Serbia

When booking a hotel in Serbia, you will find that all the main websites have very little choice: lastminute.com doesn’t even have Serbia (or Yugoslavia) in its list of countries! A better option is to use a Serbian site like VisitSerbia.org. Make sure you print out the email receipt to show the hotel when you check in so that they know you booked through them and you get the special discount rate. And keep it until checkout to remind them again. It cut my hotel bill by more than 50% in Belgrade!

Remember that Serbia is not (yet) part of the European Union so if you are travelling to or through Serbia, make sure you have a valid passport. An ID card from any of the EU member states is not enough. Serbian border guards will remind you of this and not let you enter the country.

Apart from that, once you’re in Serbia, you’ll definitely enjoy your stay, it’s a great place to visit and still slightly off the beaten track.