Dubrovnik · Croatia's far south
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62 cars live in Dubrovnik nowfrom €60/daydeposits shown up front
Dubrovnik · Croatia's far south
62 cars live in Dubrovnik nowfrom €60/daydeposits shown up front
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Volkswagen Polo
5 seatsManual2022
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Volkswagen T-Roc
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Volkswagen Golf
5 seatsAutomatic2022
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Peugeot 2008
5 seatsAutomatic2022
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Peugeot 308 SW
5 seatsAutomatic2022
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Volkswagen Tayron
7 seatsAutomatic2025
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Opel Zafira
8 seatsAutomatic2022
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Peugeot Traveller
9 seatsAutomatic2022
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Nobody rents a car to drive around Dubrovnik itself. The old town is walled and pedestrian, and the parking ringing it is famously the most expensive in the country; the car is for everything beyond the walls. If you are flying in, Dubrovnik Airport car rental in Cilipi is the easy move: the airport sits about twenty kilometres south of the city, half an hour from the centre on a clear road, and handing the car back there beats returning it to town on departure morning.
The real reason people book a Dubrovnik pickup is the borders. You can take the car into Montenegro or Bosnia with most of the suppliers we compare; the cross-border terms appear on each listing before you pay, so tick the countries you want and read what shows. Kotor makes a comfortable day trip and Mostar a slightly longer one, and doing either with your own car means you arrive before the tour buses and leave when you feel like it.
Driving north is simpler than it used to be. The Peljesac bridge keeps the whole run inside Croatia now, no Neum border stop, so Ston's walls and the peninsula's wine cellars are an easy out and back. Keep going and you can rent a car in Makarska, halfway up the coast, if a riviera base suits your trip better.
One honest tip from us: if you are staying inside or near the old town, do not collect the car until the day you actually start driving. A parked rental near Pile Gate burns money by the hour, and the garages fill early in summer. And if Dubrovnik is one end of a longer Dalmatian trip, the coastal drive up from Split shows what the three hours between the two cities really look like.
Before you book
If you land at Dubrovnik Airport and your plan is day trips or a drive north, take the car at arrivals; the airport is half an hour south and returning there on departure day is painless. If you are spending your first days inside the walls, book a city or hotel handover for the morning you start driving, not the day you arrive.
You cannot drive into the old town at all, and the paid zones closest to Pile Gate are the most expensive in Croatia. Use the covered garages towards Gruz or the Ilijina Glavica side and walk or hop a bus in; better still, time the rental so the car is moving rather than parked.
Most suppliers here allow it. The cross-border terms show on each listing before you book, so select the countries you plan to visit and check what the listing says. Carry the border paperwork the supplier provides, and allow extra time at the Debeli Brijeg crossing in July and August.
Split has the deeper fleet and quicker ferry access to the islands. Dubrovnik wins if Montenegro or Bosnia is on your list, since the borders are close and day trips are simple. Plenty of travellers pick up in one city and drop off in the other; one-way fees show on the listing before you commit.
Bring the driving licence in the main driver's name, a passport or ID card, and a credit card in that name for the deposit. There are no booking fees, and the deposit and any one-way fee are shown on the listing before you pay. EU and EEA licences are accepted as they are; if your licence is from outside the EU, carry an International Driving Permit alongside it.
The coastal road along the Adriatic and the Peljesac bridge to the north carry no toll, and Croatia has no national road vignette. If you carry on to Split you join the A1 motorway, where tolls are paid at the booths or by ENC transponder. Keep a card or some cash ready for the booth if you are not set up with a transponder.
