@Raymond Lin stop having fun
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.
@Raymond Lin stop having fun
Credit to you Raymond for the amount of grace and patience you’ve shown in this thread!
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.
Pics look good, I just recall the ice cream being great and about 10kuna (1 euro ish) around 10 years ago..
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.I’ve been to Lisbon (twice), it’s nice and also has tourists 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.
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.
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'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
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.
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).
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.
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.
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