Kaštela is the coast between Split and Trogir, and it is not one place. Seven settlements sit in a row along the bay, seventeen kilometres of shoreline, Kozjak behind them and Split airport inside the westernmost. Nowhere else here puts the villas, the runway and two old towns in the same short drive. Prices come from what a villa week in Croatia costs to rent, distances from the houses and the timetables.
Is Kaštela a good place to stay?
Yes for a villa week, on one condition: choose your Kaštel deliberately, because the seven are not interchangeable.
Kaštela sits northwest of Split and east of Trogir under Kozjak, which rises to 779 metres above Kaštel Gomilica, and the bay in front is the largest in central Dalmatia at 14.8 kilometres. One promenade runs the seafront through all seven and carries on west to Trogir, so a house near the water has a flat walk both ways.
It is a working town of about 38,000 people rather than a resort, so you get supermarkets, a railway and a bus every twenty minutes at peak, plus an industrial zone at the eastern end that the beach list below makes obvious.
If your week has two airport runs and a Trogir dinner in it, this is the cheapest coast on the map for both.
Which of the seven Kaštela?
West to east: Štafilić, Novi, Stari, Lukšić, Kambelovac, Gomilica and Sućurac, each grown around a fortified house of the fifteenth or sixteenth century.
Štafilić is the westernmost and the airport’s own settlement, the smallest at about 2,800 people, with a long seafront, a stone village round its square and a UNESCO listed olive tree over 1,500 years old.
Novi grew around a keep of 1512 and keeps its walls on three sides.
Stari is the largest at nearly 7,000 and the one with the train, since the suburban line from Split ends here. Its mansion of 1476 sits on a sea reef with the pebble beach either side.
Lukšić, in the middle of the bay, has the best of the castles, finished in 1564 and now a small museum and the tourist office.
Kambelovac has the only round castle of the seven, built on an islet in 1517.
Gomilica has the Benedictine convent on the islet of Kaštilac, the marina, and the odd distinction of standing in for Braavos on television.
Sućurac is the easternmost and oldest, closest to Split, and the one carrying the industry.
So: Štafilić and Stari for the airport and the beaches, Lukšić and Kambelovac for the middle of the bay, Gomilica for the marina, Sućurac for Split. Say which matters most and half the list goes.
Where are the villas?
Spread across all seventeen kilometres, which is why searching the word Kaštela alone returns noise. Of the houses we checked there are five bedroom houses with pools in Kambelovac and Štafilić, a six bedroom house for up to sixteen in Štafilić two hundred metres from the water, and four bedroom houses in Kaštel Stari and at the Sućurac end.
The division that matters is height. On the flat you are inside the promenade and minutes from the sea. Up the slope towards Kozjak you get the plot, the quiet and the whole bay, and every swim starts with a car: one hillside house in Gomilica sits two kilometres from its beach.
Say which you want before anyone sends photographs. The terraces look identical, the walk does not.
What does a villa here cost?
One figure, and it is not a quote for your dates. A five bedroom Kaštela house sleeping ten to twelve with a heated pool was EUR 957 a night for July 2027, EUR 6,699 the week, on a seven night minimum. For twelve that is EUR 79.75 each a night.
The seven nights are the part to plan around. From June to September most houses of any size here are let for five to seven nights, and seven usually brings a fixed changeover day. Tourist tax in Kaštela for 2026 is EUR 1.50 per person per night where the house charges it, among the lowest on this coast, and cleaning and a deposit sit on top. The rest is in what a villa week in Croatia costs to rent.
Fix the seven nights and the changeover day before the budget. In July they decide the list.
The airport, Trogir and Split: what does each cost you in minutes?
Split airport is not near Kaštela, it is in it, on the west side of the bay inside Kaštel Štafilić, about nineteen kilometres from Split. The advantage runs downhill from west to east.
| From a house in | Airport | Split | Trogir |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kaštel Štafilić | 2 km | about 20 minutes | 8 km |
| Kaštel Stari | 4 km | train, about 25 minutes | promenade runs west |
| Kaštel Gomilica | 13 km | 16 km | 14 km |
| Kaštel Sućurac | 12 km | 7 km, about 10 minutes | 16 km, about 15 minutes |
Treat those as shape, not gospel. Without a car there are two options. The Split suburban railway runs from Split harbour to Kaštel Stari, 17.8 kilometres in about twenty five minutes, seventeen trains each way on weekdays and eight at weekends. Bus 37 runs Split to the airport to Trogir and back from 04:00 until 00:15, roughly every twenty minutes at peak.
Count your airport runs before you pick a settlement. Two families on separate flights is where Štafilić pays for itself.
What are the beaches and evenings like?
Gravel, almost without exception. The town lists twenty eight beaches across the seven settlements, most of them gravel, with gravel and sand at Stari Resnik and Dračić in Štafilić and a few concrete platforms.
The distribution is the useful part. Štafilić has nine, Kambelovac six, Lukšić five, Stari and Gomilica three each, Novi and Sućurac one apiece. Swimming here is a western and middle bay business.
Evenings follow the same line. The town’s food listing runs to restaurants, pizzerias, taverns, wineries and a craft brewery, weighted to the middle of the bay around Novi, Lukšić and Kambelovac and strung along the promenade rather than gathered in a centre.
Two or three evenings out and the rest at the house is the usual shape, and a private chef for a Split villa handles those on a terrace facing the bay.
Where do the boat days start?
Marina Kaštela sits in Kaštel Gomilica with 420 sea berths, midway between Trogir and Split and 11.2 kilometres from the airport, so a boat can come to your end of the bay rather than you driving to it.
For a full day, start from Trogir. It is closer to the Blue Lagoon, Šolta and the Drvenik islands than Split is, and from the western Kaštela it is the shorter drive: private boat tours from Trogir.
Tell us which mornings you want on the water and which end of the bay the house is on, and we will say whether the day leaves from Trogir or comes to you.
Who should stay in Trogir or Podstrana instead?
Trogir if you want to walk out of the house into an old town at nine in the evening, because none of the seven gives you that. If you are weighing those two, Split or Trogir, where to stay is the comparison.
Podstrana if the week leans on Split rather than the airport: it sits the other side of the city with its own beach strip and a bus into town. Is Podstrana a good base has the numbers.
Anywhere else if there are four to six of you, because a house that sleeps twelve costs the same whether six or twelve sleep in it.
What should you send us?
Dates or the month, how many nights, how many people, how many bedrooms, whether the walk to the water or the view up the hill matters more, how many airport runs the week has in it, and the budget with whether that is per night or in total. Seven lines and the seventeen kilometres sort themselves.
We come back with two or three houses that fit, each with the total for your nights and what sits on top, and you book the house with the villa’s own booking office at its published rate. The week around it, the boat days, the chef, the drivers, is ours to arrange.
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