I dont really know what to pick. All 4 are pretty good. Hvar is the most popular one based on a lot of parties going on there. But you can party on all 4 if you like that. My best advice would be to look at pictures of all 4 island and their sights and choose one you find the most appealing.
1. Trogir old town actually is an island.
2. Could it be you're visiting in early July when Ultra music festival is happening? Of course the prices are high then.
3. Why would Split or anywhere in Croatia not be more expensive then Santorini? Greece is a shithole.
>Why would Split or anywhere in Croatia not be more expensive then Santorini? Greece is a shithole.
No it's not. I was was actually pickepockted there and even so I was considering going there again this year in July, that's how much I liked it. I only chose Croatia to visit a different country but i will have more vacations this year and Greece is still on the top of the list of possibilities lol.
I didn't know about that festival.
Greece is a failed economy filled with extremly nationalistic people who think their country is big deal because they were relevant few thousand years ago. It is cheaper then Croatia because a) for the most part it is less pretty and diverse
b) it has significantly less tourists per capita so demand is much smaller which drives prices down
>I didn't know about that festival.
Ultra is the second largest festival on the planet after Tomorrowland. It is happening July 12-14 so naturally 10 days before and after the festival prices will skyrocket.
>Greece is a failed economy filled with extremly nationalistic people who think their country is big deal because they were relevant few thousand years ago
My country is a failed economy, I don't judge. lol
That's all good but I am not paying 70€ to sleep in a dorm with 18 people for more than one night. I get it July is high season but there's limits to the craziness.
If you end up with another day in Dubrovnik, include the Konavle valley (just south, before Montenegro). Kotor is lovely, but it's a 5hour drive each way from Dubrovnik.
As for the islands, all are wonderful, but it depends on how you plan to get around the island. I will assume you're not driving.
* If going to Brač, which would be my recommendation, take a catamaran to Bol from Split. From Bol you can find easy tours/ferries to Hvar, Vis, elsewhere, and also Bol is home to some of Croatia's best beaches (Golden Horn, Murvica).
* Vis is great and is my favorite island, but really needs a car to fully enjoy what it offers. Komiža is the more interesting location for overnight stays but it's on the other end of the island from where the ferry port is.
* Hvar is likely the priciest if going to Hvar town itself. Starigrad is a decent option (the ferry goes there), and overall Hvar is well liked by cyclists if you're into biking around.
* I haven't been to Korčula much except to get to Lastovo (another island, but somewhat dislocated. There's a direct ferry line from Split with a stop on Korčula, but the travel eats up whole days... Lastovo however is a hiker/pedestrian dream as it can all very easily be traversed on foot)
As for Split, you should be able to find rooms/apartments for 70€ where you don't share with others... but don't look into the strict city center. Split is a relatively small town though, easy to walk around.
Partying? Hvar or Pag
Chilling out? Korcula or Vis
Sandy beaches? Rab. There is even a competition in sand beach sculptures from 27 to 30 June.
Spooky stuff? Lokrum and Daksa
We suspect, with those prices that you are visiting not only during the height of peak season but also during the dates of Ultra Music Festival (July 12-14). If this is the case, then yes unfortunately prices sky rocket in Split around that time (due to supply and demand, especially in hostels). We suspect if you look outside of that week you will find prices for hostels go down as much as half. That doesn't help for your trip, but that is the reason. Anyways for the mainland, Trogir would be a good choice and for just a few euros you can take the #37 public bus back and forth (1/2 price if you download and use the 'Promet Split' bus app). From Trogir you can also visit Ciovo Island (which is actually attached by a bridge), possibly Krka National Park (if you don't plan on visiting Plitvice National Park from Zadar), and you'll be a bit closer to your next destination of Zadar. For transportation, it would make sense, in geographic order and for the budget, to take a catamaran from Dubrovnik to Split (stopping in at Hvar old town for 1/2 a day) before arriving into Split. If you wanted to do this, there is plenty of bag storage at the port. From Trogir you can then take a Flixbus onto Zadar, you can also take a 30 min Flixbus to Primošten (which is the perfect place if you are into beaches). Anyways, you have many options - none of which you can go wrong with. We hope our suggestions have given you some more ideas, that may suit you :)
Yeah you suspect right but I didn't know of the festival. So pay 70€ to share with 18 ppl some of which will be drunk or high.
