in split now. anyone around?

Great idea to make it a weekly tradition, and thanks for the suggestion of a quieter place! Works for me, unless I’m on some remote island.

Hello people, we had so much fun last time! If you are up for it, let’s make it a tradition. Wednesdays at 20:00h? @suuzin suggested us to change place as To je To coffee bar is small and noisy for a meaningful conversation. My suggestion is Coffee Bar Bajamonti.

Good shout @theunis - consider it done!
I’m out at the moment so created it on my phone. It’s a little Spartan but it will do.

https://www.facebook.com/events/826191907498857/

@hannahvictorius is there a facebook event for this? If not I suggest creating one to help communication for tonight (eg in case we move from To Je To). I don’t use
facebook so can’t volunteer.

See you all tonight.

I want to be on the slack too! I’m on Vis and really don’t feel like leaving, even just to come to Split. If I have a connection from the country this evening I could try joining you via skype. Anyone have a skype name to give me? Mine’s littleshiva but I don’t leave it on unless I’m expecting contact.

Hello everyone!

I’m looking forward to tomorrow night. I have a conference call until 20:30 so probably won’t be able to get to you until 9pm. @tomislavmamic - will you be able to fb message me if you guys move from To Je To before I arrive?

Awesome @suuzin! Can’t wait to hear about your appartment

@thestboss I’m around until 8th October - at least that’s the plan for now

I’ll be around the next month. And I’ll be at the meetup, and so will at least one other nomad friend I told about it (probably more). And I found a wonderful apartment!! See you all soon, thanks for setting this up.

I land in Split on the 24th, Would have loved to come and meet you all! Anyone still going to be around from the 24th onwards and fancy hanging out?

sounds good, Maya and I will be there!

Awesome.

The plan at the moment is to meet at To Je To in the old town at around 8pm. If it’s too crowded, then we’ll move onto somewhere else nearby. I’m pretty sure I walked past loads of cool looking bars and cafebars around the old town.

See you all on Wednesday 23rd September.

Will be in Split in the from tomorrow till 28th, looking forward to meeting the other DMs there

Andrea and I are in. Looking forward to meeting the other nomads.

Great! I’ll see if I can make it a Nomad List event, and try and firm up some details too. Heading to Amosfera today, so will have a chat with whoever is there.

Hey! My girlfriend and I are down for a meetup! We have been staying in Stobrec for the last two weeks and have been loving it! Would be great to meet some of the other DMs in town and hear what everyone is up to!

Myself and my girlfriend are arriving in Split on Thursday We’re going to be there (working from Amosfera by the way) for the next month and a bit, so will be cool to meet up with some fellow nomads!

I’m in, and I know another nomad coming into town on Sept. 20 who I’m pretty sure would come. And she knows more I think!

I think that @levelsio is leaving before then though, and I know two other nomads who leave early Friday morning.

you can count me in too of course

I’m keen - small chance that I may leave split before the 23rd, but I’ll probably still be around. There are 3 other nomads at amo!sfera that would be game too I’m sure.

are you on the slack? if not I can post this in the croatia slack for you.

Im considering to do it for few cities on the coast. Not just apartments but bikes, scooters, lunch/dinner packages etc. I’m even considering to give free apartment for a month to one or two nomads who could set a website up by our guidelines. It all comes down if there’s enough volume and your requirements (mostly price) meet what owners have to offer.

I’m telling you, you locals could set up a service finding local-price apartments and charge a fee.

I have a friend who used to live in Split: she’s an American woman who now lives up the coast in a town called Drage, but she has connections all over the place and could help you find a place to stay in Split if airbnb isn’t working for you. Her name is Anastasia and her website (the part about apartments in Split) is www.kingsleysuccess.com/apartments/split/ She’s friendly, honest and very helpful. Tell her Little Shiva sent you.

Thanks for the help everyone. I booked a 2 bedroom appartment through Airbnb for the first 6 days in the city centre. I asked 3 owners for 50% off and one of them agreed. If we like the place, we can stay 3 more months at a very reasonable rate. Leaving in 8 days!
@tomislavmamic I’m sending you a PM now. Very interested in checking out your coworking space when we get there!

