Merag, a landing rather than a place
A concrete quay against a bare hillside, a slipway and a small cafe. The first town on Cres is 15 km further on, so arriving at Merag is not arriving anywhere yet.
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Merag surprises people who expected a harbour. The ferry swings into a narrow inlet on the east coast of Cres, the ramp comes down onto a concrete quay backed by a bare limestone hillside, and that is the whole of it.
What is at the landing
A quay with room for lorries to stand, a slipway, a small cafe under sunshades, and a ticket window. No village, no fuel, no shop.
Valbiska sits in a wooded inlet with some infrastructure around it; Merag is a working landing on an island that is thinly populated at its northern end.
The drive onward
Cres town is 14.7 km away, roughly 22 min on the island road. The road leaves the quay and climbs immediately, and it stays single-carriageway with plenty of bends.
If Lošinj is your destination, the swing bridge at Osor lies further south and closes the road at 09:00 and 17:00 each day. Merag to Osor is 47 km, about 54 min. The page on the Osor bridge sets out how to time it.
Do not plan to wait here
On the return leg the absence of facilities works against you. If the queue at Merag is long, there is nowhere to sit it out except your car.
That argues for aiming at a sailing outside the late-afternoon peak, when traffic runs back towards Krk and the motorway. The Merag to Valbiska page covers the return timetable.
Getting on the ferry
Boarding runs the same way as at Valbiska: vehicles load in the order they arrived, and the ticket covers the date rather than a departure. The marshalling space at Merag is smaller, so a queue of the same length looks considerably worse here.