Car Rental in Bečići

Collecting your vehicle in Bečići

Bečići is a direct pickup location on the Budva Riviera: collect here and the hotel strip, the coastal promenade, and the road south toward Sveti Stefan and Petrovac are immediately accessible. Tivat Airport, another of our rental pickup points, is the closest fly-drive starting point at 24 km north along the Adriatic Highway, around 30 minutes in light traffic; July and August add 15 to 20 minutes through the Budva centre. Arrivals via Podgorica Airport cover 85 km via the Sozina tunnel motorway and coast road, around an hour and a half.

Keeping a car for the full stay is worth it on this stretch. The coves between Bečići and Petrovac have no bus service and are car-only. The day trip to Kotor via the Vrmac tunnel is 22 km. Parking at the larger hotels in Bečići is available to residents; on-street parking tightens in peak season, so arriving before 9 am or after 6 pm helps. Picking up the Adriatic Highway from Bečići rather than routing through Budva town saves time on the drive south.

A bay built for hotels

Bečići sits in Budva Municipality between the Zavala Peninsula and Rafailovići, with permanent residents counted at just under 900 in the most recent census. Unlike Budva, which grew up as a fortified town and only later as a resort, Bečići was developed primarily as a beach destination, and the streets are organised around medium and large hotels rather than the private apartment buildings that fill Budva's centre.

Among the larger hotels, the Mediteran, Iberostar Bellevue and Queen of Montenegro have been refurbished over the last decade, and the five-star Splendid Conference and Spa Resort at the north end of the beach is the largest single greenfield development on this stretch of coast, built at a reported cost of around €70 million. Past guests of the Splendid have included the Rolling Stones, Madonna, and during their time in Montenegro Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, which gives the resort end of Bečići a slightly different feel from the family-hotel strip running south.

The pebble beach

Bečići beach is a continuous crescent of around 1,950 metres, running from the Zavala Peninsula in the north (the headland separating Bečići from Budva's Slovenska Plaža) to the smaller bay of Rafailovići in the south. The surface is a mix of soft sand and the smooth multi-coloured pebbles common along this stretch of the Adriatic. The beach holds Blue Flag certification, regularly renewed, and is among the longest continuous beaches on the Montenegrin coast outside of Buljarica.

Walking to Budva old town

The coastal promenade above the beach is the easiest way to reach Budva's old town: a level paved path of around two kilometres along the cliffs, with steps down to the smaller coves between Bečići and Slovenska Plaža. The walk takes around twenty minutes one way, longer at sunset when the path fills up. The promenade was extended through the 1990s and 2000s and now joins all the way to the entrance of the old town walls, so most Bečići-based visitors don't drive to Budva at all in the evenings.

Where the beach ends

At the south end of the bay, Rafailovići is the smaller fishing-village neighbour that the Bečići beach blends into. The boundary is the small headland with the church of Saint Thomas; south of it the strip narrows and the konobas and family-run restaurants start. A few of the original village houses survive among the apartment buildings and are walking distance from anywhere in central Bečići.

Hotels and apartments

Bečići is unusual on the Riviera for being dominated by hotel inventory rather than private apartments. The Splendid sits at the north end, the Mediteran and Iberostar Bellevue mid-bay, and the Queen of Montenegro just inland from the southern stretch. Smaller family hotels and apartment buildings climb the slopes behind the beach toward the Adriatic Highway, with most blocks fronting the bay or one back from it. The strip has a different rhythm to Budva: more all-inclusive packages, more breakfast halls, more pool decks; less of the cobbled-old-town feel that drives traffic into Stari Grad in the evenings. For more nightlife and dining variety, Budva is twenty minutes on foot along the promenade or three minutes by car.

Day trips along the coast

Sveti Stefan is around 10 km south of Bečići along the coast road, with the islet viewpoint and the public causeway beach about a fifteen-minute drive in light traffic. Petrovac is another 8 km further south, with its Roman mosaic, Venetian fortress, and the long Buljarica strand. The Bay of Kotor opens to the west: Kotor's old town is around 22 km via the Vrmac tunnel, and the smaller bay villages of Prčanj and Perast sit beyond it on the way around to Risan. Inland, the road climbs over the Sutorman pass to the Crmnica vineyards and the Skadar Lake basin, where the Sozina motorway provides a faster return south to the coast at Bar.

Bečići car rental

Bečići itself covers on foot along the promenade, but a hire car earns its keep across the full Riviera and beyond. Sveti Stefan is 10 km south along the coast road; Petrovac is another 8 km, with its Roman mosaic, Venetian fortress, and the Buljarica strand. West, the Bay of Kotor opens via the Vrmac tunnel: Kotor's old town is 22 km, with the bay villages of Prčanj and Perast between. Inland, the Sutorman pass leads to the Crmnica wine valley and Skadar Lake. A standard rental car covers all of these routes without difficulty; the highway from Bečići picks up cleanly off the resort access road and bypasses the worst of Budva town traffic on the way out.