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These places are a good starting point for searching for accommodation, but there will also be some of my own personal recommendations in each of the region sections. For additional information, see Appendix B.

A friendly welcome at a traditional Slovenian hotel

Food and drink

If you have any concerns about the quality of the food in a former Socialist country, then please don’t. You’ll find a selection of excellent restaurants in most towns. There won’t be a wide variety of cuisines available (for example, outside of Ljubljana, you’re unlikely to find a curry) – a quirk of the relative lack of racial diversity in the country. However, you will find Italian, Hungarian and Serbian dishes, and the local cuisine tends to be hearty (if not always healthy) alpine food. There are usually good vegetarian options too.

New twists on old classics in Slovenian cuisine

Lunch is usually the main meal of the day for Slovenes, and a great option for a filling meal is kosilo. Often offered at restaurants and hotels, kosilo is a set menu with a soup to start, a help-yourself salad bar and a filling main course. They represent great value.