A quick question before we take off on Tuesday DH says we're supposed to register with the police within 24 hours of our arrival. Normally, if you stay in a hotel, the hotel takes care of it - but we're renting an apartment. Does the landlord take care of it, or is that our responsibility? I've never seen anything about this mentioned in any posts . . .

Oops -- I should have made clear this is about Croatia. Sorry.

Hiya ck - we were 50/50 in this in Croatia. The apartment owner in Dubrovnik did not even mention passports or police, and I did not think anything about it either, so did nothing. At the second apartment in Hvar, the owners did take our passports when we arrived.

Good question!

Hi.. we had an interesting experience this last May regarding registering in Dubrovnik. When we decided on a Sobe, we gave the homeowner our passports and he wrote down some info before giving them right back to us. Well, as we were walking around the next morning, we saw 4 policemen kindof standing around. So I thought I should ask them just to make sure that we didnt have to do something else... It was really funny trying to communicate that we wanted to register. Register?? Whaaa? (them=no english, us=no croatian) They ended up basically just waiving us away. um.. bu-bye.

Hi, you guys. Thanks for your input. Sounds as if we'll just play this by ear, the way we're doing just about everything else this trip! We're headed off on Tuesday, & really looking forward to this one.

ckwald -- have a wonderful trip!

You might find this information useful re: tourist registration. Taken from the Croatia Tourism web site http://www.croatia.hr/English/Home/Prijava.aspx

cpdad... well, i actually had read that before our trip. And the police that we saw standing around were in front of the police station. I guess we really should have just GONE inside. that would have been the smart thing to do. Thanks for posting this info for the next wave of Croatian visitors.

Good reason to avoid croatia.

"Good reason to avoid croatia."
No it isn't! This law seems to be enforced even less than the US laws about verifying citizenship and withholding taxes for employees are enforced. Some do it and some don't and unless you go looking for trouble I don't think there is any chance of a visitor having a problem. Let the landlord worry about it and have a good time.

We stayed in apartments. At each place, the landlord took our passport for varying lengths of time.

We're back -- I'll post a detailed report once I get it all together, but just wanted to mention that uniformly at apartments & hotels, the landlord took our passport information and handled all the details. It was never an issue.

ckwald, looking forward to your report. We are contemplating a trip to Croatia next fall. Any tips would be really appreciated! Shirley

When we rented an apt in Italy, we had to give the agent a <b>copy</b> of our passports when we got there.