Savinapebble · 200 m · water ExcellentThe 200-metre pebble-and-concrete shore on the Pet Danica promenade below Savina monastery, twenty minutes’ walk east of Herceg Novi’s old town.Savina or Žanjice?
Two beaches 6.1 km apart, measured the same way. Savina and Žanjice side by side, on the nine things that decide which one your afternoon should go to.
Savinapebble · 200 m · water ExcellentThe 200-metre pebble-and-concrete shore on the Pet Danica promenade below Savina monastery, twenty minutes’ walk east of Herceg Novi’s old town.
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 Savina for
Nothing here that Žanjice does not also offer.
Choose Žanjice for
- room — it is half again as long
- loungers, food and somewhere to change
Measure by measure
| Measure | Savina | Žanjice |
|---|---|---|
| Surface | pebble | pebble |
| Entry | moderate | moderate |
| Depth | deepens quickly | deepens quickly |
| Shade | umbrellas for hire | umbrellas for hire |
| Character | organised and free sections | organised |
| Length | 200 m | 300 m |
| Latest water | Excellent | 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
Savina
Savina is a promenade beach rather than a bay: 200 m of pebble and concrete platforms along the Šetalište 5 Danica where it passes below the monastery wood, with loungers at €10, a beach bar and restaurants within reach, and the view straight across the water to Luštica. Its point is the combination — a swim, then the climb through the pines to the three churches of Savina, or the other way round. Herceg Novi’s own swimmers use it; the boat crowds do not.
Much of the entry is off concrete edges rather than a sloping beach, and the promenade runs directly behind you — this is town swimming with a monastery above it, not a cove.
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.