There are 7 ways to get from Linz to Cres by bus, train, ferry, night train, plane, or shuttle
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Bus via Zagreb
best- Take the bus from Linz Industriezeile to Zagrebbus N881
- Take the bus from Zagreb to Cresbus 1870
10h 30m€35–82Train, bus, ferry
- Take the train from Linz/Donau Hbf to Salzburg Hbftrain Rjx / ...
- Take the train from Salzburg Hbf to Villach Hbftrain Ic
- Take the train from Villach Hbf to Ljubljanatrain 19 / ...
- Take the bus from Ljubljana bus station to Rijeka bus stationbus 958 / ...
- Take the ferry from Rijeka to Cresferry
12h 24m€85–279Train, night train, ferry
- Take the train from Linz/Donau Hbf to Graz Hbftrain 701 / ...
- Take the nighttrain from Graz Hbf to Rijekanighttrain En
- Take the ferry from Rijeka to Cresferry
14h 53m€111–266Train to Munich International Airport, fly to Rijeka Airport
- Take the train from Linz/Donau Hbf to Muenchen Osttrain
- Fly from Munich International Airport (MUC) to Rijeka Airport (RJK)plane MUC - RJK
8h 13m€162–459Bus
- Take the bus from Linz Industriezeile to Triestebus
- Take the bus from Trieste, Autostazione to Rijeka, Željeznički Kolodvorbus
- Take the bus from Rijeka, Autobusni Kolodvor to Cres, Peškerabus
12h 2m€132–323Train, ferry
- Take the train from Linz/Donau Hbf to Wien Westbahnhoftrain 955 / ...
- Take the train from Wien Westbahnhof to Rijekatrain Ic
- Take the ferry from Rijeka to Cresferry
16h 6m€128–433Train to Vienna International Airport, fly to Zagreb Franjo Tuđman Airport, shuttle, ferry
- Take the train from Linz/Donau Hbf to Flughafen Wientrain
- Fly from Vienna International Airport (VIE) to Zagreb Franjo Tuđman Airport (ZAG)plane VIE - ZAG
- Take a shuttle bus from Velika Gorica, Zagreb Airport to Rijeka
- Take the ferry from Rijeka to Cresferry
9h 24m€307–817
Linz to Cres by bus
Questions & Answers
The cheapest way to get from Linz to Cres is to bus via Zagreb which costs €35 - €85 and takes 10h 30m.
The fastest way to get from Linz to Cres is to train and fly which takes 8h 13m and costs €160 - €460.
No, there is no direct bus from Linz to Cres. However, there are services departing from Linz Industriezeile and arriving at Cres via Zagreb. The journey, including transfers, takes approximately 10h 30m.
The distance between Linz and Cres is 620 km.
The best way to get from Linz to Cres without a car is to bus via Zagreb which takes 10h 30m and costs €35 - €85.
It takes approximately 10h 30m to get from Linz to Cres, including transfers.
Linz to Cres bus services, operated by FlixBus, depart from Linz Industriezeile station.
Linz to Cres bus services, operated by FlixBus, arrive at Zagreb station.
Book your Linz to Cres bus tickets online with Omio and FlixBus.
There are 5867+ hotels available in Cres.
What companies run services between Linz, Austria and Cres, Croatia?
You can take a bus from Linz Industriezeile to Cres via Zagreb in around 10h 30m.
- Website
- croatiaairlines.com
Flights from Munich International Airport to Rijeka Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h
- When
- Monday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €100–650
Flights from Vienna International Airport to Zagreb Franjo Tuđman Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 50 min
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €70–250
- Website
- austrian.com
Flights from Vienna International Airport to Zagreb Franjo Tuđman Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 50 min
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €70–250
- Website
- lufthansa.com
Flights from Munich International Airport to Rijeka Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h
- When
- Monday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €100–650
- Phone
- +43 (0)5 1717
- Website
- Railjet
Train from Linz/Donau Hbf to Salzburg Hbf
- *
- €22–35
Train from Salzburg Hbf to Villach Hbf
- *
- €29–45
Train from Linz/Donau Hbf to Wien Westbahnhof
- *
- €29–45
Train from Linz/Donau Hbf to Flughafen Wien
- *
- €30–50
- Phone
- +43 1 89900
- service@westbahn.at
- Website
- Westbahn
Train from Linz/Donau Hbf to Salzburg Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 12m
- Frequency
- Every 30 minutes
- Estimated price
- €23–40
- Website
- Westbahn
Train from Linz/Donau Hbf to Muenchen Ost
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 50m
- Frequency
- Every 3 hours
- Estimated price
- €50–90
- Website
- Westbahn
Train from Linz/Donau Hbf to Wien Westbahnhof
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 16m
- Frequency
- Every 20 minutes
- Estimated price
- €30–60
- Website
- Westbahn
- Phone
- +43 (0) 5 1717
- Website
- ÖBB Intercity
Train from Linz/Donau Hbf to Salzburg Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 19m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €15–35
- Website
- ÖBB Intercity
- Website
- ÖBB Intercity
Train from Salzburg Hbf to Villach Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 21m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €22–45
- Website
- ÖBB Intercity
- Website
- ÖBB Intercity
Train from Linz/Donau Hbf to Muenchen Ost
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 58m
- Frequency
- Twice a week
- Estimated price
- €30–70
- Website
- ÖBB Intercity
- Website
- ÖBB Intercity
Train from Linz/Donau Hbf to Wien Westbahnhof
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 15m
- Frequency
- 3 times a day
- Estimated price
- €22–45
- Website
- ÖBB Intercity
- Website
- ÖBB Intercity
Train from Linz/Donau Hbf to Flughafen Wien
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 55m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €24–50
- Website
- ÖBB Intercity
- Website
- ÖBB Intercity
- Phone
- +36 (1) 3 49 49 49
- informacio@mavcsoport.hu
- Website
- Hungarian Railways (MÁV)
Train from Linz/Donau Hbf to Salzburg Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 8m
- Frequency
- Every 3 hours
- Estimated price
- €6–7
