Taxi Boat from Split: Routes, Prices and How It Actually Works

A taxi boat is a private transfer by sea. You are not joining a tour and you are not sharing the boat. You give us a pickup point, a destination and a time, and the boat does that one job.

The difference from a tour is the intent. A tour is built around stops, swimming and a route. A transfer is built around getting you and your luggage from A to B at a time you choose. No itinerary, no snorkelling stop, no waiting for eleven other guests to finish their coffee in Hvar.

The difference from a ferry is control. The ferry leaves when the timetable says. A taxi boat leaves when you say — including at 06:00 for a flight, or at 01:00 when the last catamaran left nine hours ago.

These are our standard routes and starting prices. Prices are per boat, not per person — the same €250 moves one person or eight.

Split → Hvar Town: about 60 minutes, from €250. The most-requested route, and the one where the ferry timetable hurts most.

Split → Supetar (Brač): about 45 minutes, from €200. Best for the north Brač hotels.

Split → Milna (Brač): about 55 minutes, from €250. Quiet marina, west Brač access.

Split → Bol (Brač): about 75 minutes, from €300. For Zlatni Rat and the Bol hotels.

Split → Maslinica (Šolta): about 40 minutes, from €180. Private bay and marina transfer.

Split → Rogač (Šolta): about 35 minutes, from €150. Šolta's main ferry port.

Split → Blue Lagoon (Drvenik): about 40 minutes, from €120. One-way transfer.

Split → Trogir: about 30 minutes, from €80. The UNESCO old town route.

Split → Čiovo: about 25 minutes, from €60. Near Trogir and the airport area.

Split → Airport (Kaštela): about 15 minutes, from €30, as a car and water-taxi combination.

The ferry is the cheapest way to cross and it is genuinely good. If your timing lines up with the timetable and you are not in a hurry, take the ferry — we will tell you that on the phone.

The catamaran is faster than the ferry and takes foot passengers only. Same caveat: it runs when it runs, and in July the popular departures sell out days ahead.

A taxi boat wins on three things and loses on one. It wins on timing (you choose), on door-to-door (marina to marina, no terminal queue), and on group economics (per boat, not per head). It loses on price for one or two people travelling at a convenient hour.

The honest maths: two people to Hvar at midday, take the catamaran. Six people to Hvar at 07:00 with luggage, the taxi boat is competitive and gets you there without a 05:30 alarm for the terminal.

You missed the last ferry. This is the most common call we get. The last catamaran from Hvar to Split leaves long before Hvar's nightlife peaks, and the 02:00 option does not exist.

You have an early flight and you are on an island. Working backwards from a 09:00 flight at Split airport with only the ferry timetable available usually means leaving the night before and paying for a hotel. A 06:30 taxi boat is often cheaper than that hotel.

You are a group of four or more. Per head, the boat closes the gap with ferry tickets fast — and you skip the terminal entirely.

You have luggage, kids or a wedding to be on time for. Loading a pushchair and four suitcases onto a catamaran in a queue is its own kind of holiday memory.

Your villa or hotel has its own pier. Then it is genuinely door to door, and the ferry was never really competing.

Distance and fuel. This is most of the number. Bol is €300 and Trogir is €80 because one is 75 minutes of engine time and the other is 30.

Time of day. A 23:00 pickup costs more than a 14:00 pickup — the crew is on the water at an hour nobody else wants.

Waiting time. If you want the boat to hold at the destination and bring you back, that is charged as waiting, not as a second transfer.

Pickup point. Split city pier is the baseline. A pickup a few nautical miles outside Split centre adds fuel and time to the leg before your leg even starts.

One-way vs return. A return is not automatically double — ask, because the boat is already there.

What does not move the price: the number of passengers, up to the boat's capacity. Eight people pay what two people pay.

Date and preferred time. If the time is flexible by an hour, say so — it sometimes lowers the price.

Pickup point, as specific as you can be. A marina name, a hotel pier, or a pin.

Destination, same level of detail. "Hvar" is a big island; Hvar Town and Jelsa are not the same trip.

Number of passengers and rough luggage count.

One-way or return, and whether you need the boat to wait.

We quote manually and reply with a real number. There is no dynamic pricing engine adding 40% because you searched twice.

A taxi boat is a small fast boat. In strong bura or a built-up jugo swell, the crossing is either uncomfortable or we do not run it. We will tell you the day before if the forecast looks bad, and we will not take your money for a crossing we would not put our own family on.

The ferry, being a large vessel, keeps running in conditions that stop a speedboat. That is not a flaw in the taxi boat — it is physics — and it is exactly why we would rather move you to the ferry than sell you a bad hour at sea.

Short routes in sheltered water — Trogir, Čiovo, Šolta — run in conditions that would cancel an open crossing to Hvar or Bol. Ask; the answer depends on the leg, not on the day in general.