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Adriatic Luxury Hotels hotels
Dubrovnik’s coast gathers grand old hotels, cliffside villas and a bold Yugoslav seaside resort.
Adriatic Luxury Hotels gathers remarkably different places along the Dubrovnik coast, from a 1913 city hotel to cliffside villas and Cavtat’s striking Brutalist Hotel Croatia. The collection stays close to home, with addresses around Dubrovnik and on Mljet, so its variety comes from the buildings and landscapes rather than a single repeated design.
12 Adriatic Luxury Hotels hotels in 1 country on the Luxury Hotels Atlas, each placed on the six LHA Tiers.
- Majority-owned by Plava Laguna
- Worldwide: The public atlas files 12 properties, all in the Dubrovnik region of Croatia
- On the atlas: 9 High Luxury, 2 Core Luxury, 1 Near Luxury
History
Hotel Excelsior’s guest book brings a century of Dubrovnik visitors into focus, including Queen Elizabeth II, Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, and Orson Welles. The collection’s restorations also preserve its artistic history. At Hotel Argentina, Marko Dabrović of 3LHD retained the 1913 façade, while Ivo Dulčić’s 1967 mosaic Dubrovnik Variations found a new place in the wellness rooms.
Timeline
- 1913 — Ivo Milić builds Villa Argentina on Frana Supila and names it for a South American stay. Hotel Excelsior opens the same year on the foundations of Villa Odak, just outside the walls.
- 1929 — The Glavić family buys the Argentina house and turns it into a guesthouse. Alfred Keller designs Villa Sheherezade for Vilim Zimdin.
- 1939 — Villa Orsula is built as a Mediterranean villa on the same road.
- 1973 — Slobodan Miličević's Hotel Croatia opens in Cavtat, hung on a pine peninsula.
- 1974 — Hotel Dubrovnik Palace opens on the Lapad cliff at Masarykov Put 20.
- 1978 — Hotel Odisej opens in Pomena, inside Mljet National Park, on the site of a fishermen's warehouse.
- 2002 — Jadranski luksuzni hoteli is registered in Dubrovnik.
- 2006 — Hotel Bellevue opens on the Kuneji cliff above Miramare Bay.
- 2011 — Plava Laguna and the Lukšić Group take a controlling position. The present group structure settles over the following year.
- 2012 — Villa Orsula reopens as a hotel after a long remodel.
- 2015 — Hotel Kompas, a 1968 Lapad hotel, reopens after a full reconstruction.
- 2017 — Hotel Excelsior reopens in the spring with 158 rooms. Studio BF did the exterior. Franic-Sekoranja did the interiors.
- 2019 — Villa Sheherezade joins the collection after a reconstruction by Texo Molior.
- 2022 — Hotel Supetar in Cavtat reopens after renovation, 50 rooms.
- 2025 — Hotel Supetar receives a Michelin One Key.
- 2026 — On 1 August, Villa Argentina reopens with 96 rooms after a 3LHD restoration, and sister Villa Orsula reopens the same day.
The houses to know
- Hotel Dubrovnik Palace, Dubrovnik, Croatia — A 1974 cliff hotel on Lapad, 308 rooms turned toward the Elaphiti Islands.
- Hotel Supetar, Cavtat, Croatia — A 50-room heritage hotel relaunched in 2022, with a Michelin One Key in 2025.
- Hotel Bellevue Dubrovnik, Dubrovnik, Croatia — A 2006 cliff hotel above a private cove, 91 rooms, a Small Luxury Hotels member.
- Hotel Excelsior Dubrovnik, Dubrovnik, Croatia — The 1913 flagship on Villa Odak's foundations, 158 rooms after the 2017 reopening, a guest book of queens and film stars.
- Villa Orsula Dubrovnik, Dubrovnik, Croatia — A 1939 villa on Frana Supila, a hotel again in 2012, and reopened with Argentina on 1 August 2026.
- Hotel Croatia Cavtat, Cavtat, Croatia — Slobodan Miličević's 1973 concrete resort, 487 rooms in the pines, a MoMA exhibit piece that still takes guests.
- Hotel Kompas Dubrovnik, Dubrovnik, Croatia — The 1968 Lapad beach hotel, rebuilt and reopened in 2015 on the promenade.
- Grand Villa Argentina, Dubrovnik, Croatia — Ivo Milić's 1913 house, reopened 1 August 2026 by 3LHD with 96 rooms and a rescued 1967 mosaic.
- Villa Agave, Dubrovnik, Croatia — A three-bedroom cliff house on a 16th-century chapel, once Arthur Evans's summer lodging.
- Villa Glavić Dubrovnik, Dubrovnik, Croatia — Twenty-one rooms on the limestone bluff, the Glavić family's piece of the Argentina estate.
Newest openings
- Grand Villa Argentina, Dubrovnik, reopened 1 August 2026 as Villa Argentina, 96 rooms, after years of reconstruction. The atlas name is still Grand Villa Argentina. Sister Villa Orsula, a 13-room 1930s house, reopened the same day. The two are linked by seafront gardens toward Lokrum and the walls.
Opening next
- No further hotel, with a site and a year, is confirmed beyond the August 2026 reopenings, which are now on the calendar as completed.
Every Adriatic Luxury Hotels hotel on the atlas
Croatia
- Grand Villa Argentina — Dubrovnik · High Luxury
- Hotel Bellevue Dubrovnik — Dubrovnik · High Luxury
- Hotel Croatia Cavtat — Cavtat · High Luxury
- Hotel Dubrovnik Palace — Dubrovnik · High Luxury
- Hotel Excelsior Dubrovnik — Dubrovnik · High Luxury
- Hotel Kompas Dubrovnik — Dubrovnik · High Luxury
- Hotel Supetar — Cavtat · High Luxury
- Villa Agave — Dubrovnik · High Luxury
- Villa Orsula Dubrovnik — Dubrovnik · High Luxury
- Villa Glavić Dubrovnik — Dubrovnik · Core Luxury
- Villa Sheherezade — Dubrovnik · Core Luxury
- Hotel Odisej Mljet — Pomena · Near Luxury
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