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By bus

Local bus services operate on most of the major islands (including all but one of those featured in this guide) and in most cases provide a convenient, easy way to get around, at least between the main settlements. Some bus services connect neighbouring islands joined by a road bridge (for example, Cres and Lošinj), and continue to cities on the mainland via ferry (for example, buses from Cres cross by ferry to the island of Krk and continue from there to Rijeka and Zagreb on the mainland via road bridge).

Intercity buses cover most towns in Croatia and tend to be slightly more expensive than an equivalent train journey, while Croatia’s new motorway system, constructed over the past decade, has cut journey times between Zagreb and the coast to similar to (or in most cases faster than) the equivalent route by train.

As with train tickets, return journeys are cheaper than two singles, and a return ticket on intercity routes includes a seat reservation only for the outward journey, so you’ll need to pay for the return seat reservation once at your destination. There are no seat reservations on most short local routes. (Many ticket offices will tell you that a seat reservation for the return journey is not necessary, and often they’ll be right, but it is advisable to politely insist that in your case it is necessary, rather than risk missing a connecting ferry or flight should all the seats suddenly get booked up).