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You wake inside Kotor's walls here, in a noble family's palace on Trg od pošte, and the old town's lanes start at the front door.
Hotel, Kotor. Meridian Dispatch.
The national tourism listing gives Hotel Astoria Kotor all four seasons, winter included. Dates for a winter stay are best confirmed directly with the hotel before travel is booked.
Not at the door. Kotor's old town is closed to cars, and the nearest paid parking is the large multi-level car park directly south of the Sea Gate. The national tourism listing includes parking among the hotel's services, so ask the hotel how it arranges it.
Tivat Airport is about 8 km away along the bay, and a taxi or transfer normally takes 15 to 25 minutes. Local bus 15, the Blue Line, stops on the main road outside the terminal and runs to Kotor roughly every 30 minutes, a ride of 30 to 40 minutes with stops.
Dubrovnik's Čilipi airport is 70 km up the coast road. The drive crosses an EU border, which takes about five minutes in low season but can hold traffic for 60 to 90 minutes on a July or August Sunday afternoon.
Hotel Astoria Kotor fills the Buća Palace, a 13th-century house of one of Kotor's noble families, on Trg od pošte in the middle of the old town. Its stone carries Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque work from the centuries since.
The walled town around it is a UNESCO World Heritage Site, and the national tourism listing rates the hotel a five-star boutique house. Its nine rooms are each designed differently but equipped to the same standard, and furnished with one-off pieces.
What a room looks onto depends on where it sits in the palace. Some face the bay, others the squares or the ramparts, and one room looks straight out onto one of Kotor's main squares.
Breakfast is served indoors or out on the terrace, one of the two the hotel has. The restaurant, a lounge bar and both terraces are part of the palace, so a meal or a drink needs no walk across town.
The restaurant cooks from international, traditional and modern menus. After dinner there is the lounge bar, or the enclosed terrace that looks out to Kotor City Walls and Fortress. The front terrace sits on the square itself, in the bustle of the old town.
Each room has Wi-Fi, a safe and a minibar, and there is a gym.
Give Kotor itself one full day before heading out round the bay. Most attractions are a gentle five-minute walk from the door, so the old town is easily covered on foot from here.
Since each room's outlook differs, state the view you prefer when you book: the bay, the squares or the walls.
Nearest first, all within 6 minutes on foot from the door.
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The town
Kotor is a town for evenings: once the ships sail, you have the lanes, the cats and the floodlit walls above you almost to yourself.
Read the Kotor guideThe official pages this guide was checked against.
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