Garbage Can

Dubrovnik has three different types of garbage cans. In the old town cans are positioned on each street corner. Use them. They are completely free to use. You must know that throwing your garbage especially gums on the main street is a bad luck and also barbaric habit that completely disappeared from Dubrovnik 2 centuries ago. Don't push your luck, USE THE CAN!

Street Signs and Street Names

There are two of signs at each street corner in the old town. One of them is old traditional street name written on the white stone and other is modern street info made traditional way. If you don't want to walk each street you can inform yourself at the bottom of the street about different shops and secrets of that street. You can trust that info 80% because they are not so often updated. It can easy happen that you miss some interesting gallery or nice shop because old info at the bottom of the street.

TIP: Street info is a good thing to find some place you are searching. If your idea is to circle around don't look that info at all?..

Dubrovnik Bus - Libertas

Don't try to cheat Dubrovnik bus driver! There is a rule for using Dubrovnik busses. You can buy a ticket outside the bus or in bus but only way to enter the bus is using first door and passing by the driver. Then you check your card while driver is watching you carefully. After you check the card don't wait for drivers smile just go and seat in the back of the bus. Keep the card because it lasts for one hour at any bus that drives in the city. Also there is possibility of card control. Busses are not good way of transportation in full season because of traffic jams so it can happen that your one hour card lasts just for one "10 minute" drive. Bus tickets can be obtained from: news stands, Libertas counters at Pile Gate, Bus Terminal and Moko?ica, as well as from hotel receptions and travel agencies.

MORE INFO:
One ticket costs 10 kuna (1.4 euro)in the bus or 8 kuna (1.1 euro) if you buy it at the newspaper stand.
Lines from 1 to 9 travel inside the town.
Direct line to Cavtat is line 10 and ticket costs 12 kuna.

LINK: www.libertasdubrovnik.hr

City Map

This city map is located at pile, just outside the old town. If you are lost there is a spot that said YOU ARE HERE. If you already know where you are then good for you. You can take a look at the map and decide which other parts of Dubrovnik you want to explore.

Aquarium

If you see this sign you are definitely close to Dubrovnik aquarium. It is positioned in the old fort near Porporela. Dubrovnik Aquarium is not as big and impressive like most of the west Europe and USA aquariums. It is one cozy place where you can spend around 30 minutes viewing adriatic fishes, feeling happy because you escaped from the hot summer day. You should give a chance to aquarium?.

INFO:
Aquarium works from 9 - 19.
Ticket cost 20 kuna for adults and 10 kuna for children.

Old Port

Old port is a place where most of the interesting boat trips start from. There are diferent kinds of boat trips but most popular are: trip day to Lokrum and Back, trip to Cavtat and romantic night trip around the old town. Some of the prices are negotiable and some of them like tickets for Lokrum are not negotiable. The old port is one of the places where your summer adventure can start?.

INFO:
LOKRUM SINGLE RETURN TICKET COSTS 35 KUNA.
ORGANISED GROUPS AND EXCURSIONS 25 KUNA.

City Walls Entrance

There are three different entrances to city walls. It is unnecessary to say anything about city walls. Take a ride around old town and enjoy the unforgettable feeling.

ADDITIONAL FACT: There is a possibility to quit the city wall tour at each new entrance but we can't remember any reason why shouldn't you make a full tour. Your digital camera will be thankfull?

TIP: If you are not brave enough avoid city walls around noon. There are few refresh points but it won't help you when the temperature gets over 30 ºC.

INFO: Ticket price is 30 kuna for adults and just 10 kuna for kids.
Working time is from 09:00 - 18:30.
At each entrance you can rent an audio guide which leads you on 8 different languages different through the history of the city and its walls.

Map of Damages

This is a detailed map of the hits that old town received in bombing by Jugoslav army during the patriotic war. Looking at this map a person can't help to wonder how could that happen at the end of the 20th century in such progressive and modern continent as Europe has tendency to be.

TIP:. These maps are positioned near the each entrance to the old town. Find this map and look at it. Take the minute and think.

Info Office

Blue sign means you have finally found info office. At info office you will find your new best friends who will inform you anything you need and don't need to know.
TIP: Central info office is at main street - STRADUN. You can't miss it.

