Accommodation in Croatia

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Order: upper left to right:
Extra dining area outside our apartment at Gruz, Dubrovnik.
Room in Zadar located in the centre.
Spacious apartment in Pula next to the Arena. 
Compact apartment in Split.  Outside our room is a garden with a dining table.

Referred by a friend, I tried out Hostelbookers.com for this trip.  Don't be misled by 'hostel'.  Registered accommodation places are private rooms with full facilities.  We made our daily breakfast tea and cooked our dinner occasionally.  Hostelbookers.com provides instant availability check, location map, accommodation photos, rating and reviews by guests.  It eases the decision-making.  I compared prices against other web-based booking sites.  It's the cheapest at time of comparison and does not charge booking fee.  To confirm the booking, one just needs to pay 10% deposit.  No worry, you can book accommodation in over 2,500 destinations.


We had a little garden outside our apartment in Split.  The location is central, just cross a street from the palace.  We accessed all tourist spots on foot.

Our room in Zadar is very central.  It is private accommodation and has no sign.  Thanks to a jewelery shop owner downstairs who knocked the door of the owner's mother to let us in.  At time, the owner was out of town.

There are only a few hotels in Plitvice.  Most accommodations are far away from the national park.  We picked our accommodation from Adriatica.net.  The advantage is you can contact the owners directly and save the commission charged by booking engines.  Our accommodation is a few hundred metres away from the park entrance.  Our host, Ivana, was very kind.  The buffet breakfast was gorgeous.  She drove us to the bus station to catch our bus departing before 7am.



It's a long trip from Plitvice to Pula.  We were rewarded with a large apartment.  It offers a fantastic view of the Arena.  We cooked and dined at home every night.  It's like home.



Our last accommodation in Poreč is half-board in a hotel.  Choices of the dinner buffet were identical in the three nights.  The central location, €59 for two and friendly staff leave no room for complaint.  Overall, we are very happy with the accommodation.

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