Hotel Montenegro Beach Resort

“Good location, great food, fantastic staff”

We had a fantastic week at the hotel, staying on an all inclusive package. The hotel has a great location - right next to the beach but kept private by trees and hedges. The whole site is kept very clean and tidy, even outdoor areas were regularly washed down. We really enjoyed the food. There wa… more

We had a fantastic week at the hotel, staying on an all inclusive package. The hotel has a great location - right next to the beach but kept private by trees and hedges. The whole site is kept very clean and tidy, even outdoor areas were regularly washed down. We really enjoyed the food. There was a good selection of meats, fish, salads, vegetables and fruit so we felt we could still eat healthily. We enjoyed trying the local dishes but there was always pizza and pasta available for people who like something familiar. My husband has allergies but everything was clearly labelled and because the food is freshly made the staff could answer any questions about it. Coffee was from a machine but tasted good to me. My husband is more fussy about coffee so he would pay for one from the cash bar next to the restaurant for a couple of euros. The best thing about the hotel is the amazing staff. Warm and friendly but always professional. They really went out of their way to make us feel welcome. Thank you for a great holiday!

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“Great, Great, Great only one but - not enough variety of food for Vegetarians”

The hotel is excellent, we also received a free upgrade to the refurbished section of the hotel. The bathroom is luxurious with a walk in shower and Italian murano fittings of basin and toilet. There is also an excellent lit shaving mirror. The wi fi is fast -95megabits in the room. There are ampl… more

The hotel is excellent, we also received a free upgrade to the refurbished section of the hotel. The bathroom is luxurious with a walk in shower and Italian murano fittings of basin and toilet. There is also an excellent lit shaving mirror. The wi fi is fast -95megabits in the room. There are ample seats also for two people and the televison is a Smart TV as well. The local channel with videos of Montenegro, is very good and relaxing. The room has very efficient air conditioning controlled individually, from a thermostat on the wall, and a free safe. No tea or coffee making facilities. but take your own travel kettle. The fridge is useful for storing drinks, and italso doubles as the minibar in the room. The staff came round to check if we had had used any stock, but took it on trust when we said no. The chamber maid was excellent and worked around us at all times, she spoke good English and did her work cheerfully at all times. Breakfast was buffet style, and we had a good selection of cooked dishes and continental breakfast items to chose from buffet style. There was plenty of french loaves, rolls and bread, with jams, pates and other salad and cold meat offerings available. The cappucino coffee was also very good as was tea and other breverages. My son who is Vegeterian had no problems with the food available at this sitting. Queues for buffet breakfasts did build up at times, which meant food got cold on occasions before eating it, due to the need to queue at various counters. Fruit was excellent; ripe pears and bananas at both breakfast, and evening meals were especially welcome, the apples were good, and other citrus fruit was available. The Evening meal was buffet style, and the selection for Carnivores was excellent. The Pizzas were a little floppy, as they were left out after being cooked. My son who is vegetarian had one specially cooked for him one evening. The choice was excellent from salads to meats, pork, beef, chicken, veal, sea bream, and other fish dishes. Desserts were superb, but too many fattening cakes which we thoroughly enjoyed and added 2kg to my weight, which I am now burning off now with excercise! Two meals also saw the option of icecream served by a charming catering assistant. Overall my son found the evening choices for vegeterians lacking, and this needs to be looked at. He had a meal out at midday and at salad in the evenings most days, not necessary if on half board. One criticism I will make is about the queues that build up during evening meals. It is not easy to see what food is on offer, due to a line of people serving themselves with food. They obscure the food and labels above in the servery, and this means you can be queuing unnecessarily. The music during the eveing meal was excellent the two men sung a variety of tunes including some rock classics, and the Korg keyboard really enhanced the show. The violinist was very skilled, but there were no vocals during his set, and he was not to our taste. The lady and her father (I assume) were also excellent. Her singing style reminded me slighty of the dearly departed French singer Francoise Hardy. The noise from diners talking was loud at times, and made it difficult for me to hear what my son and wife were talking about. I do have problems with hearing when there is background noise. One thing the hotel needs to to is to put the wine and drinks, that are only available to All Inclusive guests away from the main restaurant. This did cause some friction when we thought it was for everyone, and people got reprimanded unneccessarily for assuming they were for everyone. All inclusive notices imply that it is part of the meal. Rather than having a member of staff standing observing the all inclusive drinks, it would be wise to establish a counter where people with armbands approach and ask for the drink to be served? Overall all of the waiters who cleared the tables at both meals, were very friendly and helpful. Stefan stood out as one of the nicest staf,f who spoke perfect English, and looked out for me and my party at all meal times. Thanks to him and his colleagues for everything. We also found that there were plenty of walks out of the hotel. The best was the walk to the old town of Budva, which is about 25 minutes away, approached by a tunnel through the mountains. My son and I had a walk around the city walls which cost 2 euros, well worth it as well! We also walked to find the waterfall up one mountain and only found evidence of it at the base. My wife who currently has mobility problems arrange with a local taxi firm to take us to Stefi Stevan, Kotor and the village of Perast, this was a great trip out as well. The Spa was great it had a heated indoor pool, which was lovely. However my wife with mobility problems could not use this as the sides of it are raised, it is not an oasis pool. The metal steps are not easy to enter the water if you are short of have mobiity issues. She did manage to do some walking exercises in a very cold pool that did have concrete steps and rails. I think it must have been a plunge pool for people using the sauna and steam room in the nearby room. I also found that in order to have a drink by the outdoor pool, they would only serve all inclusive guests. We had to got to the hotels beach hotel and bring the drinks back. Maybe during the summer they open up the bars alongside the hotel pool to everyone? Also there are no wine or beer waiters, you buy drinks from the bar and take them into the restaurant or have them after a meal. Overall a lovely hotel in an excellent locatation and a very good holiday was had by us all. Thank you

