Podgorica Airport to Bar by taxi

Pickup at Podgorica Airport

The taxi pickup is directly outside the terminal beside the car park, and the app shows the car, colour and plate once the driver accepts. Terminal Wi-Fi is enough. If you are connecting to the Bari ferry, write 'Bar port, ferry terminal' as the destination and mention the sailing time in the chat; the driver will make sure you are dropped at the passenger entrance rather than the marina.

The road from the airport to Bar

This is the easiest of the coast rides from Podgorica. The road runs south from the airport across the plain, skirts the edge of Skadar Lake's marshes and enters the Sozina tunnel under the coastal mountains. On the far side it drops to the sea at Sutomore and follows the shore into Bar. There are no passes and no hairpins; it is a straight, fast road in all weather, which is why so many night rides use it.

Traffic is light except on summer weekends, when the road into Sutomore beach can slow down in the afternoon.

Where taxis stop in Bar and around

From MonteGO rides on this route:

• Bar port, ferry terminal

  The passenger entrance for the ferry to Bari. Say 'ferry terminal' and the driver takes you to the right gate, not the cargo or marina side.

• The marina and the centre

  The big marina and the promenade behind it, with the town's hotels and apartments along the boulevard. The driver stops at the door.

• Stari Bar

  The old town on the hill inland, with its ruins and the restaurants below the walls. Taxis go up to the car park at the entrance.

• Sutomore and Šušanj

  The beach suburb north of Bar and the bay between, dense with apartments and small hotels. Give the street or house name.

• Bar railway and bus stations

  Side by side near the centre, for the train to Podgorica and the north or coaches along the coast.

Ferries, night flights and luggage

Bar's ferry sails in the evening and many passengers arrive at Podgorica on afternoon or evening flights and go straight to the port. Say your sailing time in the chat and the driver plans accordingly. Night flights into Podgorica are routine and MonteGO drivers cover them; the tunnel road at night is quick. A standard car takes two large cases; choose the larger vehicle for more or for a group. Ferry passengers with a lot of luggage should say so when booking.

Other ways from Podgorica Airport to Bar

The train from Podgorica to Bar is one of the nicer rail journeys in the country, but it leaves from Podgorica station, not the airport, and runs a few times a day. Coaches run from the city bus station. Both mean a taxi to the station first and bags handled twice. Pre-booked transfers meet you with a sign. For a direct ride, and certainly for a ferry connection, a licensed taxi booked in the app is the simplest.