The working harbour district — the ferry and cruise port, the morning market, and the everyday shops and cafés locals actually use. The cheapest, most real place to stay, handy for island boats, with a quick bus to the walls. Little charm, lots of value.
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€70–110
typical per night in Croatia
Easy on the wallet
Cheapest in DubrovnikPriciest
Among the cheapest areas to sleep in Dubrovnik.
Where it sits
The circle is Gruž and roughly a 10-minute walk around it.
How far is everything?
Dubrovnik (DBV)~33 min drive18.5 km
From the middle of this area to the city's headline sights — pick your own on the city page and these become your list.
- Lapad (beach)13 min walk1.0 km
- Cable car up Mount Srđ28 min walk2.4 km
- Fort Lovrijenac & Game of Thrones8 min taxi2.7 km
- Franciscan Monastery & pharmacy8 min taxi2.8 km
- Walk the City Walls8 min taxi2.8 km
- The Stradun9 min taxi2.9 km
- The Rector's Palace9 min taxi3.0 km
- Banje Beach10 min taxi3.2 km
- Lokrum Island15 min taxi5.0 km
On your doorstep
What you’re living next to if you stay here.
- 12.Oysters & Dalmatian seafood — This is the Adriatic, and it eats like it — grilled fish under olive oil, black cuttlefish risotto, and famously the oysters from Ston up the coast, some of the best in Europe. Eat it in a Gruž konoba away from the walls, with a cold Pošip white.
- 14.Gruž morning market — The real Dubrovnik shops here — a harbourfront market of figs, cheese, olive oil and just-landed fish, no souvenirs in sight, with the island ferries loading behind. Come early for the pick of it and a coffee among the traders.
When are you staying?
Find cheap flights to Dubrovnik
Booking.com & Airbnb open searched to Gruž; flights via Google Flights.