Fly to Slovenia avoiding London

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Looking for advice on flying to Slovenia from Dublin, but want to avoid London due to possible hassle with all the security there.

I can find 2 options -
1. Fly direct to Ljubljana with Adria Airlines.
Disadvantage, they only fly on Saturdays and the flight to Ljubljana arrives after midnight.

2. Fly to Venice Treviso, with Ryanair and drive to Slovenia.
Disadvantage: Have to drive.

Just wondering if anyone knows of any other options?
Has anyone done the drive from Treviso to Slovenia?

We are interested in an outdoorsy holiday so don't necessarily want to go to Ljubljana, will be heading for the north east of the coutry, Tryglav National Park, possibly Lake Bohinj, Socca River etc.

Tks
Carmel
 
There's loads of other places you could fly through apart from London - Frankfurt or Munich probably would be a good choice with quite a few flights to Ljubljana from those places ... try Czech airlines through Prague or Malev through Budapest too.
 
The roads in Slovenia are superb relative to Ireland - recently drove around by Bled / Bohinj Narional Park etc. and down to Portoroz - excellent roads, so no worries on that score.


We stayed in Llubjnia for a few nights and found it very nice too.

Roy
 
Carmel said:
2. Fly to Venice Treviso, with Ryanair and drive to Slovenia.
Disadvantage: Have to drive
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Another possibility - take the train:
Option 1: trains Treviso - Mestre - Udine - Gorizia; taxi 2 miles across border to Nova Gorica. Train Nova Gorica - Bled
Option 2 trains Treviso - Mestre - Trieste - Ljubliana

onekeano said:
The roads in Slovenia are superb relative to Ireland.
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From talking to people in Bled over the years (been there three times in past five years on summer holidays) they suffer from very similar traffic problems as Ireland - large numbers of people commuting to capital city thus clogging up main routes in mornings & evenings; bottlenecks on main road routes and delays in building new bypasses and roads due to planning delays, etc etc etc. Apart from that, most Slovene roads carry a lot less traffic than in Ireland so the driving will be easier. Not sure if the same can be said about Italy though.
 
Guys
Thanks for all your comments. I've been busy checking out different flight options, but the costs are much higher going via frankfurt, prague etc.
(550e versusu 220e for two people)

So now we are between flying via London Standsted to Trieste or Dublin Treviso direct. The flight times to Trieste are much more flexible.

Has anyone been through Stansted recently? What would the advice be regarding time to leave between connecting Ryanair flights?

Tks

C
 
We came back from Portoroz 13th aug. on package deal.
Flew into and out of Trieste from Dublin. Slovenian border about 45 mins
from airport by bus. Local transport in Slov. is good and cheap.
 
was that a ryanair flight and does anyone know if there is any flights to either venice or slovenia from shannon or cork and also what is the weather like in august as it is some place I would like to go next year.
 
Flew with Dubrovnik airline.We had 3 good days and 3 cloudy with some rain.I believe the week before was the same but I was told by locals that this was unusual as weather there is usually much more settled. Approx 29 degrees on the good days and 23 on not so good.I would say we were a bit unlucky.
Ardman
 
Has anyone been through Stansted recently? What would the advice be regarding time to leave between connecting Ryanair flights?
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Did this on Friday afternoon. I'd say allow two hours at the very least, preferably three to allow for any delays. Security queues are still very long, and you will have to allow time to wait for baggage and checkin again at Stansted (unless you travel hand luggage only and do web checkin, which is what I did, but then you have to allow time to buy toiletries after the security check.).
 
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