Finding your bed in Montenegro just got easier
Posted: Tuesday, 25 January 2011 by Jimmy Christ in Labels: hotels, Montenegro
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Beautiful Adriatic coastline, ancient monasteries, strong coffee and dramatic landscapes, within easy reach of Dubrovnik and Belgrade, Montenegro may be one of the smaller gems in the Balkans' diadem but it's starting to glitter more brightly than ever. One of the drawbacks was the the range of accommodation available to the budget traveller, small hotels and guest houses (or pensione), often lack a web presence and when they do you're often at the mercy of Google Translate, and awkward, often frustrating, pidgin emails bouncing back and forth as you try and plan your adventure in an online equivalent of Chinese Whispers.Visit Montenegro are taking steps to counter that and their new website, which aims to provide a database and booking tool, a one-stop-shop (if you'll excuse the cliché), where you can filter by type of hotel, star rating and location. It's modest right now, but hopefully the range will boom as small businesses cotton on and make themselves more accessible to the international traveller who'd otherwise hide within the linguistic Green Zone of the Ibis/Holiday Inn website – even though they're paying more money for a mediocre experience, and cheating themselves of the authentic Montenegro and its sometimes overwhelming (well, if you're English at least!) hospitality.
If there's one criticism of this work in progress, it's the lack of actual meat – tell us more about a hotel than its address and rating. Give us a review, a bit of warmth and some local spiel, and that'll make the difference between looking and booking.