ESSENZA Hotel & SPA

Property class: 4

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You can look forward to free continental breakfast, a beach bar and a coffee shop/cafe at ESSENZA Hotel & SPA. This hotel is a great place to bask in the sun with a private beach, sunloungers and fishing. Treat yourself to a massage at ESSENZA, the on-site spa. Enjoy the gym, as well as activities, such as kayaking and boat tours. Free in-room WiFi, with a speed of 100+ Mbps (good for 1–2 people or up to 6 devices), is available to all guests, along with a garden and dry cleaning/laundry services.

Reviews

8.8 out of 10
Excellent

Popular amenities

  • On private beach
  • Pool
  • Spa
  • Free Wi-Fi

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A modern hotel room with a large bed, bedside tables, a desk, and a wardrobe.

Standard Room, 1 King Bed with Sofa bed

  • Garden view
  • 33 sq m
  • 1 bedroom
  • Sleeps 2
  • 1 King Bed and 1 Queen Sofa Bed

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Standard Double Room, Sea View

10.0 out of 10
Exceptional
(1 review)
  • Sea view
  • 32 sq m
  • 1 bedroom
  • Sleeps 2
  • 1 King Bed

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Deluxe Double Room, Sea View

10.0 out of 10
Exceptional
(1 review)
  • Sea view
  • 36 sq m
  • 1 bedroom
  • Sleeps 2
  • 1 King Bed

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Deluxe Room, 1 King Bed with Sofa bed, Balcony, Sea View

8.0 out of 10
Very good
(1 review)
  • Sea view
  • 57 sq m
  • 1 bedroom
  • Sleeps 4
  • 1 King Bed and 1 Double Sofa Bed

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Deluxe Double Room, 1 Queen Bed, Sea View

10.0 out of 10
Exceptional
(1 review)
  • Sea view
  • 35 sq m
  • 1 bedroom
  • Sleeps 2
  • 1 Queen Bed

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Terrace/patio

Superior Double Room, 1 King Bed with Sofa bed, Sea View

  • Sea view
  • 40 sq m
  • 1 bedroom
  • Sleeps 4
  • 1 King Bed and 1 Double Sofa Bed

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Queen Room with Sea View

  • Bay view
  • 22 sq m
  • 1 bedroom
  • Sleeps 2
  • 1 Queen Bed

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Deluxe Double Room with Side Sea View

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Exceptional
(1 review)
  • Bay view
  • 22 sq m
  • 1 bedroom
  • Sleeps 2
  • 1 Queen Bed

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Superior Queen Room

10.0 out of 10
Exceptional
(1 review)
  • Bay view
  • 22 sq m
  • 1 bedroom
  • Sleeps 2
  • 1 Queen Bed

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Deluxe Double Studio

  • Bay view
  • 44 sq m
  • 1 bedroom
  • Sleeps 2
  • 1 Large Single Bed

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Standard Double Room

  • Bay view
  • 22 sq m
  • 1 bedroom
  • Sleeps 2
  • 1 Queen Bed

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Terrace/patio

Comfort Double Room

  • Bay view
  • 22 sq m
  • 1 bedroom
  • Sleeps 2
  • 1 Queen Bed

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Panoramic Double Room

  • Bay view
  • 22 sq m
  • 1 bedroom
  • Sleeps 2
  • 1 Queen Bed

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Deluxe Room

  • Bay view
  • 22 sq m
  • 1 bedroom
  • Sleeps 2
  • 1 Queen Bed

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Terrace/patio

Premium Double Room

  • Bay view
  • 22 sq m
  • 1 bedroom
  • Sleeps 2
  • 1 Queen Bed
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About the area

Located in Dobrota, ESSENZA Hotel & SPA is in the historical district and on a private beach. The area's natural beauty can be seen at Kotor Bay and Lovcen National Park, while Maritime Museum of Montenegro and Perast Town Museum are cultural highlights. Discover the area's water adventures with nearby snorkelling, or enjoy the great outdoors with hiking/biking trails. Visit our Kotor travel guide
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Palazzo Del Mare Essenza, Dobrota, Dobrota, 2802

What's nearby

  • A coastal town with a historic fort, a beach, and a mountain backdrop.
    Kotor Bay
    1 min walk - 0.1 km
  • A coastal city with a historic fort, a harbor with boats, and a mountainous backdrop.
    Kotor Old Town Walls
    9 min drive - 5.8 km
  • beach near Tripkovići
    1 min walk - 0.1 km
  • beach near Marovići
    3 min walk - 0.3 km
  • beach near Radimiri
    7 min walk - 0.6 km

