What Does the Dubrovnik Pass Include?

What Does the Dubrovnik Pass Include?

The Dubrovnik Pass includes one-time entry to the City Walls and Lovrjenac Fortress, the Rector's Palace, the Maritime Museum, the Ethnographic Museum, Marin Držić House, the Natural History Museum, the Franciscan Monastery Museum, the Museum of Modern Art, the Dulčić-Masle-Pulitika Gallery, Pulitika Studio and the archaeological exhibitions, plus a bus ticket. It costs 40 euro for one day, 50 euro for three days and 60 euro for seven days, sold as an adult pass for ages 7 and up.

That is the short version, read directly from the official pass site and its live checkout. The longer version matters, because the pass is sold as a single "SUMMER 2026" season running 1 March to 30 November, in one ticket type only, the ADULT PASS (7+). There is no child tier and no winter tier on sale at all, which surprises people planning December trips. The pass is a city product, run by the City of Dubrovnik, and the official pass site is the only place the full inclusion list is spelled out.

The single most important detail is also the one most often missed: every tier allows a one-time visit to each institution, the walls included. You cannot use the pass to walk the walls twice, and you cannot split a three-day pass between two people. One pass, one person, one entry per sight. That rule is printed in the checkout itself, and it shapes how you should sequence a pass day: decide in advance which sight gets your single entry, because there is no second attempt.

Here is how the three tiers differ, which is less than the price spread suggests:

The walls are the anchor. The 1,940-metre circuit is the single most expensive sight in the city on its own, and every pass tier lists "City Walls + Lovrjenac Fortress" as its first inclusion. The circuit reached its present shape in the 13th century and was finished in 1660 with the Bastion of St Stephen, and it is up to 25 metres high in places, with the main wall 4 to 6 metres thick on the land side and 1.5 to 3 metres on the sea side. If you are weighing the pass at all, you are really weighing it against the walls ticket, and I will come back to that arithmetic later in this article. For the deeper background on the card itself, the full Dubrovnik Pass guide walks through the whole decision, and the city walls ticket prices guide covers the standalone alternative.

A guided walk is the one thing the pass cannot give you, since it covers admission only. If you want the walls explained rather than just walked, these three options pair well with a pass:

What Attractions Are Free With the Dubrovnik Pass?

Free with the pass: the City Walls and Lovrjenac Fortress combination, the Rector's Palace, the Maritime Museum, the Ethnographic Museum, Marin Držić House, the Dubrovnik Natural History Museum, the Friars Minor Franciscan Monastery Museum, the Museum of Modern Art, the Dulčić-Masle-Pulitika Gallery, Pulitika Studio and the archaeological exhibitions. The three-day and seven-day tiers add House Bukovac in Cavtat, and every tier includes the city bus ticket.

Notice what is not on that list. Lokrum Island is not included, in any tier. The cable car is not included. The Homeland War Museum on Mount Srđ is not included, because it sits at the top of the cable car line and is run separately. Beaches, of course, cost nothing and need no pass. If your Dubrovnik plan is walls plus Lokrum plus a cable car ride, the pass covers exactly one of those three, and you should do the sums before buying.

The Rector's Palace is the one inclusion, after the walls, that most visitors actually use, and it is the sight most people would otherwise buy a ticket for. The rest of the list is genuinely a museums list, which is why the pass divides opinion so sharply: travellers who love museums find it pays for itself by lunchtime, and travellers who only want the walls and a swim find it is a 40-euro walls ticket with paperwork.

The bus ticket deserves more attention than it gets. A 24-hour city bus ticket matters if you are staying in Lapad or along the Gruž side of town, where the number 6 bus is the sensible link to Pile Gate rather than a long walk in the heat. If your hotel is inside or beside the Old Town, the bus inclusion is worth nothing, and the pass value rests entirely on the walls and the museums. That is the honest way to read the tier table above: the price differences are small, but the transport differences only matter to some itineraries.

Because the walls dominate the value of the pass, the question of how you experience them matters more than any museum on the list. Walking them alone with the pass is the cheap route; walking them with a guide turns the stones into a story. The 2-Hour City Walls Walk from Dubrovnik Walks runs about 2 hours from $29.58 per person and is rated 4.8 across 1,387 reviews, and you can Check availability alongside the detailed walls walking tour overview.

