Your week on VIS

Eight days. Seven nights. A different part of the island every day — and nothing to organise, carry, book or worry about. Here’s what’s waiting for you.

How your day begins

It starts gently. Soft music, a cup of herb tea made from plants picked from the hillsides around the house, and the sound of the sea close enough to hear from bed.
By mid-morning you’ll have swum, eaten a proper breakfast — homemade bread, homemade marmalade, local delicatessen — and had a conversation with your guide about where the day will take you. There’s no alarm, no rush, no queue for a buffet.
Lunch is waiting at home when you return — always around 2 pm, always worth sitting down for. Afternoons are yours. The beaches near the house are all walkable. The sea is always there.
Dinner is either at home or at one of the local restaurants we know well — the kind of places you wouldn’t find without someone pointing you in the right direction.

We like to offer you the individual pace of what you want to do. Some guests do everything. Some sit in the garden and read novels. Both are correct.

The week, Day by Day

Every week has its own rhythm. Weather, tides, and the mood of the group shape the details. But this is what a VIScovery week looks like.

Day 1 Arrival. First swim. First dinner

You arrive via Split and the ferry — we’ll be waiting. After settling in and an introduction to the island and the village, we walk you down to all five local beaches for your first jump into the Adriatic. Then back to the house for a welcome dinner, cooked by us, with a proper conversation about the week ahead.

Day 2 Kayak to the Island. Blue Lagoon. Cliff jumping

After a morning walk/exercise and breakfast, you board the kayak for the two nearby islands. The first stop is the Flat Island — with a sea cave where light enters through an underwater opening and turns the water an extraordinary shade of emerald. The second is Budihovac, a small island with a Blue Lagoon and some of the clearest water in the Adriatic. Snorkelling, swimming, cliff jumping.

Back for a three-course lunch. The afternoon is yours on the local beaches. Dinner is served in the garden, by candlelight, with local stories.

Day 3 Stiniva. The most beautiful beach in Europe

Voted the most beautiful beach in Europe in 2018 — and it earns the title. We drive to the other side of the island and hike down to Stiniva cove: a beach enclosed by two towering limestone cliffs, reachable only on foot or by sea. The walk down offers views across the Adriatic that are difficult to describe and easy to remember.

No phone signal in the cove. That’s not a problem — it’s part of the point. Hike up is 20 min and it’s hard. 😊 Lunch at home, afternoon on the local beaches.

This evening we recommend a restaurant in the middle of the island — a terrace overlooking the remains of the WWII airfield, with local food and a view that changes your sense of scale. Or take something from lunch and enjoy it on your terrace overlooking the sunset.

Day 4 Komiža. Scavenger hunt. Seven beaches

Today belongs to Komiža — the old fishing town on the western side of the island. We drive over after breakfast and spend the morning on a scavenger hunt through the town’s narrow streets and harbourfront. Then the challenge: seven beaches, all swimmable, all worth it.

Lunch back at home, afternoon to rest.

Day 5 Your day. Your pace

We pack you a lunch and step back. Day 5 is yours.

For those who want more adventure, we have suggestions: a discovery scuba dive in waters that have barely been explored, a speedboat trip to the Blue Cave on the island of Biševo — a sea cave so extraordinary it’s been drawing visitors since the 19th century — or a lap of the island by scooter, quad, or electric bike.

For those who want nothing at all: the beaches near the house are five minutes’ walk. The garden is quiet. The sea is there.

This evening we suggest the town of Vis itself — Croatia’s oldest town, named Issa by its Greek founders around 2,500 years ago. And if the timing is right: the outdoor cinema showing Mamma Mia 2, with the island as its backdrop. Yes, really.

Speedboat to Blue Cave, Biševo — one of the Adriatic's great natural wonders
Discovery scuba dive in largely unexplored waters
Scooter, quad or electric bike around the island
Or: beaches, books, absolutely nothing — equally valid
Vis town evening — oldest town in Croatia, founded by Greeks
Outdoor cinema: Mamma Mia 2 (the film was shot here)

Day 6 Military caves. Roman ruins. 2,500 years of history.

An early start for the most historically layered day of the week. We visit the Military Caves — tunnels and docks carved into the rock during the Cold War to shelter the Yugoslav Navy’s submarine fleet. They’re not a tourist attraction. They’re the real thing.

Then to the Fortress of St. George, built during the British occupation of the island from 1811 onwards. Then snorkelling around the peninsula of Prirovo — where, if conditions are right, you’ll swim over the outlines of Greek and Roman ruins in shallow, clear water. Vis is the oldest town in Croatia. The sea floor around it reflects that.

Beach bar in between for the balance of history and doing very little. Lunch at home, afternoon free.

Day 7 Three bays. Three beaches. Farewell dinner

The last full day, and the island saves its southern coast for it. After breakfast, we start at Milna bay — sandy, calm, the kind of place that makes leaving feel unkind. Those who want more walk fifteen minutes to Zaglav bay: a different character, crystal water, fewer people.

Later, a short drive to Stončica bay, with a walk out to the lighthouse at the end of the island’s southern point. It earns its name.

Back to the house for the farewell dinner. The table outside, good wine, the garden, the stories of the week. The proper kind of last night.

Day 8 Breakfast. Ferry. Home — or onwards

A full breakfast, then we take you to Vis town for the ferry back to Split. Onwards to your flight home, or the next chapter of your trip. Either way, you’ll leave with a tan, a full notebook’s worth of stories, and a list of reasons to come back.

WHAT MAKES VIS DIFFERENT

Places you wouldn't find without us

Vis has been inhabited for 2,500 years — by Greeks, Romans, Venetians, the British, and the Yugoslavs. Each left something behind: ruins in shallow water, a fortress on a hill, tunnels in the rock, a fishing town that hasn’t changed in a generation. We know where all of it is.

We are experts on this island. We will show you places you would never have imagined finding on your own — not because they’re hidden, but because knowing where to look, and when, and how to get there, takes years of living here.

The island of Vis is the oldest inhabited island in the Adriatic. It was closed to foreign visitors until 1989. Parts of it still feel that way.

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