Croatia Travel Blog

While everyone else was skiing, Croatia’s hoteliers have been busy, busy, busy renovating, restoring and rebuilding. The Hotel Meridien Lav has been perhaps the most exciting opening but there are others. For example, the luxurious Hotel Elaphusa in Bol on Brac Island has added a whole new conference hall centre to welcome business travellers. What with the Hotel Riu Borak and Riu Bonaca, there’s no shortage of places to stay on Brac Island.

Krk Island is getting a new tourist centre as well, located in Malinska although this complex won’t be finished until August–when the tourist season ends. Oh well.

Just finished is an astounding new spa and wellness centre, the Terme Tuhelj in Zagorje. I’ve been a big fan of Croatia’s Zagorje spas and they deserve to be better known. Some are in need of makeovers but this new one makes me drool. Saunas, ice caves, ice pools, relaxation rooms, mud massages plus an aquacentre with waterfalls, geysers, glaciers (no, I made that up) and all in the green, rolling Zagorje interior. I feel well-er already.

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They’re here! The Jadrolinija summer schedules for international and coastal ferries have been published. Not too many changes there but what I do like is that the summer schedules are coming out earlier in the year. I remember when. . .I had to wait until March to find out what ferries were running in the summer. See the Jadrolinija schedules of

• ferries from Bari to Dubrovnik
• ferries from Ancona to Split and Zadar
• coastal ferries

Also partly available are the passenger boat schedules from Venice to Rovinj, Pula, Rabac, Porec and Mali Losinj. Apparently Venezia Lines has given up on Opatija this year, eliminating the boat that ran last summer. Not all the routes have been confirmed by you can get the latest updates on Venice to Croatia ferries here.

And if you’re wondering, no there’s no indication of a Venice-Split ferry this year.

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Eurail has announced that it is offering a Croatia pass! For ‘only’ $111 you can travel up to eight consecutive or non-consecutive days within Croatia within a month. This announcement comes only a month or so after the announcement that Croatia would be added to the Eurail multi-country pass.

It sounds good and who can complain? Still, train travel within Croatia is relatively cheap (you can go from Zagreb to Split and back for about half the cost of this pass) and the train network is relatively limited.
So take a look at a map of Croatia’s railway system and think about how you’ll be travelling Croatia by train before ordering your Eurail pass.

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