Apartment Olga in Zelenica

Apartment Olga is a 54 m² apartment in Zelenika, part of the Herceg Novi municipality on Montenegro's coast. Set on the third floor of a residential building, it sits about 250 metres from the beach, so swimming, coffee and dinner are all within an easy walk — the surrounding streets have restaurants, cafés, supermarkets and several stretches of shoreline. The layout suits a couple: one bedroom with a queen bed, one bathroom with a washing machine, a living room with TV and a fully equipped kitchen for self-catering. The whole apartment is air-conditioned, and an iron, ironing board and hair dryer are provided. The balcony looks out over the sea. Parking is available on site. Rates run from €40 to €60 per night depending on season, with a seven-night minimum stay, 30% payable in advance, and reduced rates for stays longer than three weeks.

About the area

The name Zelenika means something close to 'the green one', and the town earns it — subtropical gardens, agave and palms, dense oleander along the walls, most of it planted in the Austro-Hungarian decades when this was a port of some consequence. The centrepiece of that era is the railway station of 1901, terminus of the narrow-gauge line that ran up to Herceg Novi and onward toward Bosnia and Dubrovnik until it closed in 1968. Stretches of the old track bed still make a level, shaded walk above the houses, and the stone villas along it have aged well.

From a third-floor balcony the view is out across the mouth of the bay, which is busier than it looks: ferries, fishing boats and the ships working their way in toward Kotor, with the Croatian headland of Prevlaka on the horizon to the northwest. The beach is around two hundred and fifty metres downhill, and restaurants, cafés and supermarkets are scattered within the same short radius. Herceg Novi, with its old town, fortresses and long seafront promenade, is a few minutes away by bus for evenings that call for more than the village offers.