They call themselves Croatia's finest resort hotel. Travel bulletin board reviewers call them the 11th best hotel in Dubrovnik. So they may not be quite as good as they thought, but the Dubrovnik Palace Hotel is not a bad place to enjoy some luxury accommodation in (we think) Croatia's most gorgeous city.

MORE]]> amandak 2007-06-27T10:58:57-05:00 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2007/3/12/6038/05193 <![CDATA[<p><p> <i>Cubicle Dreamin' is a feature in which we ask the hotel mavens to take some time out of their busy work day, surf the Internet, and tell us what hotel they wish they could beam themselves to right that very second--all on the slave driving companies dime, of course. Oh, like these people aren't surfing aimlessly anyway--at least now their purposeless clicking will be cobbled together into useful hotel stories--we hope. Have a destination hotel you are just dying to leave your cube for? <a href="tips@hotelchatter.com">Send the story our way</a>.<p> In this episode, Hotel Maven <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/user/amandak/stories">Amanda K</a> picks out her ideal summer getaway. Enjoy.</i><p><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/admin/pucic_palace.jpg" class="imgborder"/><p>The European summer is on the way (I'm thinking positive). Time to start amandak 2007-03-12T09:35:02-05:00 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2006/9/7/1080/88363 <![CDATA[<p><p><i>You know the scene. You open the door to your brand new hotel room, run over to the window, open the blinds and bam, you are hit with the anti-view. Maybe you are looking down a dirty alley, witnessing a drug deal, staring at an air shaft in the face, or seeing a brick wall. Whatever you are viewing it is not extremely pleasurable. Help out your fellow hotel mavens by uploading your anti-views to the <a href="http://flickr.com/groups/hotelchatter/">HotelChatter/Flickr photo pool</a>, or by <a href="mailto:tips@hotelchatter.com">sending the photo along to us</a>. Remember to tell us the name of the hotel and the room number with the not-so-easy-on-the-eyes view.</i><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/admin/antiview_dubrovnik.jpg"><p>A tipster pointed us to this Anti-View from the <a href="http://www.hilton.com/en/hi/hotels/index.jhtml?ctyhocn=DBVHIHI"><b>Hilton Imperial Dubrovnik</b></a> in juliana 2006-09-07T10:08:00-05:00 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2006/3/17/12167/1181 <![CDATA[<p><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/admin/dubrovnik_croatia.jpg"><p>Croatia has become the travel world's newest darling. Once war torn and not-so-safe, thanks to the <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/03/17/AR2006031700825.html">recently deceased</a> Serbian dictator Slobodan Milosevic, the coastal areas of the former Yugoslav province which border the Adriatic sea, are experiencing a travel rebirth. <p>The city of Dubrovnik in South Croatia was built in the 13th century and much of the old town remains today, despite heavy bombing from Serbia in the early 1990s. The original medieval fortresses still exist today which only allow two points of entry into the old town and the Stradun, the city's promenade.<p><a href="http://www.gva.hr/"><b>The Grand Villa Argentina</b></a> has four villas to stay in as well as a main hotel. The hotel pool sits right above the beach juliana 2006-03-17T13:10:22-05:00 Search HotelChatter string http://www.hotelchatter.com/search/