This well organized tour helped put Dubrovnik's past (and present) into perspective. It's incredible that the city walls have withstood the test of time. Antun was a wonderful guide.

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Which Museums Are Included in the Dubrovnik Pass?

The museums included are the Rector's Palace, the Maritime Museum, the Ethnographic Museum, Marin Držić House, the Dubrovnik Natural History Museum, the Friars Minor Franciscan Monastery Museum, the Museum of Modern Art Dubrovnik, the Dulčić-Masle-Pulitika Gallery, Pulitika Studio and the archaeological exhibitions, with House Bukovac in Cavtat added on the three-day and seven-day tiers. Each is a one-time entry per pass.

For a one-day visitor, honestly, two or three of these is a realistic maximum. The Rector's Palace sits on the Stradun and takes an hour done properly. The Maritime Museum is inside Fort St John at the harbour entrance, which at least puts it on the walk to the beach. The Franciscan Monastery Museum is a short step from the Pile end of the Stradun and is worth entering for the cloister alone; the monastery is famous for holding one of the oldest pharmacies in Europe, though I would not plan the day around the museum exhibits alone. The full index of guides sits on Things to Do in Dubrovnik.

The three-day and seven-day tiers quietly add the suburban bus coupons, and those coupons are usable for the ride to Cavtat, where House Bukovac sits. That is the logic of the longer tiers: they are not really about more museums, they are about the Cavtat half-day. Cavtat is a genuinely pleasant small town on a peninsula south of the city, and the Cavtat day trip guide covers the ferry and bus options in detail.

Here is the museums list in table form, with the tier that adds each one:

A practical note on sequencing: the museums cluster into two walkable groups. The Rector's Palace, Marin Držić House and the Natural History Museum all sit within a few minutes of the Stradun, so they can be cleared in one stretch between the walls walk and lunch. The Maritime Museum and the Museum of Modern Art sit at opposite ends of the Old Town, and the galleries are small enough that you can slot them into gaps rather than planning around them. The one-time rule from the checkout means you cannot re-enter any of them, so if you like to split a museum visit across a morning and an evening, the pass is the wrong instrument.

Does the Dubrovnik Pass Include a Ferry to Lokrum Island?

No. The Dubrovnik Pass does not include the ferry to Lokrum Island, and it does not include Lokrum Reserve entry either, in any tier. A Lokrum ticket is 30 euro per person and covers both the reserve entry and the return boat transfer on the official boat, sold separately from the pass. The combined Dubrovnik, Trsteno, Lokrum, Dubrovnik ticket is 42 euro and is likewise a separate product.

This is the single most common misunderstanding about the pass, and it is worth being blunt about it because the pass's marketing leans on the word "everything". Lokrum is not everything. The Lokrum Reserve's official site states the 30-euro price and what it covers plainly, and the official boats leave the City Harbour at 09:00, then every 15 minutes from 10:00 to 18:00, with the ticket office at Luža working 08:00 to 18:00. A Lokrum ticket stays usable for three days after the date printed on it, which is a small generosity worth knowing when you are planning around cruise crowds.

And crowds are worth planning around, because they do not behave the way most people expect. Cruise passengers at the Port of Dubrovnik peaked in September 2025 at 101,246 and October at 100,132, both above July's 96,072 and August's 87,385, according to Port Authority data. September and October, not July and August, are the busiest cruise months. If your pass day and your Lokrum day are flexible, keep them apart and keep the walls walk early: the counting system at the Old Town gates showed 5,419 people at 08:00 rising to a 7,739 peak at 10:00 on one September morning, against an official carrying capacity of 11,275.

For the full picture on the island itself, the Lokrum Island guide covers the reserve, the botanical garden and the swimming spots, and the Lokrum ferry guide covers the boat schedule in detail.

Is It Worth Buying a Dubrovnik Pass?

In main season, 1 March to 30 November, the one-day pass costs the same 40 euro as the standalone City Walls ticket and adds ten more sights plus a 24-hour bus ticket, so it is worth buying for almost anyone walking the walls. In December the standalone walls ticket drops to 20 euro and no pass tier is on sale at all, so the comparison collapses and the pass is simply not an option.

