Croatian border

[Metabarca]

With infections rising rapidly in Croatia as a result of 'imports' from Bosnia and Serbia, Slovenia has closed the doors and there are long queues at the border to get into Slovenia. The border guards are checking not just on passports but on 'proof' that the bearers have been only to Croatia and not further east (they check on hotel/restaurant bills, parking tickets etc). Slovenia itself has seen a rise in numbers, all of them coming from Croatia or points east.
This the current situation for an EU national (and including Brits until December).
Heading into Croatia: you need to fill the form available from entercroatia.mup.hr. This requires dates of entry and exit and more. You need to present this at the Croatian border along with a hotel or other booking or proof of ownership of house or boat. If you have all this, there are preferential lanes at some border points to expedite things (Rupa on the road towards Rijeka and Sicciole for Istria).
Leaving Croatia: keep any hotel receipts or proof that you were in Croatia for the time you left Slovenia and not merely transiting to, say, Serbia. You then have 12 hours to pass through Slovenia to a third country and may stop only for petrol and physiological needs.
Italy/Austria to/from Slovenia: Schengen applies.
This as of 5 July, but will advise if things change.

 

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With infections rising rapidly in Croatia as a result of 'imports' from Bosnia and Serbia, Slovenia has closed the doors and there are long queues at the border to get into Slovenia. The border guards are checking not just on passports but on 'proof' that the bearers have been only to Croatia and not further east (they check on hotel/restaurant bills, parking tickets etc). Slovenia itself has seen a rise in numbers, all of them coming from Croatia or points east.
This the current situation for an EU national (and including Brits until December).
Heading into Croatia: you need to fill the form available from entercroatia.mup.hr. This requires dates of entry and exit and more. You need to present this at the Croatian border along with a hotel or other booking or proof of ownership of house or boat. If you have all this, there are preferential lanes at some border points to expedite things (Rupa on the road towards Rijeka and Sicciole for Istria).
Leaving Croatia: keep any hotel receipts or proof that you were in Croatia for the time you left Slovenia and not merely transiting to, say, Serbia. You then have 12 hours to pass through Slovenia to a third country and may stop only for petrol and physiological needs.
Italy/Austria to/from Slovenia: Schengen applies.
This as of 5 July, but will advise if things change.

Thanks. We're due to be flying there in early Sept. Can't see it happening myself. Mind you, the rest of the party aren't keen to go now anyway!

 

[RichardS]

We've decided not to drive down until the end of August, so let's hope everything is a bit more settled by then.

Please keep the travel updates coming.

Richard

 

[[165264]]

I really con't comment personally on the health services there, but someone whom I know who can, said that if you're really ill, you don't want to be too far away from Zagreb. I suppose in a large country with c 4m people (and falling) that might be true.

 

[Metabarca]

Unless you need a dentist in which case head for somewhere like Rovigno (Rovinj) where there are state-of-the-art surgeries that treat Italians and Austrians for far less than in their home country!