Getting from Budapest to Croatia, and then Italy

I have a complicated travel itinerary I%26#39;m hoping someone can help me with...

We are looking at hiring a rental car and driving from Budapest through Bosnia, and down to Croatia and then to Bolgna in Italy. Does anyone know of any car rental companies that aren%26#39;t going to charge ridiculously high fees for doing such a one-way car rental trip?

If the above isn%26#39;t financially feasible, we need to find another way to get from Piran in Slovenia or from Zagreb in Croatia to the airport in Bologna in Italy within 4-5 hours. Does anyone know the best way of getting to Bologna airport from one of these other cities?

Thanks for any advice!!

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It certainly is complicated! And I%26#39;m not sure why you posted in this forum, but anyway...

Aside from some obvious logistical problems with your itinerary, there is absolutely no way that you will find a rental company who will let you do that. Aside from the fact that you will be driving through or near relatively recent war zones or zones of conflict (e.g. Kosovo), rental companies in Italy are not too keen on hiring out Hungarian-registered cars and so the car will have to be brought back somehow, Hence the %26#39;ridiculous%26#39; fees. You will have to return it to Hungary, or wherever you hired it from in the first place, in order to avoid these fees.

The train from Zagreb to Bologna (not the airport) will take anything from 8 to 15 hours, with several changes, and there aren%26#39;t any trains from Piran.

If you were to drive from Zagreb, you might just make it in 5 hours, but you would have to drive like crazy and hope for no traffic problems, plus you would have to return the car, etc... It isn%26#39;t possible.

Croatia Airlines flies that route though, and it only takes 1.5 hours.

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