Durres Bay Hotel

The amenities offered on the Booking.com page were not in reality.

The Hotels architecture is stunning. Beautiful materials used in the rooms and facades and very clever layout.

The hotel staff is friendly and welcoming. The breakfast was monotonous during the week we spent at the hotel. However, it was delicious.One side of the hotel faces a busy highway. Traffic does not stop even at night. Soundproofing leaves much to be desired, so choose rooms on the opposite side from the road.

I think this place is perfect for families, and for solo travelers. The two pools located on two different ground floors gives you the atmosphere you are looking for. Rooms are clean. Staff very trained and Ready to help. I only booked my trip with breakfast, but it was worthy to spend 17 dollars extra for lunch buffet, where nothing was missing. There were ab5 different types of eggs ...sausages, meat, cereals. Big selection of fruit. I have to say....it was a real resort. You didn't miss anything in there. I will definitely go back. There was nothing I didn't like. Beside the fact that i wished I stayed an extra day.

Pleasant

The most important things were right. The room was nice and clean, the staff did well their jobs starting with the person in charge on the beach till the front desk (including the prison guard mannered pool master). The breakfast was OK. It is hard to tell what is wrong with this hotel. At first sight nothing, because, it seems, it is fully booked in the peak season. An important question is, how many of their tourist will return in the future. You can build an excellent hotel (and this hotel truly is), and ruin you investment in few years by poor management and/or cheap marketing tricks. I can make a 2 page list, with the small mistakes that they made and which are not allowed in the hospitality industry. These can make the difference between an excellent hotel and fair-enough hotel. The most important negative experience, among the many other, was related to the pool. It is a cheap marketing trick to say you have pools and than to say, yes we have but you must pay for it. In the first day of our stay an aggressive person (at the first sight we thought that he is a drunk Italian guest, after his shirt) sent us out from the pool. He had no foreign langue skills and not wearing any sign that shows he is an employee. Just later we realized that only for the really low level employees is compulsory to wear shirt with the color of your position (waiter, front-desk operator, house-keeper). All the others may look like a tourist. This is stupid. Even as a top-manager, you should proudly wear the logo of your hotel.

I will start with our arrival when we arrived 4h before checkin and the room was already ready. We had a rental car, which you can hardly do without in Albania. They have a smaller car park right in front of the hotel, otherwise there is a bigger hotel car park across the street where a gentleman looks after it. I appreciate that the hotel is open 24/7. The hotel was beautiful as in the photos, everything like new, air conditioning everywhere. We are a young couple and it was great to have young support staff working everywhere. We had a room on the 4th floor overlooking the pool. There was a large outdoor pool, but the best part was the rooftop pool on the 10th floor! What I have to praise is their playlist of songs that they played by the pool :) They could add their playlist to spotify :D Plus I appreciate the possibility to borrow a towel for the pool at the reception. As for the food, we only booked breakfast, which was good - more choice of salty and sweet food, fruits, vegetables, desserts, coffee... We also paid for dinner one day, I also recommend it, but we traveled a lot in Albania and we ate at different restaurants. The beach was close, about 100-200 m from the hotel. There are a lot of restaurants around the hotel, I recommend going there. Somewhere they took cards, somewhere we had to pay in euros. We thought you had better restaurants and bars if you went towards the beach and took it to the left. If you need a small grocery store, it is on the left side of the beach, about 5 minutes from the hotel. They have quite a few interesting restaurants and bars. There is a great pizzeria in front of the hotel, which is cheap and tasty. I also recommend visiting the 788 cocktail bar, which is about 10 minutes from the beach to the left, there are bean bags and a fire and a good atmosphere. During the day, there are very few people everywhere, but at at night everyone goes to the streets for the night life :). I have nothing to complain about :)

The Durres Bay Hotel provided a comfortable stay with great views of the bay. The rooms were clean, and the staff was friendly and helpful. I would recommend it for a relaxing seaside getaway.

My recent stay at Durres Bay Hotel was truly delightful. The hotel’s location is unbeatable, offering stunning views of Durres Bay and direct access to the beach, which made for a relaxing and enjoyable stay. The rooms were spacious, clean, and well-equipped with all the necessary amenities for a comfortable stay. The bed was especially comfortable, ensuring a good night’s sleep each night.

I had a wonderful stay at Durres Bay Hotel. The location is perfect with beautiful bay views and easy beach access. The staff were friendly, the rooms clean and comfortable, and the breakfast was delicious.