Pick the car up in one town and drop it off in another, anywhere inside Montenegro.
One-way rental means picking the car up in one town and leaving it in another. On the Budva network that covers every town and airport shown on the pickup map, and every drop-off point in between. A small one-way fee is added at checkout to move the car back into rotation.
The most common one-way trips from Budva are the airport handovers: pick up at Tivat and drop at Podgorica, or the reverse. Coast-to-inland runs (Budva to Podgorica, Kotor to Nikšić) work the same way.
The checkout page has separate fields for the pickup location and the drop-off location. Set them independently and the platform prices the one-way fee alongside the daily rate. Availability drops off in the smallest towns; if the route you want is not offered on the car you have picked, try a car from a different supplier or move the drop-off one town closer to a hub.
Set pickup and drop-off separately, then pick your dates.
One-way fee shown before you pay
The Budva-side network reaches from the Croatian border down to the Albanian one and inland to the capital. Each region has its own set of pickup and drop-off points; a one-way trip can pair any two of them.
Three airports carry pickup and drop-off: Tivat is the closest to Budva and the busiest for coastal handovers. Podgorica handles inland arrivals and works well as a drop-off after a Durmitor or Ostrog trip. Dubrovnik is only a pickup point from a Budva base; leaving a car in Croatia is not available.
The coast itself carries the widest network. Pickup and drop-off in Budva happens at your hotel or apartment, at the bus terminal, at Hipermarket HDL car park, and along the Bečići strip. Sveti Stefan, Pržno and Petrovac all have signed drop-off points too, so a coast-hopping trip can end wherever the last night is booked.
Round the bay, Kotor takes cars at the Kamelija mall car park and the bus terminal, Tivat along the Porto Montenegro strip, Perast at either village car park, and Herceg Novi at the seafront hotels and the bus station near the Croatian crossing.
One rule to note before you plan a cross-border trip:
For trips that cross a border and end elsewhere, the pattern is: rent for the outbound leg, return the car in Montenegro on the way back, and connect on to your onward flight from Tivat, Podgorica or Dubrovnik. If Dubrovnik is your outbound flight, drop the car at the Croatian border town closest to it and cross by taxi or bus for the last stretch.
The questions renters ask before booking a one-way route: what it costs, which towns are covered, and what to do about cross-border trips.
A small one-way fee is added to the total, priced by the distance between pickup and drop-off. Short hops (Budva to Tivat, Kotor to Herceg Novi) are the cheapest; long coast-to-inland runs are the highest. The fee is shown on the checkout page before you pay.
Yes, between Tivat and Podgorica in either direction. Dubrovnik is a pickup-only airport from a Budva base; you cannot leave a rental car in Croatia.
Yes on most suppliers. The car is picked up with a specified fuel level (usually full) and returned at the same level. Anything missing is billed at the supplier rate at drop-off.
Some suppliers accept a key-drop into a secured box out of hours; the walk-round happens the next morning without you present. Others require the drop-off inside working hours. The car card says which applies before you book.
Unlimited mileage is included on the majority of cars on the platform, one-way or not. A handful of cars are capped; the cap is shown on the car card and the excess-kilometre charge is shown alongside.
No. Insurance tier is chosen on the checkout page before you drive off; the drop-off point cannot upgrade or change it. Pick the tier when you book.
The supplier bills the one-way fee for the actual drop-off town at the higher of the two rates, plus a small administration fee. Change the drop-off in advance if the plan shifts; most suppliers allow a routing change up to twenty-four hours before pickup.
You can drive to either country with the paid cross-border permit at checkout. The car must return to a Montenegrin location; you cannot end the rental in Prishtina or Tirana.
Set the pickup and drop-off separately on the checkout page.
One-way fee shown before you pay