Accommodations

My wife and I will be driving from Venice to Dubrovnik the last week in Sept and the first week in Oct. We prefer to stay several days in various locations that can be used for day trips in the surrounding areas. We likely will plan to make reservations for the first several days in either Rovinj or Pula but would then like to pick up accommodations as we go South - stopping or moving without a committed schedule of reservations. We do not like staying in large hotels and prefer smaller hotels, Inns or en-suite private rooms/apartments.

At this time of year will there be adequate available accommodations so we do not need to book ahead and if so are there Gov%26#39;t tourist offices in most towns that can assist with finding last minute local accommodations?

My wife and I were both in Croatia (Yugoslavia) over 40 years ago, before we every met, and are anxious to return together to see the changes and to also enjoy the people and those things that have not changed.

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I think you will be perfectly fine in getting rooms as you go in September and October.

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I agree with Barry no need of booking in advance.I would also add: no need of tourist offices , all the houses offering accomodatin do have labells: room or apartments, so you can stop wher you like and look into , before bringing decision.

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Yes there will be signs all over saying %26quot;sobe%26quot;, so you can check into any place along the way.

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great way to travel and it does take a little bit of diligence to find a good sobe/zimmer or pensione.

I usually port the %26#39;Cheese and Kisses%26#39; at the nearest great coffee escape , a la book and then do the rounds.Longest time was an hour in Rovinj but may have gone to close to the waterfront so not as many sobes.

Have found the most interesting people this way and have even taken a room in a restaurant in Trogir that produced succulent fare.

the charges were very low....usually including breakfast (not Americano tho) and we travel with the dreaded australian International Rupee.

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The blue signs saying sobe (rooms) or apartmani (apartments) will all have been checked out and registered with the local government tourist offices. You have a lot of driving ahead of you and although the roads are good down to Split, the last section of coast down to Dubrovnik is a single lane for each direction of traffic so can be quite a tiring drive of about 4 hours (with keen truck drivers and buses behind you).

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Thanks for all the info and it sounds like our mode of travel and serendipity accommodations should work well at this time of year. The road from Split south could be no comparison to when my wife drove in the mid 60%26#39;s from Greece to Venice on gravel and had to buy gas from watering cans at the train stations.

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