Hotel Danica in Petrovci

Hotel Danica has welcomed guests in Petrovac since July 2001, sitting beside a pine forest along a walking path just 100 meters from the sea. This double room sleeps 2 guests, with one bedroom, one bed and a private bathroom — a straightforward, comfortable base for a couple exploring Montenegro's coast. The hotel's 80 beds are spread across 16 rooms and 14 apartments, and it has built a following among domestic and international travellers through its quality service, attentive staff and welcoming atmosphere. All accommodation includes central heating and air conditioning with individual temperature control, a telephone, a safe and cable TV; rooms such as this one also come with a mini-bar. On site you'll find an air-conditioned restaurant seating 80, plus a fitness centre and sauna. Rates start from 90 EUR per night. The short walk to the water makes beach days easy.

About the area

Ulica Nika Anđuša runs behind the pine belt that shades one end of Petrovac's bay, a hundred metres back from the water. Those trees are part of why the town has kept its character: they screen the buildings from the sand, keep the air resinous through hot afternoons, and give the promenade a green edge along most of its length. Step out of them and you are on the reddish-sand beach, with the two islets, Katič and Sveta Nedjelja, sitting a few hundred metres offshore.

Small boats run out to them in summer and further along the coast to coves with no road: Drobni Pijesak, the shingle at Buljarica, the rocks below Reževići. Back in town the day settles into beach, long lunch and a walk to the fort at the far end of the sand, whose courtyard becomes a bar in the evening. Petrovac stays a working small town off-season, with a market and a bus stand a few minutes inland, and it makes a sane base for driving — Sveti Stefan and Budva to the north, Bar's ruined medieval town and the Skadar Lake road to the south, Ostrog monastery a couple of hours into the mountains.