Hotel Dubrovnik Palace
Part of Adriatic Luxury Hotels, Hotel Dubrovnik Palace is a five-star seaside hotel on Dubrovnik’s Lapad Peninsula, with Adriatic views from every room, contemporary interiors and a calm coastal setting.
AMENITIES
Private Beach
Outdoor pools
Indoor pool
Spa
FACILITIES
Restaurants & bars
PADI diving centre
Padel court
Walking routes
ROOMS
All with sea views and private balconies or terraces
WELLNESS
1,510 m² spa and wellness area
Sauna, steam bath, fitness studio and treatment rooms
COLLECTION
Adriatic Luxury Hotels
The reason to stay
Hotel Dubrovnik Palace begins with the view. Set on the Lapad Peninsula, away from the heaviest Old Town crowds, it offers a version of Dubrovnik built around sea views, space and a slower coastal rhythm.
The hotel belongs to Adriatic Luxury Hotels, one of Dubrovnik’s best-known hospitality groups, and its appeal is easy to understand from the first arrival: every room faces the Adriatic, the coastline is directly below, and the Old Town remains close enough for lunches, dinners and evening walks.
This is the place to book if you want Dubrovnik without being completely inside the city’s busiest streets. You get the profound sense of the destination, but with more room to breathe.
Arrival and setting
The hotel sits between the pine-covered slopes of Petka hill and the open water of the Adriatic, with views stretching towards the Elafiti Islands. The arrival feels immediately different from staying inside the Old Town. There are no narrow lanes to drag luggage through, no dense foot traffic at the door, and no sense that the city is pressing in around you.
Instead, the first impression is coastal: large public spaces, sea-facing terraces, pools, restaurants, bars and a steady focus on the view. Hotel Dubrovnik Palace is not an intimate boutique hotel, and it does not pretend to be one. Its strength is scale, access and the ability to move between the city and the coast without having to choose only one.
Most days can fall into an easy rhythm: breakfast with the sea in front of you, time by the water, the Old Town later in the day, and then a quieter return to Lapad when Dubrovnik starts to feel busy.
The backstory
Hotel Dubrovnik Palace is part of the Adriatic Luxury Hotels collection, which includes some of Dubrovnik’s most established addresses. Within that portfolio, Dubrovnik Palace is the coastal resort option: contemporary, sea-facing and designed for travelers who want more than a central city base.
The hotel’s identity is tied closely to its position on the Lapad Peninsula. It is not about being steps from the Stradun or hidden inside the medieval walls. It is about waking up to the Adriatic, having direct access to the coast and seeing the Elafiti Islands from almost every part of the property.
That makes it especially useful for summer, when Dubrovnik’s Old Town can feel intense during the day.
The room
We stayed in a superior sea-view room with a balcony, and the balcony became the part of the stay I remember most.
The room itself was clean, comfortable and contemporary, with a neutral palette and everything needed for a few days by the coast. But the real value was outside: morning light over the Adriatic, the sound of the water below and a view that made the hotel feel like part of the destination rather than just a place to sleep.
In a city where many stays can feel compact or enclosed, that sense of space matters. The balcony was not just an added feature. It changed the pace of the mornings and evenings, giving the trip a calmer start and finish each day.
Food and drink
Food and drink at Hotel Dubrovnik Palace are closely tied to the setting. The hotel’s restaurants and bars face towards the Elafiti Islands, so the view becomes part of the experience from breakfast through to sunset.
Elafiti Restaurant is the main breakfast space, with panoramic views over the Croatian islands and a broad morning selection. Breakfast here is less about one specific dish and more about the ritual of starting the day with the sea directly in front of you.
Maslina Tavern is the hotel’s signature beachfront restaurant, while Beach Restaurant Ponta and Lanterna Glorijet bring a more relaxed daytime rhythm around the water and pool. Sunset Lounge adds the obvious evening version of the same idea: a higher viewpoint, a drink in hand and the Adriatic doing most of the work.
The strongest impression is how consistently the hotel uses its coastal position. Whether it is breakfast, a poolside drink or an evening on the terrace, the setting is always part of the offer.
Wellness and facilities
Hotel Dubrovnik Palace has a large spa and wellness area, with an indoor pool, steam bath, Finnish sauna, treatment rooms, a fitness studio and outdoor freshwater pools looking towards the Elafiti Islands.
The property also has direct access to the coast, a PADI diving centre, a padel court and walking routes around Petka hill behind the hotel. These details make it feel more complete than a simple sightseeing base.
You could stay here and build the day around the hotel as much as the city: swim, walk, have breakfast with a view, head into the Old Town later, then return to a quieter part of Dubrovnik by evening.
The service
Service felt professional, calm and easy throughout the stay. The hotel has the structure of a larger five-star property, but the experience moved smoothly, from arrival to breakfast and the general rhythm of the stay.
Nothing felt overdone or theatrical. The service style matched the hotel well: polished, efficient and there when needed.
The area
Lapad is a good choice if you want Dubrovnik with more space and less pressure than the Old Town. The hotel is around 4.5 km from the historic centre, which makes taxis and transfers part of the stay, but that distance is also what gives the property its calmer feeling.
This is not the location to choose if you want to step straight out into the Old Town every morning. It is the location to choose if you want to experience the city, then return to the water.
Best for
Hotel Dubrovnik Palace is best for travelers who want sea views, direct coastal access and a resort-style base outside Dubrovnik’s busiest streets.
It works especially well for couples, first-time visitors, summer trips and anyone who wants the Old Town within easy reach without sleeping inside the crowds. It is also a strong choice if you want your hotel to feel like part of the trip, not just somewhere to leave your bags.
Final thoughts
Hotel Dubrovnik Palace was the right start to our Dubrovnik trip.
It gave the city a slower pace: mornings on the balcony, wide views over the Adriatic and enough distance from the Old Town to make returning to the hotel feel like a reset. The separation from the centre is not a drawback if you want a more coastal stay. It is the reason the hotel works.
If I returned to Dubrovnik and wanted a sea-view hotel outside the busiest part of the city, this would be one of the first places I’d consider again.
Plan Your Stay
Location
Hotel Dubrovnik Palace
Masarykov Put 20
20000 Dubrovnik, Croatia
Part of Adriatic Luxury Hotels
Distance to Old Town: 4.5 km
Distance to Dubrovnik Airport: 22 km
Contact
Hotel Dubrovnik Palace
Masarykov Put 20
20000 Dubrovnik, Croatia
Website
https://www.adriaticluxuryhotels.com/hotel-dubrovnik-palace/
Reservations
reservations@alh.hr
+385 20 300 300
