Hvar · With kids

Taxi boats leave the Riva every twenty minutes for Palmižana and Jerolim — sheltered pebble coves, pine shade and lunch. Ten to twenty minutes each way.

A twenty-minute switchback climb above town to ramparts, cannon and a view over the Pakleni channel. Works from about age six.

Flat, ancient farmland gridded by stone walls — the one place on Hvar a family can actually cycle. Bike hire in Stari Grad.

Shallow pebble bays with pine shade, a playground and pizza a minute away — the island's most workable base with small children.

Polished lanes are slippery and stroller-hostile; carriers win. Hvar Town's bars run past two, so families generally sleep in Jelsa or Stari Grad.