I am debating whether to stay in the park at Hotel Jezero or outside at the Plitvice Mirie Inn, or the inn that starts with a Zr(sorry I forgot the name). We will have a car so we are concerned about parking at the park
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Citizen of the World
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Staying at one of the three National park hotels— the Hotel Jezero, the Hotel Plitvice or the Hotel Bellevue— puts you adjacent to one of the park’s entrances and entitles you to buy a “Day Ticket” as one of the government-run hotel guests. The “Day Ticket” costs €40 in high season and allows entry into the park on both the afternoon of your arrival day and again on the morning of the day you check out. This is a big deal because you have access to the park during the times when most daytrippers have departed on day 1 and before they arrive on day 2 during your visit.
Parking at all three national park hotels is free for guests staying at the hotels.
If you take a few minutes to watch a YouTube video of Plitvice Lakes, you’ll see how absolutely mobbed this park gets during much of the year. Visitors walk on elevated walkways just a few feet wide with hundreds of other visitors just ahead of them and hundreds more crowding behind them during the peak hours of 10am-3pm.
Plitvice Lakes National Park is open in the summer from 7am to 7 pm April-May and September-October. During June, July and August the park is open from 7am to 8 pm. Bring mosquitoe repellant with you.
If you opt to stay at accommodations outside of the park— be sure you know how far it is from the park entrances because some advertise themselves as lodgings for Plitvice Lakes National Patk when they are actually as far as 40 miles away from the park.
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Calgary
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We stayed at Hotel Jezero, and we noted that there was a parking lot there.
It was fine. The rooms are basic, but the public areas are very nice, and the food was good. It was very convenient to one of the park entrances, and, as mentioned, we were able to visit the park twice. We liked it.