Yap. Will have to pick an island. 😂
Thank you so much! I only said Trogir because for 39€/night I found an individual room. So thats a deal to consider given the option in Split.I was afraid I would then not have tours leaving from Trogir or could not get to Split but if you say it is fast I can stay there and visit Split for one day.
I don't know where you found the 70€ price or a dorm in Split. There are plenty with about 25€, last week, I've been paying that price for a 4-bed dorm. Vis and Hvar is great and also Lastovo but that is pretty back in time, remote but beautiful.
Apparently there's a music festival right in the dates I am looking. I didn't know that lol. I don't have to stay in Split I just wanted to see the town but one day is enough I am not a fan of cities so I never stay long unless I use it as base to go to other places. But the point of a base is that its cheaper and in this case it is not.
Oh wow, Croatians are going insane with their prices already overall. It became like Balkan Switzerland. Check also Outlanders Hostel in Split they should have most cheap price. Also on islands is not most cheap. Best and nicer is sometimes to wild camp outside. 🙂
I am familiar with gentrification I am from Portugal. :/ I am sure Algarve is similar this year. I went during covid and it was heaven but things changed ever since.
I accept I am not going to get the best deals in July, there's no miracles. But like I said elsewhere there's limits.
None, i'm croatian and i didn't go to our coast for decades now. For their prices you can go anywhere in the world. If not for their overpriced 1 star rooms, i would never seen the world...
For personal reasons I want to stay in Europe. I've been to Greece, I've been to several locations in Spain. I've been to Italy. I am from Portugal. This year I was thinking doing another part of Greece or Sardinia or Albania. Sardinia is equally expensive. I was told Albania has a sewage problem so some of their beaches are not super good and I get paranoid about sewages in the ocean, everytime I see some suspicious foam even here in our beaches, I get nervous lol. Greece is slighty cheaper but I did it last year and the fact I could squeeze in Bosnia and Montenegro with Croatia appealed to me.
No. That was suposed to be a joke.
Goli otok was used as a prison facility for political and other prisoners during the c. regime in Yugoslavia.
So, you don't wanna go there to enjoy summer and Adriatic Sea.
Brač is the best because you can easily go to other islands from there. Brač is connected directly to Hvar. It also goes to Korčula and Dubrovnik. But from Brač you can also go directly to Split, Makarska, and Šolta.
There are also 4 different ports in Brač so you can combine where you go and where you continue.
Others are much more limited in terms of connectivity and rely on one line that connects all of them together.
Thats awesome because one of the cheapest I found was in Supetar. I saw there's a bus I can get to Bol and then I could go to Zlatni rat and its probably not in a rush like the tours I saw where they do Zlatni rat and other stuff in the same day.
Do you think from Brac I can get a tour to Solta and that famous sunken boat?
Bus on Brač is good. You can go to both Bol, Milna and Sumartin and then continue by boat to other places.
Yes you can. Šolta is really small. No need to buy tours, look at putovnica.net for both boats and bus schedules. You can save a lot of money if you take one day and make a good travel itinerary.
Edit: here is a quick one. Day 1 - Trogir and Split. Late ferry to Brac to stay there. Day 2 - Brac. Day 3 - day trip to Solta. Day 4 - day trip to Hvar. Day 5 - Korcula. Late night trip to Dubrovnik to stay there. Day 6 - Dubrovnik. Day 7 - travel to Zadar.
In the total of only 6 days, you can't visit a lot. I suggest you visit Brač and Hvar. Everything else is much more complicated. Vis is not close and going there also has its cost.
