SAM Apartments - Igalo

SAM Apartments sits in Igalo, on Montenegro's Adriatic coast, and this unit is a compact one-bedroom apartment for two guests, with one bathroom and a single bed. It's part of a small property of six fully furnished apartments, each with its own living room, kitchen, bedroom, bathroom and balcony, air conditioning and cable TV. All six units carry a four-star rating from Montenegro's tourism authorities. The beach is roughly 270 metres away — a short walk rather than a drive — and shops, restaurants and bars are close by, so day-to-day needs are within easy reach on foot. Igalo's town centre is about 1,500 metres from the door. With a full kitchen and separate living area, the apartment suits couples or two friends who want to cook, spread out a little, and use the balcony between beach visits, rather than live out of a single hotel room.

About the area

The stretch of Igalo along Druge Dalmatinske is residential rather than touristic: family houses behind low walls, gardens of lemon, laurel and bougainvillea, cars parked under fig trees. The beach is about 270 metres downhill and the centre of Igalo roughly a kilometre and a half east, close enough to walk in the cool of the evening and far enough that the summer noise stays down there. A supermarket, a filling station and a couple of everyday cafes sit within a short walk, which is really all the neighbourhood needs.

The planting is not accidental. Herceg Novi municipality has collected subtropical species for more than a century, and the results spill out of private gardens all over Igalo: agaves, palms, camellias, mimosa. That last one gives the area its odd off-season high point, when the Praznik mimoze fills Herceg Novi with yellow blossom, brass bands and stalls of seafood every February, long before any beach season. The rest of the year the pattern is simple enough: swim in the morning, walk the seafront promenade toward the old town in the evening, and take the coast road west when you want emptier coves around Njivice and Sutorina.