Palace Hotel Zagreb

... to our hotel on the north west side. What a jaunt and what a hotel. We will get out tomorrow and move to the palace Hotel Zagreb in the centre.. This evening we met up with Belinder and her friend Von ( both of whom are on a maiden voyage here together) ...

... St.Marks Church with its coloured tile roof. The walk continued down Cirilometodska past the Croatian Parliament Building, Bans Court Palace and St.Catherines Church> to Lotrscak Tower with views over Zagreb's lower town. We then caught the funicular ...

... think of two "Z" words so it was that or "Zagreb Zebras", which was totally inaccurate. My initial judgment was correct, Zagreb was filled with interesting architecture from the late-19th and early-20th centuries. I think I took pictures of just about ...

... could rest at either and watch the sparkling Dalmation Sea. While walking the first day that I was there I stumbled upon the Diocletiam Palace which is a Roman ruin that is 100 yards from the coastline. It is built from white stone and marble. It was ...

... .  The Diocletian palace is very cool roman palace (300AD) that is pretty much completely in tact.  After touring the palace basement levels and a few small museums, we sat inside the palace where there are now bars and restaurants and had a ...

... bags for first time, lots more food and dodgy Croatian wine (red lovely, white not so). Town built in Diocletian's retirement palace, warren of streets. Saw our first Dalmatian in Dalmatia. Awoke late but managed to make it to ferry by running and ...

... if you go to Venice and want a nice modern hotel, with all the modern conveniences, I would not hesitate to suggest the Laguna Palace Hotel.  Just don't expect to have "romantic" Venice just outside your door.  There is a canal there, and some ...

... we got through security with no problems. Interestingly there were no restaurants or shops after you passed through the security check point (the Zagreb airport is surprisingly small) so we had to go back out to get food - we were on our own for lunch ...

... used subtitles in English for those portions. After the movie was over, we headed to dinner at a restaurant within the palace walls called Tifani. The atmosphere was fantastic, and the bathrooms were of high-end American restaurant caliber. The food ...

... and find our way home.  We spent the afternoon in San Marco’s Square looking at the Basilica Saint Mark, Ducale Palace, Torre dell’orologio (large clock tower) and people watching.  We then got a snack and headed to the Giardini ...

... , while very nice, lack a sense of humor.   Time to explore Split. Behind these modern and trendy lounges, lies the Diocletian Palace, an UNESCO World Heritage site. If we can’t eat like Romans here, we can at least see how they lived. The ...

... of a day because there is very little to do here that does not involve sun. We went for a walk around Diocletian's palace, a UNESCO world heritage site. Its an amazing roman palace that is amazingly preserved, where we are staying is actually within the ...

... way from Belgrade to Venice in 1 hit. Left Belgrade at 3:30pm and got to Venice at 7am after going through Zagreb and Ljubljana. Finally in Italy after originally planningonbeinghere a few weeksago before getting side tracked by Bosnia and Serbia. We ...

... from those that are still clean.   The flight was a crazy schedule.  I flew from Dubrovnik (south Croatia) to Zagreb (North Croatia), changed planes, flew back to Split, few hundred miles from Dubrovnik where I started and from there to Rome. ...

... . After this, we checked out Harrods (again, how could you not) and then I had to get back to the hotel to repack for my evening flight to Zagreb, the capital of Croatia. Oh yeah and we saw Buckingham Palace somewhere in amongst all that... it was ok, but ...

... in Europe. Split is famous as the home of one of the best preserved antiquities of the Roman Empire—the Emperor Diocletian's Palace. It is not just a ruin, but is lived in by several thousand people today. We get a fantastic tour of the site plus ...

... many beautiful islands scattered charmingly along the coast. Luckily, we were on an organised day trip with a splendid young fellow from Zagreb and he explained to me how the gears worked with an impressive amount of patience and words of one syllable. ...

... wall. The most famous museum of Leipzing is the Museum of Bildenden Kuste, a rich gallery inside a cubic modern glass palace. Walking along a pedestrian street with elegant palaces and shops you can reach the Market Square with the City Hall building, ...

... beach late afternoon (once it no longer felt like an oven outside of a room with air-con!). We started off at Diocletian's Palace which has unfortunately lost some of its appeal over time. You can imagine that it used be a massive, extravagant palace ...

... guy told us were in the wrong one and we had to move to another one that was full!  7 hours to go.....   Zagreb   Thursday   We found out hostel ok the night before but mainly because we bumped into people going that way on the ...