Royal Croatian Tours

Good day. The whole trip was a success and really wonderful. Our tour guides were knowledgeable and courteous and professional. Our bike and kayak hosts were great. Shared homemade wine and treats and were also knowledgeable in history! Our boat crew mates for the island hop were delightful and lots of knowledge as well. Everyone was great to us even the taxi guys. It was a great trip.

Ivan did a fantastic job of listening to me and selecting activities that were fun and exciting. The drivers were professional, safe, operated clean vehicles, knowledgeable and always prompt. The tour guides (biking, kayaking, winery, guided walks) were very accommodating, service oriented, knowledgeable and comfortable to be with. The extras provided were always a nice surprise. The breakfasts in each hotel was delicious and had a huge selection to choose from. My first complaint is that the hotel in Korcula was a little warm and a little uncomfortable to sleep. I also heard another man complaining about this at the front desk. I also believe the towels were older and need to be replaced. I plan to look at a trip to Thailand for 8 people in November 2027 and hope to have the same great service that Ivan provided.

Hotel Reviews

Irini Luxury Rooms

Split

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Cleanliness & Comfort

Pharos Hvar Bayhill Hotel

Hvar

Authenticity & Character

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Staff

Cleanliness & Comfort

Marko Polo Hotel

Korcula

Authenticity & Character

Location

Near every thing

Staff

Cleanliness & Comfort

Hotel Lero

Dubrovnik

All good.

Authenticity & Character

Location

Close to everything.

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Cleanliness & Comfort

Activity Reviews

Guided Walking Tour of Split

Split

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Hvar Wine Tasting Excursion

Hvar

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Tour Dubrovnik's Old Town

Croatia

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Plitvice Lakes National Park

Split

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Guides, Drivers and Staff

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Day Trip to the Caves & Beaches of Vis Island by boat

Hvar

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Half Day Kayaking Excursion

Korčula

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Bike tour in Dubrovnik with lunch

Dubrovnik

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The trip was great from planning all the way through implementation. The country is beautiful, the populace is friendly. All the guides were well-versed in their subject areas and were friendly, too. We especially enjoyed Darko, Zoran, and Daniel. The accommodations were enjoyable Noteworthy were the KimKim reps Ivan and Sarah who were exceptionally responsive to our every inquiry. They were the best. We WILL use KimKim again!

Hotel Reviews

Hotel Porto

Dubrovnik

Pharos Hvar Hotel

Hvar

Irini Luxury Rooms

Split

Manda Heritage Hotel

Zagreb

Activity Reviews

Tour Dubrovnik's Old Town

Croatia

Day Trip to Montenegro

Dubrovnik

Dubrovnik Kayaking Adventure

Dubrovnik

Day Trip to the Caves & Beaches of Vis Island by boat

Hvar

Guided Walking Tour of Split

Split

Zagreb - walking food tour!

Zagreb

Quality of Experience

Guides, Drivers and Staff

Really enjoyed Darko!

Knowing nothing about Croatia and having heard wonderful comments, we visited for a week following an eclipse trip to Spain. Kimkim worked with Royal Croatia Tours to organize an efficient trip over one week. We stayed in Dubrovnik, Hvar, Split and Zadar along the Adriatic Shore, with day visits to Cavtat and Sibenek. We traveled by ferry and private car. There's no train service. This region's history is fascinating, from pre-Common Era to date. Dubrovnik's Old City and Split's Roman Palace were most engrossing. The hotels were all excellent, comfortable and located close to walkable destinations. All our drivers spoke excellent English, and were personable and well informed. We had good support from Ivan and Sarah, with Royal Croatia Tours. For instance, we had a boat trip cancel due to weather. They immediately refunded that cost. Cafes and gelato shops are plentiful and Croatian wine is very good. Croatia is working hard to build up its international reputation as a visitor destination, and the hospitality of its people is obvious. If you enjoy beaches, water sports, and historic sites, Croatia is a treasure.

Activity Reviews

Split Walking Food Tour

Split

Guides, Drivers and Staff

Our guide met us promptly and provided an informative tour of the historic parts of town and the Roman Palace. We stopped at four or five cafes to sample the good croatian wine, small bites, entree and pasta courses. Croatian meals are similar to other Mediterranean countries. In addition to the food part of the tour, we learned a great deal about the construction of the huge Roman Palace, and what many subsequent regimes have done in the area.

Transport

Walking tour.

Private Day Trip to Cavtat & Family Farm Day for Traditional Lunch or Dinner

Croatia

Our driver and guide, Doris, was a pleasure. While she was a consummate professional, she was also personable and entertaining. She accompanied us to the little beach town of Cavtat and lunch at a family farm. It was a customized visit and we enjoyed the food, tastings and venue very much.

Our local specialist, Ivan, was extremely helpful, responsive and polite. Our guides and drivers were fun, professional and full of knowledge. We had several interesting day trips from our host cities of Dubrovnik, Zadar and Split. Overall the trip was fantastic!

