Game of Thrones Tour Split: 5 Options Compared 2026

A Game of Thrones tour in Split is a walk through Diocletian's Palace with a guide who plays the relevant scene on a tablet while you stand where it was shot. Split played Meereen across seasons four, five and six, and the two locations that carry the show most convincingly are the palace cellars, which became Daenerys's dragon dungeon, and Klis Fortress on the ridge behind the city, which became the exterior of Meereen and the site of the "Kill the Masters" scene.

The five listings compared on this page are not five versions of the same thing. Three are guided walks of 1 to 2 hours inside the old town, priced €25 to €39. The other two are admission tickets: one to Klis Fortress bundled with an olive museum, one to a small Game of Thrones museum on Bosanska Street. That distinction is what decides the booking, and it is not obvious from a search results page where a €12 listing sits beside a €39 one.

The second thing worth knowing before you compare prices is that only one of the three walking tours actually includes entry to the filmed cellar chambers. The other two walk you to the door. Once you add the entry fee yourself, the price order on this page reverses, which we have laid out in full below.

A Game of Thrones walk takes a morning or an evening at most, so it slots easily around the bigger excursions. If you are building a Split itinerary, the usual companions are a Blue Cave tour from Split, a Krka waterfalls day trip, a Split food tour through the same palace streets, or a tuk tuk tour of Split for the Marjan hill viewpoints the walking tours never reach. The other filming city is Dubrovnik, which stood in for King's Landing itself and is reachable on a Dubrovnik day trip from Split. For the palace without the television, a Split walking tour covers the same ground.

Three of these five put a guide in front of you, and two sell you a door. We would shortlist on what each one gets you inside rather than on the headline price, because the two locations that carry the show best are also the two that explain themselves least: the cellars are unmarked stone behind a ticket barrier, and Klis is a self-guided ridge with placards.

Split and its surroundings stood in for Meereen across seasons four, five and six, and for Braavos in season five. Six locations are within easy reach of the city, and they vary enormously in how much they look like the show once you are standing in them. One pattern we noticed in guest reviews is that the fortress is remembered for the view far more often than for the filming, so it is worth going up for both rather than one. Here is what each one is, and which of the tours above gets you to it.

Guided Game of Thrones walking tours in Split cost €25 to €39 per person and run 1 to 2 hours. Entry tickets are cheaper: €12 for Klis Fortress bundled with the Olive Museum, €15 for the Game of Thrones Museum. The figure that moves is cellar entry, around €6, which one walking tour includes and two do not. Here is what each tier actually buys.

The three walking tours rate 4.8 to 5.0, and from what we have seen across 70 guest reviews the guiding genuinely is not the risk on this page. The recurring complaints attach to the two ticket products, not to the walks. The mismatches are about what you are expecting to see and how much of the show you actually remember.

Worth it if you watched the Meereen seasons

Seasons four through six are where Split earns its place, and for us the cellars are the strongest single location in Croatia after the Dubrovnik walls. If you can picture Daenerys's dragons in the dark or the ambush in the corridor, standing in those rooms lands properly. The tablet playback closes whatever gap is left.

Worth it even if you have not watched it, on the right tour

Both cellar tours are half Roman history by design, and the top pick is titled as a history walk for a reason. You get the Vestibule, the Peristyle, the Temple of Jupiter and a working explanation of why a Roman emperor built a fortified retirement palace here in the first place. Plenty of guests book it as their general Split orientation with the Game of Thrones material as a bonus, including reluctant partners dragged along and at least one working historian who still came away having learned something. We would give this the edge over a standard old town walking tour for that reason: you get the same Roman material with a narrative holding it together.

Think twice about the museum

At 3.8 across 454 reviews it is the one listing here where the criticism is consistent rather than scattered, and specific enough to act on. Reported visit times cluster between five and twenty minutes. Guest room counts range from three to five against the listed five. And the props are replicas or production backups throughout, which is the single thing disappointed visitors mention most, because they arrived expecting screen-used pieces. Both cellar walks include the Iron Throne photo, which removes the main reason most people go.

The split in the reviews is clean, and it is worth knowing which side you are on. The people rating it five are dedicated fans who came for the costumes and the photo ops and got them. The people rating it one and two are casual viewers who worked out the cost per minute. There is very little in between.

