Volkswagen
Volkswagen Golf
A five-seat automatic compact. Virpazar on Lake Skadar is 50 km from Ulcinj, by way of the climb up to the lake road. It is the most consistently listed compact at Ulcinj across the windows measured.
Before you reserve
Read the deposit, the payment method and the cover on the car itself. Age and driving experience are set per car. An airport pick-up with an Ulcinj return is a one-way and is priced as one.
At collection
The licence itself in Latin script, the deposit card in the main driver’s name, and photographs of the wheels, windscreen and underside before anybody leaves.
Out on the coast
Paved public roads only, inland as well as on the coast. The Sozina tunnel carries a charge and tolls are the renter’s.
When is a compact
the right size?
The Golf is a five-seat compact, automatic on the Ulcinj listings.
What the feed establishes
A five-seat compact, automatic on the ones listed here, with model years across the feed running from 2013 to 2026, and the most consistently listed car of its size at Ulcinj in every window we measured.
The cars page lists the size classes above and below it.
Inland
The road from Ulcinj to the capital is 78 km and about an hour and forty minutes. It leaves the coast and runs through the Sozina tunnel, and the run down onto the Zeta plain is at the far end.
Halfway along, Virpazar is 50 km from Ulcinj and about sixty-five minutes. Beyond it, on the southern shore, the two routing engines disagree by twenty minutes over the same distance.
The inland main road runs through towns, and what the surface is like inland is covered in the driving guide.
Four people
The airport transfers are 75 km and about an hour and a half from Podgorica, and 85 km and about two hours from Tivat.
Each listing states its seats, and a car for a longer stay is booked the same way as for a shorter one.
The coast
Bar is about forty minutes north, Sutomore about fifty, Sveti Stefan about eighty-five and Budva about ninety, all on the same single carriageway through one town after another.
Running costs
Fuel, parking, fines and tolls sit with the renter for the whole rental. Inland that means the Sozina tunnel; the alternative is the old road over the pass, which is slower.
Fuel goes back at the level it was given, with the difference charged at the company’s rates if it is lower and nothing back if it is higher.
The conditions that do not change with the car
Standard cover excludes the wheels, the undercarriage, the windscreen and the interior on this car as on every other one here, and the paved-roads-only rule applies to every car. If anything happens, tell the rental company immediately and get a police report unless they agree otherwise, because failing to do either cancels the insurance on the car.
Age and driving experience are set per car, and two similar compacts can ask for different things, so the requirement is on the listing.
What do people ask
before they book this one?
The questions that decide a rental here. The conditions on the car you choose are the final word.
What documents do I need at pick-up?
A valid national driving licence with the details in Latin script, valid until at least the end of the rental. Copies and electronic licences are not accepted.
What card does the deposit need?
Often 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.
Is this a better car for the mountains?
The conditions are the same for every car: paved public roads only.
What does the drive to Podgorica involve?
Seventy-eight kilometres and about an hour and forty minutes by the direct road, which runs through the Sozina tunnel. The tunnel carries a charge and tolls are the renter’s.
Is there a minimum age for this car?
Age and driving experience are set per car rather than across the fleet, so the requirement is on the car itself, and the filters hide the ones you do not qualify for.
Can I finish the rental somewhere else?
Yes. Different pick-up and drop-off towns make it a one-way, and the search prices it once both places are set.