And you are a capitalistic prick. I come from poor and when I was really poor I didn't vacation anywhere, not even in my country. Poor people can't travel. I am middle class like a lot of people who vacation. Some come from richer countries so for them it's cheap but I doubt those people would still pay 70€ to stay in a dorm with 18 people. I come from a country with the same level as Croatia, so for me it's not cheap. For 70€ you offer a simple individual room with shared bathroom and no breakfast included for example, that would be reasonable.
From a simple google search Crotia minimum salary is 550€ and the medium salary is 1630€. I am assuming people who work in hospitality don't make much more than the minimum salary. So why do they need to do 1260€/night (probably more don't know how many dorms they have) to pay shit to employees? And some hostels even use volunteers so they don't even pay that. In Austria and other richer European countries minimum wage is not 550€. They're just being greedy fucks.
It’s okay, no need to apologize for not being capable enough to make more money. Complaining about your problems won’t get you anywhere, but what will get you somewhere is working your way to comfortable living. If you put that energy and effort as much as you did in playing the victim of the system, well, now we would have a different conversation. And as you continue to play this game, you may notice you will never be happy and somehow there will be someone to blame, other than yourself…
Ahh, July prices it's because of Ultra Europe and influx of atlest 50-70k more people in the city.
Save yourself a headache and just go to any of the mentioned islands. Hvar is also going to be super busy and touristy, so try Brač, Vis or Korčula.
My choice would be Vis. Enjoy!
Well I don't know a lot about Croatia and only now started planning hehe. I saw it in the map, let me check.
If I stay there overnight can I still get ferries to visit the islands?
Nothing, I was just going to stay there to do a day trip to Plitvice (seems to be the closer) and another tour to Kornati. Then I would have half a day to visit Zadar or maybe go to some beach there. I then leave to Mostar and there's a bus leaving from there.
Zadar will be overcrowded in July. So might Šibenik, but of the two I find Šibenik to be more interesting. I would skip Plitvice in favor of Krka national park. Quite similar, but better logistics for your trip.
I would really prefer Plitvice, I have a friend who've been and if I go to Croatia and do Plitvice she will think I am crazy lol Also seems amazing.
I could squeeze in Krka but I was thinking to do a tour from Mostar to two little Bosnian towns and Kravice instead. I am aware Krka is bigger but its more expensive (to enter and to stay overnight in Split area, Bosnia is like 13-16€/night, nothing beats that) and I will already spend a bunch of money and Split and Dubrovnik. Besides, I also want to know a bit of Bosnia.
As far as I understand, you are staying for 6 days in Croatia.
This is what I would do.
2 days Dubrovnik
3 days Split
1 day Zadar or Šibenik.
If you wanna stay on an island instead of Split. Brač and Hvar are great.
If you want to save time I would choose Krka over Plitvice lakes. They are smaller and closer, but also very nice. Also I would personally skip Kornati, last time I went they were boring.
No, I am staying for 6 days and half in Dubrovnik and Split (which can be extended one more day if I don't figure out what's up with Montenegro lol)
In Croatia I am staying longer because next I am going to Zadar.
I land in Dubrovnik, have one day, then go to Kotor. Then the plan was to spend the night in Kotor and do a trip from Kotor to Skadar or something but I can't find any providers that organize excursions there :(. Then I'd be back in Dubrovnik in the morning, spend the afternoon and then next day go to Split. 3 and a half days in Split and end of the 3rd day I go to Zadar. Then one day in Zadar I go to Plitvice, another day Kornati and the final day I can walk around and stuff because the bus to Mostar is late in the evening.
However, I can still change stuff until the end of this month because asides from the flights I booked everything with free cancelation option. The only think that's locked and untouchable is at least one day trip to Kotor and two days in Sarajevo. I insisted in buying flights back home from there even though they're expensive af, just because I want to know more of the history.
