We stayed one night in Zagreb before flying back home from our trip. We enjoyed the sightseeing part of our stay in Zagreb, but had a bad experience with the apartment we booked (Henrik Apartment) and the neighborhood we ended up staying in.
When I booked my room, the person called Daniel replied saying he can %26quot;offered a double room with private bathroom%26quot; for the price of 400kn. And %26quot;in case you plan to arrive by car, I can offer you a free parking space not far from your room inour backyard%26quot;. When I confirmed my reservation and specifically asked for a parking space, I got a more cryptic reply: %26quot;When you get there, just ask for parking space, because we don%26#39;t take note of it. Everybody can park, just emphasize it.%26quot;
When we arrived, we found that there is absolutely NO parking at the hotel premise. I had to park illegally in the bike%26#39;s lane while my wife went in to try to check in. All this time, I was being cursed by all the bikers whom I inconvenienced. In the meantime, they told my wife that if we want to stay in the room in the hotel, we have to find a public paid parking spot on the roadside. Or they can offer us another %26quot;apartment%26quot; nearby which has its own parking. Obviously we took the second option.
It turns out that this %26quot;apartment%26quot; is about 4 blocks more off from the hotel which is already on the fringe of the main area (at or near the southwest end of the green horseshoe). And the %26quot;apartement%26quot; that they referred to turned out to be a room inside an apartment which we have to share the bathroom with 3 other rooms.
But the most scary part is its neighborhood. Not only is this place 15 or 20 minutes extra walking time to the city center, the neighborhood looks very sketchy. When we walked home around 7:30pm (it was already all dark), we were approached by 2 men asking us for some kunas. We ignored them. In New York City, we ran into these annoyances a lot and all you have to do is to ignore them. But in this case, they followed us for a minute or so (felt like eternity) and when we quickened our pace and walked away from them, we got splattered with beer on our backs!
In summary, I would advise people to avoid staying outside of the main tourist area. And be very careful when you deal with Henrik Apartment. I ignored some of the warnings in the reviews when I booked with them and really regretted the decision.
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That sounds like a very unpleasant experience. Thanks for the warnings. It seems to me that the big thing missing in Zagreb are apartments. There are many nice hotels, but it seems to be lacking in apartments. Too bad you had to experience what you went through.
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Sorry to read this, so unprofessional; plus the beer incident. No wonder this city gets so few visitors.
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Don%26#39;t let this put you off going back to Croatia.
These incidents can and do occur in any city in any country.
You appear to live in New Jersey so you know this better than most!
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Sorry to read abt. your bad experience, hoper that the rest of your Croatia trip was good.
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That modern metropolitan mob is really hard to understand.
Back in a day we used to drink beer to the last drop and throw the empty bottles.(Or maybe-their beer was warm already...)
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