City Hotel Tirana - Tiranë

A central hotel with basic comfort. Single room is half the size it would be elsewhere. Double rooms are O.K. Breakfast is average. All in all, good for the first stay in a city where walking around is a must.

The hotel is in a nice location close to the very centre of Tirana therefore it is very convenient especially if it is the first visit to the city. The room was clean and quiet but the bathroom was cery small. The breakfast was ok. The people in the reception speak English.

NIGHTMARE!!!!! It all seemed to be going so well at the City Hotel Tirana. At 40 euros I was getting a decent room, internet and reasonable breakfast, all at a great location in Tirana. But on the third day, the dream suddenly turned into a nightmare. Three days removed from this incident (described below) it is still hard to believe it all actually happened – all I can say is that behind the veneer of a budget hotel is a management that is simply incapable of dealing with basic conflicts (in my case it was a baby crying at 2PM in my room) and resorts to lying and getting aggressive with its own guests and visitors to resolve them. ********Incident ******* After a baby cried in my room at 2PM during the day, I was told that my visitors could only stay in my room for a maximum of fifteen minutes. I read the hotel documentation in my room in search of this rule and could not find it. Upon presenting the receptionist with my findings she then told me that this was a new rule that wasn’t in the room documentation. The hotel manager, Edmund, then came and said that if I had rented a larger room then I could have a visitor for more than fifteen minutes. Upon hearing this my wild hunch was confirmed. Edmund was just making up rules as he went along. I asked for hotel documentation outlining the rule to back up what he was saying. He then said he was the manager and he was the hotel policy, and he didn’t need to show me this documentation. He then began getting aggressive and said I should have consulted the hotel first to inquire about their visitor policies (to call about this would be similar to calling a hotel in advance to check if there were beds in the room). I said that in staying at hundreds of hotels around the world I had never heard of such a policy. He retorted that he had stayed in thousands and they all had this policy. Still willing to believe him (after all there are thousands of hotels I have not stayed at) I asked him which hotel

A pleasant hotel, perfect location, quiet and not expensive.

The hotel was nice and the location was very convenient. There is a small supermarket nearby and there are also quite a number of restaurants in the area. It is a good location for sightseeing in Tirana. We walked all over central Tirana from the hotel. We were two older women and we stayed at the City Hotel 2 nights. I would say the City Hotel would be best for older travelers or couples.

The hotel was like new, fresh and clean. No noice from traffic or music. Breakfast OK. Not many guests at the hotel, it was very quiet which I like. The hotel was difficult to find, even the taxi driver passed it twice even though I showed him the address. A sign at the street would help.