Currency in Croatia

Fionn101

I'm off to Dubrovnik on Saturday , just wondering if they use the Croatian kuna over there , or is it euro or American dollars that speak the most ???

Cheers

Fionn

Imposter

Kuna.

Why would you think it is something else?

seamus

Fionn101 wrote:

I'm off to Dubrovnik on Saturday , just wondering if they use the Croatian kuna over there , or is it euro or American dollars that speak the most ???

Cheers

Fionn

Euros speak louder than dollars in most of europe.

Still in Dubrovnik most places won't take anything but Kuna.

Croatia is far from war-torn, poor or desolate. Imagine trying to pay with dollars in Ireland, and that's the response you'll get in Croatia.

Clinical Waste

Imposter wrote:

Kuna.

Why would you think it is something else?

Actually it's a valid question.

I was in Montenegro, which is now one country with Serbia. So you'd expect that they would use (or at least accept) Serbia's new Dinar, but no, they only accept Euro.

iisollie

Most places accept Euro, there are ATMs all over the place and also plenty of places where you can exchange your euro or dollars
lovely place, night life is not great but apart from that it is great for a holiday
ollie

EvilDoctorK

Just use your ATM/Credit card to take money from the Hole in the Wall machines.... as mentioned you need to use Croatian Kuna generally (sure some will take Euro but you'll pay a bit more for the privelege and what's the point in carrying loads of cash around)

Good network of ATM machines in most towns in Croatia... you wont have a problem getting access to Cash - so much easier this way than bringing cash or travellers cheques (which surely must be nearly obsolete)

netman

Clinical Waste wrote:

Actually it's a valid question.

I was in Montenegro, which is now one country with Serbia. So you'd expect that they would use (or at least accept) Serbia's new Dinar, but no, they only accept Euro.

There's a good reason for that though, the inflation rate is so high that the prices change between the morning and the afternoon. With euros they're always dealing with the same price

j4vier

sorry to drag up an old thread but have a similar question and 12 years have passed so I was wondering if the Euros are more widely accepted in dubrovnik now or are kuna still the only option

thanks

coylemj

Was off a cruise ship last year in Dubrovnik and we didn't bother with the Kuna, everyone takes Euros. Inside the old walled city of Dubrovnik there are hundreds of restaurants and coffee shops on the main streets and down every side-street, you'll have no problem finding places that take credit cards. Just make sure that if you pay for something with plastic that you pay in Kuna or you will get ripped off by the vendors FX rate which will never be as good as the one you'll get from the CC company.

Humour Me

Use Kuna in Dubrovnik as much as possible. Euros were accepted when I was there 2 years ago but when I calculated the difference, paying cash in Euro cost more. The cruise ships come in with big groups so the euro prices are set to maximise the tourist spending.

Atlantic Dawn

In my experience any shop accepting Euros cash will out and out rip you off, either use a foreign exhange in the Croatia to change Euros to Kuna or withdraw the cash from an ATM or pay for the goods with your credit card in the Kuna currency.

coylemj

Atlantic Dawn wrote: »

In my experience any shop accepting Euros cash will out and out rip you off....

Only if you let them, you can always refuse or bargain them down or pay in Kuna with plastic.

Atlantic Dawn wrote: »

..... either use a foreign exhange in the Croatia to change Euros to Kuna or withdraw the cash from an ATM ...

And get ripped off on the FX rate instead?

Atlantic Dawn wrote: »

... or pay for the goods with your credit card in the Kuna currency.

Definitely the safest option. But in Hungary a few weeks ago everyone quoting prices in local currency (forint) and Euros was doing the FX at €1 = HUF 300 which was pretty close to interbank. A shop quoting a rip-off FX rate is just going to put people off spending any money.