Sea Star Budva

Lovely rooms..Breakfast good range of choices. Swimming pool very small same applies to gym. Staff seem to be hit and miss with friendly smiles, the same with their restaurant. Beach sun-beds are free for hire guests but also open to the public to pay for sun-beds etc. Night time can be a bit noisy mainly from outside. We arrived during peak season so resort was extremely busy and crowded. Not a lot to do during the evening but a walk to the old town takes under an hour and is quite a pleasant walk.

Our view this is 4.5 star hotel recently opened and just needs to tweak things to make it a 5 star hotel. The hotel is in an excellent beachfront location in Becici which is a lovely resort. The staff are friendly and very helpful particularly the reception staff who arranged us taxis and a transfer to Tivat through Elite Transfers and the driver Savo was brilliant, he spoke excellent English and was very informative and his car was immaculate and the price very reasonable. We were given a free upgrade to a delux apartment on the 8th floor with a fantastic sea view. This was a wonderful room and very much appreciated. The room had everything you could want and was very clean and it looked like we were the first to use it. Where we think the hotel needs to improve:- 1. The breakfast choice is very good but it could do with an egg station where fresh omelettes and poached eggs are made rather than have prepared omelettes in food warmers which didn’t really keep them warm and they looked unappealing. Most 5 star hotels have these or a menu offering them. 2. They need better coffee machines as all the coffees were far too sweet due to the milk the machine uses and you have to pay to get one made. 3. The pool is tiny and virtually nowhere to sit around it so the beach is used by everyone and sunbeds and towels are provided. The sunbed guys work hard and are very friendly. However, you have to walk across the road and across the sand which is hot and awkward to walk on so they need to put some wooden boards/walkways down to the sunbeds. The sunbeds could do with being better quality and have cushions on them. The hotel should also provide a drinks service to the beach again as most other hotels of this level (and lower) do. The beach guys move non residents on quickly which is good. 4. Housekeeping are keen and they even walked in to our room when we were in bed at 8:40am - they did ring the bell but the room shows that it is occupied from the outside. Towards the end of our stay 4 out of 5 of the soap and shampoo dispensers were empty and I had to seek out a member of their team to rectify it but they failed to do anything and 3 hours later I had to go to reception who resolved it very quickly. We really enjoyed our stay and would consider staying again but would want the above resolved before we did as there are several high quality hotels in the area and more being built as we speak.