Our Travelers

Take a look at what our travelers have to say about their experiences with our travel specialist Wanda S. Radetti and the services of the VisitCroatia.com – Tasteful Croatian Journeys team.

Dear Wanda,

My husband and I had a wonderful trip to Croatia.  Thank-you for making that happen.  Besides enjoying the beautiful scenery, great food and amazing history we especially enjoyed interacting with the tour guides and drivers and getting their perspective on life in Croatia.

As a final item I am reaching out to you as I would like to tip Mirela for her assistance in booking the restaurant reservations.  She booked about 10 reservations and the tables were great.  She also gave me the info to contact the recommended kayaking business.  Can you provide some guidance?

Thanks again,

P.E. – WI
September 2018

Dear Wanda,

I want to thank you for helping me plan the wonderful trip to Croatia. It is such a beautiful country and the people are so warm and kind. Every place was amazing, especially the islands. My all-day tour on Hvar was the best….All the smaller cities and the Stari Grad plain. Montenegro was a great day, also. All the walking tours were well worth it.

It is like being in America with an accent. Everyone speaks English and most all signs are in English. When off the beaten path traveling by car with my daughter in the northern countryside where menus are in Croatian, the amazing google translate app translated the menu through the camera on our mobile phone. Just put the camera on the writing and slowly pull away from the page and the words magically turn into English. Incredible. Anyone could travel to China or anywhere and translate everything.

Thank you again for the privilege of working with you.

Have a wonderful fall and holiday season

Sincerely,

Linda Seegers – Tampa, FL
September 2018

Dear Wanda,

Thank you very much for all of your excellent guidance on our recent visit to Croatia.  The tour you designed was perfect.  We thoroughly enjoyed Istria and even our 4 children who initially were skeptical about Istria eventually admitted that it was absolutely fantastic.  We had great fun swimming around the beaches of Opatija and wandering through the old town.  The tour of Pula, Rovinj and Motovun was outstanding especially seeing the ancient Roman architecture in Pula, walking around the wall of Motovun and tasting the local truffles.  We had an amazing time in Krka exploring the waterfalls and swimming in the pools at the base.  The tour of Split was incredibly educational, and your guide added a number of fun and interesting facts to keep our kids engaged.

Overall, it was one of the best family vacations we’ve had.  Thank you again.

Best regards,

Lawrence Jay Olson – Westfield, NJ
August 2018

Dear Wanda,

Our trip was unbelievable! Croatia is beautiful!

Thanks so much!

Kiva Barr – Short Hills, NJ
July 2018

Dear Wanda,

We’ve just returned from our wonderful trip to Croatia and wanted to thank you for making it so special. Your staff, drivers and guides were all exceptional.

It’s no wonder that you have such a good reputation.

K. & S. – Beverly Hills, CA
June 2018

Dear Wanda,

Thank you very much for a fantastic trip to the beautiful country of Croatia. Everything was great. All of the guides and drivers were knowledgeable, responsible and most importantly fun! It was a pleasure getting to know each of them and learn about their perspective on the country and their experiences. These personal interactions were a highlight of our trip. The restaurants were excellent. We especially enjoyed Pelegrini, Filippi, LD and Bokeria.

Some feedback…

Montenegro is beautiful and we really enjoyed our lunch there. The driver was fantastic and we learned a lot. Danny, the guide in Kotor, is most definitely engaging and knowledgeable, however, I am not sure if there was a delay or miscommunication but after a long drive, the walking tour could not have lasted more than 15-20 minutes. In addition, with traffic and delay at the border, I’m not sure I would recommend this excursion. It was a very long day, mostly in the car.

The hotel in Korcula was fine. I liked the location, a bit removed from town and felt that it was an authentic reflection of a European destination resort. The food was pretty bad. There was little gluten free food available for Robert and the coffee, as we laughed about with Lea (who is AWESOME!!) was atrocious! We ate in town the second morning.

We are not into Tripadvisor or other online review sites but are happy to give personal recommendations if you would like. The experience was seamless and stress free. We enjoyed every minute.

The most exciting experience was our last night, watching the Croatia team beat Russia, surrounded by new friends and screaming fans in Split!

We will never forget it and are looking forward to the defeat of France tomorrow!!

Thank you again,

Jill Kingsly & Robert Friedman – Short Hills, NJ
July 2018

Dear Wanda,

I just wanted to thank you for planning a wonderful trip for us. We had a ball!

Thanks again,

Margo Levine – New York, NY
June 2018

Dear Wanda,

We are now back in Nantucket, and I wanted to let you know that we had a very enjoyable trip through Croatia.

All of the places where we stayed–except for Hotel Ambassador which seemed to be a convention center–were charming.
The guides were generally very good, although some were better than others–although that may have been due to the facts that the sights being visited with some of the guides were not as interesting as the places visited with others, such as in Dubrovnik and Pula. Our best guides were Sandra Bandera who, after we visited Pula and had discussed with her our interests, changed the itinerary eliminating a visit to Motovun and took us to Porec to view a 13th century cathedral, and Marina Krsticevic who guided us through Dubrovnik. Viktorija Modric was certainly our third best guide.

Some of our drivers were just OK, while others were very good and Josip Prizmic was just excellent. Also, the motor yacht charter was an excellent addition to the trip and something we would strong recommend for others.

Mirela did an excellent job with the restaurant reservations, and we were glad we didn’t need to otherwise seek her assistance with any problems. Please send her a gratuity of $xxx on our behalf, charging our credit card on file with you. However, you may want to tell Mirela to consider deleting Restaurant Bevanda in Opatija, as the wait staff was not very good and rushed our service, and Dubravkin put in Zagreb, where the food was terrible–the Concierge at the Esplanade Hotel later said that their chef had just recently left the restaurant.

In summary, we really enjoyed our trip. If you have any questions about our trip, please do not hesitate to contact us.

Richard & Patricia Belford – Nantucket, MA
June 2018

Dear Wanda,

Just an FYI — we’re back from Croatia. In any case, you did a fantastic job with the trip planning…everything was perfect. Thank you for your excellent work…We’ll be going back to Croatia in the future and look forward to booking via your firm (again!)

GREAT work.

Ian J. Norris – Fort Lauderdale, FL
June 2018

Dear Wanda

We’re home. All went exceedingly smoothly and everyone thoroughly enjoyed themselves.  Thanks for all of your work in getting things organized.

I’m happy to write up the positive experience on whichever ratings platform you want.

Sincerely,

Glen Weisberg – Chicago, IL
June 2018

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