Trip to Croatia

SeanF1

SeanF1

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My wife and I are arranging a family holiday in Pula, Croatia in the second half of June. We have arranged accommodation there and our two adult children will fly in to join us, but we (together with our Cocker Spaniel) are planning to take the slow route in our little moho.

I would welcome any suggestions on the best route to take to get there and back, and/or anything worth seeing / places to stop over, on the way. We are considering France to Strasbourg, then Germany - Stuttgart, Munich, to Austria then Slovenia then Croatia, or alternatively France, Italy, Slovenia, Croatia. I am aware that you can get ferries from Italy to Croatia. Is this better?

Any and all suggestions gratefully received.

Many thanks,
Sean
 
Hi SeanF1 we have been to Croatia twice and love it. We enjoyed Pula too with some great things to see in the area. If you are happy to do a bit of digging I used to write stories from each campsite visited on our tours but no longer do it now. The stories are all posted under my username on the CAMC Club Together stories section, which you may have access to. They should be pretty informative and may help you.

The tour to Croatia in April/June 2015 are recorded, but all the photos on the website are not ours now, a long story & why I dont post in there now. HERE is a link to the summary of that tour and if you work backwards to the first one HERE there are 19 in total.

Im going to try and post a link HERE to a list of them all but it’s from my account and may not be visible to you or you may not be able to select the individuals from it, I’ve never tried before but it’s very much easier than trying to give you such a large amount of information in one post on here.

PS, sorry the last link won’t work but you can definitely find them yourself, if not and you really want to read them all get back to me. The top two do work though 😊
 
Link in my signature to our trip, we went via Dussedorfe as we went to Caravan Salon on the way.
 
royandsharont said:
Hi Lenny HB, how do you actually link those posts to your signature? It’s a good way of saving them to be easily found 😊
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In your profile you put a title in then highlight then use the link button to put a hyperlink in.
Bear in mind anyone viewing will see and can click on your link.

Or did you mean save my links so you can refer back to them?
For that open a link then on the the first post (can be any post) click on the Bookmark icon on the top right and it will be saved to your Bookmarks.

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Hi this is the trip we did before lockdown. We found that as we were out of season it was sometimes cheaper and more convinient to hire an apartment than it was to stay on a campsite in the Van
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SeanF1 said:
My wife and I are arranging a family holiday in Pula, Croatia in the second half of June. We have arranged accommodation there and our two adult children will fly in to join us, but we (together with our Cocker Spaniel) are planning to take the slow route in our little moho.

I would welcome any suggestions on the best route to take to get there and back, and/or anything worth seeing / places to stop over, on the way. We are considering France to Strasbourg, then Germany - Stuttgart, Munich, to Austria then Slovenia then Croatia, or alternatively France, Italy, Slovenia, Croatia. I am aware that you can get ferries from Italy to Croatia. Is this better?

Any and all suggestions gratefully received.

Many thanks,
Sean
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If you go via Belgium Luxembourg, Germany. you will save a chunk of money on the tolls and fill up with diesel at €1.50 ( yes gone up a lot but still 30c cheaper than france). I then go Switzerland exiting through St Gotthard tunnel, across to trieste and then a roads through the short bit of Slovenia. It does make a difference how heavy you are.
 
jongood said:
If you go via Belgium Luxembourg, Germany. you will save a chunk of money on the tolls and fill up with diesel at €1.50 ( yes gone up a lot but still 30c cheaper than france). I then go Switzerland exiting through St Gotthard tunnel, across to trieste and then a roads through the short bit of Slovenia. It does make a difference how heavy you are.
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That's the way we went in November.
Don't forget off grid stops are illegal in Croatia and are enforced.
It's a great place, happy travels!
 
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frwjd said:
That's the way we went in November.
Don't forget off grid stops are illegal in Croatia and are enforced.
It's a great place, happy travels!
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I think an edit might be required :LOL::LOL:

Is Turkish WiFi a bit slow?

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We have driven to Pula. We took a similar route you described (Germany, Austria, Slovenia) stopping at Luxembourg for cheaper fuel on the way down.
When we did this trip, we kept off the very expensive (5t tag at the time) Austrian go box motorways.
It’s a lovely drive down using the A roads.

We drove across the Dolomites, which I must admit was brilliant but very hard work, all the twists and turns, up, down, overtaking cyclists, then them overtaking me, seemed to go on forever, but hey we did it.

Slovenia was an experience and looks war torn.

Only stayed the one night in Pula, then drove back to Italy. Stayed a week at a brilliant site in Italy called Pra Della Torri.
From here you can visit Venice and you don’t quite get the hustle and bustle of Lido de Jesolo.

From here, head across towards Milan then up through the Italian Lakes into Swiss. We often stop at Locarno which is stunning and has one or two Aires.

We never book any sites, we never know how long we want to stop, or tbh, we never know where we’re going. Off the ferry at Calais, look at each other, left, right or ahead, whatever.

Enjoy your trip.
 
SeanF1 said:
My wife and I are arranging a family holiday in Pula, Croatia in the second half of June. We have arranged accommodation there and our two adult children will fly in to join us, but we (together with our Cocker Spaniel) are planning to take the slow route in our little moho.

I would welcome any suggestions on the best route to take to get there and back, and/or anything worth seeing / places to stop over, on the way. We are considering France to Strasbourg, then Germany - Stuttgart, Munich, to Austria then Slovenia then Croatia, or alternatively France, Italy, Slovenia, Croatia. I am aware that you can get ferries from Italy to Croatia. Is this better?

