Meljine Beachpebble · 30 mA compact 30-metre public pebble beach beside Lazure marina, with clear buoyed water and the mountains of the inner bay rising behind it.Meljine Beach or Žanjice?
Two beaches 6.1 km apart, measured the same way. Meljine Beach and Žanjice side by side, on the nine things that decide which one your afternoon should go to.
Meljine Beachpebble · 30 mA compact 30-metre public pebble beach beside Lazure marina, with clear buoyed water and the mountains of the inner bay rising behind it.
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 Meljine Beach for
- water that stays shallow a long way out
Choose Žanjice for
- real depth close to shore
- room — it is half again as long
Measure by measure
| Measure | Meljine Beach | Žanjice |
|---|---|---|
| Surface | pebble | pebble |
| Entry | gentle | moderate |
| Depth | shallow | deepens quickly |
| Shade | umbrellas for hire | umbrellas for hire |
| Character | organised | organised |
| Length | 30 m | 300 m |
| Latest water | — | Excellent |
| Crowd | busy in season | busy in season |
| Getting there | by road | by road |
Bold marks a measure where the two differ.
Each in our own words
Meljine Beach
Meljine Beach is the small public family strand immediately beside Lazure Hotel & Marina. The beach itself is only 30 metres long, but it has a gentle pebble entry, clear water inside a marked swimming zone and the Pet Danica waterfront route at its back. Come for a swim during a walk from Herceg Novi rather than expecting a large resort beach: the marina, old lazaret and mountain amphitheatre are as much a part of the setting as the sand.
This is a very small beach next to an active marina, with boats and moorings outside the buoy line. Space is limited and some nearby water entries are from rocks or concrete rather than the pebble strand.
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.