Even the wife, who tries to be so kind and nice, indulges her husband. The accommodation looks like a 50s bunker located underground. In short, I would spend hours writing all the defects that this hotel and the two "managers" have. I highly recommend not to fall for this SICK, and stay miles away from this place.