Myself and my wife decided to stay in the Lavanda Apartment after reading reviews on TripAdvisor. I must agree that it deservers the high ratings it has received.

The apartment is clean and bright with a comfortable bed, plenty of wardrobe space, a small kitchen with a fridge, cooker and coffee maker. The bathroom has a nice powerful shower with a constant supply of hot water. There is also satellite TV, air conditioning and WIFI.

The apartment is a short walk from Dubrovnik's Ploče Gate and has a bakery, supermarket and beach on its doorstep.

Stijepo is an excellent host. He arranged our taxi to/from the airport and spent time ensuring that we had all the information we needed to make the most of our holiday. Stijepo is an extremely friendly and welcoming guy who is determined that guests enjoy their visit to his town.

I would definately recommend the Lavanda Apartment and I hope to return there to enjoy the beautiful city of Dubrovnik in the future.

We stay at apartment Lavander, 300m from old city. Clean, beautiful, new apartment. Have a huge terrasse (share with Stijepo's mother's house) with sea and city view. Stijepo is very helpful. We recommand this place. The second apartement (Old port) should be a little bit dark.

When you stay at Apartment Dubrovnik Center you get a whole lot more than just a beautiful old apartment in the centre of the old walled city of Dubrovnik, in one of its loveliest narrow laneways. You get to experience the hospitality, charm and huge personality that is Stijepo, the owner, who gives you the local flavour like few others could.

Not only did Stijepo organise a taxi to meet us at the Dubrovnik marina at the end of our yacht charter, he came out with the driver to personally welcome us. We arrived quite early in the morning before the apartment was available, so Stijepo organised for our luggage to be stored at a friend's restaurant nearby and proceeded to spend over 2 hours giving us a personal tour of the city.

I should point out that when it comes to luggage, the old city of Dubrovnik with its steep and numerous steps can be a challenging place to haul your case. However Stijepo carried a couple of our bags, probably totally over 45kg (I definitely wasn't travelling light), up the steepest of steps like he was carrying a couple of small handbags. I suspect the nickname of 'king kongs' for his sons are very apt.

He then proceeded to buy us coffee and ice-cream at the best places, whilst pointing out all the restaurants we should try during our stay (and his recommendations were spot on), he also shared his family's history in Dubrovnik and his own personal connection with this lovely city. We were all touched by his account of the hardships he and his family, and so many had endured during the war, and were grateful to have been offered such a personal account.

Whilst we did talk about the serious and hard times in Dubrovnik's recent history, there was a whole lot of laughter too during our ad hoc and totally unexpected tour. Stijepo constantly apologised for speaking English so fast, but it was his continual humorous nuances, jokes and agile use of the English language that kept us on our toes.

Our experience of Croatia before we got to Dubrovnik was one of a gorgeous country, with the most engaging of locals. Our host Stijepo embodied that, a generous, warm, gregarious person, so happy and proud to tell us about his beautiful part of the world and share it with us. The two hours we spent with him felt more like two days, and set the tone of our stay in Dubrovnik.

And yes, the apartment was everything we hoped for and more. Close to what must be one of the most spectacular bars in the world - Buza 1, literally carved into the rocks outside the city wall, on a cliff overlooking the water. And when we arrived at our apartment, chilling in the fridge was the champagne friends had left with Stijepo and Ivana 2 months earlier during their stay, for us to enjoy, together with the champagne flutes to drink it.

If you're a traveller who wants a connection with the places you visit, rather than a tourist passing through, this is the place to stay in Dubrovnik. I wouldn't think of staying with any other, or better, host.

I found this apartment through trip advisor & it was everything we were looking for.
We stayed in the old port apartments, the location was great only a short walk to the old town & everything without climbing lots of steps!
There was also a lovely beach just over the road from the apartment.
Stijepo was very welcoming and helpful when we arrived & throughout our stay in croatia, we could not have asked for more!
I would defiantly recommend Dubrovnik apartments to all my family & friends I was very happy, and its a beautiful place.