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Munich to Lyubliana train or bus.

Posted by (La Conner, WA, usa) on

(Posted this in Slovenia too.)

In April, we hope to fly to Munich(standby) and then travel to the Balkans. We were look at both the train and the bus. They are both pretty cheap and give us flexibility. The bus is much cheaper. We rode the buses in Ireland last December and loved them - comfy, wifi, and toilets. What more could you want.

Oh, a nice view!

The train appears to take a couple hours more. Both have mysterious (at the moment) connections from the airport. So we need help with that.

The big question is - what is the trip like by either of those transportation options. We would like to see the countryside between those two places and worry that we will just see freeways on the bus. On the other hand, sometimes trains are walled off from the surroundings.

We will likely go back from the Balkans to AMS to return to the NW. So any good connections that way would be helpful too.

Kind regards, all.

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We took the bus from Munich to Ljubljana. Comfortable, ran on time. We took the subway to the Munich depot from our hotel but as I recall its in a separate structure very close to the train station. We had made a reservation some time out so got a great price and since I had been able to specify upper deck when doing so we got first row (which the system evidently starts with as I couldn't specify seats). Great visibility for some great scenery enroute. The only issue we had was when the driver stopped for the midway break we had no idea how long he announced it would be - we figured 15 minutes was a fair bet and didn't stay away from the coach long - turned out whatever was announced to be about 20 minutes.

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Bus is actually 1 hour and 20 minutes faster than the direct train.

Both have mysterious (at the moment) connections from the airport

Both can be reached from the airport by the S-Bahn train. They leave the airport every 10 minutes and alternate between the S-1 and S-8. The S-1 comes into Munich from the west, so it will stop at Hackerbruecke (central bus station) first, then the Hauptbahnhof (main train station) is the next stop. The S-8 comes in from the east and will stop at the Hauptbahnhof first, then the next stop is Hackerbruecke. If you take the S-8, you can also get the train from Munich Ostbahnhof, which is several stops before Hauptbahnhof.

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