Croatia cabin cruise : Dalmatian islands on catamaran

We've just returned from two weeks in Croatia, one of which was a cruise. Overall, we're very satisfied, first and foremost with the boat: a Lagoon 45, which is better than the Lagoon 40 we were told about. This catamaran is really ideal for a comfortable cruise, with plenty of space to enjoy as you wish (sun or shade, mattresses or seats). Secondly, this boat is managed by a German agency, which means that we were with 5 German speakers and a German-speaking skipper (who also speaks English). My German-speaking friend made it difficult for me to impose English on the whole group. Also, the rhythm of life is not necessarily the same as that of the French, i.e. late breakfast, no lunch and early dinner, especially as we only had 4 dinners out of 7 in restaurants. As for the itinerary, we had the misfortune to have 24 hours of torrential downpours which forced us to spend two nights in the same port. We also slept twice in the town of Marina (on the day of departure and the day before arrival), which isn't ideal for visiting as many places as possible. We didn't go to Vis, Susac or Korkula, which were among the possible stopovers on the site and seemed more interesting than our stopovers. So we only visited two towns (outside the departure/arrival towns) and slept in 2 marinas. In conclusion, we loved catamaran cruising and relaxing on these Croatian islands, but we preferred our cruise last year in Greece, where the welcome is much warmer and the restaurants much better.

The skipper is a professional and offers those who wish the opportunity to steer the boat.

A boat in good condition but clearly a captain not up to the task. The proposed itinerary was not followed by the captain in spite of very good weather and many discussions. We were in a Lagoon 40, with a German family not speaking English and an Austrian couple fortunately speaking English. Clearly the organization could have been better, knowing that we speak 6 languages... In short, little better to do !

The skipper's name was not Wolfgang but Tomas. He had slept only one hour the night before our departure... He gave the helm to people who had no knowledge of sailing and not supervising them, we missed an accident with another boat. Paradoxically, he was very rigid and systematically tried to avoid the known places and therefore a bit dense and to take us to unknown but random places. He also parked in 15/18 M of draft while the catamaran had only 1.2 M of draft. Finally, he also wanted to arrive at the harbor before 17.00 to guarantee himself a place. All the other boats had reserved places but not us!