What / Where to eat in Dubrovnik?

No I was suggesting try not to visit when got many cruise ships docked. I wouldn't dream of going on those large cruise ships. I couldn't sleep on the overnight crossings to France and Netherlands due to the noise and vibrations. Same reasons why I can't sleep on planes.

My bad, but it’s not something one can really avoid…i book 3 days that suit work, family and personal commitment and if there is a cruise ship docking in one of those days, so be it. I know there wasn’t one on Tuesday when i first got here and don’t think there was one on Wednesday either but yesterday there were 2.


Lol, i am having like the best time! Me, camera, look around, eat gelato, stop for food, walk around and take more pictures and more gelato.

I really don’t have any rights to moan about other tourists since i am one of them, but i try to be as invisible as possible.
 
Credit to you Raymond for the amount of grace and patience you’ve shown in this thread!

I am now home! Had a great trip!

If I were to be more brutally honest....some of the posts were, erm, bad manners and unhelpful in the least, and pointless (since i am already here and paid for the room...telling me to leave? WTF), and also, talk about trying to put down someone having a nice time on holiday, peeing on one's parade. It's worse than telling someone they bought the wrong product after it thas been delivered, at least you can return the product, I can't hardly return the holiday. In that instance it is either give people at least tips to make it better (if they were not having a great time), or to simply do the old mantra...if you have nothing nice to say, don't say anything.

Besides all the naysayers, I am able to see past the tourists and have done my research and also have been travelled to enough places to know what to expect.

I only ask for food recommendations, not for the opinion of my choice of destination! There, i've said it :D

Also, I am aware of places need to survive, what is the local industry in a small place like this besides tourism? People are only doing what they can to make a living and are catering for the demand. I am happy to pay for it because it is a nice place to visit. I am also fully aware the Old Town is a bit like a living museum with gift shops, that's what it is, and so what? The whole thing about culture can be a misnomer at times, people don't go to London for the culture of the UK, sometimes you just want to see Buckingham Palace and tick off that box off the bucket list you know.

Anyway, nice place, very pretty, food is good and cheaper than London. It's clean, i felt safe and the water is crystal clear, you can even drink from the fountain.

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It is also interesting to see how the real locals live in places like this.

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View from hotel

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Glad you had a good time. There are many nice places in Croatia but Dubrovnik is not bad if you can put up with overtourism. Prices in Croatia use to be good but now it's same as rest of Europe. I was born in Croatia, don't go back as often as I use to. Next year will try Portugal.
 
Glad you had a good time. There are many nice places in Croatia but Dubrovnik is not bad if you can put up with overtourism. Prices in Croatia use to be good but now it's same as rest of Europe. I was born in Croatia, don't go back as often as I use to. Next year will try Portugal.

I’ve been to Lisbon (twice), it’s nice and also has tourists :p but obviously being a larger city it has its own commerce and more than just tourism.

Pics look good, I just recall the ice cream being great and about 10kuna (1 euro ish) around 10 years ago..

It’s more like €2.50 minimum now for a single flavour cone, but the good thing is they tend to give your double scoop and push it down the cone to fill it up a bit more. The quality is also excellent, I’ve tried about 5 different places and they are all great. The stand out one is Gianni IMO.
 
I’ve been to Lisbon (twice), it’s nice and also has tourists :p but obviously being a larger city it has its own commerce and more than just tourism.



It’s more like €2.50 minimum now for a single flavour cone, but the good thing is they tend to give your double scoop and push it down the cone to fill it up a bit more. The quality is also excellent, I’ve tried about 5 different places and they are all great. The stand out one is Gianni IMO.
Yeap will try less know places, I always tend to go to smaller towns. In Croatia we tend to go to Rovinj, much nicer than Dubrovnik imo.
 
Stayed in a tiny villa in Cavat on the hill above the Epidaurus Hotel at the end of September 2017 and thoroughly enjoyed it. Was late in the season, so many of the restaurants were shut, but we had several reasonably priced meals (London pub food prices) along the seafront and one expensive, but magnificent one at a very posh place near the marina.

