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Getting online at Split airport and in town

Split airport, SPU, is at Kaštela, a drive of roughly half an hour west of the centre, and it is a short hop from Trogir too. Switch your eSIM on once the plane has parked and your phone should have data by the time you collect your bag, enough to open a map and a ride app.

An airport bus runs to the main bus station beside the ferry port, and taxis and Uber and Bolt cars wait outside arrivals. Look at the current bus times and the price of a ride before you commit, since both change between seasons. Have your accommodation address saved, because the lanes inside the old town are too narrow for a car to reach most doors.

The bus station, the railway station and the ferry port sit side by side on the harbour, a few minutes' walk from the palace walls. That makes Split an easy place to arrive without a car and leave by boat.

The ferry port, Jadrolinija and Krilo timetables

Most island trips start at the port in front of the old town. Jadrolinija runs the car ferries and some passenger catamarans, and Krilo runs fast catamarans to several islands. Their pages and apps show departures, prices and which pier a sailing uses, and it is far easier to read them on your phone than at a ticket window.

In summer, popular crossings can sell out, so buy a ticket ahead and keep the booking on your phone, not just in an email you cannot open offline. Save a screenshot of the ticket and of the last return sailing. Timetables change with the season and with the weather, and wind can cancel a crossing, so check on the morning you travel.

Some sailings use different piers and some islands have more than one port, so read the name of the arrival port on the ticket before you board. A map with the port pinned is a cheap safeguard.

Island hopping and signal at sea

Brac, Hvar, Solta and Vis are the usual names on a first trip, and the big islands have good coverage in their towns. We cannot tell you the signal holds the whole way across the channel, or on quiet beaches and hill roads, so check before you rely on it for anything that matters.

Do the planning on land. Book the return, write down the last departure, and download an offline map of the island before you board. A town like Bol, on the far side of Brac from the ferry port at Supetar, can be a long bus ride, which is the kind of detail worth looking up before you go.

On deck, a phone is mainly a camera. Keep it in a dry bag, because spray and a hot screen do more harm than a patchy bar of signal.

Promet buses and walking the old town

The old town inside the palace walls is for feet only, and the centre of Split is compact enough that most visitors walk everywhere. Promet Split runs the city buses, and a line serves the suburbs and the coast towards Trogir. Check the route number and stop on your phone, because they are easy to get wrong from memory.

Bus tickets are sold from kiosks and sometimes by the driver, and the payment methods vary, so carry a little cash. A data eSIM gives you no Croatian number, so any ticket sold by text message will not work for you; look for an app or a kiosk instead.

Inside the palace the lanes bend and branch, and a map dot can wander between the stone walls. Save the offline map for your street before you arrive, and use the waterfront as your landmark if you get turned around.

Which plan fits a Dalmatian coast trip

A weekend break in Split: Ringo Light sells no 3-day plan for Croatia. Airalo sells 3 days of unlimited at $9.50, Nomad $11 and Holafly $11.90. If you may add a boat day, a longer stay costs little more with our 2 weeks at $16.99.

A week with an island day: Ringo Light has no 7-day plan, but 2 weeks of unlimited data at $16.99 is still lower than a 7-day plan from Ubigi ($20), Airalo ($24.50), Nomad ($25) or Holafly ($27.50). You will have days to spare for Trogir or the falls.

A fortnight of Split, the islands and a drive on to Dubrovnik, or a month working from a flat in town: Ringo Light 2 weeks at $16.99 or 30 days at $26.99. The same plan covers all of Croatia, so there is nothing to swap along the coast.

If you visit from an EU country

Croatia is an EU member, so a mobile plan from another EU country normally works in Split at your home price, subject to your provider's fair use rules. Read your plan before you pay for anything extra. Visitors from outside the EU usually pay roaming charges, which is where a travel eSIM comes in.

What Ringo Light is

Ringo Light is our own data eSIM. For Croatia, which includes Split, it sells two trips, each with unlimited data at full speed: 2 weeks at $16.99 and 30 days at $26.99. Neither renews. The eSIM is emailed to you within seconds and installs from one scan, with no app to download.

If you only want a fixed amount of data, Ubigi's 10 GB for 30 days at $12 comes in under our 2 weeks, and Ringo Light has no buckets. You can buy it on the card above, which sits after the side-by-side table.