Dubrovnik Hotels for Solo Female Travellers, Ranked
Solo traveller with luggage at a Dubrovnik hotel
Eight hotels chosen for the walk from the front door at 22:00 — well-lit, well-located, and staffed by people who care.
What matters for a solo woman in Dubrovnik
Dubrovnik is one of the safer cities in Europe — violent crime is rare, and the Old Town is patrolled and floodlit until late. What matters for solo female travellers is less about physical safety (which is fine) and more about the practical stuff: a location where you can walk back after dinner without a taxi, a hotel where the staff will look out for you, good single-occupancy pricing, and a bar or restaurant on-site where eating alone is comfortable. The wrong hotel for a solo trip is one on a dark road up a hill where every dinner requires a taxi both ways.
The single supplement is real here. Most hotels charge 70-80% of the double rate for single occupancy, which makes budget-conscious solo travel expensive. A few hotels have proper single rooms (smaller footprint, lower price) — those are worth seeking out. Others include breakfast for one at the double rate. I have flagged both. All prices below are for single occupancy, shoulder season, unless otherwise noted.
1. Hilton Imperial, Pile — the safe central choice
The Hilton Imperial is 200 metres from Pile Gate on a well-lit main road. From €220 single occupancy. Front desk 24 hours, security in the lobby all night, and the walk back from an Old Town dinner is 4 minutes on the busiest street in the city — never lonely. The bar off the lobby is a comfortable place to eat alone (proper bar seating, not a table for one in an empty dining room) and the breakfast room is quick and low-fuss.
Best for: a solo trip focused on the Old Town where you want to walk everywhere, come back late, and not think about logistics. The catch is price — Hilton is not cheap for a solo traveller — but the location premium is genuinely earned for solo trips. Ask for a room on floors 4 to 6 facing the interior courtyard for quiet; the Pile-facing rooms hear early morning tour groups gathering. Concierge is genuinely helpful for booking things solo.
2. Hotel Stari Grad, Old Town — small and safe
Stari Grad is an eight-room boutique inside the Old Town walls, one block off Stradun. From €180 single. What makes it good for solo travellers is size — the owner-manager knows every guest, checks in on you personally, and the rooftop terrace is a genuinely social place where solo travellers meet other guests at sunset. Small enough that you feel looked after, big enough to have privacy.
The catch: the building has three floors of stone stairs and no lift, so hauling a big suitcase up is a workout. Also, being inside the walls means dinner is a 3-minute walk to any of a hundred restaurants, but breakfast in a quiet room service tray on the rooftop is the actual highlight. Book room 6 or 7 for the best terrace access. Skip if you have mobility issues; otherwise this is the best small-hotel solo option in the city.
3. Prijeko Palace, Old Town — the design option
Prijeko Palace is a design hotel on Prijeko Street with nine suites and a very good in-house restaurant. From €260 single. The reason it works for solo travellers is the restaurant: eating alone at their bar counter is treated as normal rather than pitied, the food is genuinely good (best hotel restaurant in the Old Town), and you can have a two-course dinner without booking a table for one in a formal dining room.
The catch is that suites are large and priced accordingly, so this is a solo splurge rather than a budget option. The location on Prijeko Street means you are surrounded by tourist-trap restaurants once you leave the hotel — the Prijeko Palace kitchen is a genuine oasis. Best for a solo weekend where the food is part of the point. Book the Junior Suite for value; the Deluxe Suites are lovely but the extra room is wasted on one person.
4. Hotel Kazbek, Kono — quiet and looked-after
Hotel Kazbek is a 13-room converted 16th-century villa in Kono, three kilometres west of the Old Town. From €280 single (breakfast included). Small enough that every guest gets attention, and the sunset drinks on the terrace are a natural social moment for solo travellers who want optional company. The restaurant is very good and comfortable for solo dining — proper bar seats and a chef who cares.