Water taxi to Dubrovnik was cheap and a far nicer way to see the city than driving and parking there. Did the sunset cruise meal on Ye Olde Fakey Pirate Shippe which was fun and the food was pretty decent too. My old North Sea in winter sealegs still worked, so I was playing steward for Herself and an older couple sat near us up two flights of stairs from the galley.

For anyone that finds Dubrovnik too touristy, I strongly suggest you give Montenegro’s Kotor Bay a miss as cruise ships disgorge thousands of tourists into Kotor Town twice a day. If you find yourself in Montenegro and you have faith in the clutch and brakes of your hire car, give the road up to Lovcen with its 27 hairpin bends a go, but be aware that Germans drive campercars on that road like it’s 1944 and Tito’s Partisans are chasing them.
 
Glad you had a good time, I wouldnt be so sensitive though.

I would explicitly state 'positive vibes only' or something if it troubles you that people might not be as excited about your holiday plans as you are. We clearly have very different requirements, nowhere I have travelled in my life elicits such strong negative feelings from me (perhaps the bus hordes at Machu Picchu....grim). My advice remains to get out of the old town and find somewhere a bit off the beaten track and less theme park.
 
Glad you had a good time, I wouldnt be so sensitive though.

I would explicitly state 'positive vibes only' or something if it troubles you that people might not be as excited about your holiday plans as you are. We clearly have very different requirements, nowhere I have travelled in my life elicits such strong negative feelings from me (perhaps the bus hordes at Machu Picchu....grim). My advice remains to get out of the old town and find somewhere a bit off the beaten track and less theme park.

I’m not sensitive…it’s just your posts were pointless and unhelpful. I ask for food recommendations, not your opinion of my choice of destination. Nor your opinion of Dubrovnik. It’s not about positive vibes, it’s about your answers didn’t help me one bit, despite my first reply and now you continue to remind me how much you hate it, I know already, you don’t need to keep repeating it. If you don’t have any recommendations then you don’t have any. Period. I’m not going to go to Split for dinner, that’s never going to happen.

I like the place, and would happily go back.
 
There's really no need to take comments about your holiday destination so personally mate, no-one's trying to 'pee on your parade'....or suggesting you go to Split for dinner for that matter. There's a useful thread here now with a range of views on Dubrovnik and people will find a variety of opinions useful depending on what they're after.

Again, glad you enjoyed it, take a chill pill.
 
There's really no need to take comments about your holiday destination so personally mate, no-one's trying to 'pee on your parade'....or suggesting you go to Split for dinner for that matter. There's a useful thread here now with a range of views on Dubrovnik and people will find a variety of opinions useful depending on what they're after.

Again, glad you enjoyed it, take a chill pill.

I am actually very chill after my trip, I think you should take a chill pill about Dubrovnik and lighten up a bit and let others to enjoy what they enjoy, especially when being told that they like the place and then continue to rain on their parade.

p.s. I enjoyed it so much I have plans to revisit other parts of Croatia, so it can't be that bad can it.

I am a VERY patients person, other tourists don't bother me....if you ever been to Kyoto you would know, it makes Dubrovnik looks relatively lame. I am good at blocking out others and clear my mind. Other tourists don't bother me, and amenities for tourists don't bother me. I am able to separate the difference between tourism and real culture and don't let 1 ruin the joy from the other and vice versa.
 
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I'm not sure how you translate "Glad you enjoyed it" to somehow stopping you enjoying yourself or raining on your parade!

I like your travel posts and photography, I just shared my view on one particular destination, I'm not trying to single out your holiday. The fact there's a range of opinion on the place in this thread will be useful info for people in future, along with your pics (excellent as always) and thoughts :rolleyes:
 
I'm not sure how you translate "Glad you enjoyed it" to somehow stopping you enjoying yourself or raining on your parade!

I like your travel posts and photography, I just shared my view on one particular destination, I'm not trying to single out your holiday. The fact there's a range of opinion on the place in this thread will be useful info for people in future, along with your pics (excellent as always) and thoughts :rolleyes:

From my perspective....I ask for food opinion, then 1st reply i get.