Hello,
I am managing Amosfera Coworking (www.facebook.com/coworkingamosfera?fref=ts) space in Split, Croatia. Few years back, I have worked for a local real estate agency for a month so I got to see how it works from the inside.
Price:
Outside the tourist season (July - August), you can get a two room apartment of 50sqm next to the city center for anything between 300 and 500 euro, depending on the location and the quality. This is average. Split has lot of apartments of rent which are usually used by students throughout the year. This means apartment owners try to rent for the whole year, and since it’s students, it’s cheaper. Much cheaper than Airbnb or during the tourist season. 1000 euro per month should buy you a 70 sqm apartment in Peristyle (www.visitsplit.com/en/528/peristyle-peristil).
Timing:
Also, the best time to look for an apartment in Split is September. It’s before university year starts and 10 000 students come rushing into the city. If you can choose, and you are going to stay here for few months, my suggestion would be for you to come to Split anytime between 1st and 15th of September, book an apartment via booking.com or any other service provider, go to local real estate agency and get them to help you find an apartment.
Agency services:
Usually they charge one monthly payment (the agency), and the apartment owner asks for you to pay on month rent upfront as well as the damage insurance which is usually the same amount (you get this back if you don’t damage the apartment). So if you are taking an 400 euro apartment, it will cost you immediately 1200 euros.
DIY:
You can as well try finding an apartment by yourself and saving yourself the agency provision. What you can do is find postings of available apartment in local facebook groups of classifieds (better option). Most often local people who need to rent an apartment in Split use local newspaper classifieds Mali oglasnik (online version is available for purchase here: trafika.slobodnadalmacija.hr) where virtually all the rentiers advertise their apartments.

Just be aware it might take longer time for you to find an appropriate apartment, and this gets stressful and tiring. Most probably you will have to check more than 5-6 apartments to find the right one and this takes couple of days.

Last couple of months I have had few DMs asking for help finding an apartment (sorry for not seeing this thread before! ) so I was considering getting this as an additional service by our coworking space. If you are interested in using a coworking space and need help finding an apartment in Split, please don’t hesitate to direct message me. I will be more than glad to help.

Hope this helped.

I am also looking for an apartment in August in Split. There is not a lot of nice appartements left on AirBnb for under $1000, even for a lone traveler. If you are thinking of renting something bigger, maybe we could share.

Thanks so much for your suggestions. Your place looks good Juan!
We’ll be arriving at the end of August, so I’m going to try to negotiate down the appartments on Airbnb.

@FootprintsImprints Thanks! I’ll look for more options on Njuskalo.hr but the companies that list the appartments are not very responsive so far. I’ll keep trying and might have to increase my budget.

Hello Joost,

I’m from Split. As other have told you, June-Sep is high summer season and even people that have apartments or rooms to rent to students or locals will rent them out via Airbnb (poor students, have to go home from June to Sep). However, you can always try via Njuskalo.hr, a national classifieds website. To find Split rentals, click on ‘Nekretnine’ > ‘Stanovi’/‘Iznajmljivanje’ and then in the sidebar on the left under ‘Županija’ choose ‘Splitsko-dalmatinska’, under ‘Grad’ choose ‘Split’.

If you don’t have to be in Split, I’d suggest looking into nearby towns of Trogir, Kastela, Omis or Solin, all within 30 min bus ride.

I’m in Split right now with my girlfriend and we’re paying 30euro/night, but it’s high season. I’m sure once it gets closer to your dates you’ll be able to bargain down a bit more, esp for a 3-month stay.

Highly recommend our current place (11Mbps internet speed), but strongly considered this one as well.

I was able to negotiate down 30% on both apartments asking price, so definitely start there if not 40%.

If there’s any other way I can help, let me know

Season ends August 31, so from Sept 1 prices usually go down
http://airbnb.com/sublets is a good start.

You can negotiate with hosts lower prices than display ed (up to 50%, usually rather 30%) additionally because they all know that after season bookings will go down massively.

