Add the cross-border option when you book
Choose a car that offers it and add it in the booking. Its fee is shown on that car.
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MONTENEGRO / ALBANIA
Ulcinj to Shkoder,
about an hour by car.
Forty-one kilometres, with the Sukobin crossing halfway and the river island at the border on the same water. Taking a hire car out of the country is an add-on chosen when you book.
One hour south,
with the crossing added.
The booking is the same, with the cross-border add-on chosen on the car.
Carry the licence itself
A valid national licence with the details in Latin script, not a copy and not an electronic one. An International Driving Permit is strongly recommended if yours is only valid at home.
Read the conditionsAllow an hour each way
Forty-one kilometres, with the crossing at Sukobin about halfway. Both routing engines agree on this leg exactly.
The route in fullKeep the phone on
The number you booked with has to stay reachable throughout the rental.
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Forty-one kilometres, and the border is halfway.BEFORE YOU DRIVE OFF
At the handover,
check three things.
Check the cross-border add-on is on the rental
Confirm at the handover that the cross-border add-on you chose is on the rental.
Photograph what the cover excludes
Wheels, windscreen, the underside and the interior sit outside standard insurance on both sides of the river.
Check the fuel level
It comes back at the level you were given, and fuel bought in another country counts the same as fuel bought here.
Can you take the car
into Albania?
Shkoder is closer to Ulcinj than Budva is. Taking a hire car across is an add-on chosen when you book.
What to add when you book
Crossing into Albania is an add-on in the booking. So the car for the crossing has to be one that offers the cross-border option, with the option added when you reserve.
The fee for the add-on is shown on the car, and it is set by the company that owns it rather than by this site.
The crossing’s opening hours, whether it takes hire cars and the waiting times quoted for August have not been established. What is established about driving from Montenegro into Albania is collected on a separate page.
The route
Shkoder is 41 km from Ulcinj and about an hour, and both routing engines agree on it exactly, in both directions. The crossing is at Sukobin on this side and Muriqan on the other, about 24 km and half an hour from Ulcinj, on the river: the Bojana here, the Buna over there.
The border is about halfway. Tirana is 133 km and about two and three quarter hours, with the airport a little nearer at 119 km and about two and a half.
The road down to the crossing runs past the river mouth. It sits on the same water, on the Montenegrin side, about forty minutes from town.
What you carry across
At the border the same licence rule applies: a valid national licence with the details duplicated in Latin script, valid until at least the end of the rental, and not a copy or an electronic one. If your licence is only valid in the country that issued it, an International Driving Permit is strongly recommended and may be asked for.
Keep the phone reachable, with its country code, throughout the rental. It is a condition of the booking.
Fuel, parking, fines and tolls stay yours for the rental wherever the car is, and the conditions apply in both countries. Standard cover still excludes the wheels, undercarriage, windscreen and interior on the far side of the river as well as on this one.
Half an hour from Ulcinj to the crossing, whatever the crossing itself takes, and half an hour on the other side.
If the trip runs longer, tell the rental company before the rental ends. Extending is allowed with advance notice, and rentals are counted in whole days with a twenty-four hour minimum, so an unplanned night on the far side of the border is another full day rather than a few hours.
Leaving the car in Albania
For flights out of Tirana, leaving it on the far side is not possible through this site. The pick-up and drop-off points this site offers are Montenegrin, so a one-way booked here means one Montenegrin city to another, and the car comes home.
Ulcinj to Tirana Airport is about two and a half hours each way.
What do people ask
before they book?
Answers about taking a hire car from Ulcinj into Albania.
Can I take the car into Albania?
Yes, with the cross-border add-on chosen when you book, on a car that offers it.
What has to be added when booking?
The cross-border option, on a car that offers it. Its fee is shown on that car.
How far is Shkoder from Ulcinj?
Forty-one kilometres and about an hour, with the Sukobin crossing about halfway at 24 km. Both routing engines agree on this leg exactly, in both directions.
Can I leave the car in Albania?
Not through this site: the pick-up and drop-off points it offers are Montenegrin, so a one-way booked here means one Montenegrin city to another. Tirana Airport is about two and a half hours from Ulcinj if you are working out a last day.