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Travel Date: July 04
Submitted in July 2004 by: Paul Wright - Edinburgh
Operator: Other
Week in Budva, Montenegro was part of a two-centre stay through Holiday Options.
Tour operator was efficient throughout, its reps and tour guides helpful and friendly.
Hotel Admiral is classed three and a half star, but three would be more acc...
Week in Budva, Montenegro was part of a two-centre stay through Holiday Options.
Tour operator was efficient throughout, its reps and tour guides helpful and friendly.
Hotel Admiral is classed three and a half star, but three would be more accurate. One imagines it gets the extra half for its air conditioning, which still seems the exception rather than the rule in this country. We were certainly thankful for it; it was around 40 deg C most of the time we were there.
It's not a bad hotel. The rooms are comfortable, with mini-bar, TV, phone and a good size balcony. No bath, just a shower. The pool area is perfectly good. It doesn't take credit cards, or cash travellers' cheques, which is an inconvenience. But what particulary let it down for us was the food. It needs more thought and effort here. The menu was limited and dull, and there was the peculiar practice of having to order the evening meal the night before (just after you had finished your dinner). No doubt it saves on waste and saves the hotel money, but it's not convenient for the guests.
The hotel's private beach on the island of Saint Nikola was oversold in the brochure and consequently a little disappointing. The facilities do not open until later in the season, and with a working boat yard and ongoing building works, it wasn't as relaxing and conducive to enjoyment as it might have been. But the hotel did provide a courtesy water taxi to and from it, and we did find a shady and peaceful spot and pass a pleasant enough few hours here.
Budva as a reort was too down market for our taste. Its main focus, Slovenska beach, about 300m from the hotel, was crowded, noisy and unhygienic, with a number of filthy open drains in evidence. If you followed the beach about a kilometre along a promenade lined with fast-food outlets, gimcrack amusements, tourist tat, and pounding pop rhythms, you arrive eventually at what is the resort's one redeeming feature, its old town, with narrow, shady streets, pleasant bars and restaurants and a good view over the bay from the old citadel.
But Montenegro is not all as grim as this. The people are friendly, and it is quite cheap (away from the hotels). Pizza and ice cream lunch, about £1.80; bottle of local wine in supermarket, about £2.20. Some of the scenary is stunning. The excursion to Skarda Lake was one of the best I've been on in any country. A leisurely cruise on the lake, with swimming from the boat, and some quiet drifting in the backwaters to view amazing birdlife. Then ashore for an alfresco lunch of wild carp (taken from the lake) and local wine. Wonderful.
So don't be put off Montenegro. But try a resot other than Budva. We visited Kotor, and this seemed good. And people spoke highly of the celebrated hotel at Sveti Stephan (although this doesn't come cheap)
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