Getting around

  • Tivat (TIV)
    29 min drive

Restaurants

  • Citadella Open Bar & Restaraunt
    9 min drive
  • Mondo
    7 min drive
  • Mira By Moments
    4 min drive
  • Konoba Timun
    5 min drive
  • Bastion 3
    9 min drive

About this property

ESSENZA Hotel & SPA

  • Upscale hotel remodelled in 2026 and located near Kotor Bay
  • Take advantage of free continental breakfast, a beach bar and a coffee shop/cafe at ESSENZA Hotel & SPA. This hotel is a great place to bask in the sun with a private beach, sunloungers and fishing. Indulge in a massage at ESSENZA, the on-site spa. Enjoy the gym, as well as activities, such as kayaking and boat tours. Free in-room WiFi, with a speed of 100+ Mbps (good for 1–2 people or up to 6 devices), is available to all guests, along with a garden and dry cleaning/laundry services.
  • Other perks at this hotel include:
    • A seasonal outdoor pool and an indoor pool, along with sunloungers and pool umbrellas
    • Free self-parking
    • Bike hire, an electric car charging station and beach towels
    • A lift, a TV in reception and concierge services
  • Room features
  • All rooms are individually furnished, and offer comforts such as laptop-friendly workspaces and air conditioning, in addition to perks such as free WiFi and separate sitting areas.
  • Extra amenities include:
    • Bathrooms with rainfall showers and hairdryers
    • 50-inch Smart TVs with premium channels
    • Balconies or patios, wardrobes/cupboards and separate sitting areas

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Frequently asked questions

Does ESSENZA Hotel & SPA have a pool?

Yes, this property has an indoor pool and a seasonal outdoor pool. Pool types include heated pools. Pool access is from 1:00 PM to 9:00 PM.

Is ESSENZA Hotel & SPA pet-friendly?

No, pets are not allowed at this property.

How much is parking at ESSENZA Hotel & SPA?

Self-parking is free at this property.

What time is check-in at ESSENZA Hotel & SPA?

Check-in start time: 2:00 PM; check-in end time: 10:00 PM. After-hours check-in is not available.

What time is check-out at ESSENZA Hotel & SPA?

Checkout is at noon.

Where is ESSENZA Hotel & SPA located?

Located in Kotor, this beachfront hotel is in the historical district, 0.1 mi (0.2 km) from Kotor Bay, and 3 mi (4.8 km) from Kotor Beach. Sveti Dorde Island and Kampana Tower are also within 6 miles (10 km).

Can I cancel my reservation for free and receive a full refund?

Yes, this property offers free cancellation on selected room rates because flexibility matters! Please refer to the property cancellation policy on our site for more details about any exclusions or requirements.

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Reviews

ESSENZA Hotel & SPA Reviews

8.8

Excellent

9.0

Cleanliness

8.6

Amenities

8.4

Staff & service

8.6

Property conditions & facilities
Rating 10 - Excellent. 34 out of 52 reviews
Rating 8 - Good. 7 out of 52 reviews
Rating 6 - Okay. 6 out of 52 reviews
Rating 4 - Poor. 3 out of 52 reviews
Rating 2 - Terrible. 2 out of 52 reviews

Reviews

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10/10 Excellent

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I loved the beautiful view front m this hotel.
Stayed 4 nights in Oct 2026
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10/10 Excellent

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Very good location.
Stayed 3 nights in Sep 2026
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10/10 Excellent

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Spacious and clean room with sea view
Stayed 3 nights in Aug 2026
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10/10 Excellent

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
The spa had no staff available when required. Breakfast was basic Otherwise good location modern facilities in the rooms. Would def visit here again.
Stayed 4 nights in Sep 2026
Verified review

8/10 Good

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Great location with private bay access
Stayed 3 nights in Jun 2026
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10/10 Excellent

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Breakfast was very good. Rooms are charming. Location perfect but a car is recommended.
Stayed 3 nights in Apr 2026
Verified review

10/10 Excellent

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Lovely location
Stayed 3 nights in Aug 2025
Verified review

8/10 Good

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

Nice boutique hotel

Nice boutique hotel just next to the sea with a small but charming pool area and a great beach bar
Stayed 3 nights in Jul 2024
Verified review

10/10 Excellent

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

Stunning location!

Lovely hotel in a stunning location in Kotor Bay. Rooms are comfortable, with amazing views over the water. It’s great to be able to access the Beach Club while staying at the hotel, and to enjoy a dip in the sea followed by a glass of wine. Staff at both the hotel and beach club are very friendly and professional. Looking forward to a return trip!
Stayed 7 nights in Jul 2025
Verified review

10/10 Excellent

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

Beautiful!

