Getting around
You will not need a car in Split. The old town is pedestrian and the beaches are a walk or a short ride on Promet Split's buses: €1.50 a ticket bought in advance or €3 from the driver, valid 60 minutes (fares from 1 June 2026). Bus 12 is the beach bus to Kašjuni. Parking in the centre costs €1.20 an hour on the street in summer, much more in the car parks.
By Marin Perić
Promet Split runs the city network. As of October 2026 (fares from 1 June 2026) a single ticket within Split costs €1.50 bought in advance — Promet Split app, ticket office, website or machine — and €3 from the driver, valid for 60 minutes. A 24-hour ticket for the city is €6. The useful lines: 12 along the Marjan shore to Kašjuni — the beach bus, and the one most visitors need (it normally runs on to Bene, but was turning at Kašjuni in autumn 2026); 7, 8, 13 and 14 east to Žnjan; 37 to the airport and Trogir; 22 to Klis. Buses run every twenty minutes or so on the main lines, less often in the evening and on Sundays, and the 12 fills up at the beach in July and August.
There is no parking inside the palace and very little near it. City parking is run by Split Parking: as of October 2026, street parking in Zone I, the centre, costs €1.20 an hour from May to September and €0.80 the rest of the year, charged Monday to Friday 06:30–21:30 and Saturday 07:00–14:00, free on Sundays; pay by SMS or the app. The Zone I car parks, such as the one on the Riva, are far dearer in summer — €4 for the first hour and €5 for each hour after. Expect full signs from mid-morning in August. If your accommodation includes parking, ask exactly where it is before you drive in — some list parking and mean a lot ten minutes away.
Uber and Bolt both operate in Split and are often cheaper than a street taxi, and the app shows the price before you book. Inside the city a rank taxi should run on the meter, and the meter is the honest way. Do not accept a flat price from a taxi at the rank for a trip inside the city — it will rarely be lower than the meter.
The old town is pedestrian and small enough that you will walk everywhere inside it. The palace itself is a five-minute walk end to end, the Riva is a fifteen-minute stroll, and Varoš to Bačvice is twenty minutes on foot. The one hill that catches people is the climb from the Riva up into Varoš and on to Marjan — it is steep and stepped, and in August it is best done before ten or after six.
Get out there
Guided trips that include this stop, with live availability.
Boat trips
A full day on a fast twelve-seat boat: the Blue Cave on Biševo, the Monk Seal cave, Stiniva's famous cove, lunch on Vis and a swim off Budikovac's turquoise lagoon, finishing with a stop at Hvar town. Ten and a half hours, small group, no coach transfer.
History
Ninety minutes through the palace with a guide who lives inside it: the Golden Gate, the cellars, the Peristyle, the cathedral and the streets in between. Small group, no flag, and a proper explanation of why a Roman emperor retired to a cabbage patch in Dalmatia.
Boat trips
Five hours to Šolta and back on a ten-person boat: three swim stops in coves you cannot reach by road, an hour in Maslinica for dinner or a drink, and the run home across the channel as the sun goes down behind the island.