Amfora Hvar Grand Beach Resort, Hvar, Hvar, Croatia

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Without doubt, Amfora is the most exciting new resort in the Adriatic.  Think hot-off-the-press style combined with ultimate luxury and you'll be (almost) getting there.  For business or pleasure, the hotel has anticipated your every need.  Whether you choose a treatment in one of the stone cabanas at the 1930's Bonj 'les bains' (which are only a step or two away) or the hotel's in-house dining and bathing options you'll be spoilt for choice.

As you can imagine, seafood features highly on the gastronomic scale here in this delightful spot where sea and resort dance in perfect harmony.  The hotels showcase restaurant, Windows on Hvar holds court on Amfora's fourth floor offering a panoramic view of the pool deck, Bonj, the bay and the Paklinski Islands.   Equally grand, but with a style of its very own, there's Maestral Yacht Deck restaurant: which sits right by the bay and takes its name from the regions delightfully pleasant westerly breeze.  If you're looking for more low-key dining, try Cascades restaurant, right next to the new pool area.  Finally, at Splash beach bar and terrace tucked in a shady grove overlooking the bay, you'll find a veritable host of drinks and music.

In-room, whether you plump for a sea or park view, we're talking clean, warm, textural features with only one objective:  to compliment and to enhance nature.  Think palettes of earthy tones combined with marine-influenced blues and lilacs and you'll get the picture.  Light and airy are the words that come to mind, irrespective of whether your accommodation is a simple double or a significant suite. 

The resort pool is an elegant array of cascading waterfalls and Mediterranean gardens.  It's this new addition which has made this resort the jewel in the local crown.  The hotel spa, Sensori, the only member of the Leading Spas of the world in Croatia, offers Carita facials, treatments, hydrotherapy, Yogahvar, a nail salon and much more.  Or, only two minutes from the resort, at Sensori Ô at Bonj les bains you can enjoy a massage without leaving the comfort of the beach, in one of  their specially constructed cabanas.