Sutomore Apartments

Sutomore Apartments is a one-bedroom apartment on Montenegro's coast, set in a quiet part of Sutomore roughly 250 metres from the town's sandy city beach. It sleeps two guests in a single bed, with one bedroom and one bathroom, making it a straightforward choice for couples or solo travellers who want the sea within a few minutes' walk but a calm base to return to. The apartment comes with air conditioning, central heating, a fully equipped kitchen for self-catering, and a TV with satellite channels. There is a terrace, and guests have use of the courtyard pool with sun loungers. Because the property has both heating and cooling, it is available year-round rather than only in high season, so it suits shoulder-season and winter stays as well as summer beach holidays. Rates start from 38 EUR per night.

About the area

Sutomore's town beach is the reason the place exists in its present form: more than a kilometre of coarse sand curving around a shallow bay, shelving gently enough that families with small children barely need to watch them. It is a genuinely local beach — Montenegrins from Podgorica have holidayed here for generations — which means beach bars, rentable umbrellas, a fair amount of noise in August and prices well below Budva's. A couple of hundred metres back from the front, on the quieter slope behind, that noise drops away almost entirely.

The landmark above town is Haj-Nehaj, a ruined fortress on a rocky spur that Venetians and Ottomans fought over in turn. The path up is steep and unshaded, worth doing at either end of the day for the view along the coast towards Bar. Bar itself is ten minutes south, with the ferry line to Italy and, above it, Stari Bar — an abandoned Ottoman-Venetian town under Rumija mountain and one of the coast's most rewarding half-days. North, Petrovac and its two small beaches make the easier outing. Sutomore also sits on the Belgrade–Bar railway, which is why the town fills each July with people who arrived without a car and never miss it.