Hi Joost,

I’m currently keeping an eye out for a month in Sept-Oct. I’ve found people pretty approachable on airbnb, but two bed in the centre of Split for that price might be tough. I’m certainly staying well away until after Aug.

I have a rental on this island of Vis, right in town, walking distance to everything, with internet. It’ll be available the second half of August and all of September. www.vis-croatia.net.

Hi,

I live in Zagreb, coming back home from Thailand on 2. May, because warmer days are coming

Most of the people move to the sea side, mostly between 15. July - 20. August, then the city is usually reserved only for people who are at work, even they tend to run away for the weekends outside of town. And city looks more empty during that time.
During this time there is usually lots of road works, because lots of people are out of town, this is a good time of year to do fixings of the streets.
You will also see a lots of tourists especially Chinese people talking photos of everything including you.

Because there are lots of tourists, more and more each year, there are things to do because our Tourist board is working a lot on promoting Zagreb as a Tourist destination.
You would usually walk around city, visit old part of town, buildings, museums, parks etc.
There are also day tours visiting other tourist attractions outside the city, most popular is Plitvice lakes/waterfalls - must see.
Town Samobor near Zagreb is pretty looking place, good for one day tour.

Most of the nightlife is located in city centre. Tkaličićeva or locals say (Tkalča, eng ~ Tkalcha) is the most popular street full of bars, and around main square, eg: Cvjetni Trg.
Sadly not so many things are open after midnight, and there are not lots of places where you can go after if you would like to party. Busiest hours are 6pm - 10pm.
It’s just because all of the people move to the see side, all the nightlife is moved there so most of the clubs are closed.

Good thing is that you are 2-3 hours away from the sea side with bus/car.
If you traveling, try to avoid Fri - Sat, 3 hours become 6, because on weekends most of tourists are traveling home/coming for vacation.
Not likely you can travel with airplane, you can probably go to Split, Pula, Zadar or Dubrovnik only, not so many plane connections.

Things slowely start to get busy after 20. August, when most of the people are coming back, then the nightlife returns back to Zagreb too.
September is usually good month to visit because temperatures are high, around 25 - 30, depends on the year, and there are things happening, people are hanging outside, on Gornji Grad (uptown) there is street festival each evening with live music called Gričevanje, clubs are open with various things to choose.

Internet is good, you can choose either Vipnet, T-HT (T-com actually) or Tele2.
Bonbon (owner is T-HT)

If you are in Zagreb reception is usually great, and I personally use only 3G, because it’s enough for me. Not sure, but most of them don’t offer 4G for prepaid plans. Maybe there are some tourist promotions which i’m not familiar with, but it changes every year so it’s still early for me to say which one would be ok.
Anyway, best reception where ever you go you should have with Vipnet, T-HT and Bonbon (they use T-HT infrastructure)

For the land line, internet speed is 5Mpbs+, usually everyone has just the lowest speed with flat rate internet, this again depends on where you stay. But the connection is stable.

Coworking spaces:

• http://zagreb.impacthub.net/clanstvo/
• http://www.bizkoshnica.biz/
• http://hub385.com/ (founded by T-HT)

Cost of living is cheap, just to compare here are some prices:

• Coke ~ 1.7Eur
• Beer ~ 2Eur
• Water in store 0,5 ~ 0.6Eur
• McDonalds Big Mac menu ~ 4Eur
• Meal in restaurant + drink ~ 6-7Eur +
• Cheesburger + Fries ~ 5Eur
• Ham-cheese sandwich ~ 2-3 Eur
• Lots of bakeries with anything 1-3Eur

The city and the centre is actually not that big, you can stay anywhere in around 3-4 stations with Tram, it’s only like up to 15-20 minutes walk anywhere you go.
So it’s not important to stay in the main square circle, just to have a Tram station near, then you will be fine.

