One of the tourist meccas of the Adriatic Sea, Split (pop. 200 000) is a popular vacation and an even more popular transit spot. The number of tourists visiting the city itself and staying for at least a few days has reached 210 000 in 2011., while the number of people vacationing at the surrounding coast and islands while just visiting Split has been 1.7 million.
Currency: Croatian kuna (HRK or kn, "Hrvatska kuna"). 1€ = 7.5 kn, 1$ US = 5.5 kn
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Named like that due to its residents who can't ever agree on anything (j/k, latin name is Spalato), Split is located in the middle of the province of Dalmatia and is surrounded by many other tourist hotspots like Zadar, Makarska and Dubrovnik. You can reach it by:
a) road - either the Highway A1 "Dalmatina" from Zagreb or a smaller coastal road ("Jadranska magistrala") from northwest or southeast. The highway toll is 170 kn (22 €)
b) train - two daily and one nightly train from Zagreb, which is further connected to everywhere in Europe. One-way ticket from Zagreb is 210 kn (28 €).
c) plane - the international airport "Resnik", located some 15 km away on the other side of Split's bay, is regularly served by several international lines from Frankfurt, Barcelona, Brussels, Prague, Istanbul and etc. For cheaper types, RyanAir serves the airport in Zadar, which is 2 hours' drive away from Split. The airport is connected to Split by bus and taxi services.
Another option is a ferry from Ancona, Italy. There are also daily ferries to the surrounding islands: Brač, Hvar, Vis, Korčula, Lastovo and Mljet. It takes from 1 to 5 hours to reach them. Hvar, at about 2 hours away, houses the famous "Carpe Diem" nightclub if you're into that sort of "elite & popular" thing.
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Accomodation: because I live in Split, I have never had the opportunity to try its accommodation, but it is widely available everywhere along the city coast, with many hostels, hotels and apartments. A cheap dorm bed in a hostel might cost as little as 150 kn, a private room in a hotel up to 600 kn. There are also many unofficial apartments with lower prices, whose owners advertise them in person at the main station (approaching tourists carrying "Sobe/Rooms" signs).
Food: There are plenty of fast-food joints around, where you can have a small pizza ("pizzeta") for 10 kn, or the local specialties like ćevapi for 15-20 kn (highly recommended, try "Lozo" a bit away from the center). In lower scale restaurants, a main dish is around 50 kn, while a dinner at a typical place will cost you about 100-150 kn per person. Large fish and crustaceans are the most expensive food around and go for up to 300 kn/kg because Adriatic Sea has been overfished in recent years.
My personal restaurant favorites are the tavern Pimpinella and restaurant Re Di Mare, a place with moderate prices and nice variety of food, and Fife, a popular tavern on the coast with low prices and high quality seafood (although it's really a "tavern", which you can see in its level of service).
Split doesn't have much of foreign food, just one Chinese restaurant, possibly a mexican one that I don't know about and that's it. Croatian food, particularly seafood, will make up for the lack of variety, though.
Economy: Croatia isn't poor, it's a developed western economy (although lagging behind Slovenia), so don't make the mistake of comparing it to Macedonia or Kosovo. Social inequality is high, yes, but being a provider has lost all of its appeal many years ago.
Transport: a taxi from the center to anywhere in the city will cost 30-50 kn. Buses are frequent almost everywhere, although there are no buses at nights other than Friday or Saturday. A single bus ticket costs 10 kn, 9 if you buy it at a newsstand and not in the bus. Ticket checks are fairly frequent.
Sightseeing: Split is built upon an old Roman palace built by Emperor Diocletian in AD 304, which is amazingly well preserved, with ancient stone gates and cellars. You will be confounded by the fact that people actually live in it, which is a rarity given how old and vulnerable it is. Other than the palace, there is not too much to see. There are a nice Maritime and a Biological museum, several historical museums and art galleries (I recommend "Galerija Ivana Meštrovića" too, a museum of a famous Croatian sculptor). To the west, the woody hill Marjan serves as a recreation and relaxation hub.
