Istrian Caves Day Trip: Baredine and Feštinsko Kraljevstvo
Istria is limestone, and limestone leaks. Rain sinks straight through it, and over a few…
Istria is small enough to see properly. From Rovinj, Poreč is forty minutes up the coast, Pula and its Roman amphitheatre forty minutes down it, and the hill towns of the interior are an hour inland through vineyards and oak forest.
What Istria does not have is a public transport network built for visitors. Buses between coastal towns thin out in the shoulder season and mostly stop running in the evening; getting to Motovun or Grožnjan without a car is close to impossible. Hiring a car for one day trip means a day of parking in towns that are largely pedestrianised.
A private transfer solves the awkward part. We pick you up at your address in Rovinj, drive you to the town, and either wait or come back at an agreed time — so you can have the long lunch, or the wine tasting, and not think about the drive home. Every route below is a fixed price per vehicle for up to four passengers, with minivans for up to eight.
Coastal Istria, from Rovinj
Fixed prices per vehicle, door to door from your address in Rovinj. Return and wait-and-return trips are quoted on request.
Rovinj → Vrsar
Transfers to Vrsar
A small working harbour at the mouth of the Lim bay, and the closest trip of all.
Distance
~30 km
Travel time
30–40 min
Price from
€65
Rovinj → Poreč
Transfers to Poreč
For the Euphrasian Basilica and its sixth-century mosaics, a UNESCO site.
Distance
~35 km
Travel time
40–45 min
Price from
€70
Rovinj → Pula
Transfers to Pula
The Roman amphitheatre, the forum and the best of Istria’s city dining.
Distance
~40 km
Travel time
35–45 min
Price from
€70
Rovinj → Novigrad
Transfers to Novigrad
A quiet walled town on the northwest coast, known for its fish restaurants.
Distance
~60 km
Travel time
~1 h
Price from
€90
Rovinj → Umag
Transfers to Umag
Istria’s northernmost coastal town, close to the Slovenian border.
Distance
~75 km
Travel time
1 h 15 min
Price from
€100
Inland Istria and the hill towns
Both sit on hilltops with restricted vehicle access. We drop you at the gate and arrange a pickup time — most people want three or four hours, longer if lunch is involved.
Rovinj → Motovun
Transfers to Motovun
Walled hill town above the Mirna valley, and the centre of Istria’s truffle country.
Travel time
~1 h
Price
On request
Rovinj → Grožnjan
Transfers to Grožnjan
A town of galleries and studios, and a summer of live music in the squares.
Travel time
~1 h 15 min
Price
On request
Destination guides
Where to go, what is worth the drive, and how long to allow — written from years of driving these roads.
Piran and Trieste Day Trip from Rovinj
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Rovinj to Split: A Full-Day Excursion by Private Car
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Plitvice Lakes from Rovinj: A Full-Day Excursion
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Bled and Ljubljana from Rovinj: A Full-Day Excursion
Slovenia’s two best-known places sit close enough together to see both in a single day…
Pula and Bale Day Trip from Rovinj
Pula and Bale are twenty minutes apart and could not be less alike. One is…
Grožnjan and Poreč Day Trip from Rovinj
Grožnjan has 142 permanent residents and roughly twenty art galleries. Poreč, forty minutes down the…
Hum and Pazin Day Trip from Rovinj
Hum has fifty-two residents. Pazin, half an hour away, has around four thousand and is…
Motovun Day Trip from Rovinj: Truffles and the Hilltop Town
Motovun is a walled town of about four hundred people on a hill 277 metres…
Planning a day out from Rovinj?
Tell us the town, the date and roughly how long you want there. We will quote a fixed price for the drive out, the wait and the drive back — usually the same day, and almost always less than a day’s car hire plus parking.
Get a fixed-price quoteor call +385 91 200 22 33