Hotel Podgorica - Boulevard

Hotel Podgorica – Boulevard is a city hotel in central Podgorica, housed in a 1967 building designed by the renowned Montenegrin architect Svetlana Kane Radević. This listing is a room for two guests, with one bedroom, one bed and one private bathroom — a practical base for a couple or two colleagues visiting the capital. The room comes with central air conditioning, a mini bar, an electronic safe, a direct-line telephone, an LCD television, high-speed internet, an SOS system and room service; the bathroom has a hydromassage shower cabin, hair dryer, bathrobe and slippers. Guests also have access to the hotel's fitness room, business center, shop, cosmetic salon, travel agency, car rental desk and parking with 120 spaces, plus wireless internet throughout the public areas. The hotel holds the Wild Beauty Award for best city hotel in Montenegro in 2005 and 2006.

About the area

The Morača runs in a shallow stone gorge directly behind this stretch of boulevard, and the building — Svetlana Kana Radević's 1967 design, faced in river pebbles and among the most admired modern architecture in the country — was placed to face it. Paths lead down to the water, where shingle banks become improvised city beaches through the long hot summer and the current stays cold even in August. It is the quietest thing in central Podgorica and the closest the capital comes to a seafront.

Cross the old bridge and Stara Varoš is minutes away; walk the other direction and Trg Republike, the pedestrian café streets and Njegošev Park are a few hundred metres off. Kruševac park lies close by, with King Nikola's Petrović Palace among the trees, now the city's gallery of contemporary art. The riverside itself is the daily pleasure — plane trees, joggers at dusk, the Millennium Bridge lit downstream. Restaurants nearby cover grilled Skadar Lake carp and bleak, lamb cooked under the sač, and the Vranac and Krstač made on the plain a short way south. The airport is roughly twenty minutes out, the coast an hour.