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especially along its 175-mile Adriatic coast.
Its big advantage over Croatia is that it has
sandy beaches, but a disadvantage is transfer
times. There is very limited flight availability
into Tivat airport in Montenegro, while the
cross-border transfer from Dubrovnik airport
takes two-and-a-half hours.
Budva is its main resort, with an old town
and good beaches. Nearby Becici has even
better beaches and is good for watersports,
while Petrovac attracts visitors of all ages.
About €6 billion is being spent over
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the next 10 years developing tourism in
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including Iberostar, have started to appear.
worldpic Asia-based Aman Resorts will reopen the
Budva, the leading resort in Montenegro, offers good beaches and an interesting old town luxury island resort of Sveti Stefan, near
Budva and Villa Milocer, a former royal
Makarska is a classic little port, while Baska Sample: A week at the Amfora-Hvar Grand summer residence, by the end of this year.
Voda is a village with white-pebble beaches Beach Resort in Hvar in August costs from The Porto Montenegro project in the
beneath the Biokovo mountains. £1,024 through Holiday Options, including bay of Tivat will be one of Europe’s most
Hvar and Brac are two upmarket islands Gatwick flights and breakfast. exclusive marinas, with hotels operated by
just off the Makarska coast. holidayoptions.co.uk Four Seasons and Kempinski.
On the Istrian peninsula in the north is a
major concentration of resort hotels, espe- MONTENEGRO. Sample: Cosmos offers a week’s all-inclusive
cially around Pula. It mixes Italian, French This small country, which became independ- at the Iberostar Bellevue, Budva, from £855
and Croatian influences with beaches and ent only in 2006 when it separated from departing Birmingham on August 16.
historic towns such as Porec and Rovinj. Serbia, has major plans to develop tourism, cosmos-holidays.co.uk
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