Croatia Travel Blog

Not all airlines have posted their summer timetables of flights to Croatia but some flight patterns are emerging. Overall, Croatia Airlines, Croatia’s national carrier, has the most international flights to the most destinations (in addition to having a monopoly on domestic routes). British Airways has apparently pulled its Gatwick-Split route although it still runs flights from Gatwick to Dubrovnik Tuesday, Thursday and Sunday. Also in a cutting frame of mind is Easyjet which no longer has a Bristol-Rijeka flight and Wizzair which has also shaken off Split but maintains its Luton-Zagreb route. Here are some other routes:

• Easyjet flies
  • from Bristol to Split Saturdays starting April 26 and Wednesdays starting May 21
  • from Gatwick to Split daily from April 21
• Ryanair flies
  • from Dublin to Zadar Wednesdays and Saturdays from April 2
  • from London Stansted to Zadar Monday, Wednesdays and Saturdays from March 31
  • from London Stansted to Pula Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays from April 1.

  Thomsonfly flies

  • from Gatwick to Dubrovnik Sundays startingMay 4
  • from Luton to Dubrovnik Sundays starting July 6
  • from Manchester to Dubrovnik Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Sunday from May 2
  • from Birmingham, Doncaster-Sheffield, Gatwick, Luton and Mancester to Pula Tuesdays from May 6

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• Flights to Split
• Flights to Dubrovnik
• Flights to Pula
• Flights to Zadar
• Flights to Rijeka
  
• Flights to Zagreb

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According to the  tourist association there have been 568,111 tourists in Zagreb, Croatia’s capital city, the first 11 months of 2007 which represents a 14% increase over last year’s figures. That’s good news for one of Eastern Europe’s lesser known highlights. Zagreb has always suffered by comparison with the far more publicized Prague. OK. The old town is not quite as extensive as that of Prague but neither is it ever elbow to elbow with tourists. And it’s cheaper than the Czech city.

The nationalities of visitors to Zagreb is as follows: mostly German, followed by Americans and Italians. That’s probably because Germans and Americans generally get cheap flights to Zagreb while Brits fly from London to Split, Pula or Dubrovnik.

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The famed rapper’s concert in Zagreb took place on December 3 but the buzz lingers on. First there were his extravagant (OK, not by star standards) list of “requests” for the Hotel Antunovic  (as reported by Javno.com): Norwegian salmon, Russian caviar, 50-vitamin mineral water, soy milk in six flavors with only 1.8% fat. I’m thinking ‘What a healthy guy!’ And everything has to be recyclable. And so ecologically-correct! But then there’s the obligatory Dom Perignon and Hennessey. Uh-oh. Maybe,  just to please the entourage?

Alas. Mr. Cent was caught with his nose down. In a white powdery substance. The incriminating stance was captured by a local reporter who wandered into his dressing room right before the concert.  (You can watch it on YouTube)

Now here’s the question: which is more shocking? A rap star demanding 50-vitamin mineral water and an eco-friendly hotel room, or a rap star ingesting powdery substances right before a concert?

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It’s a big project but Croatia has made a big splash on the international sporting scene. Croatian skiers, tennis players, footballers and handballers have rained glory on the country and now the government will honour them by building a vast new sports arena in south Zagreb. Prime Minister Sanader laid the cornerstone today for the Zagreb Arena, a project that will cost 87 million euros and seat 160000 sports fans. The precipitating event for the project was Croatia’s position as the host of the World Handball Championships of 2009 but the arena will eventually be a hive for all sorts of sports in the nation’s capital. And then . . . look for a shopping mall and entertainment centre to amuse the non-sporty in the same complex

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This is big news indeed. Skyservice Airlines has just started a direct route from Toronto to Zagreb, the first flight directly from North America to Croatia. The weekly Skyservice flight will leave Toronto every Wednesday at 10.45pm, arriving in Zagreb at 3pm. The return flight leaves Zagreb Thursdays at 7pm arriving in Toronto at 12.34am.

Skyservice has been running charter flights to Zagreb since 2004 but the new regularly scheduled flight has been a big success. The maiden flight was June 20; all went well and we can assume that Canada’s Canadian community was delighted with the news. We can also assume that tickets will sell out pretty soon so book now at Skyservice! Go to more information about cheap flights to Croatia.

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