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One short stroll takes you from your room into the lanes of Budva Old Town, while the sea view runs out past the hotel's own beach to St. Nicholas Island.
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Yes. The hotel's indoor pool and its Aperitif Bar are both open year-round, while the beach bar on the sand keeps shorter hours outside the June to September season.
By private transfer, arranged in advance through the hotel's concierge, which handles transfers and personalised tours for guests. Budva lies about 21 km from Tivat Airport by road.
Yes. The hotel keeps a section of Ricardova Glava Beach for guests, right beside the walls of Budva Old Town. The hotel recommends the beach for a morning swim or a full day by the sea.
Not the outdoor pools, which are reserved for hotel guests. For the spa, its treatments and the indoor pool, non-guests can write to the spa desk at spa@avalaresort.com.
Yes. The hotel offers its Superior Room for family stays, sleeping up to three guests, while the Family Villa takes four to six adults. A crib or extra bed can be arranged on request.
Avala Resort & Villas stands against Budva's ancient walls, overlooking Ricardova Glava Beach, where the hotel keeps its own private stretch of shore. It is a big seafront complex of 303 rooms, suites and villas, and Mogren Beach is the hotel's other pick for a morning swim.
The hotel gives 1937 as its founding year and was among the first hotels on the Adriatic coast. The setting is the draw: the walled town rises right beside it, and the open sea fills the other side of the view.
Inside, the suites have large windows that fill them with daylight and open onto the sea and the Old Town. Every unit, from the smallest double to the villas, has its own balcony or terrace.
The indoor pool sits behind floor-to-ceiling glass, looking out over the water and the walls. The villas give a more private setting, with their own outdoor pool and a bar beside it.
Picking the room category decides your outlook, which ranges from the sea to the city or the mountains. The Top Floor Suite has a private terrace over the Adriatic, and the Standard Villa is set on two levels, with the living room and terrace upstairs.
Breakfast is a buffet at Bruno Restaurant until 10:30. Lunch and dinner are buffets too, and an à la carte menu runs through the afternoon and evening.
Two outdoor pools open from 15 May, weather permitting: one on the upper floor near the spa, and a quieter one by the villas. The indoor pool, with a jacuzzi beside it, is open all year.
The spa, with a gym, saunas and a steam room, stays open until 21:00. The Villa Pool Bar serves food and drinks beside the villa pool, and the Bermuda Beach Bar stands directly on the beach.
Book spa treatments for the afternoon, since the Wellness and Care programme starts after lunch and the thermal zone opens at midday. Keep the morning for the pools.
Travelling with children, choose the upper-floor pool, which has a children's pool and direct access to the pool bar. On a grey day, the indoor pool and its jacuzzi make the better swim.
Nearest first, all within 4 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.
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