What's Croatia like
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I'm hoping to be in a position to be able to fly next year after health problems.
I've heard good reports about Croatia, whats it like?
I would be after staying in a cheap hotel, b and b or villa or dont want anything very expensive.
The most important bit would be access to good swimming be it pool or sea preferably both.
Thanks
I've heard good reports about Croatia, whats it like?
I would be after staying in a cheap hotel, b and b or villa or dont want anything very expensive.
The most important bit would be access to good swimming be it pool or sea preferably both.
Thanks
Absolutely lovely.
Crystal clear water, mostly gravel beaches. Sailing and diving very popular, Very sociable and charming people who mostly speak reasonable English and some stunning architecture and old towns and villages. Nowhere as cheap now as it was 10 years ago but still reasonable compared to Italy and Spain. Very hot in peak season. Two UNESCO heritage sites - Split and Trogir well worth a day each. Excellent restaurants but self catering shopping very poor in quality and choice. Most supermarkets are tiny and often half empty. Fresh stuff in street markets is excellent though.
Really lovely national parks too - Kaka is stunning and a must see. Off shore islands in the Split region are well worth a ferry ride or dayboat trip. Inland and mountain roads deserted.
Locals drive like nutters. Horrific traffic in tourist spots. Scooter riders are mostly on a suicide mission.
Popular destination with Russians who can be boorish and noisy.
Love it myself - get in now before it's sucked into the EU and everybody gets greedy.
Crystal clear water, mostly gravel beaches. Sailing and diving very popular, Very sociable and charming people who mostly speak reasonable English and some stunning architecture and old towns and villages. Nowhere as cheap now as it was 10 years ago but still reasonable compared to Italy and Spain. Very hot in peak season. Two UNESCO heritage sites - Split and Trogir well worth a day each. Excellent restaurants but self catering shopping very poor in quality and choice. Most supermarkets are tiny and often half empty. Fresh stuff in street markets is excellent though.
Really lovely national parks too - Kaka is stunning and a must see. Off shore islands in the Split region are well worth a ferry ride or dayboat trip. Inland and mountain roads deserted.
Locals drive like nutters. Horrific traffic in tourist spots. Scooter riders are mostly on a suicide mission.
Popular destination with Russians who can be boorish and noisy.
Love it myself - get in now before it's sucked into the EU and everybody gets greedy.
The only place I've ever been where the locals get out of their cars at traffic lights and start shouting at them to change from red. After 2 minutes of beeping their horn at them
All of them drive like mentals.
The areas around Split are lovely, and you can pretty much drive around the coastline, stop off somewhere and just go run in the sea for a while.
Some of the cities are rough. There's a lot of graffitti and it feels a bit run down. Northern touristy areas, English is the third language below German. There's also lots of Italians (see bad drivers point, they dont help things)
The water and the weather though is so nice, and you can pretty much live off fish for a week or so
All of them drive like mentals.
The areas around Split are lovely, and you can pretty much drive around the coastline, stop off somewhere and just go run in the sea for a while.
Some of the cities are rough. There's a lot of graffitti and it feels a bit run down. Northern touristy areas, English is the third language below German. There's also lots of Italians (see bad drivers point, they dont help things)
The water and the weather though is so nice, and you can pretty much live off fish for a week or so
Stunning. Just back from a festival in Tisno and hugely impressed with the whole thing. So much so it looks like I am back there next month doing Dubrovnik, Montenegro and Sarajevo.
View from the place we rented
even the festivak site was stunningly beautiful
Crystal clear waters - the only negative is an absence of many sandy beaches if that is your thing.
View from the place we rented
even the festivak site was stunningly beautiful
Crystal clear waters - the only negative is an absence of many sandy beaches if that is your thing.
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