Ljubljana · Slovenia
Three fully equipped self-catering apartments, 70 to 165 m², in one family-run building. Free parking for eight cars and a 22 kW charger outside the door, a bakery and a supermarket a hundred metres away, and the city centre fifteen minutes off by bus.
The House
Patricia House is a single building holding three separate apartments — No. 1 on the raised ground floor, No. 2 on the first and No. 3 on the second — each behind its own numbered door, with its own kitchen and its own bathroom. Nobody shares a living room, a fridge or a bathroom with strangers. What you do share is the entrance hall, the staircase and the parking area out front.
They are genuinely different from one another rather than three copies of the same floor plan. No. 1 is a compact two-bedroom flat of 70 m² for seven. No. 2 is 165 m² for eleven, with its own private entrance, six beds and two terraces. No. 3 is 120 m² on the top floor, three bedrooms for seven, black marble underfoot and a big terrace off the living room. Pick by how many of you there are.
It is a residential street, not a party quarter. Mornings are quiet, parking is free and there is space for eight cars. A bakery, a butcher and a supermarket are all within about a hundred metres, and the bus into the centre takes around fifteen minutes.
The Apartments
Every apartment has a fully equipped kitchen, its own bathroom with a washing machine, free Wi‑Fi and cable TV, its own terrace, and bed linen and towels included. Beyond that they diverge — in size, in mood and in how many people they hold.
Two bedrooms — one with a large double, one with a large double and a single — plus a sofa in the living room that opens out for two. White-and-walnut kitchen, a table for six, and a terrace on the quiet side.
165 m² with its own private entrance. Six single beds and two kings across four bedrooms, plus a sofa bed; a long dining table with eight chairs, two bathrooms and two covered terraces.
The top floor. Three bedrooms — one king-size, two with large doubles — sleeping six. Polished black marble throughout, a white and grey gloss kitchen, a utility room with washer and dryer, and a big terrace.
Included
Hob, oven, microwave, fridge, kettle and coffee machine, with pots, pans, plates and cutlery. We leave you coffee capsules, tea, coffee, sugar, oil, salt and pepper to start with, and the washing-up liquid, sponge, cloth and dishwasher and laundry tablets to go with them. You can cook a proper dinner, not just reheat one.
Every apartment has its own bathroom with a shower, a heated towel rail and a fixed hairdryer on the wall, and shampoo, hand soap and shower caps waiting in it. No. 2 has two bathrooms, with the washing machine in the smaller one.
Bed sheets are included and put out for you before you arrive, with a large and a small towel for every guest, and hand and floor towels in each bathroom. There are spare blankets in the wardrobes. Nothing to hire, nothing to bring.
Space for eight cars on the property, free for guests. No permits, no meters, no hunting for a spot at midnight.
A 22 kW charging station on the parking area. Start a session from the Mega Mobility app and pay by credit or debit card.
A key code on the front door means you can arrive at any hour without anyone waiting up. We send it to you before you travel.
Free wireless internet throughout the house and cable television in each living room. Fine for a video call or a rained-off afternoon.
A washing machine in every apartment, plus an iron and board, so a two-week trip does not need two weeks of clothes. No. 3 has a utility room of its own for washing, drying and ironing, with a tumble dryer in it.
Each apartment has its own outdoor space; No. 2 has two terraces and No. 3 a large one off the living room. Every window and door has an insect screen, so they can stay open on a summer night.
Slovenia is the size of a large city's commuter belt. From one bed in Ljubljana you can stand under a castle in the morning, swim in an Alpine lake at lunch and eat dinner on the Adriatic.
The City & Beyond
Ljubljana's old town is small, green and closed to cars — you can walk the whole of it in an afternoon and still keep finding things a week later. Everything below is either inside the city or an easy drive from it. Distances are given from central Ljubljana.
The hill everything else is arranged around. Take the funicular up from Krekov trg, walk down through the woods. Climb the viewing tower for the whole basin — on a clear day the Kamnik Alps line the horizon.
The pink Franciscan church, the poet's statue and Jože Plečnik's three-way bridge across the Ljubljanica. This is the middle of the city and the place everyone agrees to meet.
Four copper dragons guarding an Art Nouveau bridge from 1901. The dragon is the city's emblem and you will see it on everything from manhole covers to beer.
Plečnik's riverside arcade, full of stalls of Slovenian fruit, cheese and honey. On Fridays from spring to autumn the neighbouring square becomes Odprta kuhna — Open Kitchen — where the city's cooks set up outdoors.
Cankarjevo nabrežje and Breg fill with tables the moment the weather turns. It is the whole evening plan for most people here: a slow drink by the water and a walk along it afterwards.
Five square kilometres of park running from the edge of the centre into the woods. The Jakopič Promenade hosts big outdoor photography shows, free and open all year.
A former army barracks squatted and turned into an autonomous arts quarter: murals, sculpture welded from scrap, and a cluster of small live-music clubs. Sleepy by day, loud after dark.
The National Gallery for Slovenian painting, the Museum of Modern Art and MSUM for the twentieth century onwards, and the Slovene Ethnographic Museum for how people here actually lived.
