Hotel Cesare Augustus

Have just returned from the Italian resort of Lido De Jeselo where we stayed at the hotel Ceasar Augusta,the maid sevice was excellent clean towels every day and always had a nice fresh smell in the room when we first came in, the room itself although small was very well decored but then the hotel had just been refurbished and this was the first week it had been used but thats where the good news ends , the food was plentifull but Im afraid 30 of the guests including my wife & myself was stricken with vomitting & upset stomaches Im a vegetarian so it wasnt just the meat, we told the reception but they said nobody else had complained but we know they had because the other guests told us they had, its not good to lie in that situation so we did not trust them. The seating arrangements at the evening meal could have been awkward because you had to share a table, an at breakfast there were never enough tables laid out. The season had only just started so the resort was pratically empty which was nice,the beach ran for several miles but be carefull of broken glass bottles I saw several and nearly cut my foot on one, this also wascertainly the worst beach I have been to for the infamouse lookie! lookie! traders the season had only just begun so I would hate to go in full season I know this happens all over the world but you would think the local authorities would want to stamp this sort of trading out .

Although my partner and i enjoyed our hol in italy. We was very dissapointed in the Cesare Augustus. We found it was in need of a refurb. Although there was a choice of food on the buffet it was the same every day morning and evening.Patio furniture along with some of the other is looking a bit tired.I would not rate this a 4 star hotel. We have stayed in Harrys and De Annunzio and would go back but not to the Cesare Augustus.Loads of pigeons sit round the corridor windows and there mess is dissgusting and not very healthy.There was supposed to be a cocktail evening and dance night we never saw any of this when we asked the lady on reception we was told the season had finished it wasnt going to happen. But why when the hotel was fully booked. The rooms are very basic dressing table was very similar to the one in Butlins when i stayed there in the 6os exept this one had a fridge hidden at the end.I was dissgusted to find there was a charge to use the sun beds round the pool we have never paid before to use hotels sun beds in Italy or else where .I wouldnt on principal.We also had to go to another hotel for the welcome meeting about a 10 min walk just for the reps to sell you there trips because they didnt tell you much else or how to get around good job we had been before.

We have just returned from a 3 night stay at the Cesare Augustus Hotel in Lido di Jesolo near Venice. (about 9 euros 1way from Treviso Airport on ATVO bus) Our 3 night stay were the last before the hotel closed for the winter season but found the hotel peaceful and perfect for the kind of holiday we were looking for. The weather was perfect - around 30c and the hotel pool and terrace overlooks the promenade which is right on a very lovely LONG beach. Our room had superb ocean views .. and sounds. The hotel is a little tired looking but with a lick of paint etc it would be perfect. And the bathrooms were quite basic but at a location like that - you wouldn't be in your room much! There were no crowds at this time of year which was lovely -often having the beach & shops to ourselves. The food was LOVELY! Dinner buffet was gorgeous - only served from 7-8.30pm but had so much choice. Breakfast is served on the terrace by the pool which exceeded expectations also. Day trips available to Venice (Bus then vaporetto ride vis Punta Sabioni for around 14euros return) and also day trips to Lake Garda and Padoa and other surrounding sights with excursion companies for around 39euros. But to be honest the beach makes you just want to spend your time soaking up the lovely sunshine. Fantastic value for money and a lovely surprise to get a complimentary bottle of champers on one night of our stay. Staff were lovely. All in all, a very enjoyable and relaxing trip which I would recommend to families and people looking for a quiet break in the sun - especially in the quiet time before end of season. I'm sure we'll be going back again.

