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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We went to Croatia last summer and absolutely loved it.  We went with another family and between our kids and theirs, we had two 9 yr olds, one 11 yr old, and one 7 yr old.  They all had an amazing time, and so did we.  We did Korcula, Dubrovnik, Rovinj, Split, and Plitvice (stunning national park).  You can get a great mixture of beautiful nature and charming towns and cities, islands, cliffs...it's so great.  Highly recommend.[/quote]]

Anyone who has done this--or the PP who might see this--how long were you there?  These places are all VERY far apart.  [/quote]

Not PP but we did this a few years ago.  Flew into Zagreb, spent a night or two, drove to Rovinj and spent a few nights there (stayed at a cool resort/design hotel). From there we drove to Plitvice, spent the night in the Soviet-era hotel on site, then drove to Split.  In Split we dropped off our rental and stayed a couple of nights, then took a ferry to Hvar for a couple of nights. Then we ferried to Korcula, spent 1 or 2 nights there, then ferried to the mainland and got someone to drive us to Dubrovnik (stopping at a winery and Salt on the way).  Stayed in Dubrovnik a few nights and flew home from there.

It was a lot of moving around but we really liked it. I think getting to/from Rovinj requiring longish drives (3-4 hours?) but we were glad we included it (Zagreb to Rovinj was an easy drive on nice roads; we ended up following the GPS and taking a small road to Plitvice which I think saved us time but was a little too small for preference). Most Americans don't get to Istria and it is very picturesque with great food (reminiscent of Italy, which is just across the Adriatic).  Outside of Istria I'd say we had great seafood and good food generally (Dubrovnik was the hardest place to find good food because it gets swamped by cruise tourists, but Split seemed to have a bit of foodie scene that was very affordable).

OP another option you might consider is Sicily (Siracusa, Taormina, and Cefalu would be a nice trip but there's a lot more).

Also we were looking for flights to Portugal recently and concluded we might have to fly from JFK or Boston (Boston/Providence have big Portuguese populations that immigrated from the Azores) to get affordable flights, or else on Air Canada via Montreal.[/quote]

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