My only recommendation would be to leave. I've never been anywhere so thoroughly spoiled by tourism, get out and find some nice places away from the hordes, the Game Of Thrones tours and rows of stalls flogging cheap plastic tat.

The cliff side cafe..... it's fine, an overpriced cafe perched on the walls, crammed in with all the other tourists. It's like being stuck on a cruise ship that doesn't go anywhere.

Not a fan. It was no doubt a beautiful place to visit in the past, now I just found it thoroughly depressing how spoilt it is.

Fine, you didn't know I was already here, so I said I have already arrived and I am having a great time.

Croatia isn't the UK or Japan, so saying wow isn't Dubrovnik cheap compared to London and Tokyo is just a bit...well...dense.

Anyway, my problem with Dubrovnik isn't that it's expensive for the country it's in (which it is) It's that it's a theme park that exclusively caters to tourists, revolves purely around extracting money from you, and has no vestige of genuine local culture left.

Some people love that ****e though :) I can't stand it. Just back from a week in the mountains in Morocco where you actually get to immerse yourself in the culture, get to know genuine people and pay rates reflective of the local economy (20 quid a night hotel, 8 quid for a meal).

Then you call me a bit dense ? :confused: How should I react to that? Honestly?

(btw, I wouldn't want to go to the mountains in Morocco, that does not interest me, nor do visiting the wilderness in the Amazon....those places are best be left alone.)

And then when I stated that I didn't go there for culture, I just wanted somewhere pretty to visit, some place to eat, take pictures, eat ice cream and take more pictures...yet you went back with calling me being a be sensitive and wanting only positive vibes.

Glad you had a good time, I wouldnt be so sensitive though.

I would explicitly state 'positive vibes only' or something if it troubles you that people might not be as excited about your holiday plans as you are. We clearly have very different requirements, nowhere I have travelled in my life elicits such strong negative feelings from me (perhaps the bus hordes at Machu Picchu....grim). My advice remains to get out of the old town and find somewhere a bit off the beaten track and less theme park.

Honestly, how should I have taken your posts? Really? Besides "Glad you enjoyed it", do those 4 words really cover up everything else that is directed at me? telling me to get out, leave. A bit dense? Sensitive?

I am not sure how you think I should take your posts with what you've said.
 
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what precautions do you take, I assume, carrying expensive camera gear with you, there, or elsewhere ? especially if there might be many tourists.
(you keep it mostly in bag, say, but can get it out fast ?)

Was looking at buying a 2nd hand panasonic dmc from a relative with 200mm lense - and digital cameras aren't inconspicuous versus phones.
 
what precautions do you take, I assume, carrying expensive camera gear with you, there, or elsewhere ? especially if there might be many tourists.
(you keep it mostly in bag, say, but can get it out fast ?)

Was looking at buying a 2nd hand panasonic dmc from a relative with 200mm lense - and digital cameras aren't inconspicuous versus phones.

I have a leather "travel" camera bag that i typically use on short trips. It fits a Sony FF body and a few lenses, passport and keys etc. It's padded with dividers, no brand names on shown. Looks like a everyday carry. If I take my camera out, I put the strap over my shoulder or across my chest when if i feel particularly unsafe. I put an Airtag inside the bag too and of course, everything is insured. Unfortunately, they stopped making these, and I would be gutted if i ever lose it, more than the camera itself. It was expensive enough to begin with (£300) but the quality of it is so good, it should really last a life time, brass hardware, really big chunky zipper and real leather that will just patina.

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Thanks, yes that's a nice option bit rich for my blood

something that would just take a SLR&one lense with a bit of padding ,and also serve as, my first, shoulder metro-sexual man-bag, for phone too < £100 is more in my budget.

along these lines
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Thanks, yes that's a nice option bit rich for my blood

something that would just take a SLR&one lense with a bit of padding ,and also serve as, my first, shoulder metro-sexual man-bag, for phone too < £100 is more in my budget.

along these lines
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That looks nice, good price, should fit a M4/3 camera just fine.
 
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