Driving to Dubrovnik from Trieste

We'll be driving Trieste-Dubrovnik in October. My Italian rental
company (Sixt) says we can't go into Bosnia. However I'm told that
crossing the Neum corridor of Bosnia is essentially a nonevent-that
they don't necessarily stop or check you and the insurance on my VISA
covers us in Bosnia. But before I reserve the ferry from Dubrovnik
back to Italy I want to be sure that I'm not going to be turned back
at the Bosnian border. If you have experience with this drive I'd
appreciate hearing-along with any other suggestions you've got.
Thanks.

"MarkandSue" wrote in message
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We'll be driving Trieste-Dubrovnik in October. My Italian rental
company (Sixt) says we can't go into Bosnia.

I'm surprised that they consider Bosnia more risky than Croatia

However I'm told that
crossing the Neum corridor of Bosnia is essentially a nonevent-that

It was when I went through. This was about 6 years ago though.

they don't necessarily stop or check you and the insurance

ISTM that the worst that can happen if they decide that you
don't have insurance is insist that you buy some from them.
This happened to the car in front of me in Croatia, a country
which at the time was not included in 'green card' insurance [1].

on my VISA
covers us in Bosnia. But before I reserve the ferry from Dubrovnik
back to Italy I want to be sure that I'm not going to be turned back
at the Bosnian border. If you have experience with this drive I'd
appreciate hearing-along with any other suggestions you've got.

I found that entering Bosnia via the little road that turns off
this section of the main road was a pain free way of entering
the rest of the country. But I guess that you don't actually
want to do this :-)

Thanks.

tim

[1] Yes I know full well that it's not called this, but it is
still how most people refer to it.

"MarkandSue" wrote in message
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We'll be driving Trieste-Dubrovnik in October. My Italian rental
company (Sixt) says we can't go into Bosnia. However I'm told that
crossing the Neum corridor of Bosnia is essentially a nonevent-that
they don't necessarily stop or check you and the insurance on my VISA
covers us in Bosnia. But before I reserve the ferry from Dubrovnik
back to Italy I want to be sure that I'm not going to be turned back
at the Bosnian border. If you have experience with this drive I'd
appreciate hearing-along with any other suggestions you've got.
Thanks.


You can take ferry in Ploce which drive to peninsula Peljesac (45 minutes,
20 EUR one way) and then to Dubrovnik.
from time to time they check passports or IDs on border.
this is only way to avoid driving through Bosnia until they build a bridge
Ivan