Reader's Trip Report: A Four Week Itinerary for Croatia

I’ve recently been in communication with a lovely lady – M – who needed a little bit of assistance with planning her trip around Croatia. M was lucky enough to be travelling around Croatia for four weeks (yes, four!) and visited an incredible nine towns/cities and nine islands! Read on below for some very helpful travel tips and M’s itinerary:

Travel Tips

Having just returned from backpacking around the beautiful country of Croatia for 4 and a half weeks – visiting 9 towns/cities and the main towns on 9 islands – we thought we would share some of the knowledge we gained about travel and our itinerary.

We found Rome2rio.com very helpful as it gave us the travel options available to get from one place to another and the names of the companies that we needed to use. Many of these companies have their own app.

The main ferry companies are TP Line, Krilo and Jadrolinija. We booked through directferries.com, which was easy as it gave us all the times and prices for all the ferries on our chosen dates.

The bus companies we used were mainly Arriva and FlixBus. For many of the buses, you have to pay for your luggage that goes into the hold. This costs about €1.30 per bag.

Travelling from Split airport to Split can be done in a few ways. The airport shuttle (from right outside the airport) takes passengers down to the ferry port, whereas the local bus number 37 (from across the road) takes you to the bus station at the top of the town. This then goes to Trogir.

I hope the above information helps you with planning your itinerary.

Ferries and catamarans in the port of Split

The Four-Week Itinerary

Our itinerary was as follows:

Split – we did a day trip to Trogir, taking the 37 bus there and returning on the water taxi with Bura Line
Bus from Split to Zadar – used the local bus from the Autobusni Kolodvor to visit Plitvice Lakes
Ferry from Zadar to Mali Losinj
Bus from Mali Losinj to Cres

Ferry from Cres to Pula (we had to change ferries on Unije) – from here we took a local bus to Rovinj for a day trip
Bus from Pula to Porec
Bus from Porec to Rijeka
Day trip from Rijeka to the island of Krk using the local bus

Ferry from Rijeka to Rab
Ferry from Rab to Pag – the ferry arrives in Novalja on the north of the island. The local bus station is a 25-minute walk away from the port if you want to get to Pag Town
Bus from Pag to Split (we had to change buses at Zadar) and then a ferry to Vis
Ferry from Vis to Split, then a ferry to Korcula

Ferry from Korcula to Dubrovnik
Ferry from Dubrovnik to Hvar
Ferry from Hvar to Split, then by water taxi to Trogir
Bus 37 from Trogir to Split Airport

I contacted Visit Croatia a couple of times for additional information, and they were very helpful.

Thank you so much, M, for sharing your amazing itinerary with us, and also for your travel tips. Thank you also for your kind words about Visit Croatia!