That is the whole decision, and it is a rare case of a tourist pass with a clean answer. Most city passes require you to visit four or five sights to break even. This one breaks even at one, in main season, because the walls ticket alone is 40 euro and the pass is 40 euro. The walls ticket bought alone is actually the walls plus Lovrjenac combination, and it also covers the Western Outer Wall, closed December through February, and the Coin Collection at Gundulić Square, so the pass's true margin over the standalone ticket is the museums and the bus, not the fortress.

The honest caveats are three. First, the pass is an adult product: the only ticket type on sale is the ADULT PASS (7+), so a family pays full price for everyone aged seven and up, while the standalone walls operator sells a child ticket at 15 euro for ages 7 to 18 with under 6 free. For a family with children, the standalone walls tickets can be cheaper than passes, which is counter-intuitive and worth checking before you buy. Second, the one-time-visit rule means you cannot repeat the walls at sunset after walking them in the morning. Third, the pass does not cover Lokrum, the cable car or any tour, so if those dominate your plan, the pass is doing less work than its price suggests.

Here is the arithmetic laid out:

The three-day and seven-day tiers are harder calls. At 50 euro and 60 euro they cost only 10 and 20 euro more than the walls ticket, and they add the suburban bus coupons and House Bukovac, so they suit slower trips that include Cavtat. For a typical two or three-night stay built around the walls, a swim and an island cruise, the one-day pass plus separate tickets for everything else is the usual answer. The walls operator's stated hours at the time of check were 08:00 to 19:30, which means a one-day pass can stretch from an early-morning walls walk to a late-afternoon museum circuit, provided you respect the single entry per sight.

If you take the pass and want the walls with a guide rather than alone, the same pairing from earlier applies, and the e-tuk-tuk panorama ride is a good fit for the afternoon after a morning on the walls, since it covers ground your legs will thank you for not walking:

Whatever you decide on the pass itself, the walls are the one sight nobody regrets, and the choice is really between walking them alone with your included admission or adding a guide. These are the three options that pair best with a pass day:

Common Questions About the Dubrovnik Pass

What does the Dubrovnik Pass include?

The pass includes one-time entry to the City Walls and Lovrjenac Fortress, the Rector's Palace, the Maritime Museum, the Ethnographic Museum, Marin Držić House, the Natural History Museum, the Franciscan Monastery Museum, the Museum of Modern Art, the Dulčić-Masle-Pulitika Gallery, Pulitika Studio and the archaeological exhibitions, plus a 24, 72 or 168-hour bus ticket depending on the tier. The three-day and seven-day tiers add House Bukovac in Cavtat and suburban bus coupons.

Does the Dubrovnik Pass include a ferry to Lokrum Island?

No. Lokrum is not included in any pass tier, neither the reserve entry nor the boat. A Lokrum ticket is 30 euro per person and covers both the reserve and the return boat transfer on the official boat, which leaves the City Harbour at 09:00 and then every 15 minutes from 10:00 to 18:00.

Is it worth buying a Dubrovnik pass?

In main season, 1 March to 30 November, yes for most visitors: the one-day pass costs the same 40 euro as the standalone walls ticket and adds ten more sights plus a 24-hour bus ticket. In December the walls ticket drops to 20 euro and no pass tier is on sale at all.

What attractions are free with the Dubrovnik pass?

The City Walls and Lovrjenac Fortress combination, the Rector's Palace, the Maritime Museum, the Ethnographic Museum, Marin Držić House, the Natural History Museum, the Franciscan Monastery Museum, the Museum of Modern Art, the Dulčić-Masle-Pulitika Gallery, Pulitika Studio and the archaeological exhibitions, each once per pass. Lokrum, the cable car and the Homeland War Museum are not included.

Which museums are included in the Dubrovnik Pass?

The Rector's Palace, the Maritime Museum, the Ethnographic Museum, Marin Držić House, the Dubrovnik Natural History Museum, the Friars Minor Franciscan Monastery Museum, the Museum of Modern Art Dubrovnik, the Dulčić-Masle-Pulitika Gallery, Pulitika Studio and the archaeological exhibitions. House Bukovac in Cavtat is added on the three-day and seven-day tiers only.

Can children use the Dubrovnik Pass?

The only ticket type on sale is the ADULT PASS (7+), so everyone aged seven and up pays the full pass price. For families, the standalone walls operator sells a child ticket at 15 euro for ages 7 to 18 in main season, with under 6 free, which often makes separate walls tickets cheaper than passes.