Bled Getting there & around

Getting there & away

Land

Bus

There are buses every 30 to 40 minutes to Radovljica (€1.70, 15 minutes, 7.5km) via both Lesce and Begunje and at least one an hour to Bohinjska Bistrica (€3.50, one hour, 26km), Kranj (€3.50, 40 minutes, 26km) and Ljubljana (€6.10, 1¼ hours, 57km). Other destinations served from Bled include Bovec (€7, three hours, 74km) via Kranjska Gora and the Vršič Pass. A bus leaves daily at 7.50am in July and August, and on Saturday and Sunday only in June and September. Note that three bus lines operate between Bled and Bohinj, and if you buy a return ticket from one bus line, you will not be able to make your return journey on either of the other buslines.

Car

All the big rental-car agencies have offices in Bled, including the following:

Avis (576 87 00; Ljubljanska cesta 4; 9am-5pm Mon-Fri, 8am-noon Sat & Sun) In the Bled Shopping Centre.

Budget (578 03 20; Ljubljanska cesta 4; 8am-noon & 5-7pm Mon-Fri, 8am-noon Sat, 9-11am Sun) In the Bled Shopping Centre.

Europcar (236 79 90, 031-382 051; Ljubljanska cesta 7; 8am-2pm Mon-Fri, 8am-noon Sat) In the Hotel Krim Bled.

Hertz (574 55 88; Cankarjeva cesta 2; 8am-7pm Mon-Fri, 8am-1pm Sat) In the Hotel Kompas Best Western.

Train

Bled has no central train station. Trains for Bohinjska Bistrica (€1.45, 20 minutes, 18km, seven a day), Most na Soči and Nova Gorica (€5.05, 2¼ hours, 79km, seven a day) use little Bled Jezero station, which is 2km west of central Bled – handy for the camping ground but little else. From there you can make connections for Sežana, 40km to the southeast, and Italy. This mountain railway is one of the most picturesque in Slovenia. If you are headed southwest to Nova Gorica, sit on the right-hand side of the train to view the valley of the cobalt-blue Soča River.

Trains for Ljubljana (€3.90 to €5.30, 55 minutes, 51km, up to 17 a day) via Škofja Loka, Kranj and Radovljica use Lesce-Bled station, 4km to the east of town.

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