Lustica Bay, Montenegro

The Chedi Lustica Bay

Price per night from$158.28

Price information

If you haven’t entered any dates, the rate shown is provided directly by the hotel and represents the cheapest double room (including tax) available in the next 60 days.

Prices have been converted from the hotel’s local currency (EUR146.30), via openexchangerates.org, using today’s exchange rate.

Style

Model marina

Setting

Bay watch

Extending Montenegro’s opulent appeal, The Chedi Lustica Bay is the luxury brand’s newest outpost, joining its stellar sisters in Andermatt and Muscat. A whopping eight-figure amount was lovingly spent on the development of this mega marina, and it shows: huge glass windows frame the water at every chance, there’s a bar built into the cliffs and several sceney restaurants, and a pro-designed golf course is on its way. Kotor has been hogging the superyachts docking along this elite coastline… now it’s time to step forward, Lustica Bay.

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Facilities

Photos The Chedi Lustica Bay facilities

Need to know

Rooms

A total of 111, including 11 suites.

Check–Out

Noon, but flexible, subject to availability and an extra charge. Earliest check-in, 3pm.

Prices

Double rooms from £125.36 (€146). Please note the hotel charges an additional service charge of 10% per booking on check-out and an additional local city tax of €1.00 per person per night on check-out.

More details

Rates include breakfast.

Also

The first golf course in Montenegro is coming soon to a multi-million-dollar marina near you; in the meantime, guests can get their exercise fix with a PT session, or a yoga class on the beach.

At the hotel

Free WiFi throughout, beach, gym with personal trainers, jetty, playground, car park. In rooms: free bottled water, Illy coffee machine, minibar with local and international wines, air-conditioning, flatscreen TV and Acqua di Parma bath products.

Our favourite rooms

Floor-to-ceiling windows show off the sea to varying degrees in most rooms, though some get a foresty-mountain backdrop instead: pick one with a bay view and watch the ships come in. Kitchenettes are a handy/redundant feature in some of the rooms, depending on your desire to cook or be cooked for, but we're sure almost all guests will appreciate the curated collection of wines.

Poolside

There are two: an infinity-edged outdoor offering flanked on three sides by the hotel buildings, so you get all the views but none of the wind. Another awaits in the spa. The main pool is open between 9am and 9pm; the indoor one’s hours are 7am to 9pm (under-16s are welcome between 9am to 5pm; after that it's adults only).

Spa

The Chedi Spa has four treatment rooms for hosting Balinese healing practices and Indian-inspired rituals, using seaweed-based Voya products. There’s also a relaxation area, sauna, steam room, indoor pool, and ‘experience shower’. It’s open from 7am until 9pm every day.

Packing tips

Boat shoes, chinos and salmon-pink shirts for seafaring Mr Smiths; oligarch-worthy oversized shades and sailor pants for Mrs Smith.

Also

Four rooms have been specially adapted for wheelchair users and most of the communal areas are accessible.

Children

All ages are welcome. Under-6s go free; extra beds (€29 a child a night) and cots can be added. Babysitting is available, but must be booked in advance. There’s a play area and sandpit.

Food and Drink

Photos The Chedi Lustica Bay food and drink

Top Table

Out on the terrace in the Restaurant; on the promenade or watching the mixologists at work in the Spot.

Dress Code

Billion-dollar-bay worthy.

Hotel restaurant

There are two: the Restaurant and the Spot. The former cooks up local cuisine, including a breakfast of breads and pastries from the in-house bakery, wildflower honey and seasonal-fruit salad. Freestyle types will enjoy the counter where orders can be placed for whatever you fancy at that particular moment. By night, a buffet takes over, offering meats from this mountainous part of Montenegro, fish from the Adriatic, a selection of sourdough and some award-winning cheeses. The waterside Spot is in the middle of the marina, serving Asian-inspired curries, superfood salads and simple grilled fish, set to a regular soundtrack of DJs and live music. Don’t miss an expertly muddled cocktail, finished with locally foraged herbs.

Hotel bar

You’ve two drinking dens from which to choose: one in the lobby and another called the Rok that’s, predictably, set on a geological formation along the cliff edge. Light bites are served in both.

Last orders

The Restaurant opens for breakfast from 7am until 10.30am, and dinner from 6.30pm to 10pm. The Spot’s hours are 11.30am until 10pm (though drinks are served until 1am). Both bars are open from 8am to 11pm, with the kitchen running from 11.30am till 6pm.

Room service

The full menu is available round the clock.

Location

Photos The Chedi Lustica Bay location
Address
The Chedi Lustica Bay
Luštica Bay Marina
Tivat
85323
Montenegro

The hotel is in a shiny new purpose-built town, Lustica Bay in Montenegro.

Planes

Tivat airport is 10 kilometres away; the drive should take 20 minutes, and hotel transfers cost €60 each way. Further afield, Podgorica is another option; transfers for this two-hour trip will set you back €150 each way.

Automobiles

Tivat is roughly 20 minutes away by car; Kotor is a similar distance. Parking is available, but make sure you request a space in advance.

Other

If you’ve got your own boat, the jetty may be able to let you dock (provided Abramovich’s yacht isn’t taking up all the spots). Helicopter transfers from any local airport to the hotel are also possible.

Worth getting out of bed for

Those who prefer to be on dry land should probably look away now. This marina is heaven for those happiest afloat, whether you want to commandeer a captain to take you to Dubrovnik or get behind the wheel yourself, flex that core on a stand-up paddle-board or kayak around the largest lake in the Balkans in Lake Skadar National ParkFor those yet to get their sea legs, there are plenty of opportunities for hiking and biking through the mountainous Lustica Peninsula, past valleys, waterfalls and rivers; or trail the rugged peaks of the Durmitor National Park. Guests can also day-trip over to Kotor, which does have an Old Town, flanked by Venetian fortress walls no less. Boka Bay is a Unesco World Heritage Site for a reason – don’t miss its best views from the highest mausoleum in the world, Njegos.

Local restaurants

For a romantic setting that your purse strings sure will pay for, head to Galion in Kotor, where you can watch superyachts with your steak and seafood. Along the Lustica Peninsula, try Ribarsko Selo, where the catch of the day is served up with organic, homegrown ingredients straight from the kitchen garden.

 

Reviews

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Anonymous review

Every hotel featured is visited personally by members of our team, given the Smith seal of approval, and then anonymously reviewed. As soon as our reviewers have returned from this hotel in Montenegro and unpacked their sunhats and sunglasses, a full account of their coastal break will be with you. In the meantime, to whet your wanderlust, here's a quick peek inside the Chedi Lustica Bay

Montenegro has long been attracting those with dollars to burn, but the developers of this glossy marina took it up a notch, gladly being relieved of two billion euros in the making of a modern super resort. Every last building is brand new, with bars, boutiques and nightclubs on the doorstep of this townhouse-style hotel (there’s no token Old Town to check out here). Montenegro’s famous limestone cliffs and cool Adriatic coast are there for the exploring And you won’t need to be far from the shore throughout your stay, courtesy of the views (and balconies) in most rooms. Ahoy, sailor: let’s get nautical.

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Price per night from $158.28