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Wake up inside Budva's walls. Astoria Budva is the only hotel in the Old Town, and its stone lanes and squares begin at your door.
Hotel, Budva. Meridian Dispatch.
The national tourism listing gives Astoria Budva spring, summer and autumn, with no winter season. Confirm dates with the hotel before planning a stay between those seasons.
Not at the door, since Budva's Old Town is closed to cars. The town's paid public garages are open 24 hours a day all year, and the national tourism listing includes a parking place among the hotel's services, so ask the hotel how it arranges one.
Tivat airport is the closest, 20 km from Budva, and Podgorica airport is 60 km away. Dubrovnik airport at Čilipi in Croatia is 66 km off, and the drive can be held up at the Montenegro and Croatia border and on the Lepetane to Kamenari ferry.
Yes. The hotel website carries an online reservation form for the rooftop restaurant. Caffe Astoria, near the Old Town entrance, is a popular meeting place for a long coffee or a break from walking.
No. The national tourism listing marks Astoria Budva as suited to families as well as couples, and the hotel's rooms are split evenly between apartments and double rooms.
Astoria Budva stands at Njegoševa 4, inside the walled town on a small rocky peninsula joined to the mainland by a narrow isthmus, with six apartments and six double rooms.
Budva Old Town is more than 2,500 years old and was heavily damaged in the 1979 earthquake, then reconstructed. Its walls are still the sight from the hotel roof.
The rooms are modern and minimalist, in neutral colours, each with air conditioning, a minibar and a safe.
The roof holds the hotel restaurant, set between the sea and the ramparts and hidden from the lanes below. Its kitchen is open, so diners watch the chefs prepare fresh fish, shellfish and steak.
The Old Town is pedestrian-only, so you walk the last stretch through the stone lanes to the door.
Have a glass of wine on the roof terrace in the evening. Astoria, which runs the hotel, also runs Caffe Astoria, with a garden under the old Venetian fortress at the entrance to the Old Town, and a beach bar in the pebble cove below the walls.
The beach bar has sunbeds in the morning, a DJ or live music in the afternoon, and dinner tables on the sand at the water's edge at night. Ask the hotel whether sunbeds need booking.
Ask for a room with a French balcony if you want to see the sea from your room. Some rooms also have a hydromassage bath, so ask for one of those when you book.
Keep one evening for the beach bar in the cove below the walls, and time it for sunset, which the hotel counts as the best moment on its beach.
Nearest first, all within 2 minutes on foot from the door.
The town
Walk the cliff path to Mogren and the lanes of the walled town, then go to the City Museum to see how old Budva really is: most of what you walk through was rebuilt after the 1979 earthquake.
Read the Budva guideThe official pages this guide was checked against.
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