- Website
- Hungarian Railways (MÁV)
- Phone
- _AUSTRIAN_RAILWAYS_(ÖBB)
- Website
- Austrian Railways
Train from Linz/Donau Hbf to Salzburg Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 26m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €25–50
- Website
- Austrian Railways
Train from Salzburg Hbf to Villach Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 25m
- Frequency
- 3 times a day
- Estimated price
- €35–70
- Website
- Austrian Railways
Train from Villach Hbf to Ljubljana
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 31m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €20–40
- Website
- Austrian Railways
Train from Linz/Donau Hbf to Graz Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 11m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €50–95
- Website
- Austrian Railways
Night train from Graz Hbf to Rijeka
- Ave. Duration
- 8h 11m
- Frequency
- Twice a week
- Estimated price
- €70–140
- Website
- Austrian Railways
Train from Linz/Donau Hbf to Wien Westbahnhof
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 23m
- Frequency
- Twice a week
- Estimated price
- €35–70
- Website
- Austrian Railways
- Phone
- +48 22 322 22 22
- sekretariat@intercity.pl
- Website
- PKP Intercity
Train from Linz/Donau Hbf to Salzburg Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 15m
- Frequency
- 4 times a day
- Estimated price
- €19–75
- Website
- PKP Intercity
Train from Wien Westbahnhof to Rijeka
- Ave. Duration
- 11h 19m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- €85–330
- Website
- PKP Intercity
- Phone
- +49 30 2970
- Website
- Deutsche Bahn Intercity (DB IC)
Train from Linz/Donau Hbf to Salzburg Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 26m
- Frequency
- 3 times a day
- Estimated price
- €22–100
- Website
- Deutsche Bahn Intercity (DB IC)
- Phone
- +32 70 79 79 79
- Website
- Belgian Railways
Train from Linz/Donau Hbf to Salzburg Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 22m
- Frequency
- 6 times a week
- Estimated price
- €20–45
- Website
- Belgian Railways
Train from Linz/Donau Hbf to Muenchen Ost
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 37m
- Frequency
- 6 times a week
- Estimated price
- €40–95
- Website
- Belgian Railways
- Phone
- +43 (0) 51717
- Website
- Nightjet
Train from Salzburg Hbf to Villach Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 25m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- €20–90
- Website
- Nightjet
- Sleeper Carriage
- €80–90
- Couchette Carriage
- €50–60
- Seating Carriage
- €20–24
- Phone
- +43 (0) 5 1717
- Website
- ÖBB EuroCity
Train from Salzburg Hbf to Villach Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 25m
- Frequency
- 4 times a week
- Estimated price
- €35–70
- Website
- ÖBB EuroCity
- Website
- ÖBB EuroCity
Train from Villach Hbf to Ljubljana
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 55m
- Frequency
- 4 times a week
- Estimated price
- €21–40
- Website
- ÖBB EuroCity
- Website
- ÖBB EuroCity
Train from Linz/Donau Hbf to Muenchen Ost
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 14m
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- €55–110
- Website
- ÖBB EuroCity
- Website
- ÖBB EuroCity
- Phone
- +420 221 111 122
- info@cd.cz
- Website
- Czech Railways (ČD)
Night train from Graz Hbf to Rijeka
- Ave. Duration
- 8h 11m
- Frequency
- Once a week
- Estimated price
- €40–65
- Website
- Czech Railways (ČD)
- Phone
- +49 30 300 137 300
- service@flixbus.com
- Website
- Flixbus
Bus from Linz Industriezeile to Zagreb
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 5m
- Frequency
- 5 times a week
- Estimated price
- €30–55
- Website
- Flixbus
Bus from Zagreb to Cres
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 25m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- €17–29
- Website
- Flixbus
Bus from Ljubljana bus station to Rijeka bus station
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 40m
- Frequency
- 4 times a day
- Estimated price
- €9–15
- Website
- Flixbus
Bus from Linz Industriezeile to Trieste
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 55m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- €40–70
- Website
- Flixbus
- Phone
- +385 (0)72 660 660
- info@arriva.com.hr
- Website
- Arriva Croatia
Bus from Zagreb to Cres
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 14m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- €2–29
- Website
- Arriva Croatia
Bus from Rijeka, Autobusni Kolodvor to Cres, Peškera
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 59m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- €1–17
- Website
- Arriva Croatia
- Phone
- +386 1 320 4530
- info@goopti.com
- Website
- GoOpti
Bus from Trieste, Autostazione to Rijeka, Željeznički Kolodvor
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 30m
- Frequency
- On demand
- Estimated price
- €90–240
- Website
- GoOpti
Shuttle from Velika Gorica, Zagreb Airport to Rijeka
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 30m
- Frequency
- On demand
- Estimated price
- €210–550
- Website
- GoOpti
Rome2Rio's guide to Jadrolinija
Contact DetailsContact Details
- Phone
- +385 72 303 337
- passdept_h@jadrolinija.hr
- Website
- Jadrolinija
Ferry from Rijeka to Cres
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 20m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- €21–35
- Website
- Jadrolinija
Ferry from Rijeka to Cres
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 20m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- €21–35
- Website
- Jadrolinija
Ferry from Rijeka to Cres
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 20m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- €21–35
- Website
- Jadrolinija
Ferry from Rijeka to Cres
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 20m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- €21–35
- Website
- Jadrolinija
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