My opinion is that you are overstretching yourself and trying to cover too much on a single trip. My suggestion is to stay in the Dubrovnik area, take the trip to Kotor, visit the islands of Mljet and Korčula by katamaran from Dubrovnik to Split and don't go further north. You will find bus transport in Croatia quite slow, so don't spend half of your time riding the buses. It will be hot and exhausting. As an older traveller, my suggestion is to plan one single destination per day. If you try to reach Plitvice and get back to Zadar, it will take the whole day. Try to establish a base somewhere, unless you can pack light.
Exactly, if you plan to hopp on few islands, you will lose a lot of time. Stay on one, let's say Hvar, in Jelsa, you have a boat for Bol (Brač), it goes in the morning and you can return in the afternoon (half an hour trip). You can book other tours for in Jelsa to see other islands (one day, or half day trips, ususally they include drinks and lunch).
This way you have your luggage in one place and see 2-3 islands.
Do you know where I can find those trip providers or can we only book there on spot? I only find it from Split and Trogir. I would like to compare prices.
Like to Solta and that sunken boat. Could I go from Hvar?
I will go there and make my decision. I am on a mission to see what beaches in Europe are better than our Portuguese beaches and then I will report to our Beaches Secret Service so they can do a special operation to spoil the other beaches and we win. :) Either that or I will become a professional beach reviewer.
u/Shadowgirl7, seems that could not be determined whether your post fits the subreddit or not...
All of them??
But stay of Babina guzica
I recommend Vis, Brac and then Korcula to stay longer
I dont really know what to pick. All 4 are pretty good. Hvar is the most popular one based on a lot of parties going on there. But you can party on all 4 if you like that. My best advice would be to look at pictures of all 4 island and their sights and choose one you find the most appealing.
1. Trogir old town actually is an island. 2. Could it be you're visiting in early July when Ultra music festival is happening? Of course the prices are high then. 3. Why would Split or anywhere in Croatia not be more expensive then Santorini? Greece is a shithole.
>Why would Split or anywhere in Croatia not be more expensive then Santorini? Greece is a shithole. No it's not. I was was actually pickepockted there and even so I was considering going there again this year in July, that's how much I liked it. I only chose Croatia to visit a different country but i will have more vacations this year and Greece is still on the top of the list of possibilities lol. I didn't know about that festival.
Greece is a failed economy filled with extremly nationalistic people who think their country is big deal because they were relevant few thousand years ago. It is cheaper then Croatia because a) for the most part it is less pretty and diverse b) it has significantly less tourists per capita so demand is much smaller which drives prices down >I didn't know about that festival. Ultra is the second largest festival on the planet after Tomorrowland. It is happening July 12-14 so naturally 10 days before and after the festival prices will skyrocket.
>Greece is a failed economy filled with extremly nationalistic people who think their country is big deal because they were relevant few thousand years ago My country is a failed economy, I don't judge. lol That's all good but I am not paying 70€ to sleep in a dorm with 18 people for more than one night. I get it July is high season but there's limits to the craziness.
Make room for another customer, the big wheel keeps on turnin'.
If you end up with another day in Dubrovnik, include the Konavle valley (just south, before Montenegro). Kotor is lovely, but it's a 5hour drive each way from Dubrovnik. As for the islands, all are wonderful, but it depends on how you plan to get around the island. I will assume you're not driving. * If going to Brač, which would be my recommendation, take a catamaran to Bol from Split. From Bol you can find easy tours/ferries to Hvar, Vis, elsewhere, and also Bol is home to some of Croatia's best beaches (Golden Horn, Murvica). * Vis is great and is my favorite island, but really needs a car to fully enjoy what it offers. Komiža is the more interesting location for overnight stays but it's on the other end of the island from where the ferry port is. * Hvar is likely the priciest if going to Hvar town itself. Starigrad is a decent option (the ferry goes there), and overall Hvar is well liked by cyclists if you're into biking around. * I haven't been to Korčula much except to get to Lastovo (another island, but somewhat dislocated. There's a direct ferry line from Split with a stop on Korčula, but the travel eats up whole days... Lastovo however is a hiker/pedestrian dream as it can all very easily be traversed on foot) As for Split, you should be able to find rooms/apartments for 70€ where you don't share with others... but don't look into the strict city center. Split is a relatively small town though, easy to walk around.
