Every model below was in the Ulcinj listings in all three booking windows we measured, so none of them is a car that happened to be listed one week. Availability still depends on your dates.
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A small manual hatchback. It is the model listed most often in Ulcinj.
Similar in size to the Clio, and usually listed with an automatic gearbox.
A small automatic with five seats.
A small manual with five seats.
The compact listed most consistently in Ulcinj.
A compact automatic with five seats. It is listed less often than the Golf.
A compact automatic, listed less often than the Golf.
The estate in this selection. It is the longest car in the selection.
Examples from the rental catalogue, measured for a 14-day rental starting three days from today, which is the window the booking form opens on. Availability and conditions depend on your dates.
Drive times from Ulcinj, and what each company states before you reserve.
The beach is ten minutes, Bar forty, the lake sixty-five minutes and Shkoder an hour across the border.
Collect in town, at your door, or at either airport as a one-way.
Cover, deposit, delivery and the age limit are stated per car before you reserve.
Taking the car into Albania is an add-on you choose when you book.
How booking worksFour things are set before you drive: where the car starts, where it may go, the handover and the rental conditions.
Ulcinj has no airport, so the first decision is whether the car meets you here or at a runway an hour and a half away. Of the two, car rental at Podgorica Airport is the shorter transfer: 75 km, about an hour and a half.
Either way an airport collection with an Ulcinj drop-off is a one-way, because the airports are separate places in the booking system from the town, and it is priced as a one-way. Beyond the two of them, car rental in Montenegro has its own page, with drive times routed from Ulcinj.
Allow for the transfer on the day you land: 75 km from Podgorica, 85 km from Tivat.
The alternative airport is car rental at Tivat Airport, about 85 km and two hours down the coast, which is half an hour further each way. If the car goes back to the same airport, the extra half hour applies in both directions.
A separate page explains car rental for Velika Plaza and the signed access roads, which end where the beach begins; a rental car is allowed on paved public roads only. The old town is the other way round: you cannot drive into it at all, so the car waits below the walls instead. Parking and fines are the renter’s responsibility for the whole rental.
From Ulcinj, Bar is forty minutes, the lake a little over an hour and the Albanian border half an hour.
Delivery is the normal arrangement here, and the town has no rental office. Exactly where the car is handed over is set per company, and the points that have cars behind them are listed; delivery is included on a small minority of cars and charged on the rest.
At the handover, walk round the car with the person bringing it and photograph the wheels, the windscreen, the underside and the interior: standard insurance does not cover those four. The cars page shows which car suits the roads out of Ulcinj, by size, seats and transmission. Minimum age and driving experience are set per car, and the search filters by both.
Standard insurance does not cover the wheels, the undercarriage, the windscreen or the interior. Taking the car outside the country is an add-on chosen when you book. The cover rules come from the rental conditions in full, published clause by clause. Drives from Ulcinj are described in the Ulcinj road guides, with routed times and the places where the tarmac ends before the destination.
And bring the plain things: the licence itself in Latin script rather than a photograph of it, the deposit card physical and in the main driver’s name, and a phone number that will be switched on when somebody rings to say they are outside.
The old town, the beach and arriving by air, and what the conditions say about each.
01 / Old town · The promenade car park is the nearest practical parking.
Four steps; the conditions are in the third.
01Choose your dates and your pick-up point. If you are flying in, set the airport as the pick-up and Ulcinj as the drop-off, which is a one-way and is priced as one.
Handover, airports, documents, insurance, Albania and the beach. The conditions on the car you choose are the final word on all of them.
Delivery to where you are staying is the usual arrangement, and the Post Office, Hotel Albatros and Doni Stoj are the fixed points with cars behind them. The point is set by the company you book with and shown on the car before you reserve.
Yes. Set Podgorica Airport or Tivat Airport as the pick-up and Ulcinj as the drop-off. They are separate places in the booking system, so it is a one-way and the price you are shown includes it.
A valid national driving licence with the details in Latin script, valid until at least the end of the rental, and not a copy or an electronic one. The deposit may require a physical embossed credit card in the main driver’s name; where a debit card is accepted it is stated during booking and on your voucher.
The wheels, undercarriage, windscreen and interior, and nothing at all if the damage is deliberate or the result of neglect. After any incident, tell the rental company immediately and get a police report unless they agree otherwise, or the cover on that car is cancelled.
Yes, with the cross-border add-on chosen when you book, on a car that offers it. Shkoder is about an hour from Ulcinj.
No. Rental cars are allowed on paved public roads only, so sand, dunes and unpaved tracks are outside the conditions. At Velika Plaza, use the signed access roads and stop where the sealed surface does.