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Beaches: there is only one sand beach in Split, "Bačvice" just to the east of the main promenade and city port ("Riva"), and it's nice but always hideously packed. Going either further east or west, you will discover several more coves with either gravel beaches, or natural stony coast. The sea is clean and there is no danger from sharks or anything (no such species live in Adriatic Sea), although watch out that you don't step on a sea urchin.
Girls: Girls in Split are pretty and have nice bodies, much like in Roosh's "20 reasons" post. The obesity rate is low and one of the lowest in Croatia, although Croatia as a whole does have a problem with more and more overweight people. It is also a student town, although many students will be gone back to smaller towns and islands during the summer. Overall, you will see plenty of stunners just from walking on the street.
Croatian people are one of the tallest around, and average female height is 170 cm or 5'7''), with quite a lot of variety.
Girls are generally open to at least talking to foreigners and have some interest in them for exotic value, but dating a foreigner does not confer any special social status. Their overall character is rather Americanized, with quite a lot of bitchiness, princess syndrome and flaking at epidemic proportions. It's not as bad as in Australia, from my experience, but it is definitely worse than in Poland or Slovakia. Sluttiness is moderate (and more than you would expect from a nominally Catholic country). While there is no widespread ONS culture yet like in USA (although it does happen), making out and grinding in nightclubs is quite common.
Basic English is known by almost all young people, but fluency is less common.
Competition: Croatian guys don't have a lot of game yet, although many have good physiques and are tall. Their game usually boils down to Compliment & Cuddle. The few that have quality asshole game usually clean up, although again it's not as bad as it seems to be in USA and other places. But you will need solid game to get any results.
Where to go out:
There are 3 main hubs for going out. One is along the eastern coast, where you just follow the coast from the main promenade (Riva) until you reach the first cove. There are several nightclubs "Tropic", "Bačvice" and so on stacked together and blaring typical western-DJ music. It can be quite a sausage-fest and very packed, although as soon as summer goes away, the entire coast goes dead. There is usually no entry fee.
An interesting place I have never been to but with a lot better reputation is the club "Imperium" right there in the port, where salsa evenings are held frequently. Further east along the coast, there are two caffes, then in the next cove the rock club "O'Hara" (a nice, somewhat chilled out place compared to Bačvice clubs but usually has an entry fee), and then a few more caffes along the coast of Žnjan (one is called "Plaža"), then nothing.
The second is in the middle of the city, with low-key rock clubs like "Quasimodo" and turbofolk places like "Mississipi". These places don't see much traffic during summer, but Quasimodo attracts a more hip/intellectual crowd if you're into that.
Finally, by going to the northern side of the Split peninsula, near the football stadium, you will find several clubs "Vanilla", "Hemingway" and "Plava kava" (note: very small and too packed for my tastes) which play mostly domestic pop music. Their popularity varies strongly during summer, with boom and off days, while during winter they're the main hub of the city. Compared to the coast, the vibe is similar, but there is more open space and it's a bit more relaxed.
Note that many of these places (on the coast too) have a dress code and face control, and bouncers can be rather douchey. Girls will always be allowed in, of course. People generally don't start gathering until at least midnight, but then it fills up quickly.
Almost everyone likes going out and spending at least 2 nights a week clubbing and drinking. It is a part of national culture. The only difference is type of the club: the lower-educated and less urban people generally prefer "cajke" (turbofolk) music, while the others prefer rock, techno and domestic rock, but their sexual habits aren't much different.
A drink at each of those places ranges from 15 kn for a beer, coke or a vodka shot to 30-40 kn for cocktails and the like.
Conclusion: While I don't hold Croatia or Split in a high regard and am personally disturbed by how Americanized the girls have become, so I would rather spend my days in Poland or Ukraine, during the summer everyone goes to the sea anyway, and among those places available, Split isn't bad at all. I recommend visiting for a few days and checking out if you like it. It might just surprise you.