These reviews helped us pick this hotel, so thought I would add our thoughts Firstly - how to get to the hotel from Venice Marco Polo airport. At the entrance / exit of the airport there is a small ATVO (bus) sales stand. Get your tickets here. €3 each one way. The bus leaves from just outside the airport - number 5, I think. Runs evry half hour and takes 30 mins. It will leave you at the bus station in Lido where we got a taxi to the hotel which cost €10. We stayed in the hotel for 9 nights at the end of August. Great weather. To sit around the pool costs €2.50 for each sun lounger and you get a towel with this also. A step onto the beach and there are free deck chairs. If you want a sun lounger it is €5 each. Beach is very clean and well kept. Great breakfast spread each morning. Dinner at night is also very impressive. It starts at 7 and ends at 8.30. Some other reviews are right - on a busy night (when there's been a change over and its the new guests first night), the carvery can go quickly, but we genrally went in at 7.30 and there was always plenty and a fantastic choice. You pay for your drinks and if you are drinking wine and don't finish the bottle, it will be sitting waiting on you the next night on your table. Also plenty of restaurants in the town, at which we had some very good meals. Rooms are small and a bit dated but had everything you need. Fridge, air conditioning, fresh towels every day. Our bathroom had a shower in the bath. Seen another room which just had a shower in the bathroom running into a hole in the floor - so it must get flooded every time you use it. Venice is very easy to get to (plus a must see). You can go on an organised tour or as we did - make your own way there. We got a bus to the port and from there a boat into Venice, which drops you off beside St Marks square. It also stops first at a small town Lido (where they hold the film festival each year). There ia a timetable up on the notice board in the hotel. Plus ask at reception and they'll help you. You buy the tickets for both bus & boat in the tobaccanists at Piazza Aurro and the bus stop is the street behind this Piazza . €14.50 return for bus & boat each. We booked through Expedia. Averaged at £70 per night for the room with a sea view. Brialliant value considering it is set on the beach and the breakfast and dinner you get. The rooms do not compare to 4star in the UK but would highly recommend the hotel for the money.

booked through thompson and stayed the 1st till 8th sept 2006 hotel was reasonably good apart from having to share a table at dinner and as a mid twenties couple on our first holiday together found this quite unappropriate, we complained to the thomson holiday rep (Daisy) to no avail there were other couples on their own but shbe didnt seem it was important for us to be. apart from the reps the hotel was fine we went to the welcome meeting which focuses only on selling you the day trips and not about what is around and how do get places on your own, the day trip to venice was well worth the money though as was the trip to verona and lake garda, but not much is explained about the trips before you go i.e you only get an hour and half in verona and lake garda and at garda there was the chance of a good cooling swim which no one told us about before we went so we didnt take swimming things. the hotel is clean the pool is clean the service is reasonable and the food good you do have to pay 2.5 euros for a pool side sunbed. if you are planning to go to venice you can buy a ticket from any tabbaconnist which includes bus boat and unlimited bus boat travel round venice and return home for 16.6 euros, we managed to get a private gondola for 2 which went under rialto bridge and lasted for about 35 minutes for 80 euros if you ask around when the gondoliers are stood around on the bridges they are quite reasonable. a really good resort apart from the reps the hotel is really good if the reps concentrated on others things as much as they do selling their trips it would be the best holiday in the world.

A well-positioned hotel right on the beach. Extremely clean and well-maintained, if a little dated decor-wise. Staff were very helpful and the blind in my room (which I accidentally broke) was repaired with a smile within an hour. The room was comfortable and clean, with fresh towels every day. I especially appreciated the fridge in the room. The food in the restaurant was fantastic, with a superb choice of fish, meats, vegetarian - all tastes catered for. Breakfast out on the terrace was a great occasion too. There was no entertainment as such, apart from an enjoyable free cocktail evening once a week, but we sat in the open air bar with drinks at night and socialized with other guests.

