Vojin Apartments

Vojin Apartments occupies a restored 1930s house in Risan, a picturesque fishing village on Montenegro's coast, roughly halfway between Budva and Dubrovnik. The building was renovated in 2004 and sits just 25 metres from the sea, with a garden and sea views from the property. This one-bedroom apartment sleeps 2 guests and has one bed and one bathroom, making it a straightforward choice for a couple or a solo traveller wanting a quiet base on the Bay of Kotor. Interiors are modern, air-conditioned and fully equipped, and the apartment is suitable for residential or office use — a practical option for longer stays or remote work. Risan itself is a small, unhurried village, well placed for exploring the bay by car. The hosts speak English, Russian and Italian. Rates start from 116 EUR per night.

About the area

The seafront street named after Nikola Đurković is Risan's promenade in the loosest sense: a line of stone houses, several of them interwar residences, facing water that laps within twenty-five metres of the door. There is no boardwalk architecture and no strip of bars. What happens instead is the ordinary evening business of a small Montenegrin town — neighbours out for a slow walk, coffee that lasts an hour, boats being tied up for the night.

Geographically the position is useful. Risan sits roughly halfway between Budva and Dubrovnik, so day trips run in both directions: south past Perast and Kotor to the Budva riviera, north through Herceg Novi and over the border to the Croatian coast. Perast and its two islets are the closest outing and the one worth doing twice, once by road and once by boat. Kotor's Old Town, with its walls climbing the cliff to the fortress of St John, is a short drive round the inner shore and the obvious choice for a long evening. Closer to home, the Roman mosaics on the edge of Risan and the shore road towards Ljuta, where cold river springs run into the bay, fill an unhurried morning on foot or by bicycle without needing the car at all.