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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.
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by amandak
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? Send the story our way.
In this episode, Hotel Maven Amanda K picks out her ideal summer getaway. Enjoy.
The European summer is on the way (I'm thinking positive). Time to start daydreaming of a cruise down the Croatian coast and a disembarkation at one of my favorite cities, Dubrovnik. You could never get away with building such a boardgame city new: all those old town walls and fortifications and the oh-so-photogenic red roofs. I'm trying to find the ultimate place to stay in Dubrovnik and at the top of my daydreaming list right now is the The Pucic Palace Hotel in the Old Town. It's a seventeenth century building which gives it just the right ambience of history, "who died here" and beauty.
The Pucic Palace is small: a boutique hotel with just nineteen rooms(that's okay, I only need one)--it won an award last year as the best boutique hotel in Croatia. Its website is about as elegant as you can get online, and while we're talking elegance, if the food can really live up to this description then I'm moving in for good:
The pleasure of fine dining is one of the most outstanding activities in the Pucic Palace. The chefs of the three dining venues integrate natural ingredients with art, intelligence, wisdom and skill, turning the culinary arts into a sensual art of living.
Need I say more?
[Photo: Jmilles]
Related Stories:
· Pucic Palace reviews [TripAdvisor]
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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 HotelChatter/Flickr photo pool, or by sending the photo along to us. Remember to tell us the name of the hotel and the room number with the not-so-easy-on-the-eyes view.
A tipster pointed us to this Anti-View from the Hilton Imperial Dubrovnik in Croatia.
Rooms are nice, well furbished and maintained, if you take standard room be prepared not to have nice room view (to private apartment as we did have)
Along with brick walls and air shafts, men wearing too-tiny swim shorts can be an Anti-View as well.
Related Stories:
· Hilton Imperial Dubrovnik reviews [TripAdvisor]
· Room with an Anti-View: Wyndham Garden Hotel [HotelChatter]
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by juliana
Reflective is the word that comes to mind when seeing Dubrovnik in the winter. The land is empty, but still as stunning as the summer season.
And for travelers looking for less touristy options in Croatia, visiting during the off-peak is a must, especially since there are more cheap and empty hotels available.
There are some great package deals, check out Travel Time, and our favorite Trip Advisor.
The pool at Hilton Imperial Dubrovnic was a big hit with one FOHC, friend of HotelChatter, whose favorite feature was the large and stunning swimming pool. According to them, the pool was completely empty, with a really nice sauna, sky light and red-bull cocktail tables.
When you holiday during off peak, you can even get bumped up to the executive floor. The FOHC says "The room was really big, there were shutters on the windows, and the view was of the old city."
Ditto goes for other visitors who loved the convenient location, and friendly staff.
Related Stories:
· Hilton Dubrovnick Guest Reviews [TripAdvisor]
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by GEM0330
The Hilton Imperial Dubrovnik marks the first Hilton hotel in Croatia. Congrats Croatia, getting a Hilton means you have arrived--doesn't it?
The Hilton Imperial Dubrovnik was spawned by combining two old hotel properties thus retaining the original 19th century architecture but with modern technology added inside. The hotel sits facing the sea amidst gorgeous gardens and just alongside the old city walls. The hotel offers 147 guest rooms and eight apartments. Oh and of course a Presidential Suite for when Nicki and Paris realize just how hot Croatia is now.
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· Luxurious New Hilton Imperial Dubrovnik [Hotel News Resource]
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