Best Hotels in Kotor for Families

The finest address on the Bay of Kotor outside the Old Town walls — an 18th-century baroque palace on the Dobrota waterfront, its terrace restaurant stretching to the water's edge and its rooms opening directly onto bay views of staggering beauty. The restaurant is one of Montenegro's finest, and the combination of historic architecture, sea-level position, and exceptional food and service makes Forza Mare genuinely world-class.

• Luxury
• Bayfront
• Gastronomic
• Dobrota

A family-run gem on the Dobrota waterfront — 12 rooms and a breakfast terrace built out over the bay on stone pillars, where you eat beside moored wooden fishing boats and watch the Venetian towers of the Old Town reflected in perfect morning light. The warmth of the hospitality here rivals the beauty of the setting.

• Family-Run
• Budget
• Bayfront
• Authentic

A beautifully restored medieval townhouse just inside the Sea Gate, Hotel Astoria offers eight rooms of quiet refinement — exposed Venetian stonework, four-poster beds, and rain showers installed with architectural sensitivity in converted attic spaces. The intimate scale means service is genuinely attentive in a way that larger Old Town properties cannot match.

• Boutique
• Intimate
• Historic
• Old Town

Named for the seahorse — emblem of ancient Kotor — this small, characterful hotel within the Old Town walls offers rooms of genuine personality, a passionate owner who knows every corner of the bay, and the kind of intimate hospitality that only a truly independent boutique hotel can provide. An excellent base for island excursions and hikes to the St John's Fortress.

• Boutique
• Intimate
• Authentic
• Old Town

Taking its name from Kotor's Venetian designation — Cattaro — this sophisticated boutique hotel within the walls marries medieval stonework with warm contemporary design in a small collection of uniquely configured rooms and suites. The rooftop terrace, looking down into the maze of tiled rooftops and across to the bay, is where guests inevitably spend their evenings regardless of what else the Old Town has to offer.

• Boutique
• Rooftop
• Romantic
• Old Town