How Much Does a Croatia Yacht Charter Cost in 2027?

A crewed yacht charter in Croatia costs between €19,000 and €110,000 for a week, depending on the boat. The median yacht in our Croatian fleet is a €49,900 motor yacht and a €19,500 catamaran.

Expect the final bill to land around 1.5 times the advertised price once the APA, VAT and the crew tip are added. This page breaks down every part of that number.

• €19,000 to €25,000: a crewed catamaran, 50 to 65 ft, with 3 to 4 cabins. Or a classic wooden gulet sleeping 10 to 12.
• €25,000 to €50,000: a 70 to 110 ft motor yacht, or a larger gulet with 6 cabins.
• €50,000 to €110,000: a modern Croatian-built motorsailer, or a 100 to 130 ft motor yacht with 4 to 6 cabins.
• €110,000 and up: superyacht territory. Croatia’s charter fleet runs to 349 ft.

Those are base fees. Read the next two sections before you set a budget.

Croatia yacht charter cost per week: the short answer
What decides the price
What is included in the base charter fee
What gets added on top: APA, VAT and gratuity
What extra fees might you pay in Croatia
How can you reduce the cost
Is Croatia cheaper than Greece or Italy
What we recommend budgeting
Common questions

Three things, in this order: what kind of boat, how big it is, and which weeks you want.

€24,000 to €105,000 covers most of the Croatian motor yacht fleet, with the median at €49,900. That median buys something like DON CIRO, a 108 ft Benetti with 4 cabins. Below €24,000 you are looking at boats in the 57 to 79 ft range, which is not a week we would put a family of eight on.

Above €105,000 the fleet keeps going. SHERAKHAN is 228 ft, CHRISTINA O is 325 ft, DREAM is 349 ft.

€14,900 to €24,900 covers most of the catamaran fleet, median €19,500. This is the most affordable way to charter a genuinely crewed yacht in Croatia, and it is a large part of why Croatia is the value entry into the Mediterranean.

The top of the catamaran market is a different animal. 7X, a Sunreef 80, is €72,500. MIDORI, a Sunreef 70 Eco, is €68,000.

Croatian gulets split into two markets, and mixing them up is the most common budgeting mistake we see.

Classic gulets run €19,500 to €30,000. Wooden, traditional, 5 to 6 cabins. Eleganza, Andđeo, Kadena and LIBRA all sit in this band, and for a group they are remarkable value.

Modern Croatian motorsailers run €55,000 to €110,000. These were built in the last eight years by Croatian yards such as Odisej, Nujić Nautika and Brodosplit. SON DE MAR is €75,000, MARALLURE €79,000, ACAPELLA €88,000 and OMNIA €110,000. They are superyacht-standard boats that happen to carry sails.

€18,900 to €58,000 covers most of the sailing fleet. A CNB 76 starts around €18,900. Above that you reach the pedigree yards: FARANDWIDE, a Southern Wind, at €58,000, GUILLEMOT, a Vitters, at €125,000, and SPIRIT OF THE C’S, a 210 ft Perini Navi, at €210,000.

Same money, three completely different weeks. All three are in our Croatian fleet.

The catamaran is the newest boat and the steadiest at anchor. The Benetti gives you the interior volume and the finish of a classic motor yacht. The motorsailer is 44 ft longer than the catamaran and sleeps twice as many people for the same money, which is why groups of ten and twelve keep landing there.

The base fee covers the yacht, the full crew and their wages, insurance, and the water toys already on board.

It does not cover food, drink, fuel, berthing or park fees. Those are paid separately, through the APA.

The crew tip sits outside all of it. It is discretionary, you decide the amount at the end of the week, and it is handed to the captain directly. If the APA has not been fully spent, some clients ask the captain to take the tip out of what is left rather than paying it on top. Either way it is your call, not a line on the invoice.

Croatia works on plus-expenses terms, the same as the rest of the Mediterranean. All-inclusive pricing exists mainly in the Caribbean, where most catamarans are sold that way. You will rarely see it here.

