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Six Weeks in Croatia: Accommodations and Guide Reviews

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Hello,

I recently returned from a six-week trip in Croatia with my husband. I referenced the 'Rick Steves Croatia & Slovenia' guidebook to help plan my trip.

Here are my recommendations for accommodations mentioned in the guidebook:

  1. Dubrovnik: Villa Ragusa, Highly Recommend. The old town location was perfect, the Sobe was immaculate and the owner Pero Carevic was responsive to all inquiries and was there to greet us when we arrived. He is a wonderful host!

  2. Hvar: Nona 2, Highly Recommend. The old town location was perfect, the Sobe was immaculate and the owner was responsive to all inquiries. We enjoyed several meals on the private patio.

  3. Split: Kaleta Apartments, Recommend. The Sobe was clean, however our Sobe was not ready for us when we arrived and had to stay in a different apartment the first night that did not have a kitchenette. The apartment manager reimbursed us 10% on the first night stay for our inconvenience.

  4. Rovinj: Porta Antica, Highly Recommend. The old town location was perfect, the apartment was immaculate and the manager, Claudia was responsive to all inquiries and transferred us to/from our private car rides outside the pedestrian zone in her golf cart.

  5. Zagreb: Jagerhorn Hotel, Do NOT Recommend. Any planned upgrades have not been done. It was dirty, hot (no a/c as advertised) and loud with outside restaurant patrons and music from a nearby rooftop nightclub. We checked out and checked into Hotel Dubrovnik. The good news is that the desk clerk refunded us two of the three nights we were scheduled to be there. We shared our experience with our tour guide the next day and she indicated that she knew the owner and didn't think any repairs would be made at the hotel and encouraged us to let Rick Steve's know about our experience.

The tour guides that were recommended in the guidebook were great and I highly recommend:

  1. Dubrovnik: Robert De Lorenzo. Robert led us on a historic walking tour of old town Dubrovnik.
  2. Zagreb: Darija Gotic. Darija led us on a combined historic and grocery walking tour of Zagreb.

Cindy

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Thanks for the info, Cindy. It is helpful to the travelers who populate this board.

I would encourage you to use the link below to give feedback to the writers of the guides. They don't necessarily hang out on the forum and probably won't see your critique of the Jagerhorn Hotel.

https://www.ricksteves.com/forms/guidebook-feedback-form

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