Who's Going
Armando Assante, John Malkovoich, Sharon Stone
Reason to Stay
Historic Location, City-Center, Ornate Design
Hotel Type
Boutique Hotel
The walled city of Dubrovnik is a powerful site, rising above the Adriatic like a stone fortress of intrigue. It would be easy to excuse the city as a tourist trap, but in actuality it is a functioning port with funky residential vibe and burgeoning retail landscape interwoven with boutiques and the occasional hotel. Originally constructed as a private home for 13th Century aristocrats, the Pucic Palace occupies a regal stone corner of the inner city overlooking a small piazza with gourmet restaurant and corner grocer. The intimate hotel lobby features a central reception area, actually just a fancy writing desk, surrounded overhead by wooden-beamed ceilings, wrought-iron banister and expansive green marble. Inner-corridors feature centuries-old woodwork and glass displays of antiquities and artwork on loan from local museums. At times this overly distinguished hotel can feel make old fashioned seem plain old, with features like a pool area or access to the sea feeling oddly missing given the high-prices of rooms.
The Room
Each of the 19 rooms is named after a famous Croatian poet, musician or artist. Rooms are tastefully decorated with oversize beds, ornate chairs that seem too precious to actually sit upon, and writing desks carved of shiny-exotic woods. Touches like Italian period furniture, antique Persian rugs, polished olive wood floor and silk-and-velvet-draped windows vary between tasteful and too much. Bathrooms offer more of a modern touch with freestanding bathtubs, mosaic tiling and chrome hardware accented by Bulgari toiletries. While the overly ornate surrounding can make a hip modern travel border on woozy, the area’s other hotel options aren’t much better aside from a spruced-up mega-Hilton and sprawling Soviet-era resorts.
Preferred Room
Junior Suite
Special Features
Village-center, Gourmet Restaurant, Mature-Clientele
Amenities
Restaurant, Bar, Historic Building