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“Good hotel for a visit to Montenegro”

The room was very clean and comfortable. The hotel staff was very accommodating and polite. The hotel staff should show the guests how to properly close their doors without slamming them…. That was really the only part that got on my nerves.

“Disappointing All inclusive option”

Our hotel was changed at the last minute to this one, we had opted for the All-inclusive option at our original hotel, therefore we were offered the same at this one. This hotel is not primarily an all-inclusive hotel - rather the hotel just has the board option, making it as others have already no… more

Our hotel was changed at the last minute to this one, we had opted for the All-inclusive option at our original hotel, therefore we were offered the same at this one. This hotel is not primarily an all-inclusive hotel - rather the hotel just has the board option, making it as others have already noted very much a 'class graded ' establishment, with All-inclusive being the lower class status. There were two bars that operated an AI menu with some very basic cocktails, however the main restaurant bar did not have its own mixer optics - that meant that the bar staff would decant into a jug from the machine that was in another room at the beginning of a shift - if you wanted a drink that a cocktail that say needed coke in it - then they would use the flat coke that been there most of the day. If you wanted a coffee from that bar, then you had to pay for it - you did have the choice to go down to the restaurant but the coffee in the machines were awful, the wine was in our opinion terrible too. The food was ok, however whatever you had for lunch was served up as a slightly different variation at night and the following lunch -if you were there for more than a few days then this could get very monotonous. The entertainment was sadly lacking, but we were happy to make our own fun. With the exception of the young girl in the outside bar, one of the male restaurant team, and one of the receptionists the staff were very surly. On the plus sides though - our room was in the new block and was modern and clean, the beds on the beach were also new and a great design, having an additional shade attachment which was brilliant. The hotel itself was clean, although quite 'municipal', in some of the shared areas. I really do feel though that this hotel could be really good if some of these issues were addressed. I had noted some of the past reviews that had been replied to with promises of future service improvement, however it seems that nothing has actually changed.

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