Airport in, town out
Collect at Podgorica or Tivat and finish in Ulcinj.
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MONTENEGRO / ONE-WAY
One-way car rental,
and how it is priced.
Different pick-up and drop-off towns make a booking a one-way. The airports count as separate places from Ulcinj, so collecting the car at Podgorica Airport and driving south is one of them.
Two places,
one booking.
Set the pick-up and the drop-off separately in the form and the search prices the whole thing, one-way charge included, before you commit to anything.
Town in, airport out
The same thing in reverse, for a trip that starts on the coast and ends with a flight. Both directions were measured and both are served.
Search cars for your datesAlong the coast
Bar, Sutomore, Budva and the towns around them are all separate places in the system, so finishing the trip further north is a one-way too.
Car rental in BudvaWhat does not count
Where the keys change hands inside a town. A delivery to your apartment and a fixed address are both Ulcinj, and neither makes the booking a one-way.
Pickup and deliveryOne coast, and every town on it is its own place in the system.
BEFORE YOU BOOK
Three things
to check first.
Put both places in before you judge the price
The search prices the one-way for your dates. No figure is published here.
Count the days, not the hours
Rentals run in whole days with a twenty-four hour minimum, so a late drop at the far end can be another day.
Confirm both ends of the arrangement
A one-way is two appointments rather than one. Keep the phone you booked with reachable so both can be confirmed.
What makes a booking
a one-way?
It is a normal booking with two different places in it.
What makes a booking a one-way
The booking system treats each town as its own city, and a booking is a one-way whenever the pick-up city and the drop-off city are different. The airports are separate cities too, so collecting at one of them and giving the car back in Ulcinj is a one-way. The same is true of the other airport, where collecting at Tivat Airport and finishing in the town is a different city at each end, so it is priced as a one-way as well.
What does not make a booking a one-way is where the car is handed over inside a town. A delivery to your apartment and a collection at a fixed address are both Ulcinj, so where the keys change hands changes nothing about the price of the booking.
Which places you can leave it in
The drop-off list contains the places with cars in both directions in the measured booking window.
That covers the coast from Ulcinj up through Bar, Dobre Vode, Sutomore, Budva and the towns around it, Petrovac and Sveti Stefan among them, along with Podgorica and Tivat inland and on the bay, and Kolasin and Zabljak in the mountains. Places offered by the system with no cars behind them are not on the list.
Every place in it is Montenegrin, so a one-way means one Montenegrin town to another, and a hire car taken into Albania comes back with you. That trip is an add-on chosen when you book, and what the border post wants to see is set out on a page of its own.
The one-way charge
There is usually a charge; no figure is given here, because it depends on the dates and the two places. Put the pick-up and the drop-off in, and the price you are shown includes whatever the one-way costs.
A one-way removes the drive back to the pick-up point, such as an airport on the day you fly.
From Ulcinj, Tivat Airport is about two hours up the coast.
A rental runs in whole days with a twenty-four hour minimum, so a car handed back at an airport at nine in the morning and one handed back in town at four in the afternoon can be the same number of days on the invoice.
What a one-way does not change
Everything else about the rental is the same as it would be for hiring the car in Ulcinj and bringing it back to the same street. The conditions are the same, the cover is the same, and the deposit and the documents are the same as well.
So: a valid national licence with the details in Latin script, not a copy and not an electronic one; the deposit card physical and in the main driver’s name; and the phone number you booked with reachable throughout the rental and on the day before pick-up.
Fuel comes back at the level you were given, wherever you give it back. Time runs in whole days with a twenty-four hour minimum, so a one-way that finishes an hour into the eighth day is an eight-day rental.
What do people ask
before they book?
Answers about collecting a car in one place and leaving it in another.
Which cities can I leave the car in?
The towns in the drop-off list: the coast from Ulcinj up past Bar, Sutomore and Budva to Petrovac and Sveti Stefan, plus Podgorica, Tivat, Kolasin and Zabljak. All of them are in Montenegro.
Does a one-way cost more?
Usually there is a charge, and the search shows it once both places are set. No figure is published here, because it depends on your dates and your two towns.
Is collecting at an airport a one-way?
Yes, if you give the car back somewhere else. The airports are separate cities from Ulcinj in the booking system, so an airport collection and a town drop-off is a one-way and is priced as one.
Can I leave it in another country?
Not through this site: every drop-off point it offers is Montenegrin, so a one-way booked here finishes in Montenegro. You can take the car into Albania with the cross-border add-on chosen when you book, and it comes back with you.