Mostar's terminal is one hall at Ortiješ, seven kilometres south of the city on the M17, and it puts the whole of Herzegovina inside an hour of the car park: the Old Bridge and the bazaar ten minutes north, the dervish house at the Buna spring fifteen minutes east, and Počitelj, Kravica and the Trebižat south down the same road.
Mostar's terminal is one hall at Ortiješ, seven kilometres south of the city on the M17, and it puts the whole of Herzegovina inside an hour of the car park: the Old Bridge and the bazaar ten minutes north, the dervish house at the Buna spring fifteen minutes east, and Počitelj, Kravica and the Trebižat south down the same road.
No deposit, no excess
Choose Premium Insurance and the partner waives the security deposit entirely – nothing is blocked on your card while you are in Herzegovina.
No airport surcharge
Direct prices from local partners. What you book is what you pay in arrivals, with no desk fee bolted on because you collected at the terminal.
Built for a charter timetable
Mostar is a small airport running seasonal and pilgrim charters rather than a steady schedule. Add your flight number at booking and the desk tracks it, so a delay does not cost you the car.
Unlimited mileage
Herzegovina is small and everything is a day trip: Sarajevo, the Adriatic and Kravica are all about two hours or less. Nothing we rent charges by the kilometre.
Almost nothing is tolled
The motorway here exists only as short finished pieces near the Croatian border. The M17 and the regional roads you will actually drive cost nothing to use.
The terminal sits south of the city on the M17, so the Old Bridge lies one way and the Buna spring, Počitelj and the waterfalls the other – none of them more than an hour out.
Stari Most was rebuilt stone by stone in 2004 and the divers still go off it through the summer. Leave the car on either bank and walk in – the bazaar lanes are cobbled, stepped and closed to traffic.
A sixteenth-century dervish house built tight against a cliff where the Buna comes straight out of the rock – one of the largest karst springs in Europe, and cold enough to feel from the terrace.
An Ottoman village stacked up a limestone slope above the Neretva, with a domed mosque and a clock tower on the way and a fortress at the top that you reach by stone steps.
A twenty-five metre curtain on the Trebižat that spreads more than a hundred metres wide into a pool you can swim in. The last kilometres are narrow; park above and take the path down.
Herzegovina is small enough that the Adriatic, the Neretva canyon and the wine country all sit within a couple of hours of the runway.
25 min one way
St James's church draws pilgrims all year and fills most of the charters this airport runs on. The Brotnjo plateau around it is the country's white-wine country – ask for Žilavka at the cellars near Čitluk.
1h to Jablanica
North on the M17 through the gorge. Jablanica keeps the bombed railway bridge from the Battle of the Neretva and the lamb grills along the road; Konjic has an Ottoman bridge and Tito's nuclear bunker cut into the hillside.
40 min to Stolac
The Radimlja necropolis is a field of medieval stećci carved with raised arms and hunting scenes, right on the road into Stolac. Carry on south-west and Hutovo Blato is a Neretva delta wetland you cross by boat.
1h10 one way
Bosnia's twenty kilometres of coast sit at Neum, an hour down the M17 and M6. Croatia begins on both sides of it, so Ston and Dubrovnik need a Green Card and the partner's written permission arranged before you travel.
One road does most of it
The M17 follows the Neretva the whole way: north through the canyon to Sarajevo, south past Počitelj towards the coast. Turn left or right out of the terminal and most of the navigation is done.
Headlights on, day and night
Dipped headlights are compulsory around the clock, all year round. It is the rule a rental car is stopped for most often, so check the switch before you leave the car park.
Marks, not euros
Bosnia runs on the convertible mark, pegged at about 1.96 to the euro. Fuel stations and car parks take cards; euro cash is accepted unevenly and always at a worse rate.
Winter equipment is a date, not a forecast
Winter tyres, or chains carried for the driven axle, are compulsory from 1 November to 1 April whatever the weather. The passes north of Jablanica genuinely need them.
The limit is effectively zero
Blood alcohol is capped at 0.03%, and at zero for anyone under 21 or with less than three years of licence. One glass with a Herzegovina lunch is already over it.
Park outside the old town
The lanes around Stari Most are cobbled, stepped and closed to cars. Use the paid car parks on either bank of the Neretva and cross on foot – it is five minutes from either one.
Yes. Pick Premium Insurance with zero excess when you book and the partner waives the security deposit, so you settle in arrivals with a debit card or cash. Nothing is blocked on a card, and you never pay out and claim it back.
Mostar has one small terminal with a single arrivals hall, so there is no terminal to choose and nothing to shuttle to. Your voucher names the desk and the pick-up time, and the car park is a short walk from the door.
The car is held for an hour past your booked pick-up time, within the station's opening hours. Mostar runs charters rather than a steady schedule, so give us your flight number and the desk can follow the arrival rather than the clock.
EU, UK and US licences are accepted on their own for a tourist rental, alongside your passport. Bring an International Driving Permit as well if your licence is not written in the Latin alphabet, and carry both in the car.
Often yes, but never as an afterthought. A Green Card and the partner's written authorisation have to be issued before you travel, so tell us which countries you plan to enter when you book rather than at the counter.
The Old Bridge is ten minutes north, Blagaj fifteen east, Medjugorje twenty-five and Počitelj the same to the south. Kravica is about forty minutes, Sarajevo 2h15 up the canyon and Neum on the Adriatic just over an hour.
Almost none of them. The A1 motorway exists here only as short finished sections near the Croatian border, with a booth at Zvirići. The M17 along the Neretva and every regional road out to Kravica or Stolac are free to drive.
Twenty-one, with at least a year of driving behind you. A few vehicle categories ask for more, and the minimum is shown on each car before you book, so you will not find out at the counter.
Arrivals hall – Mostar Airport (OMO)
Book in minutes, choose your insurance tier, and collect at the terminal the moment you land in Mostar.
