The Best Hotels Near Al Cjasal, by the Record
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The restored ballroom still has its original gilded ceiling, which tells you a lot about what kind of hotel this is. Hotel Palace Portorož is a grand seaside resort on the Slovenian Adriatic, with the full complement of formal rooms, three restaurants, two bars, a café, and a 1,500 square meter spa running saltwater pools, saunas, and treatments built around local olive oil, rose, and salt.
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The original wrought-iron banisters are still there, climbing a staircase that predates everyone checking in. This boutique hotel in Izola's old town has ten rooms, and four of them come with private spa lofts, sauna and soaking tub included, which is a quietly extravagant thing to find a short walk from the marina. The rooms run contemporary but don't try to forget the building's age, which is exactly the right call.
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Stone buildings on a medieval hillside in the Istrian interior, close enough to the Adriatic to feel it without being on the water: San Canzian is a small hotel and residences that holds a Michelin Key. The 24 rooms lean contemporary inside walls that are anything but. There's an outdoor pool, an indoor spa, and a restaurant whose menu tilts Italian, which makes sense given you're an hour from Trieste.