Wednesday 21 August 2013

Cavtat – New Marina In Planning Stages

Croatia Cruising Companion Cavtat cr

Cavtat is one of Croatia’s most popular harbours, especially amongst the superyacht fraternity. It’s close to Dubrovnik International airport, does not attract the same crowds that Dubrovnik does, has some great fish restaurants and has that very traditional Croatian feel. Part of its very relaxed ambience is down to the fact that it has not been over developed, or even developed very much at all!

That might all change a little, hopefully for the better, when the Čista Luka Resort project goes ahead just a short distance away from Cavtat’s main bay. Translated into English as the Clearpoint Resort Project, the blueprint specifies a three-phase master-planned five star resort, residential and marina development covering approximately 100,000 square meters of land, with approximately 68,000 square meters of waterside area dedicated to the marina.  A large five star hotel, 80 room boutique hotel, residential villas, town homes and apartments, restaurant and retail outlets are all part of the plans.

The marina is expected to provide 200 berths.

For more information on the project link to Dalmi Resorts - Cista Luka Project

To read what we said about Cavtat  in an earlier posting link to Croatia Cruising Companion – Cavtat.

For those interested in Croatian pronunciation, the phonetic spelling for Cavtat is  “Savtat” (a soft “c”)!

Monday 5 August 2013

Wall Street Journal Features Croatian Sailing Holiday

_MG_1128 Maslinica Compressed

Follow the link immediately below to read the story of how Wall Street Journalist Jonathan Gornall falls in love with Croatia after chartering a boat from Kremik Marina, near Primošten.

Sailing Croatia's Dalmatian Coast

Today’s picture is of Maslinica on the island of Šolta. The red tiled building in the foreground, surrounding the swimming pool, is the luxury boutique hotel Martinis Marchi. You can read more about that in a posting we put up in June 2012 - Newly Refurbished Marina On The Island of Solta – and, with no disrepect to the hotel at all,  you’ll find out in Jonathan’s article why it’s the first time he felt sorry for “folks in a five star hotel”!