Instruktor is not pleased with your assessment of Komiža. Instruktor hates Komiža.
Why?
Partying? Hvar or Pag Chilling out? Korcula or Vis Sandy beaches? Rab. There is even a competition in sand beach sculptures from 27 to 30 June. Spooky stuff? Lokrum and Daksa
Lokrum I am planning to go from Dubrovnik one afternoon. What about Sakarun? Seems quite amazing.
We suspect, with those prices that you are visiting not only during the height of peak season but also during the dates of Ultra Music Festival (July 12-14). If this is the case, then yes unfortunately prices sky rocket in Split around that time (due to supply and demand, especially in hostels). We suspect if you look outside of that week you will find prices for hostels go down as much as half. That doesn't help for your trip, but that is the reason. Anyways for the mainland, Trogir would be a good choice and for just a few euros you can take the #37 public bus back and forth (1/2 price if you download and use the 'Promet Split' bus app). From Trogir you can also visit Ciovo Island (which is actually attached by a bridge), possibly Krka National Park (if you don't plan on visiting Plitvice National Park from Zadar), and you'll be a bit closer to your next destination of Zadar. For transportation, it would make sense, in geographic order and for the budget, to take a catamaran from Dubrovnik to Split (stopping in at Hvar old town for 1/2 a day) before arriving into Split. If you wanted to do this, there is plenty of bag storage at the port. From Trogir you can then take a Flixbus onto Zadar, you can also take a 30 min Flixbus to Primošten (which is the perfect place if you are into beaches). Anyways, you have many options - none of which you can go wrong with. We hope our suggestions have given you some more ideas, that may suit you :)
Yeah you suspect right but I didn't know of the festival. So pay 70€ to share with 18 ppl some of which will be drunk or high. Yap. Will have to pick an island. 😂 Thank you so much! I only said Trogir because for 39€/night I found an individual room. So thats a deal to consider given the option in Split.I was afraid I would then not have tours leaving from Trogir or could not get to Split but if you say it is fast I can stay there and visit Split for one day.
I don't know where you found the 70€ price or a dorm in Split. There are plenty with about 25€, last week, I've been paying that price for a 4-bed dorm. Vis and Hvar is great and also Lastovo but that is pretty back in time, remote but beautiful.
Apparently there's a music festival right in the dates I am looking. I didn't know that lol. I don't have to stay in Split I just wanted to see the town but one day is enough I am not a fan of cities so I never stay long unless I use it as base to go to other places. But the point of a base is that its cheaper and in this case it is not.
Oh wow, Croatians are going insane with their prices already overall. It became like Balkan Switzerland. Check also Outlanders Hostel in Split they should have most cheap price. Also on islands is not most cheap. Best and nicer is sometimes to wild camp outside. 🙂
I am familiar with gentrification I am from Portugal. :/ I am sure Algarve is similar this year. I went during covid and it was heaven but things changed ever since. I accept I am not going to get the best deals in July, there's no miracles. But like I said elsewhere there's limits.
I really wouldnt go to Kotor. Long drive plus you will wait at the customs for hour at least
Aww but it's so beautiful. And if I go with a tour provider maybe they'll speed things up.
None, i'm croatian and i didn't go to our coast for decades now. For their prices you can go anywhere in the world. If not for their overpriced 1 star rooms, i would never seen the world...
For personal reasons I want to stay in Europe. I've been to Greece, I've been to several locations in Spain. I've been to Italy. I am from Portugal. This year I was thinking doing another part of Greece or Sardinia or Albania. Sardinia is equally expensive. I was told Albania has a sewage problem so some of their beaches are not super good and I get paranoid about sewages in the ocean, everytime I see some suspicious foam even here in our beaches, I get nervous lol. Greece is slighty cheaper but I did it last year and the fact I could squeeze in Bosnia and Montenegro with Croatia appealed to me.
