So I’ve decided to take the family to Croatia in June. We’ll fly to Dubrovnik and then drive along the coast and probably take a ferry to Venice where we’ll spend a few days. It’ll likely be our last vacation together with S19, so this better be good.
We should probably visit Plitvice National Park, but I’m not sure what we should see beyond this, every website list different towns as the best ones to visit! If anyone has experience, I’ll be grateful. Also how many days should we spend in Dubrovnik, and what are good places to stay? Any Airbnb experiences? We’ll probably have about a week or slightly more in Croatia alone.
We were there in 2015, family of 5. Kids were 18, 13, and 10 at the time I guess. We flew into Dubrovnik and rented a car, were there I think 4 nights (I’d stay longer if you have the time) and spent one day doing a day trip to Kotor bay in Montenegro (definitely do this). We then drove to a little beach town called Baska Voda, chosen mostly because of availability on airbnb (Split was having some music festival that week). We were just there 2 nights, then went to Plitvice for 2 nights (highly recommend staying near the park so you can spend the whole day there and beat the tour busses). After that we went on to Slovenia.
In Dubrovnik we stayed at this airbnb - https://www.airbnb.com/rooms/767630?location=Dubrovnik%2C%20Croatia&guests=1&adults=1&s=vVnztFoB . It was fine, nothing special but decent location and a nice balcony with a view. Easily walkable to the old town area.
Near Plitvice we stayed in this airbnb. Rustic but comfortable and well located for early access to the park. Also you can swim in the crystal-clear river downstream from the national park pretty much right by the cabin. https://www.airbnb.com/rooms/1831207?location=Plitvice%20Lakes%20National%20Park%2C%20Croatia&guests=1&adults=1&s=rPAcFOr0
Coincidentally, the Washington Post travel section has the following on tomorrow’s front page:
Hope your trip is wonderful and special!
We ( family of 5, all over 21) spent several days in Dubrovnik last July. We rented a 3 bedroom airbnb which was less expensive than 3 hotel rooms, plus we had a kitchen, living room and outside walled in patio. It was very warm so I was glad our place had AC. We explored old town Dubrovnik and took a boat to Lokrum Island for a day. We also took a wine tour in Bosnia which was fantastic (the lunch alone was worth it).
Biggest negative was that it was expensive. We fixed breakfast at our place and just bought bread, meat, fruit and cheese for dinner on he patio and ate lunches out. Still spent a lot on food. We were supposed to take a bus tour to Montenegro but there was a mix up (not our fault) and it didn’t happen. The kids (D, SIL and S) did the kayaking tour which would have been great except it was a windy day and it was rough.
We happened to be there when Croatia was playing Germany in the World Cup so we sat in the square in Old Town and watched on the screens which was really exciting!
Overall, it was a fun trip. Glad we went.