Niksa the host greeted us on arrival and showed us round the villa and explained everything we needed to know. He was keen to keep in touch with us during our stay to make sure everything was ok, which it was and to offer tips and advice about our activities. He was the perfect, helpful and friendly host. He even had some goodies in the fridge as a welcome.
The villa had everything you needed for your holiday and was clean and cleaned once a week with a towel and linen change as well. The villa was secluded and private and was accessed via sixty steps down through the terraced grounds which added to the charm and atmosphere of the place. The wow factor was the view all round from the living quarters and the bedrooms. Get out of bed in the morning and go out onto the balcony and gaze down at the blue sea below, look right at the walled city or left at the small hill side monastery before you start your day !
A half hour picturesque stroll from the villa will take you right into the walled city of Dubrovnik. Once inside the walls there are places to eat all over the place you will be spoilt for choice. If you want a comfort stop go into any of the eateries order a drink and visit their toilets which we found were all clean and properly equipped were ever we went. When you go up onto the wall around Dubrovnik you will find cafes and toilets on the wall, there is no need to take your own refreshments up onto the wall if you do not want to. We took nearly two hours to go round the wall, soaking up the atmosphere of the place and taking loads of pictures and videos. If you are walking back to the villa in the dark there a street lights all the way back to the villa. Dubrovnik and Croatia is a safe place to visit, we felt at ease all the time.
We hired a car to explore further afield. If you do this remember to get a green card, it cost us 21 euroes if you want to visit Bosnia or Montenegro. The one way system around Dubrovnik is interesting, a GPS would be handy. We familiarised our selves with the road system on Google earth before we went and found no problem in driving around. Away from Dubrovnik we found the roads relatively quiet in May and in good condition. Although we did not go on a boat trip we could see from the villa balcony that there were plenty of boat trips on offer as they were constantly passing by. You will walk past kiosks offering excursions as you walk into Dubrovnik.
A big thank you to Niksa, so helpful and friendly.
