/
Montenegro
/
Kotor Municipality
/
Kotor
/
Tours & Activities
/
Kotor Bay Day Trip from Dubrovnik with Boat Ride to Lady of the Rock
1 day
Full Day
Instant confirmation
About this activity
Kotor is surrounded by lofty mountains which peer over its Bay of Kotor, Europe's southernmost fjord. As the Mediterranean's only fjord, this bay was added to the list of the twenty five most beautiful bays in July 2000.
You will be picked from your hotel (or pick up point) in Dubrovnik and then enjoy the tour in a new Mercedes, air-conditioned minibus with an English/Spanish speaking guide. Once you arrive at the Croatian-Montenegro border, you will need to be sure you have your passport with you.
Once you cross the border, enjoy a panoramic drive around the Bay of Kotor. Boka Kotorska will fascinate you. It looks as if the mountains have cracked and let the sea in. This is the southernmost fjord in Europe. The bay is all natural. Admire its beautiful small towns as treasuries of history, art, and beauty, that are strung like pearls on its coastline.
Your next stop is Perast, the ancient village. It is rich in Venice-like architecture which includes sixteen Baroque palaces, seventeen Catholic churches, several important Orthodox structures, and a series of nine defensive towers. The highlights are twin islands of St George and Our Lady of the Rocks. Both are religious pilgrimage sites.This tour includes a boat ride to Our Lady of the Rocks, which was artificially created in the 15th century around a rock where an image of the Madonna was found. Every year on July 22, the locals row over with stones to continue the task.
You will arrive in Kotor around noon. Kotor is located in a dramatic and secluded Mediterranean Bay (at the head of southern Europe's deepest fjord), and it is one of Montenegro's most picturesque cities. For centuries, it has been a crossroads of commercial roads under the strong influence of Venice. It is protected by mountains with a strong defense structure built during the time of Byzantine Empire. You can start wandering through Stari Grad (Old Town) and exploring its cobbled lane ways and atmospheric squares. Visit St. Tryphon Cathedral. The Old Town is included in UNESCO Natural and Cultural list. You will have 2 hours free time to experience the allure of this beautiful town.
Read more
Show less
You will be picked from your hotel (or pick up point) in Dubrovnik and then enjoy the tour in a new Mercedes, air-conditioned minibus with an English/Spanish speaking guide. Once you arrive at the Croatian-Montenegro border, you will need to be sure you have your passport with you.
Once you cross the border, enjoy a panoramic drive around the Bay of Kotor. Boka Kotorska will fascinate you. It looks as if the mountains have cracked and let the sea in. This is the southernmost fjord in Europe. The bay is all natural. Admire its beautiful small towns as treasuries of history, art, and beauty, that are strung like pearls on its coastline.
Your next stop is Perast, the ancient village. It is rich in Venice-like architecture which includes sixteen Baroque palaces, seventeen Catholic churches, several important Orthodox structures, and a series of nine defensive towers. The highlights are twin islands of St George and Our Lady of the Rocks. Both are religious pilgrimage sites.This tour includes a boat ride to Our Lady of the Rocks, which was artificially created in the 15th century around a rock where an image of the Madonna was found. Every year on July 22, the locals row over with stones to continue the task.
You will arrive in Kotor around noon. Kotor is located in a dramatic and secluded Mediterranean Bay (at the head of southern Europe's deepest fjord), and it is one of Montenegro's most picturesque cities. For centuries, it has been a crossroads of commercial roads under the strong influence of Venice. It is protected by mountains with a strong defense structure built during the time of Byzantine Empire. You can start wandering through Stari Grad (Old Town) and exploring its cobbled lane ways and atmospheric squares. Visit St. Tryphon Cathedral. The Old Town is included in UNESCO Natural and Cultural list. You will have 2 hours free time to experience the allure of this beautiful town.
Included
- English speaking tour guide
- Hotel or any bus stations pickup and drop-off
- Driver/guide
- Boat ride to the Lady of the Rock
Not included
- Food and drinks
- Gratuities
Additional
- Confirmation will be received at time of booking
- A current valid passport is required on the day of travel
- Due to the safety of our clients, supplier can change day before the tour transportation from boat to coach in case of bad weather conditions for the next day ( wind or rain) in that case tour will run by coach and boat ride will be provided from Perast to the island of Our Lady of the Rocks.* In case of total cancellation by supplier, clients will be given total refund.
- Please make sure you write us correct email adress and full phone number with dial number for your country.
- Passport name, number, expiry and country is required at time of booking for all participants. Please enter this information in the Special Requirements box
- A current valid passport is required on the day of travel
- Please check and obtain any visa requirements prior to border crossing. (Please check Montenegro Country list and Visa Regimes)
- Please specify the name of your hotel or private accomodation (contact telephone number or address) in Dubrovnik. We require this information so we can notice you, if there are changes in the tour departure times.
- The tours include English/Spanish speaking guide in the bus and the english speaking local guide
- Not wheelchair accessible
- Near public transportation
- Infant seats available
- Not recommended for pregnant travelers
- All clients with no adress of Dubrovnik accommodation provided when booking untill 12 hours before the tour, are kindly asked to confirm pick up at one of two central meeting locations: 1.) CABLE CAR STATION in Petra Krešimira IV street at 07:20 2.) PLOČE GATE BUS STOP ( East gate bus stop) at 07:30 Please note that we are no longer allowed to stop in front of PILE GATE from 2019. Valid travel documents are mandatory for this tour!
