Which website? If I remeber it corectly, last year this coach operated every day during July/August and every weekend in off-season. The schedules for this year are not available yet.
It would also be quite an idiosyncratic choice given some of the other options outlined in this thread! (For a first outing I mean. I hope to get to both myself eventually) On another note, I'm not convinced about how wheelchair accessible Plzen is. I remember a lot of steep sections.I'd be delighted for someone to prove me wrong though.
It is, just Czech (pun intended) out the journey when the coach directly to zoo is off : Brno to Lukovská - 5 ways to travel via bus, train, taxi, car Well, if you have someone with strength, endurance and willingness tu push you up and down the 20% hill all day, it´s fine Almost pavillions are wheelchair accessible. (Except the "hidden" house for australian fauna the Underground world and Madagascar house ) apart from that, you also wont be able to go to the Japanese garden, and around the bear exhibit. I didn´t know this one. Thank´s for sharing
rome2rio is great for giving you options you might not have known about, but at leas for Asia it tends to drastically overestimate prices.
This is also a new website for me. Interesting one to bookmark. Another to add to my collection for when Google can’t bring me the goods! Usually I plan all of my journeys on Google, but when I started planning my Czech trip it didn’t have the information I needed. It’s good to have a backup!
I usually get all my travel information from Google maps. I’ll type in my origin, my destination and my departure time and then rely on Google to find me the best connections. Unfortunately, it seems Google holds very few Czech train or bus timetables! It took me much more digging to be able to successfully plan how to negotiate my 7 city trip.
I just checked it for a journey I am familiar with, Chester to Cardiff, and it suggests trains run every four hours whereas in reality there are about 3 trains every two hours.
There are four collections on the Isle of Wight (IoW Zoo, Amazon World, Monkey Haven and The IoW Reptilarium) which are all very close to each other. None of them are overly big (Amazon World is the largest but still reasonably small) and could probably all be done over a weekend. Monkey Haven and the IoW reptilarium could be done in something like 1-1.5 hours each.
For planning journeys by train (and by local bus), the website of Deutsche Bahn is superior to the competition (www.bahn.de), though it won't include schedules for long distance buses like Flixbus or Eurolines. But you can plan train journeys throughout Europe with them, but only book them for Germany itself.
Basel and Mulhouse could be a nice pair for a weekend, I think. It should cater to your interest in food too
I’m looking forward to the food in Basel on my visit in this case! I’m doing a double trip of Basel and Zagreb, simply because they are the only outstanding zoos on my list where they are the only zoo in their country currently holding an on show sun bear (Łódź has theirs off show until the Orientarium is completed). Try that for a tricky connection! I’m having to fly back from Basel to Manchester, stay the night in Manchester and fly out to Zagreb the following morning.
I guess @SabineB meant Mulhouse's food, Basel is quite unimpressive, especially when you have finally found something affordable...
Oh, what a shame! But I’m sure I will be hungry enough to eat pretty much anything, so it should be fine!
take a bus or cab into Mulhouse and get some absurdly great food there! and yes i was actually talking about food and wine in Mulhouse
