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[quote=Anonymous]Just returned from Croatia, with mixed reviews.

4 nights Dubrovnik. Love, love, love Villa Dubrovnik. Enjoyed walking city walls. Took a day trip to Elafiti islands, but it’s off season and everything is closed, & seas are a bit rough for comfort. Food was underwhelming everywhere except for hotel. City is small enough to easily explore by foot.

2 nights Plitvice. I hadn’t realized that Easter marks the anniversary of the start of the Croatian independance war. The hotels in this area are very basic. We stayed at Degenjia, which is run by a large extended family. It was interesting to speak with many of them to hear their stories of growing up during that period. Lots of snow and rain filled the lake region and the boardwalks at the lake were submerged in some parts, so we got rather wet. But the falls were still pretty. Lots of tour busses even during this season. DH gets vertigo and could not bear the path approaching the falls, so heads up if you’re fearful of heights.

4 nights Zagreb. Esplanade is a great hotel with Art Deco touches. Really enjoyed a Segway tour of the town - my 12yo was just big enough to ride. He’s been studying different forms of government lately, so there was plenty (Austrian-Hungarian empire, Yugoslavia 1&2, Democracy, EU member state) that he could reference.

Transfer between points was done via hired driver. We considered a one-way car rental, but the internet is rife with stories of scams from even the big rental companies, plus hidden extra fees for passing through Bosnia, which you have to do. It was much more relaxing to be passengers and have a fixed, known rate. The ride between Dubrovnik and Plitvice is way longer than google says - about 8h. We stopped off in Split for lunch.

This trip had been on my bucket list for a long time. In retrospect, I’d trim a night off of Dubrovnik and Zagreb for the offseason - a lot of things are closed. The weather was cool and pleasant, but we got rain a few of those days. If we didn’t have school schedules to contend with, I’d say early June or September would have been better timing. And I’d have brought wet gear for the lakes (boots, raincoat). Zagreb would have been super boring for young kids.[/quote]

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