After 1pm Tram are driving only every 1 hour and it’s difficult to get anywhere without Taxi.
Just ask for the Taximeter, 10Eur should get you anywhere, and just pay what you see on Taxi-meter no more.
I never had problem because I’m local, but taxi drivers same like everywhere, they want to rip you off.
And always say that you are meeting a friend which is from Zagreb, and you are not first time here, it’s what I do where ever I am.

Hope this helps.
If you would have any questions feel free to ping me.

Cheers

Hey guys and gals! I’m also heading to Croatia (at least going through Zagreb, but not sure where I’ll end up in the country) in September… hope to see some of you there. =)

Fantastic ! A nice small group of people in a gorgeous villa in a Crotian island sounds like a nice plan. I think we should probably start looking end of next week or so.

What is the best way to all get in touch ? I suggest all those interested, send me your email address in a private message and I will create an email message with everybody included.

Thanks for the info @suuzin

@emondpph I’m interested in the same, beginning or mid-september - still doing a bit of planning before I’ll know for sure

Kepp me posted all those heading out in mid September.

@allbombs Try contacting the AirBnB hosts and making an offer. I’ve had a few places offer less than asking on the site, especially if you can confirm a month’s stay. And look a little further out as city centre is in high demand.

Arrive in Spilt on Wednesday and trying to find accommodation too.
Looking at Hvar + Vis like many of you, but may setup in Split for a month?

Airbnb is definitely more expensive than I anticipated. Imagine more deals are to be had once I arrive in person and as September approaches?

I’m also open to sharing a house/apartment with the right people. Early 30’s, need to work mon - friday, but up for exploring in the evenings and weekends.

@emondpph - that sounds interesting, although mid-Sept is the beginning of off-season and I think you might do better price-wise…? I am looking anywhere between early or mid-Sept but I won’t know for another few days at least.

Since a lot of nomads are asking about Croatian island wifi and such on different forums, I decided to ask a woman on FaceBook who has been offering to put people in touch with landlords in Split, Brac and Hvar for off-season. Here is what she said:

“Most modern apartments will have wifi, but it depends on the provider. Most islands will have T-com. It depends what speed package they have too. Brac island for example, has good 4G coverage. So you can use mobile wifi router. I have used it successfully to watch Netflix. I worked at a hotel in Hvar Town and internet was awful outside of centre. You need a good gadget though I use TP Link 4G LTE. It amplifies the signal. I use Bon Bon sim card I top up 6 euros and get 5GB data, north of Brac island has a good 4G coverage.”

Also, I looked up T-Mobile’s 4G coverage map and here it is… check out all that great coverage in the sea!

https://www.hrvatskitelekom.hr/karta-pokrivenosti

Hi ! I am currently in Split for August. It’s burning hot here, like 40 celsius !

I am also thinking of going a couple of weeks in a Croatian island early september. I was looking at Brac on AirBnb. Maybe there are other/better islands. Really open to any island destination.

I would be interested in joining with one or two persons to rent something bigger and nicer. There are really nice villas with Wi-fi on AirBnb for about 100 - 130 euro per day. So at 3 it could be pretty affordable.

Exemple in Brac:

Korčula (town and island) is pretty chill, and as far as I can remember, has plenty of wifi in cafes, like much of the region. I was there two years ago in August, and it didn’t feel too busy, so I imagine September is pretty good.

Let me know when you’re around as I plan to be on the coast in September too.

Also interested in hearing about pretty much exactly the same!

Looks like an old thread, but wondering if anyone has used an island as their base for an extended period, and how that worked out, in terms of Internet and enough services, cafes, etc? I’m planning to be in Croatia for maybe a month or so in September and have grown weary of bigger cities and crowds lately. Looking for something a little more chill and bohemian would be great, if that exists in Croatia - without being super isolated.

I’ve spent 1 month in Zagreb during summer 2012. A lot of local people were saying surprised that we are going to stay in the city for more than 2 days. Everyone suggested to got to the seaside. Seaside IS amazing (Zadar, Kornati, Split, Dubrovnik) - but you know I really like Zagreb a lot. It’s amazing underestimated city. It’s much more comfortable than touristy seaside if you are doing slow travel. There are a lot of things to do in Zagreb, even in summer when some places might be closed.

