About the project
Croatia Guidebook is an independent travel publisher’s guide to Croatia, written in English and Russian for people planning a trip from abroad. Since June 2026 it has grown to over 140 guides: trip planning and entry rules, cities and attractions, ferries and other transport, food, car rental and insurance, ready-made routes, and a short directory of restaurants we would send a friend to.
This page explains how the guide is put together: how topics are chosen, where every price and timetable comes from, where the photos come from, and who does the work. If a guide says a ferry costs a certain amount, you should be able to see which page that number came from and when it was last checked.
How topics are chosen
We start from what travellers look up before a trip to Croatia, not from what we feel like writing about: how to get from Split airport to the old town, whether Plitvice needs a timed ticket, what a rental car costs in August. Search demand picks the topic; the guide then tries to answer that one question fully instead of listing everything remotely related to it.
Where a guide recommends a specific place - a beach, a konoba, a viewpoint - it has to be rated well across several independent sources, not just one. We don’t reprint other platforms’ scores or review counts: a high rating is a reason to look closer, and the guide explains in its own words why the place is worth your time.
How every number is checked
Every price, timetable, distance and date in a guide is traced back to the page of the operator that sets it. For Croatia that most often means jadrolinija.hr and krilo.hr for ferries, hac.hr for motorway tolls, split-airport.hr for flights and airport buses, and np-plitvicka-jezera.hr for park tickets. The source and the date it was checked are listed at the bottom of each guide.
Before a guide is published, an automated check reads the prices, distances, travel times and dates in its headline, summary, tables and opening paragraphs and looks for each of them on the operator pages listed as sources; a new guide whose number is found on none of them fails the build and does not go out. Booking aggregators, price comparison sites and other people’s blog posts don’t count as a source for a number. Prices still drift between checks, so treat them as a snapshot from the check date and confirm the ones that matter before you pay.
Photos and sources
Photos come from Wikimedia Commons and, occasionally, Flickr or Unsplash, with the author, licence and a link to the original under every frame. We don’t lift images from hotel sites, tour operators or other blogs, and the same photo is not reused across different guides under different names.
Text sources are treated the same way: the list under each guide names the official page, law or operator document a claim rests on, with the date it was read. Wikipedia and news reports are fine for background such as history or the year a festival started; anything you would pay for or plan a day around has to come from the operator itself.
How the guide is made
Research and first drafts are done with AI tools; an editor sets the brief, directs the work, checks the result against the sources and decides what is published. Nothing goes live on its own, and the date of the last check is printed on every guide.
Croatia Guidebook is one of twelve country guides published on the same editorial system, so the checks described here are the same ones its sister guides go through. The project is run by A. Kobtsev, whose name is in the footer of every page.
How the project is funded
Some links on the site are affiliate links: car rental, accommodation, tours, insurance, connectivity. If you follow such a link and book something, we get a small commission from the service. The price for you stays the same - and the project exists and is updated on these funds.
Partnership doesn’t affect what goes into a guide: a place or a service is included because it answers the question and checks out, not because it has an affiliate program. If the better or cheaper option has no affiliate link, we recommend it anyway.