Albania Tours for Experienced Travelers

Hotels in Albania were of a good standard, with breakfasts much better than expected. Explore’s local trip leader, Tedi and driver Fati looked after all aspects of the trip, with Tedi informative, enthusiastic and helpful throughout and Fati driving considerately on challenging roads and packing & unpacking luggage of 16 on a daily basis. All in all an excellent introduction to history, archeology, culture and nature of southern Albania. Thanks to Tedi & Fati.

A great introduction to Albania with a city tour and mountain hiking. The hotels are functional and suited to a hiking type holiday. The breakfasts were very good and there are plenty of restaurants and bars to choose between for an evening meal at all of the overnight stops. The hiking required a good level of all round fitness and poles were useful on occasions although not essential hiking boots are definitely preferred to trainers as they offer support and protection especially on the rocky sections on the trails. Drinking water was plentiful and easily replenished at all of the mountain stops and overnight accommodation other canned drinks were also available. The ferry crossing to Koran Lake requires you to carry your luggage through a tunnel in order to board the ferry so make sure you pack economically as it is a reasonable distance with a narrow footpath with cars and bikes also using the same tunnel you are required to leave your luggage on the lower deck. In summary the Explore tour notes are an accurate description of the daily schedule and the tour represents very good value.

Excellent trip. Fast paced and some long mountainous drives with fabulous views (though may be challenging it you suffer from travel sickness). What a beautiful country though - I thoroughly enjoyed the trip.

We went open minded and were extremly pleased. Great tour with good accommodation and comfortable transport. Itinery excellent with good mix of scenery, history, both ancient and modern and local lifestyles. Very good guide Drittan who was informative, funny, kind and all round ideal. Excellent driver .Would recommend but take strong walking shoes and maybe a walking pole. Not too strenuous but a bit uneven in places. Great group which was fortunate.

Excellent trip around Albania taking in the mountains and the coast. Tour staff were very friendly, knowledgeable, helpful and supportive. Amazing to see how lush and fertile the country is, enjoying the local food and drink.

I loved this highlights of Albania tour and it was great way to see lots of different places and parts of this fascinating country. The trip includes the perfect mix of mountains, coast, towns, cities, nature and historical sights. Although it is classed as 'full on', we often had free time in the places we stayed and the starts were always at a very reasonable time, but ensured we made the most of the day. Our guide Dritan was excellent - he is extremely knowledgeable and passionate about the country, as well as being fun and professional, ensuring the group's needs were met. I would recommend staying an extra day or two in Tirana at the start or end of the tour to independently enjoy everything that is there.