Tivat Car Hire: Compare Cheap Rental Deals
Cars from local suppliers three kilometres from the terminal, on the doorstep of the Bay of Kotor.
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A small airport with an unusually large fleet
Tivat has one runway and a terminal you can walk out of in four minutes, and behind it sit around five hundred rental cars. That ratio is the whole story of this place: almost nobody flies here to stay in Tivat, they fly here to drive somewhere else along the bay.
3 km
From the terminal to the town
One of the shortest airport transfers in Europe. The handover happens minutes from where you land, not at a depot on a ring road.
394
Of the 500 cars are automatic
Nearly four in five. On the hairpins above Kotor that is not a luxury, and here you are not paying a premium for it.
78
Cars with no deposit at all
Not a marketing category here but a real slice of the fleet, from 29 EUR a day. Most coastal markets cannot say that.
481
Come with unlimited kilometres
Which matters, because the good roads out of here are long ones and a capped car stops being cheap on the second day.
What a car costs, by class
Four bands, counted from the cars on this page. The cheapest column is the entry price for that band; the median is the number to plan around, because the very cheapest car in any class is the first to go.
Four things the map will not tell you
The ferry is usually the right answer
The Bay of Kotor nearly closes at the Verige strait, and the Kamenari to Lepetane ferry crosses it in about ten minutes. Heading west or north, that saves roughly twenty-five kilometres of winding shoreline. It runs through the day, you queue on the road, and you pay at the barrier.
Distances lie by about half
Kotor is twenty kilometres away and takes forty minutes. The coast road is single carriageway, it threads through villages, and in August it carries every car that landed this morning. Double whatever the distance suggests and you will be about right.
Leaving the country needs paperwork
Croatia is ninety minutes away and Bosnia not much further, but a hire car does not simply drive across. You need the supplier's written permission and a green card, arranged before you travel rather than at the barrier. There is a page on exactly that.
Parking is the real constraint
No car enters the walled old town of Kotor, and the car parks outside it fill by mid morning in season. Budva is the same. A smaller car is worth more here than a bigger one, which is the opposite of the usual advice.
Who you are actually booking with
Car Hire Tivat compares cars, it does not own them. Every vehicle listed here belongs to an operator based around the bay, and the agreement you sign at the handover is with whichever of them you pick. We hold no money and have no reason to favour one over another.
In a market this size that structure matters more than usual. Tivat has no room for a row of international counters, so the fleet is made up of local businesses running between twenty and a hundred cars each. They service what they rent, they meet you themselves, and their prices are set against each other rather than against a global rate card.
The trade is that terms genuinely differ between them. Fuel policy, mileage, the excess and whether a card must be a credit card are set per supplier, not per country. All of it is on the listing before you commit, and 179 of the cars here can be cancelled free of charge if plans move.
Questions people ask before booking
For one town, no. Kotor, Budva and the bay towns all work on foot once you are in them, and buses connect the coast. A car earns its place the moment you want Perast in the morning and Lovcen in the afternoon, or anywhere the timetable does not sensibly reach. Plenty of visitors here rent for the middle of the trip rather than all of it.
Yes. It is about three kilometres from the terminal to the middle of town, which is unusual even by the standards of small airports. The practical effect is that the handover is quick and you are on the coast road within minutes rather than after a shuttle ride.
Euros. Montenegro uses the euro even though it is not in the European Union, so the prices you see here are the prices you pay and there is no conversion to think about.
A national licence in Latin script is accepted for short visits from the EU, the UK and most of Europe. If yours is in Cyrillic or another script, bring an International Driving Permit alongside it. The main driver also needs a passport and a payment card in their own name.
For July and August, as early as you can bear. This is a coastal market with a fixed fleet and a short season, so the cheap end sells out first and what is left in high summer is not the 28 EUR car. Outside those months a week or two is usually enough.
See what is free on your dates
The list above is live. On a coast this seasonal the only number that means anything is the one for the week you are actually coming.
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