Hi,

Our plan is to fly into Dubrovnik and slowly travel up north. We plan to be in Istria for 3-4 days, and then fly out of Trieste. The issue is that we have a visa for Croatia, and Italy, but not Slovenia. Is it possible to get a transit visa at the border? We can show passport, hotel reservation of the same day in Trieste, Schengen visa, financial statements, or pretty much any documents they can possibly ask for. (we do not have time to get Slovenia visa now)

If this does not work, our plan B is to get a taxi boat to drop us off at Trieste. But we could not really find any taxi boat in Istria. Only thing we found is a yatch charter for a whole day for 250 euro, which is way too expensive. If anybody knows any taxi boat in Istria, please let us know.

If nothing works, we plan to take a ferry to Venice, and get back to Trieste on land. That will be about 120 euro and 4 hour detour, ouch..

If anybody has any suggestion, please let us know.

Thank you,
WK

I agree. You're quite anonymous and don't tell us much, neither on your homepage. With someone who is like that, I am reluctant to share info.

I'm sorry, I didn't mean to be so anonymous :-)

I'm a citizen of Thailand and officially need a visa to visit Slovenia. My question is specific to the border crossing between Slovenia and Istria. Does anyone know if __in practice__ a Slovenian visa is needed on a bus from Crotia to Trieste? The alternatives are very long and costly detours and I don't have time to get a visa at this point.

Thanks again,

WK

For a bus running from Croatia through Slovenia to Trieste you will need the Slovenian visa. Slovenia is in general quite strict on these issues because they want to join the Schengen agreement soon.

Thanks, lotharlerch, that was helpful.

Anybody knows if there is any water taxis in Istria that can drop us off in Trieste?