Apartments by the sea Rovanjska, Paklenica - 14732

The owner, Ivan was lovely and very helpful. He was easy to contact if needed but he not intrusive. The location is not overly commercial and it has excellent access to the beach and the main autobahn which is nearby. It is out of the way but it is easy to access towns such as Zadar and Biograd and even the islands. We liked it because we had a comfortable room and were able to cater for ourselves. The room had good airconditioning. We had a fridge too. We took our bikes so were able to get to the water easily. The places where we swam had nice shade as well. As with most of Croatia it has rocky not sandy beaches but we were able to cope with this. If you want to swim where there is no shade then you need to use a sun umbrella which we had and mats. There is a place to barbecue and we took advantage of this a couple of times. And there is a fig tree outside which was tasty.

We booked very late so it may well have been a misunderstanding on our part, but we thought it would be an apartment but it was a room with a bathroom only and not a kitchen. Apparently some of the rooms had kitchens but ours did not. Fortunately we had contacted the people beforehand and checked it out and realised that if we were going to have coffee with our breakfast we would need to take some sort of cooking stove. We bought a two plate stove and took our utelsils as we would do for camping and set up our "kitchen" on the balcony. This worked out fine as we had the luxury of a nice aircon room with the bathroom and we like camping anyway so it was really nice being able to make our own breakfast, coffee, museli and cook some nudels now and again as well as used the babecue as mentioned above. Had we not realised this and brought our stuff, it would have been difficult. There is only one café within walking distance. We did not have a sea view as shown in the pictures but it was quite private. Our room is the one in the picture with the parasol. If you take the fact that the room was very reasonably price, this compensated for this issue. So, check if you have a kitchen, if not, take your own stuff and a sun umbrella.