Dubrovnik Museums

This sign mean that in front of you is one of the famous Dubrovnik museums. Try to reach the magic of Dubrovnik history museums. They are positioned on the different parts of the old town and each of them tells another interesting story about ancient Dubrovnik history.

For additional info try: http://www.mdc.hr/dubrovnik/hr/

Parking Places

Do you play lottery? If you don't than you won't understand the rules of parking in Dubrovnik. Let me explain. Chance for you to find the parking in Dubrovnik doesn't really exist. Long line of cars dragging through the streets is normal everyday picture in summer months. If you didn't understand yet ALL OF THEM ARE SEARCHING FOR THE PARKING SPACE!

Parking places are the biggest problem in Dubrovnik. There are few Parking places around the old town but they are always full and you will lose lot of time in your car searching for the parking. What is the solution?

Try not to use your car for old town trips and use the city bus or taxi. Otherwise it can easy happen that 50% of your holiday you spent taking pictures from the car......

Taxi

There are more then enough taxi drivers in Dubrovnik. You can't miss them. Normally they have their places outside the old town, in the port, at the bus station but also nearby any important event.

Are they expensive? Entering the cab will cost you 3, 5 EURO. Usually a ride within the city will cost you around 10 EURO and ride to the airport costs around 30 EURO. You are not obligated to pay if driver didn't turn taximeter on. Taxi ride sometimes can be a risk but it is definitely the best way to come home after the long night....

OFFICIAL TAXI PRICE LIST

Start	25,00 kn
1 Km of Drive	8,00 kn
1 h of Waiting	80,00 kn
Dubrovnik <-> Airport	cca 200,00 kn

Exchange Rate

If you are foreign tourist on a fast break around the city you will probably have no local currency in your wallet. There are two ways to solve this problem. You can use one of many exchange offices or banks inside the city. Other way is to try to pay in EURO. Most of the shops and restaurants will take Euro but remember: They have their own exchange rate!

EXCHANGE RATE CHART

1. BANKS (normal exchange rate with 2% commission)
2. EXCHANGE OFFICES (no provision but still 5% lower rates than the bank)
3. SHOP AND RESTAURANT OWNERS (They will just make it simple for you. If 1 euro is 7, 5 Kuna they will give you 7 Kuna. If 1 euro is 7, 2 Kuna they will again give you 7 Kuna.) If you don’ t exchange big money this is not so bed version for you. You won’ t lose time in the bank and you can always exchange difference consider as a tip for a good service......

Youth Hostel

There is only one youth hostel in Dubrovnik. It is a clean place, not expensive, just the way it is suppose to be. Here is some basic info about it...

YH DUBROVNIK
Vinka Sagrestana 3
20 000 Dubrovnik
tel: ++385.20.423.241
fax: ++385.20.412.592
e-mail: dubrovnik@hfhs.hr

Hostel has 82 beds
It is opened all year.

Theatre Marin Drzic

If you are planning to enrich yourself with one of the Dubrovnik's theatre plays, your only choice (except for the period of the duration the Dubrovnik Summer Festival, July 10- August 25) is to go to Marin Drzic’ s Theatre, which has been a professional theatre since 1944.

It received its name in commemoration of the 400 year-old death of the great Dubrovnik writer, Marin Drzic. The theater is rather small, but once you get in you will be thrilled by its beauty.

Before the play starts, do not forget to look up at the ceiling.
LINK: http://www.kazaliste-dubrovnik.hr/

Srd

The mount above Dubrovnik is called Srd. Fortunately there are two ways to get on the top of it.

• One way is to pay the taxi service and admire the view, without having troubles with catching the breath and the pain in your legs.
• The second way, as you may have guessed, is to climb up the steep serpentine pathway. This actually seems harder than it really is, because if you are used to climbing it may take you about 30 or 40 minutes to get to the top, and on the way you can benefit from the fresh air, beautiful nature and the breathtaking view the old town and its surroundings.

There is only one warning, when you get to the top, you may whish to take a walk further. Make sure that you walk only on the pathways and pay attention to the signs and warnings, because due to the war in Dubrovnik, there are still some parts of the hill that have not jet been inspected by the mine-clearance companies.