Shoreham EGKA to Mali Losinj LDLO June 2013

We always stay in the Vespera which is a large and modern family hotel. It's got everything to keep your family happy.

Vespera and its sister hotels seem more a place for young kids. Any smaller resort type hotels there?

Thanks. Any other nice beach resorts near good Croatian airports?

Thanks. Any other nice beach resorts near good Croatian airports?

These are Croatian coastal airports from North to South: Pula LDPL, Rijeka (island of Krk) LDRI, Lošinj LDLO, Zadar LDZD, Split LDSP, Bra? LDSB, and Dubrovnik LDDU. There's another small one in Istria - Vrsar LDPV (day VFR) but I don't know its current status for international flights. All these airports are international with customs and boarder police, IFR (ILS approach except LDLO and LDSB) some of them H24 the other with extended working hours during summer.

Regarding beach resorts, I don't thing finding nice one should be a problem, having in mind following facts:

• total length of coast 1777 km

• number of islands 1246 (67 inhabitated)

• total length of coast on islands 4058 km

Just got back from a trip to Croatia and Montenegro on Saturday, returning from Tivat (LYTV) on a similar(ish) routing to Peter's outbound flight. We decided to stop in Salzburg rather than fly direct in the SR22, so that we could take advantage of the outdoor BBQ restaurant at Red Bull's Hangar 7!

Have to say that Croatia and Montenegro is a marvellous part of Europe and my trip there has shattered all my misconceptions on what the Eastern Adriatic was like.

We visited Split, Brac, Dubrovnik and Tivat on the trip. If I were to order them in terms of holiday value (obviously a personal preference) then it would be:

1) -LYTV & LDDU equal top. LYTV is incredibly bureaucratic but has two major benefits - €1.5 / litre AVGAS & the most amazing scenery and beaches. 2) -LDSP - access to Trogir and Brac (by ferry) 3) -LDSB (we stayed in the closest beach resort of Bol, and didn't like it at all. Although Supetar looked smashing, but much further from airport). It was also infuriating that the airport closed at 4pm daily (7pm on Saturdays).

As a note, if you want to visit LDSB then do so NOW! The airport is closing next year due to lack of custom. Interestingly it was the most expensive airport we landed at in Croatia. Split and Dubrovnik, the latter particularly so, were considerably cheaper.

I heard a rumour last year that Losinj and Brac were both closing and as far as I could check it out it was just a rumour.

It repeats every year - it's an issue of financing and operations being non-profitable due to low number of operations during non-summer months. In order to keep ATC people current the airport must be opened year around (at least few days a week - like LDSB - during winter it works two-three days a week) although sometimes nobody lands there for a weeks. So somebody in our country must decide if there's higher interest to keep them open besided pure profit.

It's a problem with lot of things in our "ex-socialism/kapitalism wannabe" country: before everything was supposed to be free - now everything must be profitable. Nobody thinks that tax payers are entitled to get some services by the pure fact of beeing tax payers, regardless the fact that this service is not of interest for everybody. Common approach of our govermnent is that tax is intended to support their salaries while everything else you should pay directly if you're interested to get the service.