One boat serves all three Elafiti. Line 807 runs four times a day Monday to Saturday and twice on Sundays and holidays, Dubrovnik to Koločep, Lopud and Suđurađ on Šipan, at €5.40 one way in season. A second line, car ferry 831, takes vehicles on the same route.
Three islands, one timetable
The Elafiti are usually sold as a boat tour. They are also a scheduled public service, and the scheduled version is a fraction of the price. Line 807 is a Jadrolinija passenger ship running Suđurađ, Lopud, Koločep and Dubrovnik; line 831 is a car ferry on the identical port sequence; line 9807, the Lastovo catamaran, calls at Šipanska Luka on its way past.
| Island | Harbour on line 807 | Lines calling | Sailings, Mon–Sat | Sundays and holidays |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Koločep | Donje Čelo | 807, 831 | 4 | 2 |
| Lopud | Lopud | 807, 831 | 4, one of which does not call | 2 |
| Šipan | Suđurađ | 807, 831 | 4 | 2 |
The first sailing out of Suđurađ is at 06:00 and the last out of Dubrovnik at 20:00, rising to 21:00 on Sundays and holidays in high season. Four sailings is enough to see two islands properly and three in a rush. Two is not enough for any of it. If your only free day in Dubrovnik is a Sunday, pick one island and stay on it rather than build a hopping day the timetable cannot support.
What the crossings cost
The fares below are the published state tariff, one way. The vehicle rows are blank on purpose: line 807 is a passenger ship and no vehicle tariff exists for it. Cars travel on line 831, whose per-line timetable is not in the verified bundle, so its fares are not stated here.
Crossing
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Tariff period
Adult fares are identical to all three islands, which tells you these are priced as a public service rather than by distance. The island-to-island fare between Lopud and Koločep exists because residents need it, and it is a rare thing on this coast — almost the whole network runs island to mainland and back.
The 15:20 does not call at Lopud
One sailing in the middle of the afternoon runs Suđurađ to Koločep to Dubrovnik and leaves Lopud out. It is in the timetable, it is not in the summary anybody reads, and it is exactly the sailing a day tripper reaches for after lunch.
The cost is straightforward. If you are standing on the Lopud pier waiting for it, it is not coming: that rotation runs Suđurađ to Koločep to Dubrovnik and leaves your pier out. Read the Lopud column of the timetable, not the Suđurađ column, when you plan the return.
None of the three islands is large, and the boat is the constraint on all of them. If you want a night rather than an afternoon, Šipan is the one with two harbours and a third line calling.
Which of the three, if you only get one
Koločep is the first call out of Dubrovnik, Lopud the second and Suđurađ on Šipan the last. Adult fares from the city are identical to all three — €3.40 off-season and €5.40 in season — so the choice is not a financial one. It is a question of how much of the day you want to spend on the boat, and how much shelter you want from the day-trip traffic at the near end of the line.
Šipan is the only one of the three with a second harbour and a third line calling: the 9807 catamaran puts in at Šipanska Luka on its run between Mljet and Dubrovnik. Koločep and Lopud each have one pier and the same two lines. If you want the option of arriving or leaving by a route that does not begin in the city, Šipan is the only island in the group that offers it.
Out of season
The Elafiti service does not collapse the way the through-boat network further north does. Line 807 is a state line with a public service obligation and the Monday-to-Saturday pattern of four rotations is the same figure the register gives for the rest of the year. What changes is the tariff, which reverts to the off-season rate on 28 September, and the high-season Sunday extension of the last sailing.
That makes these islands one of the few genuinely year-round day trips on this coast. The Sunday and holiday pattern of two rotations applies in every month, though, so the weekday-versus-Sunday decision is the same decision in January as in July.
What do you need to work out next?
The boat is booked. These decide the day.
Where to stay
Which mainland base keeps the islands close?
The 15:20 sailing on line 807 does not call at Lopud at all.
Getting around
Which Elafit is worth more than an afternoon?
Šipan has two harbours and three lines; the others have one and two.
When to go
Does the service change after summer?
Sailings stay at four Monday to Saturday; the tariff drops on 28 September.
Planning
Can I see these on a port day?
The 15:20 sailing on line 807 does not call at Lopud.
Ferry data: Agencija za obalni linijski pomorski promet (ZOLPP), 2026 state coastal line register and per-line timetables.