Ljubljana's own hill, 669 m, climbed by half the city at weekends. About an hour up. There is a hut at the top selling sour milk, štruklji and a view over the whole plain.
The oldest botanical garden in this part of Europe, founded in 1810, sits by the river; the zoo is tucked into the wooded slope of Rožnik hill on the other side of town. Both are good rainy-day insurance with children.
The postcard: an island church in a green lake under a cliff-top castle. Row yourself out or take a pletna boat, walk the six-kilometre shore path, and eat a slab of kremšnita — the cream cake the town is famous for.
An electric train carries you into twenty-four kilometres of limestone chambers, home to the olm — the pale blind "baby dragon" found only here. Ten minutes away, Predjama Castle is built into the mouth of a cliff cave.
A UNESCO World Heritage site and the quieter, wilder alternative to Postojna: a river canyon roofed over by rock, crossed on a footbridge forty-five metres above the water.
Bohinj is Bled's larger, emptier neighbour inside Triglav National Park — swimmable, ringed by mountains, with the Savica waterfall at its head. Vintgar Gorge is a boardwalk pinned to the walls of a turquoise ravine.
Slovenia has only forty-six kilometres of coastline and Piran is the best of it: a Venetian town on a headland, with a campanile copied from St Mark's and seafood eaten looking at the water.
Ski resort in winter, trailhead in summer. Behind it the Vršič Pass climbs fifty hairpins over the Julian Alps — one of the great drives in Europe, open roughly May to October.
Founded in 1580 and the origin of the Lipizzaner horse. You can watch the training, tour the stables and see the foals, which are born dark and turn white as they grow.
Slovenia's oldest town, with a hilltop castle and a cellar holding wine from the 1917 vintage. The Jeruzalem and Ljutomer hills around it are some of the country's best white-wine slopes.
An easy day out over the border for a bigger city, an Austro-Hungarian old town and a famously good café culture. Check current border and documentation rules before you set off.
A long day but a real one, and proof of how well placed Ljubljana is. Salzburg is about three hours north, Vienna around four.
Bundles public transport, the castle funicular, a boat trip on the Ljubljanica and most museums into one price. Worth it if you plan to see three or more paid sights in a day.
The centre is pedestrianised, so leave the car at the house. City buses use the Urbana card, sold at kiosks; BicikeLJ is the cheap public bike share.
Look for a gostilna for traditional cooking, and for the daily set lunch — the kosilo — which is the best value meal of the day almost anywhere in Slovenia.
Drink it. Ljubljana's tap water is excellent and there are drinking fountains around the old town. Bring a bottle and refill.
When to come
Tivoli comes into leaf, the riverside terraces reappear and the Open Kitchen market starts up again. Bled and Bohinj are green and still uncrowded, though high mountain passes may not be open yet.
Long evenings by the water, the Ljubljana Festival, and lake swimming an hour away. It is the busy season — book early, and use the free parking here rather than driving into the centre.
The best month for walking. Woods on the castle hill and around Šmarna Gora turn, the wine country is in harvest, and the caves are the same temperature they always are.
From late November the old town is strung with lights and the December market runs along the river. Kranjska Gora is about an hour away for skiing, and the apartments are heated throughout.
Arrival
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Patricia House is at Novo Polje, cesta XV 5, 1000 Ljubljana, in the Polje district on the eastern side of the city — about 15 minutes by bus from the centre, 9 minutes from BTC City and a 30-minute drive from Ljubljana Jože Pučnik Airport. Apartment No. 1 is on the raised ground floor, No. 2 on the first and No. 3 on the second; each door carries its number. Check-in from 14:00, check-out by 10:00. Because check-in is by key code you can arrive late without arranging anything; message us if you would rather be met.
A cheap, good local bakery at the end of the street — pizza by the slice, savoury pies, bread and biscuits. The easiest breakfast you will ever organise.
Fresh and roasted meat over the counter. Between this and the kitchen you have most of dinner without getting back in the car.
A full grocery within a couple of minutes' walk, for the milk, coffee and everything else a self-catering week runs on.
About fifteen minutes by bus to the city centre, and nine minutes to BTC City — Ljubljana's big shopping, cinema and water-park complex. The airport is a thirty-minute drive.
Reservations
The City of Ljubljana charges a tourist tax of €3.15 per person, per night. Adults pay the full amount; children between 7 and 18 pay half, €1.60; children under 7 and guests with a disability pay nothing. It is not part of the nightly rate — you leave it in cash in the apartment before you go.
Because check-in is by key code, we register you in the guest book ourselves, as Slovenian law requires. Before you arrive, please send us, for every person staying: full name, date of birth, passport or identity card number, and nationality.
Novo Polje, cesta XV 5
1000 Ljubljana
Slovenia
Phone or WhatsApp
+386 41 815367 — Mirjana WhatsApp Mirjana
+386 65 555 600 — Patricia WhatsApp Patricia
Check-in from 14:00 · Check-out by 10:00
Self check-in by key code, any hour.
We answer in English, Slovenian and Croatian.
Nothing is booked and nothing is charged by sending this. We reply by email — usually within a few hours — and send the payment details only once the dates are yours.