thank you so much trisantona. easyjet from stansted is perfect for us . its our nearest airport . I had looked at ryanair to maribor but didnt know how far that would be . will check out easyjet now . thank you

lyn

hi lyn we booked ryan air from stansted to trieste only cost us around £35 each and that was over whit holiday too for 6 nights, although its probably one of the worst airports in the uk for us to get too, but luckily flight times are nice, we are hiring a car and driving over to slovenia as trieste is very close, i got some books out of the library and looked on michelen map online to suss out how far it is etc, having been to slovenia in the 80's i know what a beautiful country is it, check these websites that im visiting

http://www.bled.si/en/

http://www.theodora.com/wfb/photos/slovenia/slovenia_photos_26.html

http://www.slo-istra.com/piran/eng.asp

so many lovely things to see aswell as ljubljana which i havent been too either

EasyJet's flight times are very convenient. You fly out at 1330 and land back in Stansted about 1830. For airport transfers we used a company called Airport Transfer Services . There is a link for them on the Easyjet website. They took us by shared coach to central Ljubljana and then transfered us to our apartment by taxi. The same arrangement was used on the return journey.

Trisantona

can you give me an approx idea to prices in slovenia, average meal, beer, pop, etc, as not sure how much to take for 6 nights, we want to do a bit of sight seeing, caves, castle, too, what is the best currency to take thanks

Slovenia now uses the Euro, so that's easy enough. A coffee is about €1, a beer and pop about €1.50 . You could probably get a good meal for less that €10. Entrance fees to museums are between €2 and €3. Entrance fee to the Postojna caves is €18 for adults and €10.80 for children. A two hour walking tour of Ljubljana is €7.50 for an adult and €4 for a child.

I hope that is helpful.

This website :- http://www.Ljubljana.si/en/tourism/ gives lots of information about Ljubljana.

thank you thats very useful once i work out how much a euro is worth ,got a good idea though,lol

€1 = 67p. So, as a rough estimate, €8 = £5, ie about two thirds.

Been having a good look tonight . looks fab . Ljubtjana Is now top of my list for our spring break

just need to sort out my october one now

lyn

For next spring we are thinking about Bratislava. It looks similar to Ljubljana. Also you have the opportunity to visit Vienna and a couple of attractive towns in Hungary. Both are just a few miles away from the city.

As for our Autumn break this year, we are off the Valencia.

we have just come back from our trip to slovenia, we had a great time lovely country, but it was a lot more expensive than we expected and found prices similar to uk in restaurants and some of the boat trips, horse and carriages etc very expensive, we thought the people werent that friendly either and on a few occasions they got impatient with us whilst trying to find the right change to give them for ice creams instead of a big note, apart from this with thought bled was gorgeous, very impressed with the prostojana caves, we also liked izola area , although didnt like koper too industrial, but piran, izola and protoroz were lovely. lubljana was lovely too , we enjoyed our boat trip and train up to the castle, but its not as nice as some of the other cities we have visited, i preferred prague, warsaw and marrakech but its certainly nice

I am sorry you were a bit disappointed with the trip. When we were there a few weeks ago we didn't find it that expensive. Also the people were friendly and didn't seem impatient with us.

we had a good time, but found it dearer than we expected, 10-13 euro for a main course meal was about uk prices i just thought it would be really cheap and it wasnt, beer was about 3 euros, fanta 1.5 euros so very similar to uk prices. im used to going to turkey were its a fair bit cheaper and the people are exceptionally friendly which we sadly didnt find in slovenia, but i did think it was a beautiful country

We are just back from Kranjska Gora which we thoroughly enjoyed. Slovenia is a fabulous beautiful Country with some superb scenery. We found it very cheap with the average price for a coffee, 1 Euro, Beer 1.70 Euros and we were getting half litre of house wine in our Hotel and other restaurants for less than 4 euros!! The chair lifts cost us a total of 14 Euros for 2 returrns. Bike hire cost 9 Euros per person for a full day.

We did a 2 Centre, the first week in Rovinj in Croatia the second in Kranjska Gora. We didn't enjoy Croatia as much as Slovenia and wished we had done two weeks in Slovenia instead.

We will definately return to Slovenia but will do DIY rather than package as there are some fabulous apartments you can stay and eating out is so cheap.

I have finally booked ourselves a weekend in Ljubljana . Got excellent price return flights from stansted with Easyjet for £127 for the 2 of us fri 5th june - mon 8th .

Just hubby and I . Really looking forward to it .

lyn you must try and go to bled and the caves if you get the chance, both fab places, i think i put photos in the gallery of ljubljana, bled etc, let me know if you need any help

Hi Karen . We will only get 2 full days + 2 half days on the day we get there and the day we go home . Yes we will definately go to bled for 1 full day and spend 1 full day mouching around town but due to flight times we only have half a day on the third day so not sure if we would be able to fit the caves in .

After sadly having to cancel our trip last year to Ljubljana we finally made it there this bank holiday weekend and just got back last night .

I should have taken it as a sign last year that this trip just wasnt meant to be for us but I didnt listen . Boy oh boy did we have a miserable weekend in the rain . And I mean rain . it just poured and poured . no wonder slovenia is such a green and beautiful country.

Unfortunately we just couldnt get at the stunning surroundings. We had intended to do the first day wondering around Ljubjana and then get the bus into Bled 2nd day and I had visions of us riding bkes around the lovely park on our last morning .

Instead we got soaked through , I had horrendous blisters and we both had tempers to match . It's a pretty place, not as old and historic as I had imagined and very young and hip. Lots and lots of bars . They are trying to blend old with new contempory which I thought was a shame . Unfortunately there just wasnt enough there for us with 3 days to kill in the rain . Had we been able to get out to bled it most probably would of been a different story .

We enjoyed some lovely meals and the people were very friendly but sadly this was one weekend we would both like to forget fast.

lyn

Oh Lyn, what a shame. So dissapointing for you. I feel for you because a similar thing happened to us a couple of years ago. Hubbie had been to Lake Garda a couple of times on business and came back raving about how beautiful it was and how much he thought I would like it. So, off we go, long weekend away, first break ever without our girls, the heavens opened from the time we got there til the time we left. I couldn't even see the lake for rain and mist! Was like a drowned rat for the whole time. It was so disappointing and even though he keeps saying we need to go again during the summer I really don't feel any inclination. Never mind won't be long before you are sampling the delights of Cuba, take care, Sharon.

Ah thanks Sharon . I've got over it now but what a waste of money . I shall just have to book something else now to make up for it .