Hotel Modo stands on the narrow neck of the Stoja peninsula, where Valovine bay meets Stoja bay. Twelve rooms. Every one of them faces the sea.
Uvala Valovine
Shallow · pebble · pier · 2 min on footUvala Stoja
Moorings · pine · sunset side · 4 min on footStoja is the last piece of land before the open Adriatic. The road out of Pula narrows, the houses thin, and there is a point where you can see water in both directions at once. The hotel is built on that point.
Twelve rooms across three floors, opened in 2018 and run since by the same small team. A covered terrace over the water for breakfast. Twenty parking spaces, which in Pula in August is worth more than it sounds. The old town and the Roman amphitheatre are three and a half kilometres away — close enough to walk back from dinner, far enough that you sleep to the sound of the bay.
Three types, all with a balcony and a view of the water. The difference between them is how much sea you get, and from what angle.
The two corner rooms, with the widest balconies and the sea filling the whole opening. Breakfast can be brought up.
The main body of the hotel. Sea in front of you from the bed. Two of the eight take a third bed for families or three travelling together.
Same beds, same bathrooms, same breakfast — the sea arrives at an angle rather than head on. The sensible booking.
Breakfast is served on the terrace every morning. Dinner is arranged in advance, for groups — a table of twelve, or the whole terrace.
The kitchen serves breakfast daily and opens for dinner when it is booked ahead — a family gathering, a company of cyclists, a wedding party staying the weekend. Tell us the number and the date and we will put a menu together with you.
A cooked-to-order and buffet breakfast: Istrian cheeses and pršut, eggs done how you ask, fruit, pastries, proper coffee. Served from 7.30 to 10.00, and later if you say so the night before.
Between the building and the water there is a whole floor of open deck under sail canopies — loungers, low chairs, and enough space that nobody is sitting on top of anybody.
Stoja is residential. Once the day visitors have gone, the loudest thing is the water against the rocks.
There is no booking form here yet — for now the front desk takes reservations directly, by telephone or email, in Croatian, English, Italian or German. Someone answers between 7.00 and 22.00, and out of hours the email is read first thing.
Everything below is within walking distance of the front door. The map is drawn to show relationships, not distances to scale.
Shallow, sheltered and slow to shelve — the one for children and for early swims. Pebble, with a pier and a shower.
The west side, under pines, facing the evening sun. Deeper water and flat rock to lie on. Where people go at six o'clock.
Round the point and quieter still, at the edge of the campsite. Bring something to sit on and stay for the afternoon.
Twenty spaces on site, free to guests. The number 1 bus stops at Stoja, two hundred metres up the road, and runs into the centre in about fifteen minutes.
| Pula airport | 11 km · 18 min by car |
| Pula bus station | 4 km |
| The Arena | 3.5 km · 12 min by car |
| Forum and the old town | 3 km · 35 min on foot |
| Bus stop, Stoja (line 1) | 200 m |
| Nearest shop | 400 m |
| Trieste | 135 km |
| Ljubljana | 185 km |
Austro-Hungarian coastal fort, 1866, on the high ground behind the hotel.
The larger of the two, at the tip of the peninsula.
Cable wakeboarding on Valovine, and a rope course in the pines.
Guided paddles along the Stoja cliffs and out towards the Brijuni islands.
Quiet, overgrown and unexpectedly moving. Free to enter.