About the project
Montenegro Guidebook is an independent travel publisher’s guide to Montenegro, written for people planning a trip from abroad and published in English and Russian. It has been coming out since June 2026 and now holds over 130 guides: attractions and beaches, cities and the Bay of Kotor, buses, trains and ferries, car rental and insurance, a restaurant directory, and ready-made routes.
We don’t write from memory and we don’t retell other people’s articles. Below is how topics are chosen, where every number comes from, how it is checked before publication, and who does the work.
How topics are chosen
A guide gets written when there is a real question behind it: what travelers search for before a trip to Montenegro - how to get from Podgorica or Tivat airport to the coast, whether you need a visa, what a rental car costs, when the sea is warm and when the beaches are empty. We look at search demand rather than picking topics at random, so the guide answers questions people bring, not questions we invented.
Where a guide is about places rather than logistics - restaurants, konobas, beaches, viewpoints - a place gets in only when several independent sources agree it is worth the trip. One good score while the others stay silent or negative isn’t a consensus for us. That filter works at the door, not on the page: the description, the details and the check date are our own work.
How every number is checked
Every price, timetable, distance and date in a guide traces back to a page published by the operator itself: the bus station, the railway, the ferry company, the national park, the ministry. That page and the date we read it are kept in the guide’s source list, so any figure can be followed back to where it came from.
Before publication an automated check runs through the text and stops the build if a number can’t be found on the operator page it is credited to. Aggregators, booking marketplaces and other people’s blogs don’t count as a source for a figure, however convenient they are. The domains that come up most often in our source lists are montenegro.travel, gov.me, nparkovi.me, busticket4.me and zpcg.me.
Photos and sources
Photographs come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences, with the author, the licence and a link to the original under every frame. Nothing is lifted from a booking site or someone else’s article.
Ratings and review counts belong to the platforms that collected them, so we don’t reprint them - to see the current score, follow the link to the source or the map. Prices and opening hours are guidelines as of the check date, not a promise: verify the details that matter to your money (the rental price, the deposit, the admission cost) on the operator’s side before you pay.
How the guide is made
Research and first drafts are done with AI tools; an editor sets the brief, checks the result against the sources and decides what gets published. The date of the last check is printed on every guide, and guides are revisited by season, because places close, timetables shift and prices drift.
Montenegro Guidebook is one of twelve country guides built and run on the same editorial system, with the same sourcing rules on each of them. The project is led by A. Kobtsev, whose name is in the footer of every page.
Affiliate links
Some links on the site are affiliate links: car rental, accommodation, tours, insurance, connectivity. If you follow such a link and book something, we get a small commission from the service. The price for you stays the same - and the project exists and is updated on these funds.
Partnership doesn’t affect selection: a place or a service makes it into the guide on its rating and its checked figures, not because it has an affiliate program. If it’s better or more honest to recommend an option without an affiliate link, we recommend it.