We are looking for help with travel info on getting to Divaca Slovenia and on to Rovinj Croatia without a car! We have gotten info all over the board as to whether trains can get us there and bus routes etc. Need a consensus of experts!!
Will be heading south from Hallstatt Austria by train through Bled, but then we get foggy on best way to go. Would like to use train as much as possible, but told train doesn't go to Rovinj.
So need help going from Austria to Slovenia to Croatia, and best forms of transport and routes to do it.
We also cannot find info on ferry from Rovinj to Venice, anyone chime in on how easy that is?
thanks,
kat
Posted by
Rick Steves' Europe
16893 posts
I drove around this region with no difficulty. You could pick up a car in Slovenia, drive to Croatia, and drop it back in Slovenia near the Italian border, e.g., at Portoroz, then bus or taxi to Trieste.
Rovinj is not served by train. These are the connections I've cobbled together in a quick search, but they should be reconfirmed when there. On DB schedules, I find one daily train leaving Divaca at 15:00 and arriving Buzet at 15:50. At http://www.udaljenosti.com/vozni-red-vlakova/, you can find a connection departing Buzet at 15:56 and arriving in Pula at 17:52, and that might still leave time for a 45-minute bus connection to Rovinj. Bus schedules are reduced on weekends.
In high season, there is a ferry from Rovinj to Venice operated by http://www.venezialines.com/.
Posted by
Clermont FL, USA
58 posts
We are headed there in September 2014. I gave up on the public transportation as it was hard to get around and chewed up a lot of time going the long way around. The car was cheap for a week and sound like driving is easy there. Have a great time in Hallstatt!
Posted by
OP
27 posts
Thanks, do you know if you can do a one way car rental? We would be like renting in Ljubljana and leaving it in Rovinj.
Not looping, we will ferry out of rovinj to venice. Not sounding like it's done, but thought I'd ask!
k
Posted by
Ottawa
233 posts
I doubt you can do an international one-way without considerable cost.
We rented a car in Dubrovnik and dropped it off in Zagreb with no problems.
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Just returned from travel in Slovenia and Croatia. We didn't want the responsibility of driving. For travel between Lake Bled and Rovinj, we used Prevozi Oseb-Transports:
http://www.kofler-sport.si/activities/other-offer/transports/
The transfer was smooth. Anita included a stop at Predjama Castle and a separate stop for lunch.