Currency: Croatian kuna (HRK or kn, "Hrvatska kuna"). 1€ = 7.5 kn, 1$ US = 5.5 kn
Named like that due to its residents who can't ever agree on anything (j/k, latin name is Spalato), Split is located in the middle of the province of Dalmatia and is surrounded by many other tourist hotspots like Zadar, Makarska and Dubrovnik. You can reach it by:
a) road - either the Highway A1 "Dalmatina" from Zagreb or a smaller coastal road ("Jadranska magistrala") from northwest or southeast. The highway toll is 170 kn (22 €)
b) train - two daily and one nightly train from Zagreb, which is further connected to everywhere in Europe. One-way ticket from Zagreb is 210 kn (28 €).
c) plane - the international airport "Resnik", located some 15 km away on the other side of Split's bay, is regularly served by several international lines from Frankfurt, Barcelona, Brussels, Prague, Istanbul and etc. For cheaper types, RyanAir serves the airport in Zadar, which is 2 hours' drive away from Split. The airport is connected to Split by bus and taxi services.
Another option is a ferry from Ancona, Italy. There are also daily ferries to the surrounding islands: Brač, Hvar, Vis, Korčula, Lastovo and Mljet. It takes from 1 to 5 hours to reach them. Hvar, at about 2 hours away, houses the famous "Carpe Diem" nightclub if you're into that sort of "elite & popular" thing.
Accomodation: because I live in Split, I have never had the opportunity to try its accommodation, but it is widely available everywhere along the city coast, with many hostels, hotels and apartments. A cheap dorm bed in a hostel might cost as little as 150 kn, a private room in a hotel up to 600 kn. There are also many unofficial apartments with lower prices, whose owners advertise them in person at the main station (approaching tourists carrying "Sobe/Rooms" signs).
Food: There are plenty of fast-food joints around, where you can have a small pizza ("pizzeta") for 10 kn, or the local specialties like ćevapi for 15-20 kn (highly recommended, try "Lozo" a bit away from the center). In lower scale restaurants, a main dish is around 50 kn, while a dinner at a typical place will cost you about 100-150 kn per person. Large fish and crustaceans are the most expensive food around and go for up to 300 kn/kg because Adriatic Sea has been overfished in recent years.
My personal restaurant favorites are the tavern Pimpinella and restaurant Re Di Mare, a place with moderate prices and nice variety of food, and Fife, a popular tavern on the coast with low prices and high quality seafood (although it's really a "tavern", which you can see in its level of service).
Split doesn't have much of foreign food, just one Chinese restaurant, possibly a mexican one that I don't know about and that's it. Croatian food, particularly seafood, will make up for the lack of variety, though.
Economy: Croatia isn't poor, it's a developed western economy (although lagging behind Slovenia), so don't make the mistake of comparing it to Macedonia or Kosovo. Social inequality is high, yes, but being a provider has lost all of its appeal many years ago.
Transport: a taxi from the center to anywhere in the city will cost 30-50 kn. Buses are frequent almost everywhere, although there are no buses at nights other than Friday or Saturday. A single bus ticket costs 10 kn, 9 if you buy it at a newsstand and not in the bus. Ticket checks are fairly frequent.
Sightseeing: Split is built upon an old Roman palace built by Emperor Diocletian in AD 304, which is amazingly well preserved, with ancient stone gates and cellars. You will be confounded by the fact that people actually live in it, which is a rarity given how old and vulnerable it is. Other than the palace, there is not too much to see. There are a nice Maritime and a Biological museum, several historical museums and art galleries (I recommend "Galerija Ivana Meštrovića" too, a museum of a famous Croatian sculptor). To the west, the woody hill Marjan serves as a recreation and relaxation hub.
