Collect and return at Tivat
The simplest booking; the last morning includes the two-hour drive back. Set Tivat Airport as both places in the form.
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MONTENEGRO / TIVAT AIRPORT
Tivat Airport car rental,
and the two-hour run south.
Tivat Airport is 85 km from Ulcinj, about two hours down the coast. Collect and return here, or finish in Ulcinj, which counts as dropping the car somewhere else and takes the drive back out of the last day.
Land at TIV.
Decide where it goes back.
The airport and the town are separate places in the booking system, so a car collected here and returned in Ulcinj is a one-way and is priced as one. The ways to book it are below.
Collect here, return in Ulcinj
A one-way. The price you are shown once both places are set includes any one-way charge.
Search cars for your datesWhat to have with you
Your national licence in Latin script, not a copy, and the deposit card in the main driver’s name. Each car states its own minimum age and driving experience.
The full list, on the Podgorica Airport pageA number that is on when you land
The phone you book with has to stay reachable, including the day before pick-up. It is how the person meeting you makes contact.
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BEFORE YOU DRIVE OFF
At the handover,
check three things.
Photograph the parts the cover excludes
Wheels, windscreen, the underside and the interior sit outside standard insurance; record them at the handover.
Note the fuel level you are given
It goes back at the same level. Below it you pay the difference at the company’s rates, and above it you are not refunded.
Agree how to tell them if you run over
Extending is allowed if you inform the rental company in advance. Ask at the handover how to reach them.
Which airport suits
your week?
Tivat is the further of the two by about half an hour.
Tivat or Podgorica
Tivat Airport is 85 km from Ulcinj and about two hours. Podgorica Airport is 75 km and about an hour and a half. The difference between them is about half an hour of coast road.
If the car is coming back to the airport you flew into, the transfer is driven twice, and the shorter run from Podgorica saves time in both directions. If the car is left in Ulcinj at the end, there is no return leg.
Leaving it in Ulcinj is a one-way, because the airport and the town are separate cities in the booking system, and it is priced as one. It removes an 85 km drive from the day you fly. The search shows the difference as soon as both places are set.
Landing late
The conditions require the phone number you gave at booking, with its country code, to be reachable throughout the rental and on the day before you collect, including on WhatsApp, Viber or Telegram. That is how the person meeting you makes contact, and service complaints about the collection cannot be taken up if nobody could reach you.
Give a number that will be switched on when you land, with roaming. Here, collecting a car in Ulcinj and at the airports that serve it usually means meeting a person at a time agreed with you, at a place the company you book with sets and states on the car.
The minimum chargeable period is twenty-four hours and rentals run in whole days, not in hours: a car taken on Monday morning and returned on Tuesday afternoon is two days. A late-evening collection still counts as a full day.
Extending, fuel and charges
If the trip stretches, tell the rental company before the rental ends rather than after. Extending is allowed and the conditions ask that you inform the agent in advance.
Fuel comes back at the level you were given. Lower and you pay the difference at the company’s rates; higher and you are not refunded. Fuel, parking, fines and tolls are all the renter’s during the rental, and both roads south from here collect something: the coast route runs the length of the riviera at Budva and its parking, the inland route takes the tolled Sozina tunnel.
If Albania is in the plan, add the cross-border option when you book, on a car that offers it. Ulcinj is about half an hour from the Sukobin crossing.
The drive itself
South from the airport the road runs down the coast through Budva, Sveti Stefan and Bar before it reaches Ulcinj. It is the slower of the two airport transfers, and in July and August the stretch through Sutomore has the heaviest traffic. Allow two hours.
The inland alternative crosses to the Sozina tunnel, which carries a toll.
Returning the car at Tivat
If Tivat is the drop-off as well as the pick-up, the last morning starts with a two-hour drive. Allow for summer traffic through Sutomore and refuel before the airport.
A car returned so dirty that it hinders inspection is washed at the customer’s expense.
These cars are allowed on paved public roads only. Both routes to the airport are paved. The tracks south of town that turn to sand are outside the conditions.
If a dog is travelling with you, the conditions allow small pets only and ask that they stay in their carriers for the whole journey.
What do people ask
before they book?
Answers about collecting at Tivat Airport and getting the car to Ulcinj.
Should I fly into Tivat or Podgorica for Ulcinj?
Podgorica is 75 km and about an hour and a half; Tivat is 85 km and about two hours. Half an hour of coast road separates them. If the car goes back to the airport, the transfer is driven twice.
Is it a one-way if I return the car in Ulcinj?
Yes. The airport and the town are different cities in the booking system, so that is a one-way and is priced as one. Set both places in the form and the search shows the difference.
What if my flight is delayed?
Keep the phone number you booked with reachable, with its country code, throughout the rental and on the day before pick-up. That is how the person meeting you makes contact, and it is a condition of the booking.
Can I keep the car longer than I booked?
Yes, if you inform the rental company in advance. Rentals are counted in whole days with a twenty-four hour minimum, so an afternoon return the following day is a second full day.