Holidays with children in Montenegrin apartments

Written: 3 august 2013
Travel time: 20 — 27 july 2013
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In Villa Plazha 3 * we booked an apartment for 5 people - three adults and two children, one of them is an infant. We drove through Pilon, in general, we were satisfied with the rest in this villa.
About the good: The villa has a convenient location, a pleasant hostess and quality service. Access to the sea - 50 meters, beaches for every taste, umbrella + sunbed from 8 to 15 Euro. The room is large, with two balconies, central - sea view. The room has two rooms separated by a door. There is a kitchenette, a table, a stove, a refrigerator, we cooked breakfasts and lunches ourselves. By the way, there are several grocery stores, one right next to the villa, but they have their own characteristics - each of them has a specific set of products - for example, tea is in one, fresh meat is in another, and vegetables and fruits are sold in the third. Therefore, in order to fully skimp, you need to bypass 2-3 stores, but this is not particularly annoying, because. there is nothing to do anyway : ) The room is clean, they clean it in about a day, they take out the garbage - everyone. The room has "antique" furniture, which creates a special charm.
What I didn’t like: The apartment is on the 3rd floor, where a narrow (for one person) tiled staircase leads, which is very inconvenient to climb with children and a stroller. The floor in the room is also tile, besides, two steps lead to the balcony, from which our little "slider" tried several times to fly down with its nose. At night, cicadas crackle and noise is heard from the street - we slept with open windows, we did not use air conditioning. On the ground floor of the villa there is a restaurant that fries something around the clock. The smell from cooking moves smoothly into the apartment. This happens every day, so by the end of the holiday we have already begun to quietly hate fried fish.

Another piece of advice for those who fly with children and rely on a separate bed - when buying a tour, carefully study this issue, because. we were sure that our children would sleep separately, and as a result, the eldest slept on the bed with an adult, and the youngest in a stroller, which was very uncomfortable. This happened because our wishes were not taken into account when ordering. True, we must pay tribute to Pilon that they kindly provided us with one bed, with an additional charge of 5 euros / day, which we decided to refuse in the end.
A few words about the beach and infrastructure and excursions. The Rafailovici beach is small-pebbled, the entrance to the sea is gentle. On one of the beaches you can lay your own bedspreads and buy an umbrella for 10 euros without paying anything extra. On the rest of the beaches, everything is filled with sunbeds and umbrellas, so finding a free place for your "bed" is quite difficult.
We took two excursions - one from a local travel agency in the Bay of Kotor, which goes all day with a visit to Kotor, the Church of the Virgin of the Rock, Herceg Novi, Zhanice Beach and the Blue Cave for an additional fee of 7 euros. And the second - at Pilon in Dubrovnik, Croatia. More about her in the next story. I liked both excursions, but Pilon conducted it simply brilliantly, with professional guides, which cannot be said about the Montenegrin comrades, who had difficulty translating into Russian what they did even worse in English.
There are many cafes and restaurants on the beach for every taste and budget. I recommend "Three ribars" with excellent seafood, but above average prices for a good evening dinner with wine or beer "Nikshechko". You can have lunch by taking a set lunch for 5 euros - chorba soup, salad, meat and potatoes and beer or cola to choose from in any cafe. The quality of "fast food", but quickly. A little further along the embankment there is a pancake shop where Montenegrin palachinki are prepared with various fillings. We didn’t notice nightclubs, but at night people diligently sang karaoke somewhere... in general, a calm, quiet vacation for couples with and without children in Rafailovichi is guaranteed to you : )
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