Beaches: there is only one sand beach in Split, "Bačvice" just to the east of the main promenade and city port ("Riva"), and it's nice but always hideously packed. Going either further east or west, you will discover several more coves with either gravel beaches, or natural stony coast. The sea is clean and there is no danger from sharks or anything (no such species live in Adriatic Sea), although watch out that you don't step on a sea urchin.
Girls: Girls in Split are pretty and have nice bodies, much like in Roosh's "20 reasons" post. The obesity rate is low and one of the lowest in Croatia, although Croatia as a whole does have a problem with more and more overweight people. It is also a student town, although many students will be gone back to smaller towns and islands during the summer. Overall, you will see plenty of stunners just from walking on the street.
Croatian people are one of the tallest around, and average female height is 170 cm or 5'7''), with quite a lot of variety.
Girls are generally open to at least talking to foreigners and have some interest in them for exotic value, but dating a foreigner does not confer any special social status. Their overall character is rather Americanized, with quite a lot of bitchiness, princess syndrome and flaking at epidemic proportions. It's not as bad as in Australia, from my experience, but it is definitely worse than in Poland or Slovakia. Sluttiness is moderate (and more than you would expect from a nominally Catholic country). While there is no widespread ONS culture yet like in USA (although it does happen), making out and grinding in nightclubs is quite common.
Basic English is known by almost all young people, but fluency is less common.
Competition: Croatian guys don't have a lot of game yet, although many have good physiques and are tall. Their game usually boils down to Compliment & Cuddle. The few that have quality asshole game usually clean up, although again it's not as bad as it seems to be in USA and other places. But you will need solid game to get any results.
Where to go out:
There are 3 main hubs for going out. One is along the eastern coast, where you just follow the coast from the main promenade (Riva) until you reach the first cove. There are several nightclubs "Tropic", "Bačvice" and so on stacked together and blaring typical western-DJ music. It can be quite a sausage-fest and very packed, although as soon as summer goes away, the entire coast goes dead. There is usually no entry fee.
An interesting place I have never been to but with a lot better reputation is the club "Imperium" right there in the port, where salsa evenings are held frequently. Further east along the coast, there are two caffes, then in the next cove the rock club "O'Hara" (a nice, somewhat chilled out place compared to Bačvice clubs but usually has an entry fee), and then a few more caffes along the coast of Žnjan (one is called "Plaža"), then nothing.
The second is in the middle of the city, with low-key rock clubs like "Quasimodo" and turbofolk places like "Mississipi". These places don't see much traffic during summer, but Quasimodo attracts a more hip/intellectual crowd if you're into that.
Finally, by going to the northern side of the Split peninsula, near the football stadium, you will find several clubs "Vanilla", "Hemingway" and "Plava kava" (note: very small and too packed for my tastes) which play mostly domestic pop music. Their popularity varies strongly during summer, with boom and off days, while during winter they're the main hub of the city. Compared to the coast, the vibe is similar, but there is more open space and it's a bit more relaxed.
Note that many of these places (on the coast too) have a dress code and face control, and bouncers can be rather douchey. Girls will always be allowed in, of course. People generally don't start gathering until at least midnight, but then it fills up quickly.
Almost everyone likes going out and spending at least 2 nights a week clubbing and drinking. It is a part of national culture. The only difference is type of the club: the lower-educated and less urban people generally prefer "cajke" (turbofolk) music, while the others prefer rock, techno and domestic rock, but their sexual habits aren't much different.
A drink at each of those places ranges from 15 kn for a beer, coke or a vodka shot to 30-40 kn for cocktails and the like.
Conclusion: While I don't hold Croatia or Split in a high regard and am personally disturbed by how Americanized the girls have become, so I would rather spend my days in Poland or Ukraine, during the summer everyone goes to the sea anyway, and among those places available, Split isn't bad at all. I recommend visiting for a few days and checking out if you like it. It might just surprise you.
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