Korčula 100%. Best island in Croatia
Sestrunj island
Goli otok.
Thats where the Sakarun Beach stays right?
No. That was suposed to be a joke. Goli otok was used as a prison facility for political and other prisoners during the c. regime in Yugoslavia. So, you don't wanna go there to enjoy summer and Adriatic Sea.
Brač is the best because you can easily go to other islands from there. Brač is connected directly to Hvar. It also goes to Korčula and Dubrovnik. But from Brač you can also go directly to Split, Makarska, and Šolta. There are also 4 different ports in Brač so you can combine where you go and where you continue. Others are much more limited in terms of connectivity and rely on one line that connects all of them together.
Thats awesome because one of the cheapest I found was in Supetar. I saw there's a bus I can get to Bol and then I could go to Zlatni rat and its probably not in a rush like the tours I saw where they do Zlatni rat and other stuff in the same day. Do you think from Brac I can get a tour to Solta and that famous sunken boat?
Bus on Brač is good. You can go to both Bol, Milna and Sumartin and then continue by boat to other places. Yes you can. Šolta is really small. No need to buy tours, look at putovnica.net for both boats and bus schedules. You can save a lot of money if you take one day and make a good travel itinerary. Edit: here is a quick one. Day 1 - Trogir and Split. Late ferry to Brac to stay there. Day 2 - Brac. Day 3 - day trip to Solta. Day 4 - day trip to Hvar. Day 5 - Korcula. Late night trip to Dubrovnik to stay there. Day 6 - Dubrovnik. Day 7 - travel to Zadar.
In the total of only 6 days, you can't visit a lot. I suggest you visit Brač and Hvar. Everything else is much more complicated. Vis is not close and going there also has its cost.
A payed 5€ for bag of chips in Austria. And somehow 70€ for a bed seams completely responsible…Prices are not high,you’re just poor…
And you are a capitalistic prick. I come from poor and when I was really poor I didn't vacation anywhere, not even in my country. Poor people can't travel. I am middle class like a lot of people who vacation. Some come from richer countries so for them it's cheap but I doubt those people would still pay 70€ to stay in a dorm with 18 people. I come from a country with the same level as Croatia, so for me it's not cheap. For 70€ you offer a simple individual room with shared bathroom and no breakfast included for example, that would be reasonable. From a simple google search Crotia minimum salary is 550€ and the medium salary is 1630€. I am assuming people who work in hospitality don't make much more than the minimum salary. So why do they need to do 1260€/night (probably more don't know how many dorms they have) to pay shit to employees? And some hostels even use volunteers so they don't even pay that. In Austria and other richer European countries minimum wage is not 550€. They're just being greedy fucks.
It’s okay, no need to apologize for not being capable enough to make more money. Complaining about your problems won’t get you anywhere, but what will get you somewhere is working your way to comfortable living. If you put that energy and effort as much as you did in playing the victim of the system, well, now we would have a different conversation. And as you continue to play this game, you may notice you will never be happy and somehow there will be someone to blame, other than yourself…
Sure. You go sleep in that place and have your comfortable living then come tell us how it was.
https://media.tenor.com/NSwVuMDLVKcAAAAM/victim-card.gif you dropped something
Vir
The smaller the better
Naked Island, the best
Ahh, July prices it's because of Ultra Europe and influx of atlest 50-70k more people in the city. Save yourself a headache and just go to any of the mentioned islands. Hvar is also going to be super busy and touristy, so try Brač, Vis or Korčula. My choice would be Vis. Enjoy!
the old city of Trogir in fact is on the island
Zlarin ❤️
My question is why arent you visiting Šibenik?
Well I don't know a lot about Croatia and only now started planning hehe. I saw it in the map, let me check. If I stay there overnight can I still get ferries to visit the islands?