Lovely hotel in a beautiful location. The staff are excellent and went the extra mile to ensure our visit was perfect. I loved the beach club across the road, with sea access, which is free to use for the hotel guests. Only 1 drawback is the parking - or lack of it. Often people would be double parked in a very small car park, with very little parking available on the roads.
Stayed 5 nights in Jun 2025
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10/10 Excellent

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Beautiful hotel! Best beach club right across the street! Great price for the 5 star hotel… Ni only opinion is the kitchen is right across one of the suites and it wakes you up in the morning . Make sure you get a suite on a higher floor
Stayed 1 night in Aug 2023
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10/10 Excellent

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
We really had a good time in this hotel . View was amazing, looking to the mountains and water from balcony . The only thing streets are very narrow and sometimes difficult to park. But it was very convenient if you rent a boat for a trip, they pick you up right in front of the hotel . Another thing we really liked the buffet breakfast, they had a lot of food variety. The location of the hotel was very convenient . Thank you so much to all the staff, they were great . Last but not least , if you need to do laundry, they will do it for you too. Thanks.
Stayed 6 nights in Jun 2025
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10/10 Excellent

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
My husband and I stayed here for 3 nights in September 2025 and loved our stay. The hotel is very well kept and very clean. The staff were absolutely amazing and so friendly and helpful. There was a great breakfast every morning. The views of kotor bay are unreal at this location. It is very walkable to many restaurants and there is a small market close by to get bottled water and other beverages & snacks. A long promenade to walk along the water gets you off the busy road on the other side and where you can get to the restaurants. We rented a car while here and driving around is easy and a great option. Lots of free parking at the hotel. There is a pool and a small beach club on kotor bay, this has a snack bar and drink service. The hotel provides you with beach towels. Overall great stay!
Stayed 3 nights in Sep 2025
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8/10 Good

Liked: Staff & service, amenities
Very nice boutique hotel with beautiful views on the Kotor Bay! Attentive and friendly stuff, nice and quiet pool area, access to a water front (can’t call it a beach) with lounge chairs and umbrellas . Walking distance to restaurants coffee shops annd oyster farms. Hotel needs a repairman to fix some obvious items like peeling wallpaper in the hall and stained carpets in the rooms ! Other than that I loved it!
Stayed 3 nights in Aug 2024
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10/10 Excellent

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
One of the best hotels ever visited. Overall great service and helpfull people working here but not all of the employees were so nice and helpfull. I still give 5/5.Breakfast was also very good and veried considering hotel only has 10 rooms. We had room in the 2. Floor. Very beautiful view and clean room. Parking was also included.
Stayed 3 nights in Sep 2024
Verified review

10/10 Excellent

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Just Perfect, so lovely !!!
Stayed 6 nights in Jun 2026
Verified review

6/10 Okay

Disliked: Staff & service, property conditions & facilities
I requested twin beds and hotel messaged to say that was fine but they were not available when we arrived. The staff were reluctant to help saying we would need to wait to the following day. They eventually provided bedding to use on the sofa. The hotel does not have the advertised restaurant. The beach bar did not serve food. The gym is tiny and one of the weights machine didn’t function properly. The running machine is plugged in with the lead traversing the doorway and easy to trip over. The bathroom had a large area of mould on the ceiling and the shower didn’t drain properly.
Stayed 7 nights in Sep 2026
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10/10 Excellent

Liked: Staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Really helpful friendly staff. Hotel has a great location near the lake. Lovely small pool area, with free sunbeds and towels, also sunbeds and brollies around the lake. Lovely spacious room, most with lake views. Good choice for continental breakfast including hot and cold selections.
Stayed 7 nights in May 2023
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10/10 Excellent

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Lovely boutique hotel with fabulous views. We had a sea view room which was spacious and great for sitting out on the balcony, but also you could take in the spectacular views having breakfast outside or from the loungers overlooking the water. Breakfast was plentiful, varied and local and we really enjoyed the different options. It’s a long walk into Kotor which we did once, plus there are limited evening dining options within a short walking distance. On a couple of evenings we walked 25/40 minutes to restaurants further towards Kotor. The hotel had easy parking and a small pool and there was a supermarket close by. The beach bar loungers were great and there was a large sectioned off sea area for swimming. Overall we really enjoyed our stay.
Stayed 4 nights in Aug 2025
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10/10 Excellent

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
100% recommended! Just in front of the lake.... and the views are phenomenal! We're so glad we were just outside kotor as it was quieter. The beach bar across is cool and wasn't too crowded. Staff were all helpful and friendly. We arrived at 1am due to flight delays and there is a 24hrs receptionist that helped us promptly. Spacious rooms. Definitely need a car there as taxis are pretty dear. We were about 10-20 mins from Kotor depending on traffic. Loved it ... thank you!
Stayed 4 nights in Aug 2025
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4/10 Poor

