Hi Monty.
I just wanted to give a little compliment out to the planners of this trip and their tweaking of the original holiday (much as I loved it :thumbup:)
At last a flight to Lublijana (albeit from Stansted), and 2 nights in the city. It may be small but it's a lovely city. The chosen hotel there has good ratings on TA and appears to be very central to the city centre which is great.
Also a hotel right on Lake Bled will be great, and the Park is well known as being a good hotel.
A change of hotel too in Portoroz is fine. The salt pans aren't very exciting but including the wine tasting is good. And Piran is lovely. Such a shame that there is no time in the schedule to go to Trieste.
Lovely to see that all the excursions are included too. Going to the caves from Istrian Coast is an expensive optional tour, so excellent to see it included in this trip.
My only "beef" to be honest is why include Portoroz in the first place and make it a proper Julian Alps holiday, with longer in Bled. Then include an optional day trip around the Julian Alps? You only get a taster of them in Bled and Bohinji and there is so much more to see.
But then you couldn't call it "From the Alps to the Adriatic" could you? :D
I hope it sells well for you, and that people appreciate that although you have to fly from Stansted at least now you don't have that long, long transfer to and from Zagreb!