Comments on: Holidays Istria | Guide to the peninsula

By: Croatia Expert

Croatia Expert — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 21:13:19 +0000

Thanks Heather, i will have a look at it

Morten

By: Heather on her travels

Heather on her travels — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 20:54:54 +0000

We had a great time in Istria based near Porec staying at Plava Laguna resort which is really beautiful and great for families with plenty of sports and leisure facilities. We also loved visiting the hil towns you mentions and also Porec and Rovinj – I think this part of Croatia really has something for everyone – you might like to take a look at the video I made around Plava Laguna
http://www.heatheronhertravels.com/plava-laguna-resort-istria-croatia-video/

By: Croatia Expert

Croatia Expert — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 06:59:28 +0000

Hi Cindy,

as far as i know the only Sea connection between Venezia and Rovinj is the one from Venezialine.

Kindest regards, Morten

By: Cindy

Cindy — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 23:04:07 +0000

Hello,
Useful information on this site. In June we are flying into Venice and will be departing Venice on a Monday to ferry over to Rovinj. I see that Venezia Lines has a high speed catamaran but it does not show service on Mondays. Is there another ferry line that you can recommend?
Thanks!

By: Croatia Expert

Croatia Expert — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 20:23:13 +0000

Hi Sam,

I glad to here that you find our page helpful.

The schedule for Venezialines http://www.venezialines.com/schedule but as well here, as for the ferry to Korcula, the summer schedule Is normally not available before in April, so you will have to wait a bit for that one.

Did I understand it correctly? You want to stay in Croatia for a week?

If so, you might need to adjust your itinerary a bit. (at least if you don’t rent a car)

Here a few suggestion from my side. (Considering you are on a Budget)

I would check the price for renting a car in Venice and returning it in Split or even Ancona (Returning in same country, is normally with out extra charge), The Catamaran from Venice to Istria, is about 100 Euro a person, for the 200 Euro you can rent a small car for a week. Bringing the car from Split to Ancona will cost you about 60 Euro.

If you have car available you can go from Istria – to Plitvice and the stay overnight close to Zadar (Doing that by bus, would be very difficult), next day you can then do Paklenica and continue to Sibenik when you are finished.

From Sibenik you have two options when you want to get to Korcula, one would be going to Split, and taking the ferry to Vela Luka from there (about 500 Kun with Car), if you rent the car, you should go to Peljecas, and take ferry form Orebic – to Korcula, if you have never been in south Dalmatia, you should for sure do the tour along the Dalmatian coast. (Both options would take you around 6-7 hours).

Both ferries run in May.

Kindest regards

Morten

By: Samantha

Samantha — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 19:46:13 +0000

Hi,
I’ve enjoyed looking at your site, and have found quite a bit of useful information about Croatia. I was hoping your could help answer a question… I am (tentatively) planning on flying into Venice on April 29 ( a Thursday), spending a day there, and then traveling to the Istra Peninsula. I would like to go by ferry, but have been unable to find accurate timetables and prices ( the find-croatia site says they have yet to be posted). Any info you have regarding times/ prices would be appreciated ( we are flexibe about where we arrive on the penisula) We would like to spend 2-3 days on the Istra Peninsula, and do some biking and hiking, then travel to Plitvices NP for a day. Then we plan to travel down the coast to Paklenica NP. We would like to see Zadar, Sibenik, and spend a few days on Korcula. We are mainly interested in outdoor activities sucha hiking, biking, and kayaking. Then we will take a ferry from Split to Ancona. We will be in Croatia (not including Venice) for @ one week. Questions: would it be better to rent a car, or to use buses (there will be 2 of us, and I can drive a manual, but we are on a budget)? Does this sound like a reasonable itinerary, or too much? Are we missing any ‘highlights’ that you would really reccomend? Also, on your ferry page, the timetables were all for high season- will there be a daily ferry to Korcula in early May?
Thanks so much for taking the time to answer everyone’s questions- your site is tremendously helpful.
Thanks, Sam

By: Sire

Sire — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 22:14:59 +0000

No, not yet but it has always been a dream of mine. Hopefully I will be able to make the trip sometime in the near future.

By: Croatia Expert

Croatia Expert — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 21:40:35 +0000

You would fore sure be able to practice if your are in Istria, alternatively you of course can also use English. Did you ever go to Italy?

By: Sire

Sire — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 21:31:34 +0000

That is very Interesting. At least now I know that if I ever visit Croatia, considering that I know a bit of Italian, I would be able to converse with some of the locals.

By: Croatia Expert

Croatia Expert — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 13:30:32 +0000

Several of the cities on the Istrian peninsula are very beautiful, I recently read a travel magazine recommending people to visit the Arena in Pula instead of Colosseum in Rome. There is still some indirect roman influence in Istria, 7% of people living in Istria are Italians and Italian is also the second official languages, e.g. all the city signs are on two languages.

On top of that there is large number of tourist from Italy, do to the close distance there is even lots of Italians in the winter.