The Blue Cave & 5 Island Tour from Split

The “blue cave 5 island tour” is Croatia’s most-booked boat day, and from Split it has one undisputed heavyweight: the Blue Cave, Mamma Mia, Hvar & 5 Islands tour - 4.6/5 across 7,854 verified guests, the featured boat on this site. Here is the day it buys, and the honest arithmetic around it.

The sequence

Off the Riva at 8–9am; roughly 30 nautical miles south to Biševo first, timed for the cave’s 10:30–13:00 light window; the €24 ticket (€18 shoulder) paid at the cave, never in the tour price. Then the day earns its poster: Stiniva’s cliff-gap cove from the water, Komiža or the Vis bays, the shallow turquoise of the Budikovac lagoon - the swim stop that outshines everything - and about an hour under Hvar’s fortress before the run home, docking 6–7pm.

The all-in price, honestly

The headline $128 becomes roughly $155–165 door to door once you add the cave ticket and a Hvar lunch. Budget that number, not the sticker. What’s genuinely included on the flagship: skipper and guide, snorkel gear, windproof jackets (you’ll use them - speedboats are fast and wet) and insurance.

Which boat, though

The flagship’s 7,854 reviews are the biggest proof-of-operation on the coast - a machine that runs its schedule superbly. Travelers who’d trade the machine for a capped manifest have real alternatives from the same quay, and the comparison deserves its own read: fiveislandtoursplit.com compares every credible version of this exact day - manifest sizes, the 5.0-rated small-group variant, the six-island option - in depth. Based on Hvar instead? The same itinerary runs from there with an hour less sailing each way.

The fine print that isn’t fine

The cave is a 1 April – 31 October operation; a south swell closes it and reroutes the day (the weather truth is its own guide); and every boat on this page carries free cancellation to 24 hours - the honest hedge on an open-sea day.