Pržno and Miločer, the royal corner of the riviera

Pržno is where the Budva Riviera dresses up without entirely losing its village feel. It was a fishing village and is now a smart resort, with a small beach, houses turned into apartments and restaurants practically on the sand. Right next to it is Miločer, which is, to my mind, the loveliest corner of the whole Budva coast.

Pržno beach

The Budva tourist board describes a beach of sand with some rock, 260 metres long and 4,300 m², in front of the village. Olive groves sit behind it and, along the shore, upmarket houses with rooms and apartments, several restaurants and the Maestral hotel. Its great virtue is the aspect, because it faces west and keeps the sun to the very end, so it’s the beach I’d return to in the afternoon, after a morning on the busier sand at Bečići or Sveti Stefan. Along the front are restaurants from the official list such as Langust, Blanche and Konoba Zago, which you’ll find in restaurants in Budva.

Miločer, the royal park

Around the Miločer hotel, built as the summer residence of the Yugoslav Karađorđević dynasty, a garden of exotic trees and flowers grew up over the decades. The tourist board lists Lebanese cedar, eucalyptus, tropical mimosa, Japanese medlar, cactus, agave and pittosporum alongside the local Mediterranean planting. The tourist board’s own history of Budva dates the palace to 1935 and credits it with putting these beaches on the international map. Today the villa, once Queen Maria’s home, is part of the Aman, which I cover under Aman Sveti Stefan.

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The two royal beaches

In front of the park are the two beaches I like most on the riviera. King’s Beach is 280 metres and 7,400 m² of fine sand, named after King Alexander of Yugoslavia, and the tourist board ranks it in the top category for this stretch of the Adriatic. Queen’s Beach is 200 metres in a cove surrounded by greenery at the park entrance, and was Queen Maria’s favourite. I compare them with all the others in beaches in Budva.

Kamenovo, on the other side

Towards Budva, between Pržno and Bečići, lies Kamenovo, a 330-metre sandy beach backed by Mediterranean scrub and olives, with parking nearby and bars that throw daytime parties in summer. A seafront path links it to Bečići and Budva, so from Pržno you can walk into town without touching the main road. For the after-dark side, see Montenegro nightlife.

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Getting there and staying

Buses on the Budva to Sveti Stefan town line call at Miločer and the village through the day and well into the night, the last around 01:30. The Budva tourist board gives five stars to the Maestral and the small Miločer hotel, and the village, with just 134 residents in the preliminary 2023 census, fills up in summer with houses let as apartments. Just to the south, a short walk away, is Sveti Stefan.

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