Trogir is 27 kilometres west of Split and about five from the airport, and its historic centre sits on a small island between the mainland and the island of Čiovo. That geography is most of the answer. Split is a city you stay inside; Trogir is a stone town of ten thousand people with a villa belt around it, and almost nobody who books a house here sleeps in the old town. Prices come from what a villa week in Croatia costs to rent.
Split or Trogir: which suits which villa week?
| What the week needs | Where it belongs | What it costs you |
|---|---|---|
| A pool, a garden and the lowest price per head | Čiovo, or the strip west of Trogir | Every Split evening is a drive |
| Walking home from dinner at midnight | Inside Split, or inside Trogir | Pools are rarer, plots smaller, the rate per head climbs |
| Three or four nights in July or August | Inside Split | The Čiovo houses hold seven nights, Saturday arrivals |
| Four to six people | Inside Split | Nothing, and you stop paying for empty bedrooms |
Is Trogir nicer than Split? Prettier and quieter, and a fraction of the size. Decide whether you want a town or a city before anyone sends photographs.
Is Trogir a good base for exploring Croatia?
Better than its size suggests, on three numbers: the airport is about five kilometres away, the motorway about fifteen, and Split 27, roughly a thirty minute drive.
The public options are real here, unusual for villa country. Promet Split line 37 runs Split, airport, Trogir and back from four in the morning, with the last bus out of Split at a quarter past midnight, and local lines reach Slatine, Okrug Donji, Seget and Marina. There is also a boat: the Trogir, Slatine and Split line ran four sailings each way a day from 1 June 2026 and more through the peak weeks, half an hour to Slatine and half an hour on to Split, EUR 10 for the full run, cash on board.
Where Trogir is weaker is islands, because Hvar, Brač and Vis all sail from Split. If two of your days are islands, price a private boat from this side before you price the car.
Where are the villas: Čiovo, the mainland strip, Split or Kaštela?
Four markets, not interchangeable.
Čiovo. This is where the houses are. Listings for the island name Okrug Gornji, Okrug Donji, Slatine, Arbanija, Mastrinka and Mavarštica, in two to seven bedrooms. The island is 15.3 kilometres long and 3.5 at its widest, so the village matters more than the island does. The two Okrugs sit on the western side in Saldun bay a few kilometres from Trogir, with Toć, a two kilometre pebble beach behind a promenade that locals call the Copacabana of Okrug. Arbanija, 349 residents and a fifteenth century monastery, and Slatine sit along the north and east, quieter and further out.
The mainland strip west of Trogir. Seget Donji, Seget Vranjica, Marina and Vinišće all carry villa stock and all are on a bus line into town. Go here for a bigger plot at the same money.
Inside Split. Small plots, few pools, and a five bedroom house within walking distance of the Old Town at GBP 628 a night in the peak weeks, roughly double the Čiovo rate for the same ten beds. The difference buys the walk home.
Say whether you would rather walk to the water or to a restaurant. It removes half the list.
Čiovo or Trogir: which side of the bridge?
Two bridges reach the island now. A bascule bridge in the middle of Trogir has joined the old town to Čiovo since 1964, and in July 2018 a second opened a kilometre east of it, 546 metres long, running from the mainland straight onto the island and built to take through traffic out of the centre of Trogir. So a Čiovo house no longer means driving through a UNESCO old town, though traffic around the bridges still thickens noticeably in August, so give an afternoon airport run extra time then.
Walking is the other half of the answer and it depends entirely on the village. From Okrug the tourist board puts Trogir at a five minute drive, a twenty minute walk, or a fifteen minute boat in summer, which is genuinely walkable after dinner. From Arbanija, Slatine, Seget or Marina it is a drive. Trogir itself is 6.4 hectares of protected old town with two beaches ten minutes from the centre on foot, so it works as your evening even when it is not your address. If you want to walk home, take a house at the Okrug end and say so in your first message.
Okrug Gornji or Slatine?
Both are on Čiovo, at opposite ends of it. Okrug Gornji is on the western side in Saldun bay, a few kilometres from Trogir. Slatine is along the north and east coast, quieter and further out, where the island comes within two kilometres of Split’s Marjan peninsula.
Okrug is the walking end. The tourist board puts Trogir at a five minute drive, a twenty minute walk or a fifteen minute boat in summer, so dinner in the old town is a seven o’clock decision. What comes with it is Toć, a resort beach, two kilometres of pebble behind a promenade rather than a cove of your own.
