From Bar Train Station to Your Hotel: A Taxi Guide

After 10-plus hours on the train from Belgrade, the last thing you want is to stand around figuring out logistics. Here's the short version: Bar's railway station is close to the town center, close enough that most transfers to hotels or apartments are quick and inexpensive, and taxis are generally available right around the station.

What to expect when you step off

Bar's station is a working railway terminus, not a big transit hub with shops and services lining every wall. You'll find a platform, a station building, and a taxi presence right outside. It's not overwhelming or confusing, but if you've just come off a long, tiring train ride through the mountains (see our full guide to the Belgrade-Bar railway if you're planning that trip), you'll appreciate that the ride into town from here is short.

Getting a taxi

You can typically find taxis waiting near the station entrance, especially around the arrival times of the main daily services. If you'd rather not rely on availability, or you're arriving at an odd hour when fewer cars are around (which happens more with delayed trains than you'd think, given how the line runs), it's worth booking ahead through the Greencar.me Taxi app before you even reach Bar. That way a car's arranged and you're not standing on the platform working it out with a rolling suitcase.

What a ride into town costs

The station sits within Bar itself, so most transfers to central hotels or apartments fall under our standard city tariff: a 1.00 EUR boarding charge plus a 2.00 EUR minimum fare, working out to about 1.45 EUR per kilometer beyond that. If your accommodation is further out, in Sutomore, Čanj, or one of the other municipality towns, you'd move onto the suburb rate instead, a 5.00 EUR minimum at 1.10 EUR per kilometer. Either way, it's a short, straightforward hop from a station that's genuinely close to most of the town.

If you're not staying in Bar itself

Plenty of train travelers use Bar's station as a jumping-off point for elsewhere along the coast, since it's the end of the line and there's no further rail connection south. If your hotel is in one of the other Bar municipality towns, our guide to getting around Bar municipality by taxi covers each of them, and reminds you which towns fall inside our standard pickup zone.

Combining the train with a day trip

If you've timed your arrival with some flexibility, or you're passing through Bar between longer legs of a trip, you might have a few hours to spend before heading onward. A Stopover Day in Bar covers what's worth seeing nearby without committing to a full day. And A Practical Checklist for Your First Hour in Bar is a quick reference for exactly this kind of "I just arrived, now what" moment, regardless of which arrival method got you here.

Booking ahead

If your train's schedule is predictable enough to plan around (and on this line, that's not always a given), booking a taxi in advance through the Google Play or App Store version of the Greencar.me Taxi app takes the guesswork out of it, especially if you're arriving late in the evening or the train's running behind, which happens on a line this long and mountainous.

For the bigger picture of how the railway fits alongside the ferry, the bus station, and cruise arrivals, our pillar guide to arriving in Bar ties it all together.