Tale of Montenegro

Written: 3 october 2013
Travel time: 22 — 29 september 2013
Who does the author recommend the hotel to?: For a relaxing holiday; For families with children; For recreation with friends, for young people
Your rating of this hotel:
7.0
from 10
Hotel ratings by criteria:
Rooms: 8.0
Service: 8.0
Cleanliness: 9.0
Amenities: 9.0
We didn’t plan a vacation, but we couldn’t refuse a trip to Montenegro for 416 euros. We flew again with Join Up, in Budva itself we were served by Pilon. There are no complaints about the guys: they brought us to Btsdva in a timely manner and took them back on the day of departure, provided them with a full amount of information about the country, gave advice and did not refuse help.

The flight to Tivat was from Zaporozhye. This is not an airport, this is darkness. After Boryspil and Kharkiv, the Zaporozhye international terminal is disheartening: you open the door to the airport building and instantly find yourself in a queue. There is only one reception desk, a shabby waiting room with tattered Soviet furniture. There is no luggage conveyor, upon arrival the luggage from the plane was simply piled into a dump truck, from where it was brought in by three loaders and simply dumped on the floor. "Whose Chumadan? Choose yours and be healthy. "


There is no food on the plane, all you can hope for is a glass of juice or water.
We arrived in Tivat at 5 pm, at about 6 we were in Budva. Villa "Bozo Lazovic" is located on the street on November 20.1 km from the sea. Three-storey building with 15 rooms. The hostess is slightly frostbitten, avoids vacationers and, in case of contact, quickly chatters in Montenegrin, she does not understand Russian at all. Although there is a decent supply of English. In general, a strange thing, about 70% of vacationers in Budva are Russians, but Russian-speaking staff is a rarity in hotels and shops. I think in a couple of years they will communicate no worse than the Turks : )

Our 12th room in the villa was the only one without a balcony. This created some difficulties when drying clothes, but a dry half a year helped us do this even in the room. A room with a standard set: three beds, a TV set with three Montenegrin channels (neighbors boasted of a Russian channel, but we didn’t have one), good air conditioning, a small refrigerator.
From the promised kitchen, we were provided with a small kettle, a couple of plastic cups and a plastic spoon. Hot water around the clock - shower and small boiler. The shower switch was broken, on the first evening they showed the hostess and received a promise "tomorrow my hisband will fix it". The shower was refurbished...on the last day of our stay. Upon arrival, we were given 2 rolls of toilet paper and two minibars of soap, nothing else was updated. Although the room was cleaned daily and even the towels were changed once. In general, it’s a sin to complain about the room and the service: for the first time, we used the room as a place to sleep and shower, with which he did an excellent job.

Since our trip was in RO (room only) mode, we ate in the city. Less fortunate were people who paid for breakfasts and/or dinners. As it turned out, food takes place in a restaurant, which is a 10-minute walk from the villa.

Moreover, the food is disgusting: a sausage per person, a quarter of a tomato and tea. The coffee is worth the extra money. So from the life hacks: if the hotel is offered with meals not at the hotel, it is better to refuse this. You won’t find extreme ones later, because the tour operator will shift the responsibility on the owners of the villa, those on the restaurant, and the restaurant just feeds you : )

In fact, in Budva, food prices are quite tolerable. Not far from "Bozo" there is a supermarket "Megamarket", where you can buy something for lunch inexpensively. The price level in the store is approximately the following:

- bread - from 0.45 to 1 euro,
- sausage - from 5 to 10 euros / kg,
- milk - 0.7 euros,
- kefir (they have yogurt) - from 0.85 euros / liter,
- wine - from 1.6 euros / bottle,
- chocolate - from 0.46 euros,
- bank Bavaria - from 0.79 euros.

You can eat at any restaurant, the price level is about the same regardless of where you decide to dine, on the Kozyrnaya embankment or on the outskirts of the city. Lunch menu (soup, salad, bread and beer) = 5 euros.
Dinner for two can be quite good even for 12-20 euros. Prosciutto meat (salted, with beer or just like that) from 8 euro / kg on the market.

Montenegro is very, very beautiful. The country has a well-developed bus network, you can go to any part of the country at an affordable price. Therefore, do not sit in Budva - travel. Excursions are quite expensive at prices (the cheapest is 25 euros), and a bus ticket from 1.5 euros to Sveti Stefan to 3.5 to Kotor.

The Internet in the form of Wi-Fi shocked with its presence everywhere. Wi-Fi is stable anywhere in the country, even on the abandoned island of St. Nicholas. By the way, in the room of "Bozo Lazovic" it was perfectly possible to surf the Internet lying on the bed. So this won't be a problem.

The sea is clean, during the stay the water temperature was about 23 degrees, so we swam heartily. The beaches are good, although I recommend not visiting the advertised beaches of Morgen, because the people are not overcrowded.
A 15-minute walk to the left of Budva along the promenade is the huge beaches of Becici, after another 20 minutes - the chic Kamenevo beach. I advise you to visit. to get the right impression of the Adriatic.

In principle, everything, if someone has questions - write, I will try to answer and, if possible, advise on any issue that I know.
Translated automatically from Russian. View original