Stayed at the Cesare between the 4th and the 11th of August. The Hotel: Clean, staff very friendly, rooms small and basic but clean and bright with a fridge and a telly. Floors in the room are tiled and very slippery if you step out the shower. Small balcony with foldout table and 2 chairs which looked a bit tatty. You cant run a tab, so if you are lying by the pool and order a drink, you need to have the cash on you which is a bit of a pain if you are in your swim costume, advisable to stick a few euros in your beach bag. The only beers available are Nastro Azzuro and Perroni, I preferred the Perroni and it only came in 500ml bottles. The Nastro is on tap. The swimming pool is really cold, the sea is actually warmer to swim in, you get used to it but it takes a good while to acclimatise. The food is excellent, but repetitive, I couldnt resist having a bit of this and a bit of that instead of sticking to a single dish, but soon realised I was repeating my meal each night. We did eat out in local restaurants on 4 occasions. Italians are excellent cooks. When you wander round the resort you will see other hotels that look brighter and shinier, I think the Cesare and its sister hotel next door (The Monaco & Quisisana) could do with a facelift and because of this I would only give it 3 stars. The resort: Fantastic, the beaches are spotless, the sea is clean and warm and very gently shelving which is great for families, we met a lovely couple from shropshire with a 3 year old daughter and they loved the place, and their daughter was having a great time. Two streets back from the hotel is "the strip" and again "Fantastic" spotlessly clean and 12 Kms long all shop lined, i didnt see any rubbish lying in the street. The street is closed to traffic from 8pm to 6am so people can wander up and down using the footpaths and the road, however keep an eye out for bicycles, they are very popular and can be hired for 2 people for an hour for 10 euros. Check with your hotel reception as a lot of hotels have bikes for use by their residents, the cesare fell flat though as the receptionist was embarrassed to loan us their bikes as "they were a bit old". You may meet Mr Giannetti the hotel owner, he is usually around at breakfast and is instantly recoginisable as he always wears a dark suit and sandals with socks, he is an old man and I think the lack of modernisation may be because of this. I wouldnt hesitate to recommend Lido de Jesolo to others, we will be back. Venice is approx 1hr 20mins minutes away, half by bus and half by ferry to san marco from Punta Sabbioni. The tickets are available to buy from newsagents and Tabbacchi for 14.60 Euros (its a blue ticket) which is return. The buses run from early am to about 11pm.

when we arrived at the hotel it looked nice but on the way in our coach other hotels looked nicer. we went with thompson who were very proffesional and we wouldnt have known quite a lot of things that they told us, hadnt they been there. the hotel had opened the restaurant later for us so we could have a meal- as our flight was quite late. when we arrived there was a thunderstorm and the first thing we noticed when we went up to our room was that the rainwater was leaking through the windows onto the sill beneath it and also the carpet was wet. The hotel needs decorating and up-dating a bit but its not much of a problem. One other thing i noted is that there were a lot of pigeons at the back of the hotel and a lot of pigeon droppings on the roof which is a higene problem. The rooms are nice but a little on the small size but perfect for me and my mum; as there was only two of us. at first we didnt think the air conditioning was working but then we turned it up and it was perfect, brilliant for when your boiling hot and need somewhere to escape to. Also the little fridge was an added bonus. the television was good but mainly news channels but who comes away to watch television! the food is nice but repeated a bit too much and i noticed some of the vegtables were drained in olive oil but plenty of selection and its nice that in the morning you get to eat your breakfast on the terrace. the pool is also nice, someone said in another review that the pool isnt heated but it wasnt cold! the location is great always busy in the day but not much going on at night. venice is a must we went once with thomson and went on a gondola but then we bought a ticket from the tabbaconist and went again at night time the ticket includes all transport in venice apart from gondola and taxi you can use the buses and vapareto on the same ticket. When we went the weather wasnt great we only got 2 days of sun the otheres were cloudy , mixed and thunderstorms. Overall the hotel wasnt too bad but should have been a 3* the location was great and i enjoyed my holiday.

I am writing this review as an eight year old girl.I think the food at this hotel is very good,the buffet has lots of choice's.In the reception the is a tv with videos for the children.The rooms in the hotel are quite small.The pool aera is clean,and of course the beach is right next to hotel.The resort around the hotel is very good.The hotel is very quite, so if you like lots of entertanmant and karoke,this is the wrong hotel for you.But if you like quiet and peaceful hotels this is the place for you.

We stayed at the Cesare Augustus in June for two weeks & really enjoyed ourselves. This hotel is a bit dated but spotlessly clean & very well run. There was plenty of choice for the evening meal, steaks, roast chicken, fish, mussels etc. & a big selection of fresh fruit. There is a charge of 2.5 euros a day for a towel & sunbed by the pool but the deckchairs & umbrellas are free on the beach. The rooms are small, but only what you would expect in Italy, The fridge in the room is useful & the safety deposit box & air-conditioning are free. I think this hotel is suited to older couples looking for a beach holiday close to Venice which is very good value for money. If you like to find little things to moan about then maybe this hotel isn`t for you. We hope to return next year.