USA TODAY Cruise Log with Gene Sloan

• Introduction
• 1. Berlin
• 2. Black Rock Desert
• 3. Chicago
• 4. Côte d’Azur
• 5. Hvar
• 6. Ibiza
• 7. Montreal
• 8. Mykonos
• 9. Provincetown
• 10. Reykjavik

Hvar

This up-and-comer on Croatia’s southern coast (a thirty-minute high-speed-ferry ride away from Dubrovnik, itself another bona fide summer hot spot) is considered by many to be the hippest island in the Adriatic – and we’d have to agree. It’s blessed with fantastic beaches, the hottest bars in southern Dalmatia, and a beautiful globetrotting crowd, all of which combine to create the chicest beach-party scene north of the Mediterranean. By day, water taxis shuttle bathing beauties to the island’s best sands; come nightfall, you can stroll the picturesque Riva promenade, imbibe cocktails at the famous harborside bar/lounge Carpe Diem, dance under the disco lights at Veneranda, or relish a mouth-watering lobster dinner at Gariful – all in the fine company of yachting celebrities and jet-set revelers.

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