Something new for Marina Veruda in beautiful Istria as a brand new concept comes from Croatia’s neighbour to the north, Slovenia. Fancy staying in a floating house?
As Glas Istre/Milan Pavlovic writes on the 17th of September, 2019, meet the Slovenian company which wants to enrich Istria’s tourist offer with something remarkably different to anything else on the entire Croatian coast.
”Before entering entrepreneurial waters, I was the director of a marina in Portorož for seven years, and it was in that marina that we completed our first project, that is, back in 2016, we installed the first floating houses. Today, there are a total of 41 such houses and their occupancy is 95 percent during the summer months, or about 65 percent all-year-round, as the climate allows,” says the CEO and one of the founders of the Slovenian 3Maran company, Sebastian Selan.
The ”fleet” of floating houses allow their visitors to holiday on the surface of the Adriatic sea with the comfort and convenience of also staying in solid facilities. This is a brand new type of tourist offer that will soon be available to the guests of Marina Veruda in the City of Pula, Istria.
The project is from the Slovenian company 3maran, which, after Portorož, Rimini and Marina Punat on the Croatian island of Krk, found a new ideal location in the area of Pula’s Marina Veruda, where the first four out of ten planned such floating objects were erected over the past few days.
“Croatia has one of the most beautiful coastlines in the world, and our idea was to allow guests arriving on that coast to stay not only along the ”first row” to the sea, as they could before, but also in the first row in the sea.
For quite a long time now, these floating houses have provided a pleasant stay on the sea all over the world, so we’re not discovering something entirely new, but just opening up the possibility to enjoy the same type of stay in the Adriatic,” said Sebastian Selan.
In much of the world, this trend, as he says, is already recognised and people stay in floating houses when on holiday. People even live in such floating homes in some places, meaning that this idea in itself is no revolutionary novelty.
“In the canals of Amsterdam, along the Danube in Vienna or on the river Seine in the middle of Paris, this has been a common thing for a very long time, and it was actually very simple to imagine a similar story on the Adriatic coast,” the director noted.
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