My opinion on Dubrovnik by sabsi
Somehow I had never wanted to visit Dubrovnik. In the 1980s only old people from Germany went here. Then the war came and big parts of Dubrovik were destroyed. Only then I thought of it as a normal town with people actually living there, not some kind of "Disneyland for Pensioners". They rebuilt everything rather quickly and Dubrovnik came back to the people's minds. And it came back to mine. I heard a lot about the city and slowly I felt I needed to go there (Maybe it was just me growing old ;). So when we planned our trip through Croatia I made sure that Dubrovnik was on the itinerary. I enjoyed sitting on the rocks behind Buza 1, taking pictures at nights, sitting at the little port - with piano or without. I loved leaving the main street to escape the tourists and looking up the steep steps to where the "real people" live. So yes, I liked Dubrovnik, it's spectacular!
However, the usual problems spectacular towns have occured also here:
Prices are higher than anywhere else in the country, the quality, however, is usually lower. You constantly have the feeling of being ripped off. It feels like everybody here wants your money, especially annoying guys who want to make you sit down in restaurant A whereas on the next corner the girls want you to eat in Restaurant B. Luckily we had prepared ourselves on VT and in our guesthouse so we escaped the tourist traps quite well.
There are too many tourists in town which ruins the atmosphere a bit (I really enjoyed Dubrovnik in the evening hours when most of the cruises had left again and when the locals reappeared!) I wouldn't want to see it in summer, in May there were more than enough people here!
To cut a long story short: Dubrovnik is a great town and it deserves to be a tourist magnet. So go there! Everybody should have seen it. And when everybody will have seen it - I will go again to see all the nice areas that we missed during our stay! ;)