Hotel Admiral

Hotel Admiral sits in the heart of Perast, the small baroque town on Montenegro's Bay of Kotor coast. It is an intimate 8-room hotel, and this listing covers one double room accommodating 2 guests, with 1 bedroom, 1 bed and 1 private bathroom — a straightforward fit for couples or a pair of friends exploring the bay. The room includes a sea view, air conditioning, wireless internet, a mini bar, and a TV with satellite channels and a home cinema setup. Guests have parking and beach access, both useful in a stone-built waterfront town where space is tight. The hotel's restaurant opens onto a terrace overlooking the sea and serves Mediterranean and traditional Montenegrin dishes in a warm, relaxed setting. Perast's church-topped islets, waterfront promenade and palazzi are all within walking distance, making this a quiet base for a slow coastal stay.

About the area

Obala Kapetana Marka Martinovića is Perast's only real street — a stone waterfront named for the captain who taught navigation to Peter the Great's officers, which is a fair summary of what this town once was. It runs level along the water for less than a kilometre, closed to through traffic, with palaces on the landward side and terraces on the seaward one, most of them near enough the edge that spray reaches the tables in a southerly wind.

Life along it is unhurried and largely aquatic. Bathing is from concrete platforms and small stone beaches rather than sand, the water is deep and cool where springs feed the bay, and by late afternoon light comes back off the far shore in a way that keeps people out on the promenade until dark. Kitchens here stay with the bay's own produce: mussels and oysters farmed a few kilometres up the coast, whole fish off the grill, olive oil from the hillsides. Boats leave for Our Lady of the Rocks throughout the day, and the town museum in the Bujović palace, the churches and the climb up the bell tower fill the hours between swims.