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Uber and Bolt both work in Dubrovnik, but a restricted traffic zone around the Old Town changed how pickups happen. Where cars can stop, what it costs and when to book instead.

Cavtat is 20 km from Dubrovnik and 5 km from the airport. How the bus and boat work, what each base costs you and which one suits your trip.

Six public toilets serve Dubrovnik, two of them inside the city walls. Where each one is, the hours, what it costs and why there is none on the walls walk.

Cruise ships dock in Dubrovnik most days between March and November. Typically they arrive early in the morning and leave again by early evening. There is no single fixed schedule, since it depends entirely on which lines have ships in port that week, so the only reliable way to know for a specific date is…

Swimming around Dubrovnik is genuinely safe, and the two things visitors usually worry about, sea urchins and jellyfish, are more of a minor nuisance than a real danger. Sea urchins are by far the more common encounter, since Dubrovnik’s coastline is almost entirely rock and pebble. Jellyfish show up far less often, and when they…

If during your trip to Dubrovnik you plan to use Google Maps, order a ride or just post a photo from Stradun, you’ll need a working data connection on your phone. You can easily buy a SIM card in Dubrovnik, and it’s quite affordable, usually somewhere around €15 for ten days of unlimited data. If…

The number to remember anywhere in Croatia is 112. It’s free, works from any phone and connects you to police, fire or ambulance depending on what you tell the dispatcher. Croatia also runs separate direct lines for each service, which locals use out of habit more than necessity, since 112 covers all of them. If…

Every year on February 3, Dubrovnik stops for its patron saint. Church bells ring across the Old Town, priests carry centuries-old reliquaries down Stradun and thousands of locals, many in traditional dress, follow behind them. It is one of the oldest continuously held civic festivals in Europe, marked without interruption since 972, and in 2009…

Croatia has used the euro since January 2023. If you are coming from another eurozone country, your cash already works here and you can skip most of this page. For everyone else, changing money in Dubrovnik is not complicated, but a few small mistakes can quietly cost you extra euros without you noticing. This page…

If you’ve been scrolling travel news before your trip, there’s a good chance you’ve come across a headline claiming Dubrovnik is banning wheeled suitcases, with fines of up to €265 for anyone caught rolling one through the Old Town. For travelers packing for a summer trip, that’s the kind of story that makes you stop…