Montenegrin Coast

Montenegro · The Riviera

Budva

Twenty-five centuries old and twenty-five years young — a Greek-walled old town running the loudest riviera on the eastern Adriatic.

62 accommodations available

Montenegro · Bay of Kotor

Kotor

A walled medieval port folded into the deepest corner of the Adriatic — half fjord, half fortress.

47 accommodations available

Montenegro · Bay of Kotor

Herceg Novi

The town of stairs and sun at the mouth of the bay — five castles, one botanical garden the size of a city, and the mildest winter on the Adriatic.

39 accommodations available

Montenegro · The South

Ulcinj

Montenegro’s southernmost town — an Illyrian-walled kasbah above a small bay, with thirteen kilometres of sand, a salt lagoon full of flamingos and the country’s best light.

34 accommodations available

Montenegro · Bay of Kotor

Tivat

An Austro-Hungarian navy yard reborn as the Adriatic’s superyacht address — and now the bay’s biggest town.

25 accommodations available

Montenegro · Bay of Kotor

Igalo

The spa town where the Adriatic does its physiotherapy — healing mud, mimosa air and the flattest, gentlest shore on the bay.

20 accommodations available

Montenegro · Budva Riviera

Sveti Stefan

A fifteenth-century fishing fortress that became the most photographed hotel on the Adriatic.

18 accommodations available

Montenegro · Budva Riviera

Bečići

Nearly two kilometres of sand that won “most beautiful beach in Europe” before package tourism had a name.

14 accommodations available

Montenegro · The open south

Bar

Montenegro’s port of arrival — a working harbour town with a ruined medieval city in its hills and a two-thousand-year-old olive tree in its yard.

11 accommodations available

Montenegro · Budva Riviera

Petrovac

A one-bay town of red roofs and pines — the riviera at conversational volume.

11 accommodations available

Montenegro · Bay of Kotor

Perast

One street, sixteen palaces, two islands — the Bay of Kotor’s baroque miniature, built by sea captains.

9 accommodations available

Montenegro · Bay of Kotor

Bijela

The bay’s working shore for a century — and the yard that just turned its cranes toward superyachts.

8 accommodations available

Montenegro · Bay of Kotor

Đenovići

The one village on this shore that is growing — and, if the legend holds, the one with a Greek harbour underneath it.

8 accommodations available

Montenegro · Bar Riviera

Dobra Voda

A village named for its springs, a beach where the sun sets into open sea in every month, and a resort that did not exist before 1973.

4 accommodations available

Montenegro · Bay of Kotor

Kumbor

A naval hamlet reborn as Portonovi — the bay’s youngest address, where the fleet’s hangars stood.

4 accommodations available

Montenegro · Bay of Kotor

Prčanj

The village that carried Venice’s mail and sailed a brig around the world — a cathedral-scale church keeps the receipts.

4 accommodations available

Montenegro · Bay of Kotor

Risan

The oldest town on the bay — Queen Teuta’s last refuge, with Roman mosaics under its floors and no crowds over them.

4 accommodations available

Montenegro · The open south

Sutomore

The people’s riviera — a kilometre of soft sand between two fortresses, where half of the Balkans learned to summer.

4 accommodations available

Montenegro · Bay of Kotor

Zelenika

Where the empire’s railway met the sea — the end of the line, and the start of Montenegrin tourism.

4 accommodations available

Montenegro · Bay of Kotor

Morinj

Two hundred people, a stream that comes cold out of the karst, and a two-hundred-year-old mill that became the best-known table on the bay.

3 accommodations available

Montenegro · Luštica peninsula

Rose

The stone hamlet at the bay’s front door — Venice’s old quarantine port, now the best boat-trip lunch in the Boka.

3 accommodations available

Montenegro · Bay of Kotor

Stoliv

Two villages, one name: the old one up in the chestnut woods, and the captains’ waterfront its people came down to build.

3 accommodations available

Montenegro · Trašte cove

Bigovo

The only settlement on Grbalj’s twenty-five kilometres of coast: forty-nine households round a fishing cove on the open Adriatic, twenty-five minutes from the Tivat runway.

2 accommodations available

Montenegro · Bay of Kotor

Kostanjica

Seventy-seven people in a chestnut wood on the Ottoman side of an old frontier — which is why the oldest village is a hundred metres up the hill and the shore came later.

2 accommodations available

Montenegro · The open-sea coast

Luštica

The wild peninsula at the bay’s mouth — olive villages and hidden coves on one side, a brand-new marina town on the other.

2 accommodations available

Montenegro · Bay of Kotor

Meljine

Venice put the bay’s quarantine on this shore and the navy put its hospital beside it. The lazaret is a hotel now; the hospital went back into public health in 2023.

2 accommodations available

Montenegro · Bay of Kotor

Baošići

Two kilometres of shore that once sent fifty sea captains and thirty ocean-going ships around the world.

1 accommodation available

Montenegro · Bay of Kotor

Dobrota

Kotor’s four-kilometre waterfront of captains’ palaces — one shoreline road, three centuries of shipping money.

1 accommodation available

Montenegro · Budva riviera

Rafailovići

The fishing end of the Bečići strand — a 65-metre mooring, a quay of fish restaurants, and a village that quadrupled in twenty years, where the promenade turns into a tunnel through the rock towards Kamenovo.

1 accommodation available