Slatine is the boat end. Bura Line’s Trogir, Slatine and Split boat calls here, about half an hour a leg, EUR 10 the full run, cash on board, which makes a Split day possible without the car. Trogir from here is a drive, not a walk, so most evenings are at the house.
The buses divide the same way. In the summer 2026 timetable, line 42 runs Trogir to Slatine sixteen times each way on a weekday, line 44 runs Trogir to Okrug Donji ten, and both drop to four and two on Sundays and holidays.
Say whether you would rather walk to dinner or ride to Split, and the end of the island picks itself.
Trogir or Kaštela?
Kaštela is seven old settlements, Kaštel Štafilić, Novi, Stari, Lukšić, Kambelovac, Gomilica and Sućurac, strung along 17 kilometres of the largest bay in central Dalmatia, with a railway station at Kaštel Stari, motorway access, and the airport, which sits inside the town and runs into Trogir.
What it buys you is value. Villa stock is listed across Gomilica, Kambelovac, Lukšić, Stari and Sućurac, and a five bedroom house sleeping ten to twelve with a heated pool there was EUR 957 a night for July 2027, EUR 6,699 the week, on seven nights. The 2026 tourist tax, where the house charges it, is EUR 1.50 a person a night against EUR 2.65 in Trogir and Split. The old vine grown here, Crljenak Kaštelanski, carries the same genetic code as Zinfandel, so a wine afternoon is a short drive.
What it costs you is water: gravel beaches and bay swimming rather than the open channel off Čiovo, with the runway end by the Štafilić beaches. And Kaštela on a listing can mean any of seven towns 17 kilometres apart, so ask which one, and how far from the sea, before you compare it with Čiovo.
What does a villa cost here?
Bands only, none a quote for your dates. A five bedroom house sleeping ten to fourteen on Čiovo near Trogir was GBP 335 a night from 1 July to 1 September, seven nights with Saturday arrivals only, which is GBP 2,345 for the week and about GBP 235 a head at ten.
From June to September most houses here are let for five to seven nights, and on Čiovo the arrival day can be as fixed as the length. Cleaning, a refundable damage deposit and tourist tax sit on top.
If your dates are not Saturday to Saturday, put it in your first line. It changes which houses are worth asking about at all.
How do you get on the water from Trogir?
The marina is on your side. ACI marina Trogir sits on Čiovo across a channel about a hundred metres wide from the town centre, with 161 berths in the water and 26 on land, taking boats up to thirty metres. A boat morning here is a short transfer rather than a drive to Split and back, and that close water is why people base on this side. The range from these quays is on private boat tours from Trogir, with the lagoon day on the private Blue Lagoon tour. Jadrolinija line 606 reaches the Drvenik islands in about an hour.
Tell us which morning you want on the water and whether the villa has a dock, and we start it at your end.
How do evenings work here, and will you need a driver?
Trogir old town is the evening here, a twenty minute walk from the Okrug end of Čiovo and a car from anywhere else. Split evenings work better from this side than from most villa areas, because line 37 runs late and the last bus out of Split leaves at a quarter past midnight. The boat is a daytime service, not a way home from dinner. Two or three Split nights in a week is usually right: a driver for those, a chef at the house for the rest, private chef for a Split villa.
Count the evenings you genuinely want out before you book a car for the week. Most groups over count.
Who should stay in Split instead?
Four groups. Four to six people, because a house that sleeps ten costs what it costs whether six or ten sleep in it. Anyone wanting three or four nights in July or August, since the Čiovo houses hold seven and the Split house takes three. Anyone who will not drive, because outside Okrug this belt is a driving holiday. And anyone whose week is really a city week with swimming attached.
As for which part of Split, the only division that matters for a villa week is whether the house is inside the ring you can walk home from at midnight. Is Podstrana a good base covers the belt the other side of the city, and Split or Hvar is the decision before this one.
What should you send us?
Dates or the month, how many nights and whether they can move to Saturday to Saturday, how many people, how many bedrooms, whether walking into Trogir matters more than walking into the sea, and the budget. Those six lines sort this belt from Kaštela to Marina.
We come back with two or three houses that fit, each with the total for your nights and what sits on top of it, and you book the house with the villa’s own booking office at its published rate. The week around it is ours to arrange.
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