One & Only is a luxury hotel brand with a great variety. All its 14 properties worldwide are different. The first one I was lucky to stay at was probably the most famous one: the Ocean Club in the Bahamas, the place where Daniel Craig gets an Aston Martin DB 5 plus the Bond girl (from the evil guy), an elegant, refined and very exclusive property. The Royal Mirage in Dubai is quite huge and looks like a palace in an Arabian fairy tale. Nyungwe house in Ruanda consists of bungalow suites set in a working tea plantation, five star luxury in the midst of one of Africa´s biggest rainforest near the border to Congo. And Reethi Rah in the Maldives with its twelve palm-fringed beaches and luxurious water-bungalows and 20.000 palm trees planted before its opening is a real juwel in the Indian Ocean. The GM of One & Onlys first European resort, Austrian born Andreas Porias, had managed Reethi Rah for years until he took over the Portonovi resort in 2024.

So what does One & Only look like in Montenegro, the land of the black mountains, set in Europe`s most beautiful fjord outside Scandinavia? Well, the location at the entrance of Boka Bay is stunning, the private beach (could be crowded in high season) is luxury, the three restaurants are excellent and the rooms are really big – the smallest ones are 55 sqm. One & Only Portonovi is not a boutique hotel: it boasts 105 rooms, 6 suites and 12 villas designed by Jean Michel Gathy. And it is not located in the middle of nowhere but in a newly built marina plus real estate project that had cost one billion Euro. Staying at the One & Only here enables you to walk to several restaurants and shops outside in a really safe environment.

The resort has three excellent restaurants: local/steaks, Italian and Japanese. The Japanese one is called Tapasake and is also open for locals, its a place to be in the evening with a disc jockey and a pool.

One&Only Portonovi is the first One&Only resort to offer Chenot Espace, a transformative journey of detoxing and resetting the body based on the renowned and established Chenot Method®. a 4,000m² spa area located on two floors, includes 27 single treatment rooms and one couple treatment room, Hydrotherapy and Cryotherapy treatment facilities, two relaxation areas, Fitness Centre, 25m indoor pool and wet area with steam room, sauna and hammam.

All in all: The most luxurious resort in Montenegro at the time and close to the famous Venetian built villages Perast and Kotor which can be reached by taxi or by an excursion with one of the four hotel owned motor boats.