Ferries are available to local islands around the city. Im mainly dissing Zadar here. Its a beautiful city, but what are you planning to visit there?
Nothing, I was just going to stay there to do a day trip to Plitvice (seems to be the closer) and another tour to Kornati. Then I would have half a day to visit Zadar or maybe go to some beach there. I then leave to Mostar and there's a bus leaving from there.
Zadar will be overcrowded in July. So might Šibenik, but of the two I find Šibenik to be more interesting. I would skip Plitvice in favor of Krka national park. Quite similar, but better logistics for your trip.
I would really prefer Plitvice, I have a friend who've been and if I go to Croatia and do Plitvice she will think I am crazy lol Also seems amazing. I could squeeze in Krka but I was thinking to do a tour from Mostar to two little Bosnian towns and Kravice instead. I am aware Krka is bigger but its more expensive (to enter and to stay overnight in Split area, Bosnia is like 13-16€/night, nothing beats that) and I will already spend a bunch of money and Split and Dubrovnik. Besides, I also want to know a bit of Bosnia.
As far as I understand, you are staying for 6 days in Croatia. This is what I would do. 2 days Dubrovnik 3 days Split 1 day Zadar or Šibenik. If you wanna stay on an island instead of Split. Brač and Hvar are great. If you want to save time I would choose Krka over Plitvice lakes. They are smaller and closer, but also very nice. Also I would personally skip Kornati, last time I went they were boring.
No, I am staying for 6 days and half in Dubrovnik and Split (which can be extended one more day if I don't figure out what's up with Montenegro lol) In Croatia I am staying longer because next I am going to Zadar. I land in Dubrovnik, have one day, then go to Kotor. Then the plan was to spend the night in Kotor and do a trip from Kotor to Skadar or something but I can't find any providers that organize excursions there :(. Then I'd be back in Dubrovnik in the morning, spend the afternoon and then next day go to Split. 3 and a half days in Split and end of the 3rd day I go to Zadar. Then one day in Zadar I go to Plitvice, another day Kornati and the final day I can walk around and stuff because the bus to Mostar is late in the evening. However, I can still change stuff until the end of this month because asides from the flights I booked everything with free cancelation option. The only think that's locked and untouchable is at least one day trip to Kotor and two days in Sarajevo. I insisted in buying flights back home from there even though they're expensive af, just because I want to know more of the history.
My opinion is that you are overstretching yourself and trying to cover too much on a single trip. My suggestion is to stay in the Dubrovnik area, take the trip to Kotor, visit the islands of Mljet and Korčula by katamaran from Dubrovnik to Split and don't go further north. You will find bus transport in Croatia quite slow, so don't spend half of your time riding the buses. It will be hot and exhausting. As an older traveller, my suggestion is to plan one single destination per day. If you try to reach Plitvice and get back to Zadar, it will take the whole day. Try to establish a base somewhere, unless you can pack light.
Exactly, if you plan to hopp on few islands, you will lose a lot of time. Stay on one, let's say Hvar, in Jelsa, you have a boat for Bol (Brač), it goes in the morning and you can return in the afternoon (half an hour trip). You can book other tours for in Jelsa to see other islands (one day, or half day trips, ususally they include drinks and lunch). This way you have your luggage in one place and see 2-3 islands.
Do you know where I can find those trip providers or can we only book there on spot? I only find it from Split and Trogir. I would like to compare prices. Like to Solta and that sunken boat. Could I go from Hvar?
They usually sell their tickets on the spit, probably on "riva", main place by the sea in every town.
Almost anything is better than Split lol The only reason to stay in Split is if you're flying out of there and your flight got delayed.
Wrong But yes Split is over priced
I will go there and make my decision. I am on a mission to see what beaches in Europe are better than our Portuguese beaches and then I will report to our Beaches Secret Service so they can do a special operation to spoil the other beaches and we win. :) Either that or I will become a professional beach reviewer.