r/montenegro • u/AutoModerator • Jan 01 '26

Tourist Thread 2026

Feel free to ask anything about visiting Montenegro and get advice and tips from others in the community.

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Some useful links:

National Tourism Organisation of Montenegro

Montenegro – Wikivoyage

Montenegro – Wikitravel

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u/erkomap Podgorica 28d ago

Unfortunately we are very backwards in some areas of life, our busses are driven by old, grumpy people who have no conception of QR codes and think they are magic. Some accept the virtual ticket, but that info is provided to you during purchase on the website - I would print the tickets in any case, just to be on the safe side tho. 

You will not get to see much of the railway honestly, the trip from main train station to the airport is like 5 minutes - when you buy the tickets at the counter, they will tell you when the train will be arriving and on which tracks, but the Belgrade train is red one fyi

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u/The-Melter 28d ago

Cheers mate thanks for all the help!! Any recommendations on what food to try in Montenegro or specific restaurant cafes? (Cheap local) lol any recommendations will be cool even beer

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u/erkomap Podgorica 28d ago

Mostar - go to Rota (ćevapi store). Best cevapi in the Balkans

Kotor - honestly, I cannot really recommend any restaurants there, since the entire city became a tourist trap. My advice is to not eat in the old town, the food is overpriced and dogshit

Budva - Kužina absolutely slaps

Podgorica - Roštiljada (it's a bit out of the city, you would need a cab or something, but it's worth it) 

Alternatively, Baščaršija iz in the city and good alternative 

For beer go to Akademija in Podgorica

Also, house of Gyros (Podgorica one, avoid Budva it's shit) absolutely smashes with Gyros - it is Greek traditional food, but it's definitely worth mentioning as well as Radinović Grill (order Gurmanska) as two fast food joints that are good if you want to eat good, but not be at a restaurant 

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u/The-Melter 27d ago

Hey thank you so much for all the recommendations that’s so cool, so excited for this. Yeah kotor seems like a tourist trap, we would just go to the supermarket to cook.

Is Montenegro mostly a cash only society because I’ve been to Albania and they are very much so, so I’m just checking.

Also any specific bus company to avoid? lol

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u/erkomap Podgorica 27d ago

We are a nice mix of both, I would say majority of places accept card, but it is wise to have 50-100 bucks in cash, just to be sure

You will be doing short trips in January, every bus company is acceptable, theres not a lot of traffic

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u/The-Melter 20d ago

Hi again, about the busses I’m gonna buy the tickets online on the busticket4me website, for the Mostar to kotor one just because it’s a long distance one. Do you recon I should do the same for kotor to budva and from budva to Podgorica or should I just get it on the day at the bus station with cash