Marinero Apartments

Marinero Apartments offers studio-style apartment accommodation in Zelenika, a small coastal settlement just along the bay from Herceg Novi on Montenegro's Adriatic coast. The apartment sleeps 2 guests in one bedroom, with a single bed setup and one bathroom — a straightforward fit for couples or a pair of friends travelling the Boka Bay area rather than a large group. Each studio comes with its own kitchen, bathroom, TV and air conditioning, plus a terrace where beach loungers are included with the stay. Zelenika's setting on the coast road makes it a practical base for day trips around the bay, with Herceg Novi's old town and waterfront close by. Rates start from €62 per night, and the apartments are available year-round, so shoulder-season and winter stays are possible as well as peak summer. Pricing shifts with the season.

About the area

February is not an obvious month on the Adriatic, but it is when this corner of the bay is at its most characterful: mimosa comes into flower in gardens all along the coast and Herceg Novi, a few kilometres west, gives over most of a month to the Mimosa Festival, its oldest and busiest event. Winters are mild here, the palms and citrus in the gardens are not decorative pretence, and a good number of the houses stay lived in year-round rather than shuttering in October.

In summer the shoreline becomes a chain of small bathing places, each with its own regulars, loungers and café, and the water in this outer part of the Bay of Kotor settles flat by evening. Boats leave Herceg Novi for Mamula, the Blue Cave and the fishing village of Rose across the channel on Luštica. Eastward along the coast, the ferry at Kamenari crosses the Verige strait to Lepetane in a few minutes and cuts a long drive off any trip to Tivat or Budva. Between those two directions, most of the coast becomes a day trip.