Any and all suggestions gratefully received.

Many thanks,
Sean
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How long do you have for the journey there and back?
 
We just had the 2wks, unfortunately atm that’s all the time we can get for holidays.
We’ve managed to get down to Rome, have a week or so on a site then head back.
Also done the same to Salou a few times.

Did a tour of all the major football stadiums in Germany including Belin, Dresden, then nipped to Prague for a quick visit and returned through Nuremberg, Frankfurt on the way home. Couldn’t get to Munich in the 10 days we had available that time.

We did Munich and Neuschwanstein castle down on the Austrian border as well as Europa Park for a couple of days when we had a week at Christmas a few years ago.

Have Motorhome, will travel. Use it, that’s what you’re paying for.
 
Mattyjwr said:
How long do you have for the journey there and back?
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We don't have a fixed deadline to be honest but we are thinking maybe a week to get there.

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frwjd said:
That's the way we went in November.
Don't forget off grid stops are illegal in Croatia and are enforced.
It's a great place, happy travels!
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Thanks for this. I assume "Illegal" is the correct comment? Is off-grid stopping allowed in the other countries en-route? or is there an easy reference somewhere as to which countries allow off-grid and which dont?
Many thanks
 
SeanF1 said:
We don't have a fixed deadline to be honest but we are thinking maybe a week to get there.
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The reason I take Switzerland instead of Austria is the go box which effectively keeps over 3500kgs off the motorway. Whereas for about €30 you buy a swiss pass for over 3500kgs and you're through in a few hourz and on the Italian motorway system.
 
jongood said:
The reason I take Switzerland instead of Austria is the go box which effectively keeps over 3500kgs off the motorway. Whereas for about €30 you buy a swiss pass for over 3500kgs and you're through in a few hourz and on the Italian motorway system.
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Thanks Jongood. We are 5.9m and under 3,500. Presumably we would not need a Go-Box to use the motorways in Austria?
How does a week sound to make the trip down? Any recommended stopovers?
Many thanks
Sean
 
SeanF1 said:
Thanks Jongood. We are 5.9m and under 3,500. Presumably we would not need a Go-Box to use the motorways in Austria?
How does a week sound to make the trip down? Any recommended stopovers?
Many thanks
Sean
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Sean a week is plenty. you can use a vignette if you want to go through Austria. If you 're not in a hurry then there are lots of choices. If you like mountains then try grossglockner ( chargeable but you wouldnt need vignette with minor planning)

Hundreds of nice stopovers, depending on ferry/ tunnel time Gravelines. Boat lift at Thieu. Han Sur Lesse. Trier, freiburg etc etc etc. If you go Innsbruck then Garmisch Partenkirchen. I could essilytake 2 weeks getting there.
 
SeanF1 said:
We don't have a fixed deadline to be honest but we are thinking maybe a week to get there.
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If you have time, I'd go down via Strasbourg (taking a couple of days to get there) onto Switzerland and have a couple of days exploring the alps if the weather is good, head through Italy with two days or so in the lakes area / Milan / Venice and onto Slovenia for a couple of days before arriving in Croatia. Returning via Austria, Germany, Luxembourg, Belgium at a gentle pace - 10 days to get to Croatia, 10 back. If the weather isn't great in the Alps, go Via Germany first and return via Switzerland.

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Have a look at this.

Motorway map France : preparing your routes on french motorways - ASFA

Motorway map France : preparing your routes on french motorways : The French Motorway Companies (ASFA) helps you to plan your motorway travel in France: motorways network map, traffic news, route and journey, webcam Find all the tariffs of the french motorways and practical information: tolls...
www.autoroutes.fr

If you put in car and caravan it will give you class 2 price.
 
frwjd said:
That's the way we went in November.
Don't forget off grid stops are illegal in Croatia and are enforced.
It's a great place, happy travels!
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tam had no problems wilding in croatia maybe its not so enforced in the winter
 
We also wild camped in Croatia, but can be a worry as you Know it is not allowed.
But if you feel safe and out of the way, why not?
 
If you go Via Switzerland, and you get your motorway pass, it does last for the year.
Therefore when we did it we returned via Switzerland.
Switzerland is very nice to tour around, and loads of free place to stop, water is plentiful, shops are expensive so just stock up!

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mitzimad said:
tam had no problems wilding in croatia maybe its not so enforced in the winter
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I found there were some off grid parkups in Croatia, the trouble is they tended not to be in places we wanted to be and can be dusty scruffy bits of waste ground.
A lot of restaurants with car parks will let you overnight, but they want 20 euro off you :(

For a more pleasant experience I'd recommend stumping up the cash for a campsite. It'll be on a lovely coast and close to on / off site facilities.
I found ACSI worthwhile in 2018 and 2019, not sure if that's changed post pandemic.
Campsites in July and August are eye wateringly expensive.
 
Jays2 said:
If you go Via Switzerland, and you get your motorway pass, it does last for the year.
Therefore when we did it we returned via Switzerland.
Switzerland is very nice to tour around, and loads of free place to stop, water is plentiful, shops are expensive so just stock up!
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I think you can buy a day / week / 10 day / month / yearly vignette for over 3.5 tonne
I bought 10 days, valid for a year so used 4 days going south and 5 north
 
SeanF1 said:
Thank you all for your replies so far. Very useful.
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Don't forget, you can easily spend a couple of weeks touring Croatia and if you have time, go to Bosnia and Herzegovina; it is an amazing country.
 

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