If you search for Zaton on Google Maps, you will be shown a town just north of Dubrovnik – but beaware, this Zaton is just south of the town of Nin.

If you ever need a campsite that is a one stop shop… this is the campsite for you. It’s huge, and it’s packed, but only half full!

I welcome you to Zaton Holiday Resort! The resort has everything anyone would ever need to live at. It has it’s own supermarket, bakery, pharmacy, newsagent, jewellery store, hairdresser, massage centre, doctors, ATM machines, cafe, gym, swimming pool, aerobics sessions, water slides, tennis courts, archery, beach volleyball, live entertainment and more.

Three nights was just not long enough! Would defiantly want to come back!

The Entertainment

The Garden

Out the front of the resort, they have a beautiful garden, explaining all their plants. It’s a great relaxing walk.

After leaving Dubrovnik, we headed back north to Zadar, which was about a 5 hour drive. With a lot of driving, there is a lot of photos.

The above photo is near a town called Vina.

You can’t got to Dubrovnik and not go into the walled city. There is so much history in there, plus it’s packed! Because are campsite was Camping Solitude which is situated on the north-west side of Dubrovnik, we had to travel by bus to the south-east side. This is something you do not want to do on a hot day with lots of people. A packed bus (ie world record for fitting as many people on a bus as possible) on a 40 degree day with no aircon is not cool. It was so packed people couldn’t even get off!

After being in Europe for almost 3 months, and hardly hearing a word of English, you really do notice that Australian’s have a strong accent, especially when a tour of Australian’s are in the public area as a group just chatting. You could tell they weren’t from the UK, America or Canada – these people where from Australia.

On the entire north-west side, you have a campsite, and a number of hotels, campers get to utilise. The campsite had basketball courts, tennis and live entertainment – the usual at any campsite or resort. When we were there, they had a tribute to Michael Jackson – with many songs I have never heard. It was a good way to kill a few hours at night. The resort also has a mini shopping complex so you can buy all your souvenirs and of course your dinner.

Also, if you are good at sports, you may give the Animators a run for their money – I almost killed one play tennis!

Once arriving in Dubrovnik, we spent quite a lot of time driving around to find a camp site. Visiting the tourist attractions, Dubrovnik is very commercialised, but you still need to visit.