[kungito]

Croatia is having its "bully" tourism phase. They have been historically super cheap and undiscovered location up until 5-10 years ago and now that they are in EU and Schengen and it's actually nicer than some bigger mediterranean countries everyone started piling in. The locals which aren't really business savvy started doubling/tripling prices to see how far it can go without providing additional services or raising the quality to another level. From business perspective it does make actual sense since last few seasons after corona have been breaking records every year. Until there are actual consequences for raising per night booking prices from 100€ to 200€ from year to year nothing will change. I think that the reality is that people "in the know" like polish/chech families are being priced out because traditionally they didn't have as many western european tourists like Dutch or French and now it's on their radar

[trte9343r4]

> think that the reality is that people "in the know" like polish/chech families are being priced out

Not really. They are not poor anymore, and can afford it. But quality is just not there compared to Italy, Greece, Egypt...

Only benefit for Polish and Czech tourist, they understand local language.

[lifestyleguru]

I would be wary with "Slavic familiarity" while visiting. Slavs in Balkans furiously hate each other. It's safer to speak German or English.

[imp0cat]

Right, but that was mostly the issue of all the former Yugoslavia nations.

Czechs 1) were not a part of Yugoslavia 2) have a long tradition of visiting the Adriatic sea.

    They are not poor anymore, and can afford it.

The price increase in Croatia in the last few years is insane, especially near the tourist spots (= seaside). Czech people who want to save some money now usually turn to the other Balkan countries that are still quite cheap.

[lifestyleguru]

Last time I visited Croatia the summer two years before adopting EUR and all hospitality services wanted EUR. When I requested prices in kuna they were dismissive with "just convert from EUR to kuna in Google". I could easily spend less money while in Italy, Spain, or Greece. They aspire to place themselves as Switzerland of Adriatic, mostly for Germanic speaking tourists. Who wouldn't want to charge Swiss prices, duh. I say good luck Croats!

[imp0cat]

Yeah, Euro was widely accepted even before the country switched to it. But the prices were much lower.