The catch is location: Kono is a quiet suburban area, so the walk back from the Old Town at night is 40 minutes along dark coastal road, which nobody should do. Plan on a €12 taxi each way in the evening. This is the right hotel for a solo trip that focuses on rest, reading, swimming from the property, and a couple of daytime Old Town visits. Wrong hotel if you want to be out late in town nightly. The hotel arranges taxis without fuss.
5-6. Boutique options in Ploče and Lapad
Villa Orsula in Ploče has 13 rooms in a converted villa above the coast, from €280 single. Small, quiet, and a five-minute walk from Ploče Gate — you can walk back from an Old Town dinner along a well-lit road. Restaurant is decent for solo dining. Better than the larger Ploče hotels (Excelsior, Argentina) for a solo trip because the scale is intimate.
Boutique Hotel More in Lapad has 15 rooms and works for solo travellers who want the Lapad promenade rather than the Old Town as their base. From €220 single. The promenade at night is well-lit, family-friendly, and full of open restaurants with comfortable bar seating. Walk back from dinner is on the pedestrianised promenade — probably the safest evening walk in the city. Skip if the Old Town is the main goal; the transfer over adds up.
7-8. Budget options that still work
Hotel Lero in Lapad has actual single rooms (not doubles at a discount) from €95. Basic but clean, well-run, and safe. The neighbourhood is residential and quiet at night, ten minutes to the Lapad promenade for dinner. Best for solo travellers on a tighter budget who want a proper hotel rather than a hostel or apartment. The buses to the Old Town run frequently until 23:00.
Hotel Perla in Lapad has small doubles priced for singles at €120, in a residential area a block off the Lapad promenade. Quiet, safe, family-run. The owners speak good English and will genuinely look out for a solo guest — this is the value pick where the human factor matters. Skip if you want to be walking distance from Old Town nightlife; this is a Lapad-focused base with the Old Town as a bus ride away. Both hotels work for a solo woman who has done some travel and is not looking for hand-holding.
Neighbourhoods to avoid for solo trips
Skip: hotels above Ploče on the Frana Supila road cliff-side, unless you plan to taxi everywhere at night — the road is steep and quiet after 22:00 and not really walkable in the dark. Skip Babin Kuk headland hotels for solo trips; the internal paths are safe but leaving the peninsula at night requires a bus or taxi and the schedule tapers off after 22:30. Skip anything advertised as being in "Kono" or "Mokošica" if you have not researched the specific walk to the front door.
Also skip: apartments over hotel rooms for a solo trip. The apartment scene in Dubrovnik is fine safety-wise but you lose the front desk, the sunset terrace, and the natural social moments that make solo hotel travel work. If you have never done a solo trip before, a small owner-run hotel like Stari Grad or Kazbek is the right first choice. The infrastructure exists to make solo travel comfortable here; you just need to book the hotel that uses it.
Before you book
What people ask before booking Pile.
Yes — the Old Town Stradun and main roads are well-lit and busy until 01:00 in summer. Petty crime like bag-snatching is rare. Common sense applies (well-lit routes, licensed taxis, don’t accept drinks from strangers) but the physical safety baseline is high. Uber and Bolt operate in Dubrovnik if you prefer app-based rides at night.
A few — Hotel Lero in Lapad has genuine single rooms from €95, and some of the smaller Old Town hotels (Stari Grad, Boskovic Palace) have small doubles priced for singles. Most higher-end hotels only offer doubles at 70-80% single occupancy rates. Ask specifically at booking whether a true single room is available.
Hotel bars at Hilton Imperial, Prijeko Palace, Kazbek and Excelsior all have proper bar seating that works for solo dining. In town, Above 5 Rooftop, Restaurant 360, and Nautika all have bar counters. Avoid the tourist-menu restaurants on Prijeko Street — solo diners get seated at bad tables. Konoba Dubrava in Lapad is friendly to solo eaters and cheap.