T-com owns all the infrastructure, so they’re the safest bet. In my experience 3G/H (SIM) is plenty fast, and you can have 4G if you wish to pay extra. Also, someone should call the provider to fix the current connection, it shouldn’t be that slow.

So we arrived in Zagreb today and the internet is a lot slower at our apartment than promised (<1mbps), does anyone know what the fastest provider/service is locally?

It’s always entertaining to see how foreigners see your city

Anyway, just wanted to say if anyone is planing to come to Zagreb, you can drop me a question or two and I’ll try to help! I also offer accommodation via airbnb (lollipop apartment), I believe someone here asked…

Internet is ok - most of the times you get 4Mb/s and it’s true, more and more places provide free wi fi.

I’m on Bali currently. Everybody warned me internet is terrible on Bali, but so far it’s not much different than Zagreb (and I’m not in Ubud)… A bit slower for download, but upload is even better than back home

Spent a month in Zagreb and a few weeks in Split.

Pros:

• Mundoaka Street Food! Amazing.
• Cheap beer. (Cheap everything!)
• Everyone speaks English and seems friendly.
• Zagreb has a lovely town center.
• Zagreb feels very alive — young people everywhere, in large numbers.
• Split has an incredible old town and a beautiful seaside, as well as easy access to nearby islands (though I have not been).

Cons:

• Croatians seem to really not like Croatia. Nobody seems to have much hope for the future.
• Parts feel a little run down or neglected.

I had no preconceptions going into Croatia but it really made me feel at home.

I’ve been there this year and it’s a wonderful city, full of life and good vibe. But I think 2 days are enough for visiting it. It’s not the big. The south of Croatia is amazing, Split, Rijeka and all the south coast… The Lakes are also a must see.
You can find a lot of cafés with wi-fi, it’s everywhere. It’s also cheap to eat and sleep there.

I’m from Portugal, and Croatia and Italy are the bestr european countries I’ve been so far.

Croatia is by far one of the best places I’ve ever spent a summer.

I will say there was much alcohol to be had, and many boat trips around some truly pristine islands. It wasn’t too…educational, but when I went back to do a more historical tour of Croatia it was incredible how much history is there.

YOU MUST check out

1. Hvar (party island)
2. Dubrovnik (Do not stay more than 2 days)
3. Pag (an island…of party)
4. Do a day trip to sarajevo (it’s a 4 hour drive from split.) it’s in Bosnia and Herzegovina. It is by far one of the most beautiful (in more ways than one) cities I have ever experienced in my life.

I spent a few weeks in Croatia, specifically Dubrovnik, Hvar, Vis, and Split. Other than Vis, internet was pretty easy to find at internet cafes without having to pay too much. Decent for a bit of work and some Skype calls.

Bear in mind that in the offpeak season, there’s less to do and fewer places open on the islands.

I was born in Croatia – not Zagreb but I lived there for 7 years as well so it’s a bit hard to see things from the outside

Internet is decent, and free Wi-Fi is everywhere (in Zagreb; not so much in smaller cities). You won’t be getting 100mbit connections (they’re available but few people have them), but for Skype video it should be ok.

If you’re coming in August or September, I’d definitely recommend going to the coast. It’s not that far and in summer months it has a lot more to offer than Zagreb, though of course it all depends on what you’re looking for.

In general, I’d say the most interesting things in Croatia are of the nature kind - there are 7 national parks, the coast is beautiful and there are things to see in the mountain parts of the country as well.

I don’t party much so I can’t tell you how it compares there

The country is quite small so regardless of where you spend most of your time, if you’re going to have more than a couple of weeks I think it makes most sense to travel around. It’s quite diverse and an hour long drive can get you to a totally different environment (i.e. from frozen mountain lakes to sunny coast).

Internet is fine in Zagreb

I’m curious about the same. My ancestry is there and my girlfriend needs to get out of the Schengen Zone by mid-May (we’re currently in Barcelona), so it’s on my short list. My main concern is internet, as I do a lot of Skype video calls for work.