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Adriatic · yacht transfer hub

Marina to deck, on the Adriatic.

Porto Montenegro, Kotor, ACI Marina Hvar and ACI Marina Split sit within an hour of each other by air and a full day of each other by ferry and border queue. These pages set out where the aircraft can actually land at each marina, what the legs cost and how guests are handed over to the tender or the berth.

Quick answer

The four Adriatic marinas served most often by helicopter are Porto Montenegro (5 minutes from Tivat, from €1,300), Kotor (6 minutes, from €1,400), ACI Marina Hvar (12 minutes from Split, from €1,900) and ACI Marina Split (8 minutes from SPU). None is a licensed heliport: guests arrive by approved marina-side site, by certified deck landing, or at the nearest airport with a tender or car to the berth.

Marina pages

Where yacht guests actually land

Tivat · 5 min from TIV · 450+ berths
Porto Montenegro helicopter transfers

Porto Montenegro is the Adriatic's superyacht capital and the one marina in Boka Bay where guests routinely arrive by air. Tivat airport sits five flying minutes away across the water, which means a jet arrival at TIV and a berth-side handover inside the same hour.

6 published legs · from €1,300
Bay of Kotor · 6 min from TIV · UNESCO fjord
Kotor helicopter transfers

Kotor sits at the head of a deep UNESCO fjord where large yachts anchor rather than berth, and the shore road winds the long way around the bay. Six minutes of flight from Tivat replaces a drive that becomes unpredictable the moment cruise traffic arrives.

5 published legs · from €1,400
Hvar town · 12 min from Split · Pakleni anchorage
ACI Marina Hvar helicopter transfers

Hvar is the pivot of the Dalmatian yacht-week circuit and the hardest island to reach on a schedule: the catamaran fills, the ferry queue in Split builds through the afternoon, and a missed sailing costs half a day. Twelve minutes of flight removes the whole variable.

5 published legs · from €1,800
Split · 8 min from SPU · Dalmatian charter base
ACI Marina Split helicopter transfers

ACI Marina Split is where most Dalmatian charters begin, which makes it a scheduling problem rather than a distance problem: guests land at SPU through the afternoon, the marina is across the harbour, and the island legs that follow are all ferry-bound. The helicopter turns embarkation day into a single continuous movement.

6 published legs · from €1,500
Cross-Adriatic legs

Moving between Boka Bay and Dalmatia

Indicative aircraft pricing only, excluding taxes, handling, permits and waiting time.

Planning

Yacht transfer questions

Only where the vessel holds a certified helideck and the operator's crew hold current deck-operations approval for that vessel class. Send the helideck certificate and deck dimensions with the brief. Where deck landing is not available, the standard pattern is an approved shore site with the yacht's tender or a car meeting the aircraft.

Porto Montenegro (5 minutes from Tivat), Kotor and the Bay of Kotor anchorage (6 minutes), ACI Marina Hvar and the Pakleni anchorage (12 minutes from Split) and ACI Marina Split (8 minutes from SPU). None of them are licensed heliports, so each movement uses either a marina-approved site or the nearest airport with a short ground or tender leg.

Indicative aircraft pricing starts near €1,300 for the Tivat–Porto Montenegro hop, €1,400 into Kotor, €1,900 for Split–Hvar, €2,500–€2,600 cross-border into Dubrovnik and around €6,400 for the long Tivat–Split repositioning. Aircraft class, season, permits and repositioning move the final figure — every mission is quoted individually.

Yes. Boka Bay to Dubrovnik, Split or Hvar are international sectors, so handling, customs, immigration, permits and slots are coordinated as one package with the flight and the ground or tender leg at each end.

Ten to fourteen days for July and August, and longer for multi-leg guest rotations or group movements. Saturday embarkation days in Split and Tivat are the tightest windows of the Adriatic season.

No — SkyMatch is a sourcing platform. Missions are matched to vetted Adriatic operators, who present current AOC, insurance and fleet documentation before entering a proposal. Regulatory and operational responsibility remains with the operator.
Vetted Adriatic operators

Send the berth, the date and the guest count.

One brief goes to the operators that hold aircraft in Boka Bay and on the Dalmatian coast. You compare like-for-like proposals with aircraft, crew, insurance and landing approvals documented.