Boutique Hotel Stari Grad

Below the city walls on Od Sigurate, a narrow lane inside Dubrovnik's Old Town, Boutique Hotel Stari Grad occupies a restored stone townhouse two minutes from the Stradun. Ninety seconds further sits the Sponza Palace, with the cable car base station an eight-minute walk beyond the Ploče Gate.

Rooms keep exposed limestone walls and wooden shutters original to the building; several open directly onto the lane rather than a corridor. No lobby bar — guests are pointed instead to a handful of konobas the owners know personally.

The car-free Old Town means luggage arrives by hand cart from the nearest gate, arranged at booking.