Learn the essential vocabulary for managing your hotel accommodations, from booking a room to checking out.
Booking Your Room
When reserving a hotel stay, specify the type of room and your preferred meal plan. Direct objects take the accusative case. For feminine nouns like soba (room), the ending changes to -u (e.g., dvokrevetnu sobu for a double room). Use the preposition s (with) followed by the instrumental case to describe what the room includes, such as s polupansionom (with half-board).
For the cost of the stay itself, use the word for an overnight stay (noćenje).
Fees and Services
You will often encounter terms like boravišna pristojba (tourist tax, literally "residence fee") and posluga u sobu (room service). If you are paying the tax or calling room service, these phrases shift into the accusative case. Notice how the feminine noun pristojba becomes pristojbu, and posluga becomes poslugu.
Extra Beds and Minibars
You might need to ask for an extra bed (pomoćni ležaj). Because ležaj is an inanimate masculine noun, its accusative form matches its nominative form. If you are asking for a room with an extra bed, use the preposition s and the instrumental case, which adds -em or -om to masculine nouns (s pomoćnim ležajem).
The same instrumental rule applies if you want to mention a room with a minibar (s mini-barom).
Checking Out
In Croatian, checking out is expressed with the reflexive verb odjaviti se. As a reflexive verb, it is always accompanied by the short pronoun se.
