Why Albania All Inclusives Aren’t Really Our Thing One of our most popular search terms on Google is “All Inclusive Holidays to Albania” – or words of that ilk. However, at the risk of offending our potential customers, we really don’t like receiving enquiries like this. Here’s why. First, there aren’t many All Inclusive hotels...Read More
What’s the Best Albania Itinerary? Here’s Our Honest Answer What’s the best Albania itinerary? It’s a question we hear all the time. The other version of it from Facebook Groups is ‘Here’s my Albania Itinerary – what do you think?’. That one is often done after ‘researching’ for hours on said Facebook groups. Trust us,...Read More
I was sitting with a friend in a Vlorë bar in May, sipping some excellent homemade raki – we were out there with a football tour we’d organised – when he leaned over and said, “Did you know there’s a British TV programme being filmed in Dhermi? Lots of pretty people on the beach.” I...Read More
Albania’s UNESCO World Heritage Sites and Ancient Wonders: A Guide for the Culturally Curious Albania doesn’t shout about its history. It doesn’t need to. From the perfectly preserved Ottoman streets of Berat to the layered ruins of Butrint – Greek, Roman, Byzantine and Venetian all in one extraordinary place. The country carries its past with...Read More
A post appeared in an Albania Facebook group recently that perfectly illustrates why Albania is good value and not cheap. It got us thinking as to why that distinction matters more than most visitors realise Someone had been quoted €160 for a day tour for four people in Berat, taking in Bogova Waterfall and Osumi...Read More
Good question! We’re so glad you asked. Rest assured, you’re not the only one – ‘When is the best time to visit Albania?’ is often asked! We would love to say “anytime” because we genuinely think Albania is the best place going. Whilst that is true, it probably doesn’t help you much. It’s true because...Read More
One of the questions we see most often posted on Facebook groups and Reddit pages about visiting Berat, Albania is: ‘How long should we stay? Is one night enough?” To be fair, a lot of responses now say two nights. In the beginning it was nearly always “one is enough.” That shows us that Berat,...Read More
Who’d have thought that in the early years of the nineteen nineties, a young twenty-something would spend a few months in the summer in a place no-one had heard of – and that it would become the place closest to his heart? In the summer of 1993, our founder Mark spent his first Albanian experience...Read More
Let me start with a confession. I once missed the Corfu ferry from Sarandë. It was 1994. I was living in Tepelenë, a relatively remote backwater of a town in southern Albania. Famous for its prison, one of Ali Pasha’s castles (the very one where Lord Byron stayed and was, somewhat surprisingly given his host’s...Read More
The Flamingo Revolution: Is Albania Safe to Visit Right Now? Way back in the noughties, before Albania was even a dot on the world’s tourism map, I spent a couple of years living in Vlorë with my wife and two (then) young children. There were a couple of other international families that we were working...Read More
