Tivat Airport to Bečići
About 22 km south; a taxi runs €28–38 and coastal buses via Budva cost under €8.
A two-kilometre beach immediately east of Budva, backed by large hotels and apartment blocks, with a coastal path around the headland into the old town.
Every way to get there
Our verdict: for Bečići, a private transfer is the easiest door-to-door option (from €55). Travelling light on a budget? The bus is cheapest (from €5) but slower, with a change in the city.
What it costs for your group
The bus is charged per person, while a taxi or private transfer is one price for the whole car — so the more of you there are, the better door-to-door value looks.
| Group | Bus (per person) | Private transfer | Best value |
|---|---|---|---|
| Solo · 1 traveller | €5 | €55 | Bus |
| Couple · 2 travellers | €10 | €55 | Bus |
| Family of 4 · 4 travellers | €20 | €55 | Bus |
Which option should you choose?
| If your priority is… | Our pick | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Lowest price | Bus | From €5, though slower with a change in the city. |
| Speed & comfort | Private transfer | Door-to-door, fixed price, a driver waiting for you. |
| A group of 3–4 | Transfer or taxi | One flat fare splits cheaper than several bus tickets. |
| A late-night arrival | Transfer or taxi | Both run 24/7 when buses and the tram have stopped. |
By transport mode
Taxi
Slightly more than the Budva fare because it is a few kilometres further round the bay. Confirm the price before departure.
Where to catch it: Half an hour over the ridge and past Budva. Hotels here have ordinary vehicle access.
Best for small groups in a hurryBus / shuttle
The coastal path from Budva old town to Bečići takes about twenty minutes and is the pleasantest way to cover the last stretch — but not with suitcases.
Where to catch it: Into Tivat, coastal bus to Budva, then a local service or a fifteen-minute walk round the headland path.
Best for solo & budget travellersPrivate transfer
Bečići is where most of the large hotel capacity on this coast sits, and the transfer market is built around that — shared coaches are often cheaper than a private car.
Where to catch it: Package arrivals are usually met here; check whether your holiday already includes it before booking separately.
Best for families, groups & late arrivalsCar rental
That parking is the practical argument for staying in Bečići rather than Budva if you want a car — the beach is better and the old town is a walk away.
Where to catch it: Most hotels here have their own parking, which Budva's old town does not.
Best for travellers who want to exploreBečići & Tivat in photos
Buying tickets in Tivat
Tivat is small and close to everything: Kotor 20 minutes, Budva 30, Porto Montenegro barely 10. The cheap way out is the Blue Line bus between Tivat and Kotor — roughly hourly from 06:00 to 22:00, €2 paid to the driver in cash, about an hour because it runs as a local service around the shore. Montenegro publishes official taxi tariffs, and for 2026 the figure to Kotor is €15, with Budva €25–35. That produces something unusual: the metered taxi is often cheaper than a pre-booked transfer, which start near €50 to Kotor and €60 to Budva — the reverse of almost every other airport here. One piece of local geography saves a great deal of time: the Kamenari–Lepetane ferry cuts across the narrows of the bay and runs continuously, turning Herceg Novi into a 40-minute trip instead of an hour and a half around the shore.
Taxi scams & safety in Tivat
The rule that matters at Tivat is about who approaches you. Licensed operators are prohibited from soliciting passengers inside the arrivals hall, so anyone who offers you a ride before you reach the official rank outside is, by definition, working outside the system. Walk past, use the rank or an app, and in peak summer agree a fixed price before setting off even where an official tariff exists. Because the published fares are low — €15 to Kotor — the gap between a legitimate fare and an opportunistic one is wide enough to be worth the thirty seconds it takes to ask. Two further points. Kotor's old town is entirely pedestrian and the bay road is a single lane each way that jams when cruise ships are in, so a hire car is a liability for a Kotor stay. And Montenegro is not in the EU despite using the euro: crossing into Croatia towards Dubrovnik or into Albania beyond Ulcinj needs explicit permission in the rental contract and green card insurance, not an assumption.
Getting from TIV to Bečići
Bečići has the beach that Budva does not — two kilometres of it, wide and shallow-shelving, backed by hotels rather than by an old town. It sits immediately east of Budva around a headland, twenty-two kilometres from Tivat Airport, and it is where most of the large hotel capacity on this coast actually is.
Getting there
Half an hour over the ridge and past Budva. A taxi runs €28 to €38 from the official rank — slightly more than the Budva fare because it is a few kilometres further round. Use the rank rather than anyone approaching you inside the terminal, which is the standing rule at Tivat.
The bus, and the walk
A local service into Tivat, a coastal bus to Budva, then either a short local hop or a fifteen-minute walk round the headland path. Under eight euros. The coastal path from Budva old town to Bečići is genuinely pleasant and genuinely not the thing to do with two suitcases.
Hotels with parking
This is the practical difference from Budva. Bečići's hotels are on ordinary roads with their own car parks, where Budva's old town has none and its modern seafront parking is scarce and expensive. If you are hiring a car for the interior, that changes the calculation.
The beach itself
Fine shingle rather than sand, shelving gently, with the usual apparatus of loungers, umbrellas and water sports concessions through the season. It has won awards in the past and it is genuinely one of the better beaches on this coast — which is why the hotels went here.
Budva, twenty minutes on foot
The coastal path around the Zavala headland connects the two, passing above small coves. It takes about twenty minutes and it is how most people staying here get to dinner and the old town. Buses run the same route in a few minutes.
Rafailovići, next door
The small village at the western end of the same beach, older and quieter, with fish restaurants along the water. It is where people who find Bečići's hotel strip impersonal tend to end up.
Package versus independent
A large share of Bečići's rooms are sold through tour operators with transfers included. Before booking a private car, check whether your holiday already covers it — and note that shared coach transfers here are often cheaper than a private vehicle, given the volume.
Eating
Hotel boards and beachfront restaurants dominate, at prices set for a captive audience. Rafailovići at one end and Budva at the other both do better, and both are walkable.
The season
July and August fill it completely. June and September have warm water and space. Outside those months a good share of the hotels close, and Bečići out of season is a strip of shuttered buildings by a very nice beach.
What is inland
The mountain road to Cetinje and Lovćen climbs from behind Budva, and the old royal capital is forty minutes up it. Skadar Lake, the largest in the Balkans, is an hour. Neither is served usefully by bus, which is the standing argument for a car in Montenegro.
The straightforward summary
Bečići is a beach with hotels attached, close to the airport, with parking and a walk into a proper old town. It is not characterful and does not claim to be — and for a family who want to swim, park a car and be twenty minutes from Budva when they feel like it, that combination is exactly right.
The name and the two ends
Bečići and Rafailovići share one continuous beach and the boundary between them is not marked on the ground — the western end is older and lower-rise, the eastern end is where the larger hotels stand. Booking "Bečići" can mean either, and the difference in atmosphere between the two ends is greater than the four hundred metres between them suggests.
Getting back for an early flight
Tivat is thirty minutes away and the airport's departures cluster in the morning, so a dawn taxi is the normal arrangement. Local buses do not start early enough to be useful for a first flight — arrange the car the night before rather than assuming one will be waiting outside the hotel at five.
