My partner and I have the night in Dubrovnik a week on Friday. We're staying the night in the Old Town. What's good to do and where's good to eat? The following afternoon we're going down to the harbour to get on a catamaran on which we'll be island-hopping down to Split for the following seven days.
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Just a nice place to chill out, you can walk round the Old Town, but don't recall anything else specific, loads of restaurants to eat at, albeit much dearer there than other spots in the vicinity.
As in outside the Old Town, a bit of a tourist trap.
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Originally posted by ursus arctos View PostThough I would suggest avoiding any restaurant with a visible evocation to Game of Thrones or ostentatiously displayed multilingual menus.
The war museum on the ridge above the city is very evocative, but not that chilled. The Old Town experience is markedly different once the cruise ship visitors have left for the day; it visibly empties out and is much more relaxing from late afternoon onwards. There are some nice restaurants and wine bars on the narrow streets running uphill from the Placa (on your left if you have entered the city through the Pile gate). Taking a stroll and making a mental note of any that catch your eye to return to should yield reasonable results.
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My advice is from 2015 and GoT has probably wiped it as useful but for what it's worth. Definitely try to get there and walk the walls by 11. Then get down off them and walk out to the south coast side and find your way through the town and under them to one of the (almost hidden) seaview bars for a drink. I think Buza Bar was the one we went to. It has about eight tables hence the need to get there bang on.
As for food inside the walls, we followed the usual trick of "side street just off main street" and it worked just fine. We went to a side street just off the main one all the GoT fans will be hoarding up and down ( the one on the south just next to the fountain iirc) and paid half the price for not being on the main drag. I'm not convinced, btw, that ursus' and Sporting's advice about menus with photos is universally true. I just think it means the owner realizes they're trying to attract tourists who don't speak fucking Croat, and are popular enough to be able to afford to get one made. Doesn't mean food's going to be McDonalds standard.Last edited by Rogin the Armchair fan; 08-07-2019, 15:10.
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Sporting's Rule has served me right in Spain, Portugal, Prague, anywhere with mass tourism. It's not that the restaurant has an English menu, it's more when these are prominently promoted at the entrance, often by guys in bad formal waiter outfits, and especially if accompanied by garish coloured photographs.
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Ursus misrepresents me. I started that as a genuinely jokey question and that statement had, indeed, a question mark at the end that he's removed. It was intended to -and succeeded in - educating me in the difference.
But hey, this is how Trump operates. FAKE OTF PEOPLE!Last edited by Rogin the Armchair fan; 08-07-2019, 17:22.
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I'm off to somewhere a little way out of Dubrovnik for 12 days next month with the family. Any further advice welcome.
On the sporting front hoping to see the final/latter stages of the local "Wild League" Water Polo (and the pro team VK Jug if it's their season) and maybe some pre-season for the local third tier team NK GOSK. May even try a day trip to Split as Hajduk have a league game right in the middle of the trip.
Any tips on those or non-sporting things which should compose the vast majority of the holiday!
Last edited by Ray de Galles; 17-07-2019, 16:27.
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Originally posted by Ray de Galles View PostI'm off to somewhere a little way out of Dubrovnik for 12 days next month with the family. Any further advice welcome.
On the sporting front hoping to see the final/latter stages of the local "Wild League" Water Polo (and the pro team VK Jug if it's their season) and maybe some pre-season for the local third tier team NK GOSK. May even try a day trip to Split as Hajduk have a league game right in the middle of the trip.
Any tips on those or non-sporting things which should compose the vast majority of the holiday!
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Ray, assuming the coast there is similar to around Split, it should be absolutely beautiful clear seas - although stony-ish beaches as I remember. Although Split is a nice enough city to look at and nearby Trogir is a very nice walled town, Dubrovnik seems like a far prettier city. Island-hopping is very much the thing around Split and there are a fair few around Dubrovnic as well so that is definitely a possibility, I would have thought. Indeed, we travelled as much by boat as anything else when we were there.
Oh, and the Dalmatian liver specialty is not as it sounds.
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