Comments > 3 Weeks to Eastern Europe

Its a nice and quite typical route,but your timeframe is too tight for me...too much distance in 3 weeks,too much time in transit,not enough time in each place.

You have 11 sleeping stops.I'd have no more than 7 maximum...better 5 or 6...in that amount of time.

What to drop?It is a long distance.I'd personally cut it down.Don't forget you will also need time to get between places,not just time in them.

You could drop the Croatia part completely.You could drop the Austria and Slovenia part.Or you could drop the first part.

Your interests listed are too general to give more personal advice than that.Based on MY interests,I'd probably drop the middle part.Something like Krakow-Budapest-Zagreb-(Plitvice)-Zadar-Split-Dubrovnik is a good mix of cities,smaller towns,the sea,the mountains nearby.You could do a couple of day trips from some of them if you have time.

Its doable in 22 days,gives you enough time to get to know the places a little and not spend more than half of your trip sitting on buses and trains.

Yep far too rushed you won't see anything. Prague is no more touristy than most of the places you are going too. Not that you have time to go there. I would look at dropping 3 to 4 places anywhere that you have given 1 night to is not worth visiting.

Thanks lucapal.
Our initial plan is to cover Austria, Poland, Croatia and Hungary. But after researching online, we found more places/cities worth visiting.

Do you think it's worth spending some days in Austria (i.e. vienna, hallstat) and drop split and dubrovnik?

If those appeal to you more,why not?

Personally if you are going to drop those two,then I'd also drop Zadar and Zagreb.

If you want to go to the sea you could go in southern Slovenia or far north west of Croatia.

That would save you a lot of travel time and distance.

I agree that you should drop any place where you plan to spend only one night. That means travelling in, sleeping, and then travelling out again the next day. And two nights in a city means you will have only one full day there.

All of the places on you list deserve more than one afternoon. I think you should plan an itinerary with three or four nights in each destination (so two or three full days in each). By cutting back on the number of destinations you will also save travel costs.

You've dedicated 8 nights to Croatia so clearly it's a front-runner. If it were me I'd leave out Austria, especially the dogleg to Salzburg and Hallstatt. That would give you an extra 5 nights to distribute amongst the other locations.

Many thanks everyone for the feedback.

Probably we will stay in Vienna longer (maybe 5 days) and as a base to do a day trip to Salzburg or Bratislava. <Hopefully it helps.
And the reason I'm interested in Hallstatt is because of the 'postcard' scenic view (that's what my friend told me).
I will surely rework the itinerary (3-4 nights per city).