As a traveller with a group of 20 (where we were a couple with a 1 year old baby), I found the trip itself to be well organised with good options for a group of our size. Special shout out to our guide who took us round the Split Diocletian's palace. She was outstanding with her storytelling and humour. Very engaging given we were already exhausted from an afteroon at the Plitvices National Park!

The choice of restaurants were mostly good with some absolutely exceptional experiences like the private tour around the island of Hvar with dinner at a restaurant with outstanding food and views of the setting sun!

There were many exceptional experiences and if I had one area of improvement, it would be that it was far too much to navigate as a couple with a young baby. We would have valued advice and alternative options before going on the trip so we could choose what would be possible to do with a baby.

For example, we struggled to enjoy the travel via Mostar (having to go through 2 border controls on a bus journey while managing baby feeds, changes and naps) and would have preferred not having to deal with the mulitple check ins and check outs where we were often having to deal with being outside at the hottest time of the day! It's worth checking if the itinerary is suitable for one's specific needs. We had to cancel one of the hiking excursions towards the end of the trip when we finally learned that it was probably going to push all of our exhaustion levels too far! Which was a real shame as we could have dropped something else and done a lovely hike up to the Dubrovnik viewing point for a sunset view.

Having said that, the person our group lead interacted with was quick to respond to feedback and offer changes to the itinerary like when we realised the walk from a ferry to the Hvar hotel was not tenable for our group, they arranged for transport when we needed to make the return journey back. It just made the trip a little less enjoyable than I could have been.

All in all, we'd probably use the services again but I would double check that the itinerary works for specific needs and feedback before fixing the itinerary.

Hotel Reviews

Pharos Hvar Hotel

Hvar

Way too far from the beach and a really tough walk up to it, especially for a couple carrying a baby in the hot sun before check-in. They were unable to do early check-in either and given how far it was, we were stuck hanging out there for a few hours as it was too much trouble to walk back to the water front. Not the greatest breakfast and the room was ridiculously small given we were a couple with a baby. No cot provided and shower was so small, there was no way I could get away with safely bathing the baby.

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They didn't know if they had a nappy change facility and the phone in the room wasn't working to ask for help with getting our luggage back to the lobby on check-out!

Cleanliness & Comfort

Room was far too small to be comfortable.

Hotel Corner

Split

Brilliant room and decent breakfast. Wish we could have stayed for longer! Staff were incredibly helpful, providing us with warm milk for baby and the lobby was beautiful. Brilliant grand piano!

Authenticity & Character

Location

Walking distance from centre of Split

Staff

Cleanliness & Comfort

Hotel Ivka

Dubrovnik

Brilliant room and amazing breakfast. Very helpful staff who were responsive and supportive to our specific needs with a 1 year old baby as well.

Authenticity & Character

For a group of our size, we couldn't get an authentic hotel but this one worked well

Location

Being on a road with lots of cars makes it a bit noisy if windows are open (having a balcony was great but we didn't use it often)

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Activity Reviews

Hvar Island Tour With lunch

Hvar

Outstanding experience, was so nice to have the personal touches from the guide meeting his dad and having a drink. The restaurant was the highlight!

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Guided Walking Tour of Split

Split

Favourite tour of the entire trip! Huge kudos to the guide. She was funny, guided our group well (although we had become smaller than Dubrovnik because some people dropped out as the morning at Plitvic Lakes was exhausting) and dropped us off at the restaurant.

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Dubrovnik to Split via Mostar

Croatia

Not the highlight of the trip. We landed in the heat of the sun along with bus load of tourists. The cobble stone streets made it impossible to navigate with a pram and it was hot and uncomfortable to carry our baby. Depending on the shoes one is wearing, the bridge can be slippery and it was crowded so felt really dangerous with a baby in arms. Overall, this one I could easily have missed as I don't think we really got a good experience of a lovely old town.

Quality of Experience

Guides, Drivers and Staff

It was nice of the restaurant guys to let me change the baby on a sofa in their inner air-conditioned space.

Transport

Tour Dubrovnik's Old Town

Croatia

Dubrovnik is lovely and the guide was lovely. One thing that didn't work too well was the audio connection. It was a bit difficult to fully hear her above the noise in the town. Might have preferred this being in the evening under cooler and quieter conditions for the group to experience it fully.

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Plitvice Lakes National Park

Split

OMG! This needed a full day. Probably would be slightly better if done outside of the tourist season but still an amazing experience. And it's a cooler place so the heat wasn't too bad even though we were walking around at the hottest time of the day.

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Day Trip to Mostar

Croatia

The time taken to get there, via 2 border control crossings and having to navigate cobblestone steps in the heat of the mid-day sun with a 1 year old made this an experience I don't full remember cause we were just trying to find our way from one side of Mostar to the other.

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Boating Excursion to the Elaphite Islands from Dubrovnik + Fresh Fish Lunch

Dubrovnik

Absolutely outstanding experience. Great to go to the islands and have fresh food cooked for us on the boat. Lovely amount of time to relax on a beach and get into the water. Good fun getting back with a thunderstorm chasing us. Made for a bit of an adventure although I would have hated it if the thunderstorm had caught up with us!

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