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In summer you can sleep inside a fortified fifteenth-century village on its own islet, joined to the mainland by a narrow causeway, with a grand villa and the resort's spa across the bay.
Hotel, Sveti Stefan. Meridian Dispatch.
Only in part. The island rooms close in late October and reopen in May for the summer season, while Villa Miločer, the resort's mainland residence, stays open through the winter.
By road, on a transfer that the hotel's concierge arranges to and from the region's main international airports. Tivat is the closest of them, and Dubrovnik involves a border crossing, which the hotel warns can stretch the journey badly in high season.
Only with a restaurant table booked in advance. A table cannot be requested by walking up to the gate on the causeway, which opens with a key card issued to hotel guests.
Yes. Queen's Beach is reserved for Aman guests. Sveti Stefan Beach, beside the causeway, is public and made of small pink pebbles rather than sand, and King's Beach in front of Villa Miločer is public too.
Yes, by prior arrangement. Aman Sveti Stefan welcomes guests travelling with a dog once the hotel has agreed it before arrival, so the dog should be raised at the time of booking and not left until check-in.
Each room on the island is a cottage built in the character of a Montenegrin fisherman's home. Buildings cover almost the whole rock, some of them right on the cliff edge.
The windows are small, but they frame the water, and some rooms overlook Miločer Bay and Sveti Stefan Beach. The Adriatic Suite has three private terraces facing the sea. One other island suite has its own swimming pool beside a sea-view terrace.
Villa Miločer is the resort's other half, a grand residence on the mainland across the bay. Its dining room and loggia look over King's Beach to Sveti Stefan Island, and the mainland Aman Spa sits on that side of the water.
Two airports serve the resort: Tivat is about an hour away by road and Podgorica about an hour and a half. Send the concierge your travel details before you arrive, and the team arranges the car.
At the causeway you are handed a key card that opens the island gate, and from there you walk to your room. Breakfast comes with the room.
The Villa Miločer restaurant serves breakfast, lunch and dinner, indoors or out on the loggia. Queen's Beach is kept for hotel guests, while Sveti Stefan Beach and King's Beach are open to the public, so expect other bathers on the beaches facing the island. The spa adds two hydrotherapy suites and an indoor pool.
Pack shoes with a firm grip for the island's lanes, which climb by stairs and uneven paths between the cottages. If steps are hard for you, give the hotel your room preference when you book rather than at the gate.
Allow extra time for airport runs in July and August, when traffic builds along the whole Montenegrin coast in both directions.
Nearest first, all within 2 minutes on foot from the door.
The town
Sleep in Sveti Stefan and you get the beach under the island and the church on the hill at sunset, after the day-trip coaches have left.
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