Croatia Waterfall Tickets: Every Band, Fee and Rule (2026)

Plitvice runs three clean bands on its dated one-day ticket: a winter band at €10, spring and autumn shoulder bands at €23, and the 1 June-30 September peak band at €40 per adult. On top sit two special products: a late-day ticket at €25 that enters after 16:00 (after 15:00 in September), and two-day tickets at €15/€39/€60 that follow the same band logic. Krka prices its main land sites on its own published band ladder — roughly €10-40 at the peak per the official price list — with one verified fixed figure: the after-15:00 individual ticket at €30.00 through June-September, the park's own instrument for spreading the day.

The practical consequence is that the two parks reward different months: Plitvice's October price drops to the €23 shoulder band while Krka's late ticket still applies to September afternoons. The exact band boundaries are printed on each park's official price list, and the store guides (Plitvice, Krka) walk through the buying flows. Prices in euros; Croatia has used the euro since 2023.

• Plitvice one-day: €10 winter / €23 shoulder / €40 peak, dated entry, bought online.
• Plitvice late-day €25 after 16:00 (15:00 in September) — the queue-cheap option in summer.
• Krka one-day: bands per the official price list, roughly €10-40 at peak; walk-up.
• Krka after-15:00: €30.00 individual, June-September — the honest bargain on the coast corridor.

At Plitvice, the one-day ticket includes the electric boats that cross lake Kozjak and the sightseeing trains that shuttle between the entrances and the route nodes — the two systems that make the 4-8 hour route programmes workable. At Krka, the entry ticket includes the boat ride from Skradin across the ria to the Skradinski buk boardwalks, and the shuttle bus from the Lozovac gate down to the falls valley, both running 1 April - 31 October. No separate ticket exists for either park's internal transport.

What the tickets never include: swimming (banned in both parks — Plitvice outright, Krka since January 2021), drones (banned in Croatian national parks), parking at the gate lots (paid separately at both parks and at Rastoke), and the private mill estates at Rastoke, which charge their own admissions on top of the public €5 zone fee. Guides, boats to Visovac at Krka and food are extras everywhere; the Visovac boat has its own page.

Reductions: children, students and families

Both parks publish child and student reductions on their official price lists: children pay reduced bands through their school years, students with valid ID get a reduced rate, and the youngest children enter free — under-7s at Plitvice and Krka alike, per the published lists. The reductions are generous enough that a family's peak-band bill is materially lower than four adult tickets, but the exact figures move with each season's price list, so the honest instruction is to read the reductions column on the official store at booking time. The family logistics — strollers, carriers, pacing — are graded site by site on the family page.

• Children: reduced bands per the official price lists; under-7s free at both parks.
• Students: reduced with valid ID at the gate or in the online flow.
• Groups: Plitvice and Krka both handle group bookings through their own channels.
• No family bundle exists — the reductions apply per person.

Plitvice sells entry per date through its official online store: you pick a day, the store releases a quota of slots for that day, and the gate counts arrivals against a 12,000-visitor daily cap (roughly 600 per entrance per hour at the busiest times). In July and August the peak mornings sell out days ahead, which makes the store the first stop of the whole trip — the full flow, with the sellout calendar and the arrival windows, is on the Plitvice entry guide. Krka sells no dated slots: tickets sell at the gates, in the online shop and through tours, and entry is valid on the day of purchase. The only clock at Krka is the price one — after 15:00 in summer the €30.00 individual after-15:00 band starts.

The smaller sites need no booking at all: Rastoke sells its €5 zone fee at two kiosks (card only) and around the clock in its web shop, Vražji prolaz sells €7 tickets at the site entrance, and Papuk's Jankovac fee is paid on site. If a single week covers both parks and the rivers, the booking order that works is: dated Plitvice ticket first, beds second, kayak tour third — the logic is spelled out on the road trip page.

• Buy the dated Plitvice ticket before anything else for July-August dates.
• Walk into Krka — or target the €30.00 after-15:00 band in summer.
• Pay the token fees at the gate; only Rastoke's web shop sells around the clock.
• Never buy park barcodes from unofficial resellers — the stores are cheaper and the scan works.