Croatia, do they like Tourists? Part 2

Published on August 15, 2025 at 9:20 AM

Dubrovnik, Croatia April 2023

My first fun (?) story, more like ugly, but you be the judge. I was traveling with my lovely wife and brother in law and sister in Dubrovnik, Croatia in 2023 and I needed to use the restroom. It was raining while we were there in April, so it made the "go" even worse. While walking along the beautiful sites of the "Old City" which is, coincidentally, where they filmed Game of Thrones, the HBO series, I hopped in and out of the quaint shops and then discovered that unlike the US, there are no bathrooms in the places you do business with, so I just held it until I found somewhere to "cry me a river". I stopped in their local information center and a nice Croatian lady said "oh yes there is one around the corner near the yogurt stand."You don's call them restrooms like in the US they are"TOILETS", _because pretty much anywhere in Europe its called a toilet not restroom, _I got in line, more waiting, and then a woman, that had to be in her 40's, maybe, built like a football LB, sat on a chair and "supervised" the entrance AND the usage fee, which was 1 euro.

You didn't give her the money , directly, that would be gross after doing your business, but it needed to be deposited into a coin slot near the urinals and, well, she watched you like a hawk, until it fell in the device. I tried to wiggle free like an American gentleman, that said " I ain't paying them to do my business" and slipped out, but I was honest. I wondered what kind of qualifications you needed to be a "toilet monitor" but she definitely had the qualifications, because she nearly tackled the guy that said he wasn't going to pay, as he escaped lol. I paid because I didn't feel like spending any time in a Croatian holding cel where I would probably have had to pay for the right to use their facilities as well. 

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