Rent a car in Montenegro

Rent a car in Montenegro and go on an independent trip through this small country means to see the diversity of its landscapes without spending a lot of time traveling by bus, visiting the maximum of sights, seeing cities and villages, looking into non-tourist places and getting to know the traditional way of life Montenegrins

The approximate cost of renting an economy-class car with insurance is 50 EUR per day

Take care when traveling in the mountainous regions of Montenegro - on the road can be found the pieces of rocks. When traveling in rural areas, it is worthwhile to be afraid of collision with large and small livestock.

Documents, insurance

For car rental in Montenegro you will need a passport and a national or international driving license. The driver must be at least 21 years old (in some companies 22 years) and have a driving experience of at least 2 years. For the car you will need to leave a deposit (approximately 300 €), you will not need a bank card. If you are planning to leave the territory of Montenegro on a rented car, be sure to notify the company manager.

There are no toll roads in Montenegro, as there are no highways of the proper quality. The environmental fee collected earlier when crossing the border was canceled from the beginning of 2012

The cost of car hire in Montenegro usually includes: unlimited mileage, CASCO insurance with a franchise (usually 200 EUR or 20% of the amount of damage), car insurance against franchise or without, third party insurance, compulsory third party liability insurance, international green card insurance, airport taxes, VAT. Additional paid rental of a child seat, GPS-navigator, trunk for bicycles or skis, insurance for a second driver, insurance KASKO without a franchise. No insurance covers the damage to the wheels and windscreen.

Fuel and refueling

Montenegrin refuellings can be refueled with 95 and 98 unleaded petrol and diesel fuel. Leaded gasoline is not for sale. It is allowed to transport gasoline in cans. When renting a car you have to return the car to the company with the same amount of gasoline in the tank with which it was issued to you. In the province, refueling is rare, and many of them are closed at night.

The price of gasoline in Montenegro is 1, 38 EUR per liter (July 2012). Current prices for petrol and diesel fuel in Austria can be viewed here.

Traffic regulations

The dipped beam must be used around the clock at any time of the year. Children under 5 years must be transported in special seats, children under 12 years are not allowed to ride in the front seat. The driver and all passengers must be fastened. The driver should not talk on the phone during the movement without the device releasing the hand. The use of studded tires is prohibited. The use of radar detectors is prohibited.

The speed limit in Montenegro. Location: 50 km / h. Outside the village: 80 km / h. Highway: 100 km / h. Motorway: 130 km / h.

Make sure that the car you rented is equipped with everything you need: an emergency stop sign, a first aid kit, a reflective vest, a set of spare lamps and winter tires and snow chains if the transaction occurs between 15 November to April 1.

In Montenegro, it is prohibited to overtake school buses when they stopped for boarding / disembarking of children

On a car in Montenegro

Fines

Montenegrin traffic police officers do not have the right to levy penalties on the spot . If you violated the traffic rules and got caught up in it (being a citizen of another state), the policeman draws up a document on the violation and withdraws the set of documents at his own discretion (it can be simultaneously a passport, rights and those . passport on the car) . Then you are given the date of appearance in court to the judge who works only with violations of traffic rules . There you are assigned a fine and issue a document with the details for payment at the bank or at the mail . If you managed to fill out the forms correctly and pay a fine, the judge will immediately return your documents to you . However, To avoid all this red tape and not to spoil you can try to "negotiate" with the policeman on the spot half the amount that threatens you with a fine, or even better - do not break it. .

The policeman can politely ask not to take your passport from you, if before the date of appearance in court you have planned an excursion to a neighboring state (Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina or Albania).

Theoretically, when driving a leased car and violating traffic rules, you are putting not only yourself, but also the company on which the car is registered. By law, the fine can be imposed not only on you, but on them (in much larger amounts), but in practice it is rarely applied to rental offices.

The alcohol content of the driver's blood in Montenegro is not allowed. Some new fines (adopted in 2012): excess speed - from 40 to 2 000 €; wrong parking - from 60 to 150 €; failure to use seat belts - from 40 to 100 €; talking on the phone without hands free - from 60 to 150 €; driving in a drunken state - from 70 to 2 000 EUR, arrest up to 60 days is possible; non-use of dipped beam headlights - from 30 to 80 €; violation of the rules of transportation of children - from 40 to 150 €; the presence of a radar detector in the car - up to 1 000 EUR

Paid roads

There are no toll roads in Montenegro, as there are no highways of the proper quality. The environmental fee that was collected earlier at the border crossing was canceled from the beginning of 2012. Paid travel in Montenegro only through the Sosin tunnel on the E80 motorway (2, 5 €) and on the ferry in the Boka Kotorsky Gulf (4 €).

Amazing Montenegro

The road of the park Lovchenhttp: //drive.google. com / uc? export = view & id = 1TCY5YjHjTKlPnurPmMKFG15dO6xBXd2p

Road in the clouds, Montenegrohttp: : //drive.google.com/uc? export = view & id = 1trdYp1IeGnlhIYWcIgPFVpqRrE7bqdUK

Parking places in Montenegro

In cities Montenegro has both paid parking lots and enough free parking spaces even for popular attractions

In parking lots with a barrier, payment is made at departure depending on the time of parking (about 1 EUR per hour in the afternoon and 4 EUR for the whole night) . At the same time, no one is responsible for your car . In Podgorica, parking will be cost 20-50 euro cents per hour, in the seaside territories - no less than 80 euro cents per hour . For parking in specially designated areas of streets, it is necessary to put so many parking tickets (a parking card) under the windshield, how many hours you plan to miss . . Such coupons are sold in newspaper stands at 0, 7 EUR per piece .

Leave the car in a paid parking lot, without other options, will be in front of the city gates of Kotor (parking on the waterfront, 0, 6 EUR per hour) and near the beach of the town of Sveti Stefan (parking on the waterfront - 1 EUR per hour.)

Car rental firms in Montenegro

Local companies: M Rent-A-Car, Adut Rent a Car, MneAuto.ru, Auto-Travel.me.

Rent a car in Kotor: Kotor Rent a Car.

International companies: Europcar, Sixt, Avis.

Rental brokers: Drivebookers, Euroavtoprokat.

All prices are for July 2012