Water multi sport holiday in Croatia

COUNTRY:
Croatia
DEPARTURES:
2013: 26 May, 2 Jun, 9 Jun, 16 Jun, 23 Jun, 30 Jun, 7 Jul, 14 Jul, 21 Jul, 28 Jul, 4 Aug, 11 Aug, 18 Aug, 25 Aug, 1 Sep, 8 Sep, 15 Sep, 22 Sep
PRICE:
From 590 - €760 (8 days) excluding flights
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MORE INFO:
The price depends on the season and includes half board accommodation, activities, Park fee, local taxes, transfers, guides, insurance. Min age 8. Max group size 16. Single room supp. 20%. Child discount 10% (8-14yrs) . 5-day trip also avialable starting at 490 euros per person.
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Water multi sport holiday in Croatia

Water multi sport holiday in Croatia

Small group adventure holiday
Typically you will be sharing your experiences with between 4-20 like minded travellers (depending on the trip, operator and how many others are booked on the trip) and you'll have a group leader with you. Whether you are travelling alone or with friends its good value, and a great way to meet new people! While itineraries are pre-planned there is some flexibility and you'll have plenty of privacy. This trip will appeal to travellers of all ages who enjoy meeting new people as well as seeing new places.

How Water multi sport holiday in Croatia makes a difference

Environment

On our trips we bike on paved roads only, walk and hike on bitten paths and admonish our guests not to feed, fish, hunt and disturb animals.

In our office we minimize printing actions and recycle paper. Part of our staff is vegetarian and because of that we try to provide quality vegetarian meals on our trips. We also support an orphan bear shelter in Kutarevo.

Skradin is a small town with some 6000 inhabitants situated on the edge of the second biggest Croatian National Park Krka River. Its position is it's big advantage but also its big disadvantage. With more then half of million visitors to a National Park in 2007 only few of them choose Skradin as their destination. Tourists and big travel agencies see it mostly as a passing stop before main attraction. Fees that we pay to go to the National Park contribute to the conservation of that area.

Community

By booking this trip you bring much needed income to the people who are still recovering from the war-torn years, as this was the area severely affected by war. This trip ensures that the local people benefit as much as possible in the form of jobs (we employ local guides and drivers) and provision of accommodation (we use family owned hotels or home stays with local family) and most of all that negative environmental impacts are drawn to a minimum. We also use local transfer services, buy food from the small farms and work on developing responsible waste management by stimulating waste recycle.

By buying local products you are supporting this countries’ economy and helping Croatia to stand on her feet again! We consider it our responsibility to lead efforts to maintain and preserve the integrity of this fledgling sector by petitioning the introduction of tighter controls over the use of the country’s natural resources.

As a company, we support the local community by building camps in partnership with local families, building bridges and accesses to the rivers. In order to preserve traventine barriers on Zrmanja River we have built a wooden detour bridges.

The biggest focus of the towns tourist offering are over two dozen famous restaurants which offer a variety of local specialities and vines. Our program combines that and a week full of activity with a base in Skradin's only and locally owned hotel. This hotel used to be a traditional family house, with minimal changes on traditional architecture now converted into an accommodation which gives you a real sense of ambience. This is a first time that one agency organises a multi day program in this area just 10 miles from Adriatic coast but on the edge of all main tourist stops.

Water multi sport holiday in Croatia

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The story of the provider of Water multi sport holiday in Croatia

When I built my first canoe in the late seventies, I named it after my childhood hero. Twenty years on, my first canoe has transformed into my own business, now the leading adventure travel organisation and outfitter in Croatia. Our job as a company is to help you enjoy your stay in Croatia, to immerse you in the beautiful scenery and show you some of the rarer, more exclusive sights of our country. We specialize in adventure and sustainable tourism; work closely with local communities and individuals throughout Croatia with whom we share mutual passion for outdoors, adventure, sports and travel. We have a range of one-day adventures or multi-day trips that are a well balanced mixture of nature, activity and culture. Our company will be happy to be your hosts in Croatia – to explore it, to enjoy it, to see it as it it and to leave it as it was.

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Water multi sport holiday in Croatia

Reviewed 11 Jul 2009 by Carole Sweeney1 star rating

1. What was the most memorable or exciting part of your holiday?


The river kayaking.

2. What tips would you give other travellers booking this holiday?


Take water shoes and plenty of sun cream. But also be prepared for some hard work as the kayaking can be very tiring.

3. Did you feel that your holiday benefited local people, and minimized impacts on the environment?


Not really.

4. Finally, how would you rate your holiday overall?


It was OK but it would have been a lot better if the group had been made up of at least one or two children of similar age to ours and the guides had a better command of English and a bit more personality. They made no attempt to learn our names or to build any team spirit, to break the ice or to bring the group together in any meaningful way. By comparison, the holiday we booked with you a few years ago in Slovenia was much better mainly because of the guides and the other children.

Read the operator's response here:

We are a Croatian company with mostly local staff. Comments about the guides are welcome and we’ll try to improve it immediately. We can’t guarantee how many other teenagers will be on the same trip, as we stated to Mrs. Sweeney before she came to Croatia. Most of our activities are done with kayaks or rafts which have minimum or no impact on environment. Usage of boats with diesel engines in NP Krka is out of our influence, unfortunately. The group was based in a small hotel in Skradin which is owned by local Croatian family with all employees from the area. During the war in 90’s Skradin was on the front line and partly destroyed. Tourism is a significant part of economical and social recovery of the area we have two out of 5 trips there. Also, the most memorable part of the holiday from Mrs. Sweeney was river kayaking which goes one in one of the poorest parts of Croatia that was mostly abandoned after the recent war. River guides, equipment storage, local transfers etc are all done by people from the villages around the river which are our employees. Only other source of income for them is sheep herding or migration to bigger towns on the coast. Sea kayaking is done on the Island Vrgada – which has around 200 inhabitants, most of them older generation. Tourism is the only extra income they have during the year – tourists buy things in the only shop on the Island, eat in few restaurants and use boat transfer to and from the Island which is owned by local fishing community.
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