Worth seeing: the Crocky Pool Bar is a wonderfully laid-back cocktail bar in Istria (Croatia)

Come along to Crocodile Bay and drink delicious cocktails at a bar in the water. The Crocky Pool Bar sits inside an artificial rock: swimming and drinking in a cave.

Crocky Pool Bar: a dark cave, neon-like spots and cocktails in the water

You cannot take your eyes off it as you swim into the cave from Crocodile Bay. There you see an enormous crocodile head, 12 metres long and 4.5 metres wide. The eyes and teeth glow in the dark.

That looks genuinely rather cool. But it is the whole picture above all. The dark cave with neon-like spots here and there, in and above the pool. Plus matching club music, a wonderful mood.

Around the edges of the bathhouse there are lounge benches in the water. The bar stands nicely in the middle, with a good row of bar stools. Here you sit half in the water and half at the bar. Which suits very well.

Then the drinks menu beckons. It has both cocktails and mocktails , alcohol-free cocktails. Thanks to some remarkably good creations you can enjoy a refreshing, excellent drink.

Crocodile Bay, the ‘finest’ commercial pool in Europe

The Crocky Pool Bar is the absolute speciality of Aquapark Aquacolors Poreč in Istria, Croatia. The wonderfully laid-back cocktail bar is part of Crocodile Bay, the newest extension to this action-packed aquapark.

According to Aquacolors this part once won a prize as the finest commercial pool in Europe. Partly because of the glorious pebble beach and the many luxurious water massage benches.

The cool cocktail bar in the cave completes it. Take a seat, choose a drink and switch to pleasure mode. There is less choice than at the Casanova Beach Bar in Vrsar, but it tastes superb.

It seems clear that this is an excellent place to relax. And rightly so. Because outside Crocodile Bay you are probably doing plenty of climbing steps and sliding… An aquapark like this offers a lot of action.

Update: see the moving images on Instagram.