Dobrečpebble · 100 m · water ExcellentA 100-metre pebble cove on the outer Luštica shore with no road to it: the boat from Herceg Novi is the only way in and the only way out.Dobreč or Mirišta?
Two beaches 2.6 km apart, measured the same way. Dobreč and Mirišta side by side, on the nine things that decide which one your afternoon should go to.
Dobrečpebble · 100 m · water ExcellentA 100-metre pebble cove on the outer Luštica shore with no road to it: the boat from Herceg Novi is the only way in and the only way out.
Mirištapebble · 200 m · water ExcellentThe 200-metre pebble cove ten minutes along the coast path from Žanjice, under the Arza fort, with trees over the back of the beach and a fraction of the boats.The short answer
Choose Dobreč for
- nothing built on it
Choose Mirišta for
- room — it is half again as long
- arriving on foot rather than by boat
Measure by measure
| Measure | Dobreč | Mirišta |
|---|---|---|
| Surface | pebble | pebble |
| Entry | moderate | moderate |
| Depth | deepens quickly | deepens quickly |
| Shade | natural | trees and umbrellas |
| Character | wild | organised and free sections |
| Length | 100 m | 200 m |
| Latest water | Excellent | Excellent |
| Crowd | quiet | quiet |
| Getting there | by boat | on foot |
Bold marks a measure where the two differ.
Each in our own words
Dobreč
Dobreč is the quiet stop the Herceg Novi excursion boats sell: a short pebble cove on the north shore of Luštica, facing back across the bay mouth to Njivice and Prevlaka, with maquis behind it and no road. The water is open-sea water rather than inner-bay water, and the company is whoever the last boat brought. Our own list places it "near Bigova"; it is not — Bigova is on the Grbalj coast south of Tivat, and Dobreč is reached from the Herceg Novi side.
Nothing here can be relied on to be open, so treat it as a wild beach and carry water and shade; and you are tied to the boat timetable, because there is no walking out.
Mirišta
Mirišta is Žanjice with the volume turned down: the same open-sea water and pale pebble, a smaller cove about 500 m south along the coast path, a beach bar and a few loungers at €10 instead of two restaurants, and overhanging trees that shade the back of the beach in the afternoon. The Austro-Hungarian fort of Arza stands on the headland beside it and the Blue Cave boats will pick up here. It is the better of the two for a day with a book, and the worse for lunch.
Facilities are basic and unconfirmed beyond a bar and a few loungers, and the path from Žanjice is rough and unlit — do not plan on walking it after dark.