Hotel Nadežda

Hotel Nadežda is a small 4-star hotel in Bečići, on Montenegro's Adriatic coast just a short distance from Budva. With only 16 rooms and apartments, it keeps the feel of a family-run address rather than a large resort, and its position steps from Bečići Beach makes it easy to spend the morning on the sand and the evening in Budva's old town. This room sleeps 2 guests and has one bedroom with a single bed, plus a private bathroom — a straightforward, comfortable base for a couple or a solo traveller. Rooms are elegantly furnished and come with air-conditioning, a flat-screen satellite TV, a mini bar and a terrace. Complimentary premium Wi-Fi is included throughout. The ground-floor garni restaurant serves a Swedish-style buffet breakfast overlooking the hotel's green garden, and the staff are known for attentive, professional service.

About the area

Step two streets back from the seafront and Bečići changes character. Alekse Šantića and the lanes around it are where the settlement actually lives: houses with vine-shaded yards, a bakery open before six, a butcher, small shops selling tomatoes and figs from the hinterland, neighbours who know each other's cars. It is quieter than the shore, noticeably cooler in the evening, and still only a few minutes' walk from the sand — the trade most people are happy to make once they have spent one August night on the front.

That sand, nearly two kilometres of it in one long bay, is the reason the town exists, and it remains among the busiest and best-kept beaches on the riviera. From its northern end a coastal path reaches Budva in about half an hour, past the marina and in through the gate to the citadel, the churches and the narrow flagstone streets; from the southern end the same path runs to Rafailovići and its fish restaurants. Inland the hills rise fast toward Brajići and the old Austro-Hungarian road to Cetinje, a drive worth doing once for the view back down over the whole Budva bay. Buses on the coastal road connect Bečići to Kotor, Petrovac and Bar, and Tivat airport is roughly twenty-five minutes away.