The 11 Best Hotels in Dubrovnik

A glass elevator cuts down the cliff face to deliver you to this boutique hotel perched above the Adriatic, which tells you most of what you need to know about the drama on offer. The 55 rooms face either Lokrum Island or the Old Town, and the infinity pool blurs into the sea below. Galanto, the only rooftop bar in Dubrovnik, earns its own trip up. The hotel holds a Michelin Key.

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The cliff-face location above Miramare Bay means every one of the ninety-one rooms faces the water, a promise the name Bellevue makes and the glassy façade keeps. It's a mid-sized hotel, relaxed rather than fortress-like, with a canvas-and-dark-wood palette that stops just short of nautical kitsch. Two restaurants, one tucked into a cave in the cliff, and the old city a pleasant walk away round things out nicely.

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A former royal villa on the Adriatic waterfront, just outside Dubrovnik's old town, the Excelsior is the kind of hotel that has hosted Queen Elizabeth II and Elizabeth Taylor and seems unsurprised by the whole thing. Rooms across both buildings run contemporary, with spa-like bathrooms stocked with L'Occitane. Three restaurants, an indoor pool, and a rocky-beach perch give guests every reason to stay put once they've arrived.

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A former cistern now serves as a vaulted sitting room, which tells you most of what you need to know about this small hotel just outside Dubrovnik's Old Town. The stone buildings have been around forever, and the warm golden facades still carry the work of the original mason. Rooms spread across the main house and several stone outbuildings, Restaurant Natali pulls from local farms and the Adriatic, and the team can arrange a boat for the islands.

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A baroque nobleman's mansion on Gundulic Square, converted into a 19-room boutique hotel inside Dubrovnik's old town walls. Each room is named for a local writer or artist, traditionally styled but with freestanding tubs and Bulgari in the bathrooms. There's a café spilling onto the square, a Mediterranean restaurant, and a leather-clad wine bar pouring Croatian bottles. The Michelin Guide has it among its selected hotels.

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Rooms and suites step down a cliffside in terraced rows above the Adriatic, a mile from Dubrovnik's old city walls. This polished luxury resort earns the views rather than coasting on them: the glass-walled Turquoise restaurant, the sprawling pool deck, a teppanyaki spot, and ladders down to the sea all feel considered rather than obligatory. Suites with private sea-facing balconies go fast, and you'll understand why the moment you see what they're facing.

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A three-room boutique tucked inside a 15th-century stone house, right against Dubrovnik's old city wall with St. John's Fort as a neighbor. The family who owns it also runs it, which makes the whole operation feel less like a hotel and more like borrowing a well-appointed friend's apartment, complete with underfloor heating and SMEG kitchenettes. No breakfast service, but the owners know Old Town cold and will point you everywhere worth going.

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A four-room boutique hotel tucked inside an old townhouse in the Adriatic's most dramatically walled city, The Byron wears its age under a clean white-on-white refresh, with Molton Brown in the bathrooms and kitchenettes in most rooms for when you'd rather stay in. No restaurant, but Dubrovnik is hardly short of options, and the concierge knows where to send you.

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Cave Bar More, a cocktail bar carved into a series of underground rock chambers that open onto the waterfront, gives this adults-only hillside hotel its personality. The 77 rooms and suites on Lapad peninsula sit a couple of miles from the Old Town, most with balconies over the bay. Two sea-view terrace restaurants lean into local catch and the broader eastern Adriatic pantry, and a bathing deck below the building offers direct sea access.

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The rooftop Zenith Bar may be the most persuasive argument for booking a room here rather than commuting from the old town for sunset. Hotel Kompas sits on Lapad Bay, a couple of miles west of the walls, with a thoroughly renovated interior that plays its mid-century modernist bones into something genuinely crisp: whites, creams, balconies on every room, and heated bathroom floors keeping things comfortable.

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Thirteen restaurants and bars is not a boast you can shrug off, and Sun Gardens backs it up with four hundred rooms, suites, and apartments spread along the Croatian coast outside Dubrovnik. The resort's interiors lean sharp and contemporary, with Adriatic blue deployed tastefully rather than relentlessly. Three pools, a beach, the region's largest spa, and a food market stocking local pastries, fish, and wine round out a property that runs big without feeling anonymous.

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