Croatia-Greece-Italy

[jlptravelbug]

Hi - We are trying to find the best way to get from Greece (athens or islands, crete, santorini, mykonos) to crotia and then to italy. We are flexible how we make this happen but have to be in Rome to pick someone up in the middle of it all. We were ideally hoping to fly from Munich to Crete, and then move up the Islands to Athens, Athens to Croatia (somehow) and then to Italy (near Rome) Again very flexible. Having a hard time finding a way to make this work without spending days travelling.

Would appreciate any and all advice/tips.

Thanks in advance,

[madamtrashheap]

I recalled writing about this problem before so did a search and this came up: pretravel.proboards1.com/index.cgi?board=intinary&action=display&n=1&thread=7205&page=1=50&viewtype=1 and it's you jlptravelbug! It's a tricky area/route and others have found the same issue - no flights on the sections you want and a lot of travel time.

A quick check seems that a lot of people fly from Budapest to Croatia with Skyeurope.com as this is the best route around that area but that's just a lot of fiddling around too, so looking at other options as I still can't see any direct flights Greece-Croatia (anyone??), it might just come down to flying Athens-Italy-Croatia (say Dubrovnik) then back to Rome. At least you could do a return ticket Rome-Croatia (keep cost down) and a one way only Athens-Rome. Or, and this might work better, fly Athens-Venice with AlpiEagles ( www.alpieagles.com Italian budget carrier) then take the route I suggested in the above Post. I though I saw that SKyEurope flew Athens-Split at one point, but I think that it is a spasmodic flight schedule so you'd have to time it right. Have a look at their dates at www.skyeurope.com and see if they fit in to your schedule. Once you meet your friend in Rome, where to after that?

[herrbert]

To get to Croatia from Greece, you would need a combined flight. As the Madam already wrote, there is a flight with SkyEurope to Split, but that's all.

Other options would be to get to Budapest or Bratislava (with either SkyEurope or Wizzair), and then a flight to Croatia. You would have to puzzle which flights would make the best connections. Some of the flight from Greece to Budapest (Sky or Wizz), leave from some of the Islands.

[Eagle]

I recall reading a Post somewhere about some new airlines that will be operating from the Greek Islands this summer. If I find the Post, I'll pass it on.

[herrbert]

eagle said:

I recall reading a Post somewhere about some new airlines that will be operating from the Greek Islands this summer. If I find the Post, I'll pass it on.

To add on that:

A lot of airlines are flying from countries like the UK or Germany to the Isles, but for people who want to get some flights done, between the Islands, this might be an option to consider: skyexpress.forth-crs.gr/english/npgres.exe?PM=BR

[jlptravelbug]

Thanks everyone for some good ideas will continue researching. We've looked at the skyeurope flights and they are still a bit pricey, (105 euro) does this come down at all or is it usually around this much??

Thanks again,

[WillTravel]

Flights to/from Greece just seem to be on the expensive side - it's not the easiest place to get cheap deals for.

[herrbert]

no, they don't go down, they are more likely to go up in prices. (for budgetflights there is no such things as last-minute flights.)