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 Žanjice?
Two beaches 2.3 km apart, measured the same way. Dobreč and Žanjice 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.
Žanjicepebble · 300 m · water ExcellentA 300-metre white-pebble bay near the tip of Luštica, twenty minutes by boat from Herceg Novi and the departure point for the Blue Cave.The short answer
Choose Dobreč for
- quiet
- nothing built on it
Choose Žanjice for
- room — it is half again as long
- loungers, food and somewhere to change
- arriving by road
Measure by measure
| Measure | Dobreč | Žanjice |
|---|---|---|
| Surface | pebble | pebble |
| Entry | moderate | moderate |
| Depth | deepens quickly | deepens quickly |
| Shade | natural | umbrellas for hire |
| Character | wild | organised |
| Length | 100 m | 300 m |
| Latest water | Excellent | Excellent |
| Crowd | quiet | busy in season |
| Getting there | by boat | by road |
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.
Žanjice
Žanjice is the beach the Herceg Novi boats are built around: a broad pebble bay facing west over the bay mouth, with olive groves behind, two restaurants, showers and toilets, and loungers at €12–15. The water is open-sea water and our list rates it among the clearest on the coast. It is also a boat station — taxi boats from Herceg Novi land all day, and the Blue Cave boats leave from the beach — so it is never the quiet cove that Mirišta, ten minutes along the path, still is.
The bay is a boat station as much as a beach: boats land all day, the car park fills before ten in high summer, and the Blue Cave trip depends on the sea.