barbdave

My husband and I would like to take a 45th Anniversary trip to Croatia and Slovenia. It looks like Slovenia Travel has a great 9 day escorted tour that covers the areas we are most interested in. Does anyone have experience with that travel company and was it good, bad or mediocre?

P_M

You might want to check out Gate 1. I just came from a Croatia/Slovenia trip in March 2010 and I loved it.

http://www.gate1travel.com/croatia-travel/default.aspx

Myda

P_M, would you please share your Croatia/Slovenia Gate 1 travel experience? If I remember right, I think you also did their Turkey tour during winter, right?

adrienne

I toured Slovenia and Croatia with Grand Circle Travel and thought it was a good trip. The tour guide was very good and I enjoyed the "home hosted" dinner in a small village outside Dubrovnik. The entire meal was from the family's farm and it was fun talking with a native Croatian. The daughter who spoke English ate with us so we could ask here questions about the country and people.

The tour at Diocletian's Palace with a local guide was fantastic - one of the best site tours I've taken.

I just looked at the trip and see that they've added a couple of optional cruises that look interesting. I would have taken these if they had been offered when I did the trip.

http://www.gct.com/Trips/2010/Dubrov...Alps-2010.aspx

Travelgooroo

You might check out noambit.com Last year I remember them having several posts about Croatia and mentioning they could recommend a great tour guide. They also have a free audio tour for somewhere in Croatia you can download.