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About Dubrovnik Trip

Dubrovnik Trip is an independent travel guide focused on a single region: Dubrovnik and South Dalmatia. We cover the Old Town, the City Walls, the Elaphiti Islands, Mljet, Korčula, Pelješac, Cavtat, Konavle, and the cross-border day trips to Kotor, Mostar and beyond — with verified itineraries, fact-checked recommendations, and zero tour-sales pitch.

What we publish

  • Destination guides covering Dubrovnik Old Town, the surrounding islands, the Pelješac peninsula, Cavtat, and gateway city Split.
  • Topic guides on City Walls strategy, island hopping, Game of Thrones locations, Pelješac wine and oysters, sea kayaking, cable car logistics, and avoiding the cruise crowd.
  • Itineraries from 3-day city breaks to 14-day South Dalmatia tours, including island, food and adventure variants.
  • Day-trip guides to Montenegro (Kotor, Perast, Budva, Lovćen) and Bosnia-Herzegovina (Mostar, Trebinje, Kravica Waterfalls).
  • Travel tips on transport, avoiding summer crowds, island ferry logistics, currency (EUR since January 2023), and seasonal planning.

Every page is published in eight languages: English, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Dutch and Polish.

How we work

Every destination, guide and itinerary on this site is built on first-hand research, official sources and field-tested logistics. We name specific restaurants and operators when it matters, quote prices in EUR, and give walking times you can verify on the ground before you go.

When a section of the coast gets unbearable in July (Stradun at 11 a.m. with three ships in port), or when a particular island is best visited on a Tuesday in September, we say so. The aim is to publish the kind of page we'd want to read before booking ourselves.

Editorial principles

  • Honest framing. We flag the tourist traps: overpriced restaurants in the Old Town, the City Walls on a 38 °C August afternoon with 10 000 cruise passengers. And we point you to better alternatives — Lokrum at dusk, Šipan in June, Ston for lunch on the way back from Pelješac.
  • Cross-border coverage. The best day trips from Dubrovnik cross into Montenegro and Bosnia-Herzegovina. We cover Kotor, Perast, Mostar and Trebinje with the same care as Dubrovnik itself. Travellers deserve the full regional picture.
  • No paid placements. We do not accept money for editorial mentions, reviews or rankings. The only commercial relationship we have is the GetYourGuide affiliate program (see below).
  • No content fluff. Every page should help you make a decision — book this, skip that, time it like so. Pages that don't earn their place get cut.

Why you can trust this guide

Verified affiliate links

Every tour we recommend points to a real, live listing on GetYourGuide. Before each release we run two scripts — audit-gyg (offline structural audit) and check-gyg-http (live HTTP validation) — to catch removed tours, broken URLs or hijacked product IDs. We refuse to write speculative "you can probably book this" content; if a tour doesn't have a verifiable listing, it doesn't ship.

Reviewed dates on every page

Each destination, guide and itinerary shows a last reviewed date. When ferry schedules change, the City Walls ticket price increases, or a restaurant closes, that date moves. Pages with no recent review get re-checked or rewritten before they reappear in our seasonal cycle.

No invented detail

Restaurant names, opening hours, distances, prices and ferry timetables are all sourced from published material we can cite — official tourism boards, restaurant menus, Jadrolinija schedules, GetYourGuide tour pages, or first-hand visits. We do not invent names or addresses to look knowledgeable. If we mention a konoba in Šipanska Luka, you can walk in and order grilled fish tomorrow.

Quick answers and FAQ blocks

Most guides open with a "quick answer" box and close with a short FAQ. Both are written so that a one-minute reader gets a usable answer, and a thirty-minute reader gets the full picture. We don't pad word counts.

How we make money

This site is free to read. We do not run ads, we do not run sponsored content, and we do not sell email addresses. The only revenue source is the GetYourGuide affiliate program: when you book a tour through one of our links (marked clearly with "Check availability" or "From €X"), GetYourGuide pays us a small commission. Your price is identical to booking directly on GetYourGuide.

If we don't think a tour is worth your money, we don't link it — even if it would pay a commission.

See our full affiliate disclosure for the legal text.

What we don't do

  • We don't run our own tours, so we have no incentive to push you toward a specific operator.
  • We don't accept payment for editorial mentions, reviews or rankings.
  • We don't generate pages with AI alone — every published page is written or rewritten by Claude Sonnet 4.6 under a human editorial brief, with human review of facts, names and figures before release.
  • We don't farm out content to translation services that produce robotic text. The eight-language versions are model-translated and human-checked.

Publisher

Dubrovnik Trip is published by Agence Xen, an independent web publisher.

Email: agencexen@gmail.com

For corrections, suggestions or factual disputes, the inbox is open. We update pages where we find we got something wrong.