The farm rents fourteen camp pitches, where tourists can bring their own tents, campers or caravans. The farm can also host an additional eight people at the mobile homes, which have two beads each.
The origin of tourists varies according to the time of year, although, in general, the farm receives more international than national guests. During the high season, from May until October, most of the tourists are foreigners. This year, thanks to a promotion campaign in Slovenia, they received a considerable number of tourists from that country. Tourists often come from the Netherlands, Germany, and Poland.
Croatian tourists normally stay in close-by hotels or apartments, or in the wellness centre of the thermal spa, and they usually go to the Hažić farm to visit the winery for the tastings. Guests also have the opportunity to sample Croatian delicacies prepared by Mrs. Hažić, among which the most popular is the međimurska gibanica, a dessert made of puff pastry and four fillings: nuts, fresh cheese, poppy seeds and apples.
Some tourists arrive in organised groups, and among those who came last summer, several have already reserved their stay for next year. The average tourist is 45 years or older.
Tourists stay on the farm for one or two nights on average. A significant proportion of tourists are passing through, as they are going to or coming back from the seaside regions. The tourists that stayed the longest on the Hažić farm were a young British couple, who remained there for one month and a half.
Guests can engage in farming activities, such as picking apples and grapes, or cutting the grass. The farm organises a wide variety of events for the tourists. The one that attracts the most participation is the monthly running activity. Divided into three different categories (5 km, 10 km, and 20 km), it is not a competition as all the group goes and comes back together. The participants run across the hills to the river Mura. Upon their return, they are received with homemade desserts, and they can also get some drinks.
The farm also organises a vineyard trail once a year, where partakers have to run up and down the vineyards five times. The fastest person gets an award consisting of some products produced on the farm and some prizes given by the sponsors, like a gift card to the thermal spa. There are several editions of this event. A version for children of this event is celebrated, in which kids must run up and down only once. There is also a relay race in the vineyards: groups, composed of three runners each, compete against one another. Members of the team must pass each other a token, which is a crystal glass. At the end of the competition, a DJ entertains with music, and attendees can eat, drink and dance.
On weekends, they also provide a free bus service, a “hop on – hop off bus”, that takes the guests to places of interest, like other wineries, museums, etc. There are two set routes (cultural and gastronomical) every weekend that tourists can choose from, and, if there aren’t enough people to cover one route, guests are directly asked where they want to go among all the available options.
Lastly, they offer their customers free advice on bike and walking routes through the surroundings.
