Croatia & Montenegro Travel Review: Dubrovnik, Split, Trogir, Hvar, Ston, Prgomet, Krka National Park, Cooking Class, Oyster Farm

First on our list would be to stay in Stari Grad and not in Hvar Town while on Hvar Island. While the view at the hotel was great, the hotel was definitely NOT a boutique hotel and was very noisy, with poorly designed bathrooms and not the standard we were expecting. The villa in Stari Grad would have been more to our liking. We were surprised that despite having booked this trip 5 months in advance, some of the itinerary was poorly designed due to the lack of transfer services from one location to the other resulting in a few instances where we had to 'kill 2 hours' waiting for our next destination. This happened going from Split to Dubrovnik, where travel time has now been reduced significantly due to the new bridge and were wondering whether the itinerary had been adjusted to take this into account. Luckily, we did have a resourceful driver who managed to find or create some activity to fill in the time.
We would skip the food and wine tour in Dubrovnik. Maybe this was due to the poor guide that we had but this was not worthwhile to us and we did appreciate that we were reimbursed for this tour as the guide initially did not show up when due.
We would maybe shorten the trip by 1 day if the various activities were better coordinated and planned and believe this is doable and avoid some of the back and forth traveling, particularly between Split and Trogir and between Dubrovnik and Ston. We would consider going to Dubrovnik by boat from Hvar (or Split) even if this meant for a longer journey but would be something different. 
We would skip the Krka National Park -- not worth it for us.