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== Hitchhiking out ==
=== North towards [[Neum]], [[Mostar]], [[Split]] and [[Zagreb]]{{E|65}} ===
Hitchhiking north out of Dubrovnik - does require some patience, all the rest areas seem to be located on the coast, making it difficult to find a good area.
Option 1: The spot below works although you might have to wait for a while. Go the the main bus station, in the north. Cross the road and keep walking north and look for steps leading up the hill side. '''If find yourself under the bridge, you have gone too far. ''' If you follow the path, it will lead you all the way up to the E65{{E|65}}. Then, cross the bridge and continue across to the other side, where you will find a rather small pull in spot. Make sure you stay behind the barrier and make yourself as visible as possible, because there is not a lot of space for stopping and drivers can't see it from far away.
Option 2: Easier to get there. There are bus stops on the ''Jadranska Cesta'' Street. A good one to hitch is the one opposite to the ''Lodpudska Ulica''. Hitch with a HUGE sign "Ploče". You can take bus #3 from the city centre to get there, but the place is not as good as the bridge described above.
* I don't want to discourage anyone, but, I was hitchhiking from Dubrovnik to Ploče, to anywhere out of Dubrovnik towards the north-west for about 2 hours and nothing. What I noticed were cars full of people, mostly families going back home from vacation. It was in august. Maybe if it's not the season, it will be less traffic but more useful one. My friend was HH two times from Dubrovnik to Ploče. Once he was waiting one and a half hour til he got a ride, second time 2 hours without any success. Another option is a bus, but you have to walk down from HH spot to the bus station near the sea for about 20 minutes. Bus costs 10 Euro. I stuck there at night, it was 20:00 so, at that time, bus sounded as a good option. (by [[User:NixyJungle|NixyJungle]])
* Tried this spot in August 2015 and waited approximately 1h 20m for a ride to the Bosnian border near Neum. It's a relatively good spot because of the bridge, which makes it visible but most cars are full during summer time. (by [[User:Uncle sam01|uncle_sam01]])
* I hitchhiked from the bridge in March 2017. It was still low season so there aren't as many full cars. But there is still quite a bit of traffic. I found a ride all the way to Mostar in about 30 minutes. The guys offered to take me all the way to Sarajevo! (by [[User:Henridv|Henridv]])
* July 2017 - we went to the bus station described in Option 2 from where we walked through the bridge (there is a bit of road with no pavement, don't worry, its normal here to walk along the road). On the other side of the bridge, described place looks much better than described in Option 1. There is a lot of space to stop and you are visible. I felt confused by what I found on Hitchwiki, as it was described as a mediocre spot, where in real it looked great. Got a 15 km ride in 20 minutes and another one all the way to Split in another 20 minutes.
* Sept 2018 - [[user:jamesvagabond|jamesvagabond]] waited at the pullout just past the bridge for about 15 mins and got a ride well into Bosnia. The spot seems to have been improved, quite a bit of space. The bridge also has a sidewalk.
=== East towards [[Montenegro]] {{E|65}} 8 ===
*August 2015: We weren't able to stop a car for 3 hours. We were heading to Montenegro, but locals discouraged us from this telling us that most of traffic goes to the airport or [[Gruda]]. However, we saw many cars from Montenegro passing. During the RedBull hitchhiking competition which received quite good media coverage, locals were stopping very often but now it was pure misery.
*August 2016:
You can take Bus 1a or 1b from Pile Gate(Old Town) to central Bus Station near cruise ship port for 15 Kune, 12 if you buy it at kiosk. From there you can take bus 10 towards Cavtat and get off at Kitzovica 20 km outside of town which might help you avoid the Dubrovnik tourists who won't pick you up...( the name is either Kitzovica or very similar to that, ask your bus driver to tell you when you're there). You can also take this bus simply to the top of the hill above old town and get off there if you don't feel like climbing the hill with your stuff. The #10 bus is only 25 Kune to Kitzovica and progressively less if you don't go that far. From the Kitzovica stop I walked 20m and hitched from right in front of bus stop so cars could pull into bus space and I got a ride within literally 5 seconds all the way to Bar.
*Sept. 2019:
With bus #10, the place you're looking for is called Zvekovica, and it's 22kn for a ticket one-way. On a Monday mid-morning the ride took almost 50mins, then standing just before the bus stop I got a ride within 5 mins to Kotor.
== From Airport to Dubrovnik ==
*This is a beautiful spot. Favourite part about my stay was this spot. Be warned, the walk from the spot to the hitchhiking spot is primarily stairs, so plan accordingly if you are trying to get out early.
*Great spot indeed, in the weekend however students were here 'till 1 or 2 am, so prepare for the possible option that sleeping is not going to happen before early hours. June 2016
*one of the best sleeping spot I had. It might be better to arrive a bit before night because of the stairs. We met 2 different groups of hitchhikers the same night. Locals arrived from 8am.
Another option is to go to the peninsula Babin Kuk, which is an area of small forests, beaches and a (quite expensive) camping. It's possible to find a wild camping spot here, and it's a half-hour walk (1 hour from old town) or 5 minute bus ride from Dubrovnik.