Not the right call if you were expecting sets

Nothing was built and left standing. Meereen's gates were digital, added above the real walls of Klis. Papalićeva Street is an ordinary lane. What survives is stone that was already 1,700 years old when the crews arrived, which is a different and arguably better thing. But it is not a studio backlot, and we would not book any of these for someone hoping to walk onto a set.

Reconsider Klis if you do not have a car

The €12 ticket is good value at the gate and the views over the Kaštela bay are the best in the area. Two things catch people out. The fortress climbs a ridge on steps and uneven stone throughout, and guests with reduced mobility or a head for heights say plainly that it does not work for them. And getting there is the problem. Bus 22 stops near the Croatian National Theatre, runs weekdays only and roughly every 90 minutes, and the listing's meeting point is the Olive Museum rather than a pickup in Split. Without a car or a taxi budget, this is the listing most likely to go wrong.

• Read the excluded list before the title. One listing here names Diocletian's Palace cellar in its title and excludes entry to it in the details. Cellar entry is around €6, which is enough to reverse the price order between two of these tours. This is the single most common way people overpay on this page.
• Do not mistake the free corridor for the filming location. The central passage under the palace is free and lined with souvenir and craft stalls. The vaulted chambers that appear on screen are behind ticket barriers on either side. Plenty of visitors walk the corridor, buy a fridge magnet and leave believing they have seen the dragon dungeon.
• Take the evening slot in July and August. The Peristyle is busiest between 11:00 and 16:00 and the palace stone holds the afternoon heat well past sunset. A 19:30 start gets you the same lanes with a fraction of the crowd and much better light on the limestone.
• Check the group cap, not just the duration. Ten versus twenty is the real difference between the two cellar tours. The East Chambers corridor narrows to close to single file, and in a large group half of it is spent waiting for a turn at the tablet.
• Sort out Klis transport before you book the ticket. Bus 22, which stops near the Croatian National Theatre, is the cheap way and it is weekday-only, roughly every 90 minutes. Buses 34, 35 and 36 from the main station on Sukoišanska stop at Caffe Bar Oprah, a short walk below the fortress. Otherwise budget around €20 each way by taxi, which is what visitors consistently report paying.
• Go up to Klis late in the day. The fortress runs along an exposed limestone ridge with almost no shade and closes at 20:30. Late afternoon gives you the light across the Kaštela bay and the islands, and it is a great deal more comfortable than midday in August.
• Carry water and expect uneven ground. This is the most repeated practical note from guests, and it is easy to underestimate on a walk this short. The palace floor is uneven Roman and medieval stone throughout, there is nowhere to buy water once a tour is moving, and August routinely runs past 35°C in the lanes.
• Wear shoes with grip. The old town is polished limestone worn smooth over seventeen centuries and genuinely slippery when wet, the cellar floors are uneven, and Klis is loose stone and steep steps throughout.
• Skip the museum if your tour includes the throne photo. Both cellar walks include it. The €15 museum ticket is worth it for the costumes and dioramas, but not as a way to get a picture you are already getting. Visitors also report a throne photo available at the shop across the street, so the museum is not the only route to it.
• If you have a car, add Kaštel Gomilica. Arya's Braavos waterfront is a 16th-century fortified islet 15 km toward Trogir, it is free, it takes twenty minutes to walk, and no tour on this page includes it. Pair it with Trogir for a decent half day.
• Ask about the photos and clips at the start of the walk. Guides play the scene on a tablet where it was filmed, and several send the clips and the photos they take through afterwards, sometimes via a group chat set up before departure. Guests who ask up front line up their own shots against the stonework as they go. Guests who ask at the end have already walked past the good frames.
• Take water and a hat up to Klis, and go late. The fortress has almost no shade anywhere along the ridge, and afternoon visits in summer are the most common regret. It closes at 20:30. There is a toilet on site but nothing to buy, so carry what you need up with you.
• Do not expect a view of Split old town from Klis. The fortress looks out over the Kaštela bay, the islands and the plain, which is the better view anyway, but the city itself sits behind the ridge and out of sight. Visitors who go up specifically to photograph Split come back disappointed.
• Budget 45 minutes to two hours at Klis, not three. The three-hour figure on the listing covers the Olive Museum, the shop time and the fortress together. The fortress alone is a 45 minute wander if you are moving, or closer to two hours if you read the placards and take the walls slowly.
• Book the walk early in your stay. It doubles as the best orientation to Diocletian's Palace you can get in under two hours, and the layout of the old town makes far more sense afterwards. Doing it on day one improves everything else you do inside the walls.