The APA is an advance provisioning allowance: money paid up front so the captain can buy things during your week. It runs 25% to 40% of the base fee, higher on motor yachts because of fuel, lower on sailing yachts and gulets. 30% is the working number for most Croatian charters.

It pays for food, drink, fuel, berthing, park fees and anything the crew arranges ashore. The captain keeps receipts. Whatever is left is returned to you by bank transfer at the end of the charter. If you go over, you settle the difference on board.

VAT applies to the base charter fee only, not to the APA.

At 13%, Croatia is one of the cheapest places in the Mediterranean to start a charter, and well below France or Italy. The rate is set by where the charter begins, so a yacht departing Split pays Croatian VAT even if the week ends up in Montenegro.

On a €50,000 charter, that is €6,500.

5% to 15% of the base fee, and it is genuinely discretionary. The MYBA contract does not oblige you to tip. In Croatia most clients land toward the lower end of that range. The Caribbean runs higher.

The base fee is about two thirds of what you actually pay. Budget from the total, not the headline.

These apply to some charters and not others. All of them are normally paid out of the APA rather than billed separately.

If you board in one port and leave from another, the yacht still has to get back. That cost is yours, and it is the most common surprise on a Croatian charter.

Split to Dubrovnik is about 130 nautical miles. One-way charters are common and perfectly workable, but ask for the fee in writing before you sign. We explain how it is calculated in why a Split to Dubrovnik one-way charter costs extra.

Croatia charges the vessel to enter its national parks, and the fee scales with length, with the month, and with how many days you stay. For a large charter yacht in the Kornati archipelago this is a meaningful line rather than a rounding error, and it is highest in July and August.

If your itinerary includes Kornati or Mljet, ask your broker to price it into the APA estimate rather than discovering it mid-week. Our guide to Croatia national parks by yacht covers which ones are worth the detour.

Berthing is the most controllable cost on this page. A night on the town quay in Hvar in August costs several times a night at anchor in a bay twenty minutes away.

Nights at anchor are not a downgrade. Swimming off the back of the boat in an empty bay is what most of our clients remember afterward, and the ones who plan two or three marina nights instead of seven eat better and still see the towns.

Croatia charges a small per-person, per-night tourist tax, plus a vessel permit for the charter itself. Both are modest next to everything above, and both come out of the APA.

July and August are the most expensive and the most crowded weeks of the year. The shoulder months are warm, much quieter in the anchorages, and materially cheaper on the same boat. Our guide to the best time to charter in Croatia goes month by month.

Brač, Hvar and Vis sit within short hops of each other out of Split. A week spent there burns a fraction of the fuel of a Split to Dubrovnik run, and you spend the difference on longer lunches instead of diesel.

Most of the EU caps charter yachts at 12 guests unless the vessel meets near-cruise-ship standards. Croatia is one of the few exceptions, which is why the Croatian fleet has so many boats built for 14, 20 and 30 people.

Per person, a large Croatian motorsailer is one of the best-value charters in the Mediterranean. NAVILUX at €55,000 across 12 guests is under €4,600 each, all in.

Yes, for a comparable boat, and the gap is widest at the top of the market.

Italy and the South of France draw on the same Western Mediterranean fleet and price accordingly. Greece is closer, but its motor yacht segment sits above Croatia’s. Croatia gives you the same kind of week for less, and 13% VAT rather than the higher Italian and French rates.

The gap is closing. Croatia’s fleet has modernized quickly, and the yards building those €80,000 motorsailers are Croatian. For a fuller side by side, read our honest broker comparison of Croatia and Greece.

You can charter in Croatia for less than the numbers below. We do not recommend it, because below this the boat, the crew, or both stop being something we would put our name on.

• From €25,000 for a crewed catamaran week that genuinely works.
• €50,000 to €90,000 is where most of our Croatian clients actually land.
• €90,000 to €150,000 and up for a motor yacht or motorsailer with the space and the crew that make the week effortless.

Add roughly 50% to any of those for the true all-in cost.