- Most travelers can participate
- This experience requires good weather. If it’s canceled due to poor weather, you’ll be offered a different date or a full refund
- This experience requires a minimum number of travelers. If it’s canceled because the minimum isn’t met, you’ll be offered a different date/experience or a full refund
Features
Tourism
90%
Cultural
60%
Reviews
Similar activities in Kotor
Click to discover other experiences
A day trip from Dubrovnik.A straight forward drive and not much of a delay at customs both ways. Beautiful scenery en-route.The bay of Kotor is stunning with a must visit to Lady of the Rock. A full day is required to see the sights in Kotor.
The 2 cities we visited were stunning and the boat ride to the island is something you definitely need to do. The tour guide was nothing special though and i was a little bummed that in Kotor city there was no group tour explaining the area. She just left us and told us to meet back at the bus...I was expecting a walking tour :( But overall everything went smoothly and we were very happy.
My husband and I went on this day trip to Montenegro 8/3/19. The good - our guide, Rosa, was engaging and informative. The drive was lovely, and the border crossings were not bad at all. From the other reviews we read, we were expecting to be delayed at the borders pretty significantly, but it was no problem for our tour. We loved Perast - in fact, we really would have liked some more time there. We only had 20 minutes at Lady of the Rock, and there were so many interesting things to see. The boat ride from Perast to Kotor was fun, but honestly, we could have done without visiting Kotor. It was nice, but very touristy, and we didn't need the two and half hours we were given to walk around. Our overall feeling - if you have more than one extra day in Dubrovnik, and haven't visited Montenegro before, it's a good trip. But we had a short vacation as it was, and I think we would have preferred an extra day in Dubrovnik.
very good day trip guide petra very professional and informaltive plus our driver aswell would recommend this trip
The guides were knowledgeable especially the local guide in Montenegro. There is so much to see and timw is well allocated
I loved my day trip to Montenegro. This tiny country with only 600,000 people are a powerhouse. They have also managed to make its official currency the Euro and it's not in the EU. I learnt a lot about the history of Montenegro from our Tour Guides, one from Croatia and a local lady from Montenegro. They were both super informative, friendly and professional. Our driver was excellent too. He took a short cut, so we went to the new immigration and it was extremely quick. Everything was perfect about this tour and I fully recommend it.
This was a very enjoyable tour from Dubrovnik to Kotor Bay in Montenegro. It's about a 2 and a half hour trip on the mini bus. The journey is scenic and Kotor bay is beautiful. Kotor itself is also lovely. It is within city walls and is not too big, so quite easy to walk around and do the main sites. If you walk the walls though it is quite hilly! We didn't do this as we felt time was too tight. Our guide gave us a map of Kotor and this was easily navigable. However, a local guide would have been useful to provide information and find our way around a bit easier.
This rating has no real reflection on the tour operator Select. This was a professional and well run tour. The guide was good, and they did an excellent job of getting you from point A to point B and back again. It's a long day and the Croatian Montenegran border delays can be susbstantial. We probably burned about an hour and a half at the border between arrival and departure and that was apparently making really good time. You are warned the tour starts really quite early just for this purpose so fair enough. The reason for the average rating is that Kotor itself is pretty underwhelming. It's a tour from Dubrovnik so you've already seen an old walled city and a much nicer one with more to see in it at this point. Kotor is really just a lesser version of Dubronik which is in a poorer country. The cats there are nice to see and my wife enjoyed playing with them. There are a few nice churches but in the scheme of ornate and memorable European churches they are nothing special. Mostly the town is full of Turkish stores trying to hawk you knock off brand name goods at fairly ridiculous prices. Hundreds of Euros for counterfeit merchandise really? You are offered the same stuff in Spain or Italy for a fraction of the price so don't bother. The church in the water by Perast makes for some lovely photos. But overall I'd say unless you have some special reason to really, really want to go like a familial link to this area I wouldn't bother. There isn't alot to see and do. However, if you are going to go this company select does a good job of getting you back and forth.
This tour was amazing!
We took this trip on a very hot day. The bus was full and the A/C couldn't keep up. Crossing the border into Montenegro was time consuming, fully 40 minutes each way. The boat ride was confusing. We arrived at one end of the island and were to be picked up on the other end. The church was crowded with other tours and if the tour guide didn't have reservations we didn't you couldn't go in the church in the time allotted. Kotor was very similar to Dubrovnik except we were there in the middle of the day when it was crowded and very hot. Budva is where we were scheduled to eat. We ate at a beach front restaurant. Obviously the local economy is catered toward the Russians who like to vacation there. All in all, I would have rather stayed in Dubrovnik. Oh well another passport stamp.
We wanted to see Kotor and in particular to do the boat trip to Lady of the Rock. Both these were excellent and we would have preferred to have more time at these places. Also included was a visit to Budva which was not so worthwhile, the resort has a small old town but is basically a beach resort with not a lot to see. We would have preferred to spend more time in Perast as the boat trip to the Lady of the Rock took up the whole of the time for this stop. The trip was well organised although the microphone system on the bus couldn't be heard at the back this mean't information was not available to anyone not sitting at the front. Overall we enjoyed the trip and it was well worth doing and border crossings were swifter than expected.
If you plan to go to Montenegro, choose this group tour. This tour is truly a smaller group than the others. We were in a luxury Mercedes van about 18 people. We only waited half an hour in late Aug at the border passport check between Croatia and Montenegro. We heard other horror stories from the other tourists we met in Croatia that they were stuck up to 2 1/2 hours at the border because they were on the big bus with 50 people. There are apparently two passport borders. Because our mini van is small, we were able to pass through the second border control by the coast. Big buses are not allowed there. Lady of rock and Kotor are beautiful. We also stopped in Budva but we only had 1.5 hours there which took most of our lunch time so didn't get to see much. I probably would have dropped Budva if there's an option for Kotor and Lady of Rock only. Or bring your lunch, eat on the bus if you want to do sight seeing in Budva.