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Good location is the only thing to say - the worst condition of a room that I have stayed in. No further availability. Changed towels every day was the only service provided, sometimes not used - always hung up. Some reasons meant we had to stay put, but felt disgusted the entire time. Not cheap and not happy.
Stayed 4 nights in Sep 2025
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2/10 Terrible

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
NEVER BEFORE HAS SUCH A LACK OF MINIMUM KNOWLEDGE OF LODGING AND HOSPITALITY DIFFICULT TO COMMUNICATE WITH THE HOTEL...I DIDN'T RECEIVE ANY RESPONSE BY EMAIL OR MESSAGES ON THE FIRST DAY OF STAYING THERE WAS A FIRE THE HOTEL PROVIDED POOR ASSISTANCE AFTER THE FIRE WAS CONTROLLED, THE MANAGER SUGGESTED THAT GUESTS GO BACK TO SLEEPING IN THE SAME ROOMS...WITH SOOT. A HORRIBLE SMELL. TOXIC WORSE, THE FIRE ALARM DIDN'T WORK NIGHTMARE CHAOS
Stayed 3 nights in Sep 2025
Verified review

8/10 Good

Liked: Cleanliness, amenities
A very mixed experience at Palazzo del Mare....a tad Fawty Towers! The hotel website describes a restaurant on site. This was not the case and the kitchen was still being built when we were there. The manager pointed out to us that other restaurants were only a short walk away - which wasn't really the point. The hotel looks great at the outset but has the feeling that it was thrown up while skipping many corners. Temperatures at night were in the low 30s and the air conditioning in our room shut down at 3am three nights in a row and didn't return. Despite advertising that their reception is 24 hours, there was never anyone available in the middle of the night. After the first sleepless night, we let the lovely staff at reception know and they told us the engineer was coming to look at it. After the second sleepless night, we were a little more peeved and were told we could speak to the manager 'down at the bar'. He offered us a free drink which we declined and promised it wouldn't happen again. Sure enough it did happen again and was only fixed at 4am. On communicating that this wasn't good enough, we were comp'd our spa massages and assured a refund of one night stay. He took our bank details but 5 weeks later, no such refund and he has ignored our messages. Overall: beautiful views, lovely reception staff, poor breakfast, corners cut (e.g. bathrooms have no shelves and lighting is non existent, shower floods room after use) and extremely unprofessional manager.
Stayed 6 nights in May 2026
Verified review

8/10 Good

Liked: Cleanliness, amenities
Even though they said the property was remodeled last year, there were cracks in the floor molding, mold in the shower and wall paper was pealing. Outdoor chair cushion was stained. The view of the water from the ground floor room balcony is hidden by hedges. Breakfast was a huge buffet but not what Americans might be attracted to. Lots of lunch-like savory plates: deli meat, cheese, salad, vegetables. They did offer eggs and fruit and pastries. But I could not recommend the breakfast.
Stayed 4 nights in Sep 2026
Verified review

4/10 Poor

Disliked: Staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Værelse: Værelset levede ikke op til forventningerne. Man skulle låse sin dør op 3 gange, før den reelt åbenede. Deres 'fancy' lyssystem fungerede ikke - og vi brugte uendelige mængder tid på at forsøge at tænde og slukke lyset. Toiletpapir holderen var ved at falde ud af væggen og indtrykket var generelt virkelig fladt relativt til prisen. Reception: Oplevede desværre ikke en hjælpsom reception. Informationerne var begrænsede og når man italesatte en mangel - f.eks. at kaffemaskinen var løbet tør for kaffe, så gik der en halv time før de gjorde noget ved det. Ikke pga travlhed eller tilsvarende. Super underligt. Morgenmaden var kedelig. Mens receptionen var ved at hjælpe os, så begyndte de at hjælpe andre samtidig, hvilket skabte meget unødvendig ventetid og irritation. Strand: Det er sjældent at jeg har følt mig så meget i anden række som her. De betalende strandgæster fik al opmærksomheden og hotelgæsterne var overladt til langsom service, liggestole der var gået i stykker og parasoller der ikke virkede. En af dagene ventede jeg 30 min i bagende sol på bare at få lov til at betale med kort. Tjeneren havde travlt med at servicere alle andre - og nok også glemt min forespørgsel. Maden var middelmådig og alt for dyr. Vandet var møgbeskidt. Trapperne ned til vandet var fuld og alger og virkelig glatte. En stor sikkerhedsfare, hvis I spørger mig. Ønskede man at ligge ved poolen var man 100% overladt til sig selv. Den var fuld af døde bier og ingen service i nærheden.
Stayed 5 nights in Jul 2026