Dubrovnik Residence

Good location. Very helpful owner.

Great views of ocean and the old town!

lots of staircases, but not a serious issue!

Goldi is a warm and helpful host who met me on arrival and showed me how to find the apartment. I stayed in the studio apartment with balcony and sea views. The view is exactly as pictured and is simply wonderful. The apartment is large and quite comfortable with everything you need (linen excepted which i'll touch on below). The kitchen is well appointed, there is a full size fridge and dining table. The washing machine is great to have when travelling for extended periods too. There are a few stairs involved in reaching the apartment, but they are manageable and Goldi was happy to assist with carting my luggage down. Keep this in mind if you are arriving late at night as you will have to do this yourself – while trying to locate the right place. There is a small supermarket very close by which has all the basics. Walking into Old Town is relatively easy, the walk back takes more effort. We visited in late August and the temperatures were quite high. I often grabbed an Uber to get back to the apartment to save my legs. The air con works well and coming home to a cool apartment was welcomed. There is some noise from those staying in the other rooms but this is to be expected. I did have a problem with the bed linens provided. The ‘sheet’ that covers the mattress barely covered the bed and once you put a body on it, it crept in even more, exposing significant parts of the mattress meaning you were sleeping directly on the mattress. As I was only one person I used one of the two single sheets provided to cover the bottom of the bed and used the other as my cover. If you were a couple, in my view i would not have found it appropriate to sleep directly on the exposed mattress (yuk!). The pillows are quite old (holes in it) and one of them smelt very musty. I swapped it for a spare I found in the wardrobe. I wasn’t entirely comfortable with the bed but as i was just one person i made it work. With a few small changes, this could really lift an already great place.

The bed linens. The pillows and bed covers are dated, one of the pillows was falling apart on the inside and smelt. The linens do not fit the bed properly. Its not very hygenic to sleep directly on a mattress which is what you feel you are doing. The throw cushions on the bed look and feel dated and were a littel dirty. I removed this immediately and put them in the cupboard. Taking you own sheet might be a consideration. One other thing i would suggest is to include arrows on the front door to show which way to lock and unlock the doors. this would cut down a lot of noise in the corridor. Small changes to an otherwise fabulous apartment.