Hotel Apollon Sarande

We had simply the best stay. However, I think there are small areas of improvement. Let's start from the beginning. 1. Amazing staff and everyone who works in this hotel. Super friendly and welcoming. Like all of them go the extra mile to give you the best service. 2. Super clean - spotless rooms and hotel in general. This is joined with the topic above. Housekeepers did their job amazingly. I always judge hotels by bathrooms and damn they were clean. 3. Cool private beach and chill. Usually in Albania, you have to pay for sunbeds but as you're the guest you get it for free. 4. View from the side room was wow. Overlooking Corfu in the evening it was super nice to chill on the balcony. Small feedback from our side. 1. Breakfast was good but it needs a bit of pump up for 4 a star hotel. Every day for 7 days it was 100% the same food. It would be nice to pump it up slightly as the rest of things are up to the standard. 2. Sounds silly but important. The pillows in the room are super thin and hard. I had to sleep on a green decor pillow only because my neck was falling apart. It's a preference of each individual but would be nice to have one fluffy pillow or at least two. Overall amazing experience for the price and an amazing stay. We loved it and will recommend it to our friends.

We had high hopes for this hotel, but it felt very short to what was expected. Clumsy check-in with only one girl attending at the highest peek of turn-overs, and also a bit rude due to the pressure. 45 Minutes later her responsible came in and it was even worse. The hotel looks very high-end but then reality sets in... The room doors don't close tightly so you ear every little thing going on ... hair dryers, babies crying, showers, you name it. Not a good breakfast, almost like a school cafeteria. A bit far from the center of Sarandé but for us that was OK. Small but pretty pebble beach, with too much sunbeds. Parking included which is good.

Newly refurbished hotel with lovely views out to sea. Some of the staff were friendly and very helpful, some slightly blunt and borderline rude. Food in the hotel was good, and the bar down on the beach good too. Beach area was very crowded with sun loungers packed in to the max (but this is pretty common across Sarande). If you are looking for a chilled out beach attached to your hotel, this is probably not it. If you want something a bit more lively with lots of people around the this might be more your scene.

Fantastic staff and rooms for a week long stay. Great beach. Walking distance to main promenade. Lots of shops and restaurants nearby.

Hotel i shkelqyer me nje staf te shkelyqer vecanerisht do vecoja 3 kamarieret: Erind, Blendi dhe Ari. Djem fantastike dhe te perkushtuar gjithashtu me nje educate te shkelqyer. Jua sugjeroj te gjitheve te shkno dhe te kaloni pushimet

3rd year here, absolutely fantastic, can not fault this place, starting from lots of choices at breakfast bar and finish with a lovely dinner with fresh fish and seafood pasta, highly recommend and will be coming back every year, family friendly, lovely staff, what else would you want, well done apollon staff

We just came back from our 6-night stay in Hotel Apollon and to sum everything up, this hotel puzzled us in many ways - both positively and negatively. Good things: - Quiet location. Has a stunning small beach near. - Guys and a girl working at the bar in the beach were all lovely and approachable. These are the kind of people you need in your hotel - honest and hardworking. - Breakfast was repetitive, but decent in general. Bad things: - They initially gave us a room that meant we were next to the noisy lift and that our balcony was facing a restaurant. We said no and they happily changed our room without any issues. - Room was subpar in so many ways - first, the shower was designed so badly that whenever you take a shower, the entire bathroom gets wet. Not well-designed. You need lots of towel to soak the water out in the floor. - The air-conditioning in the room was bad. On a random second, the temperature changes from 16 degrees to 25 degrees without you changing it and you just feel the room getting warm. On so many occasions, we’d wake up sweating. Just bad nights. - We requested spare pillows but said hotel has ran out. Funny. - We had a dinner one night and when we were about to pay, they said cash only as their machine is broken. My partner insisted that all day we have been paying by card and that we don’t have any cash left. And you know what happened next - card machine suddenly started to work. Miraculously.

I stayed at this hotel for about 8 days with my family, impeccable service, super friendly staff, cleaning ladies, receptionists, room service, everyone was helpful and so patient with our children! The hotel is literally 2 steps from the sea, the beach is actually not sandy but has pebbles, but with some rock shoes the problem was solved. All wonderfully and surprisingly delicious and great staff! Highly recommended.

This was the final stop on our trip around Albania, we arrived around 1ish in the afternoon, a man came to help us with the bag and got us to reception (this was Erind we later found out) the check in was smooth and we got into our room it was large and spacious, we had a triple room with a sea view, it came with a balcony and it was nice, the air con is a little old but gets the room cold enough, it was slightly dated, but the beds were comfy, the bathroom was nice, good water pressure was good but the shower was quite low (I’m 5’11 and couldn’t quite fit under it) the balcony was massive and perfect for sitting out pre going out on an evening, the tv was good and you could log into your own netflix which is a nice comfort! We unpacked and headed down to the beach, there are cabana’s for an extra cost which we got the next the next day for my birthday, there is a 20% discount for hotel guests so cost 2800 LEK for the day, it was lovely, otherwise there are tons of free sun beds for hotel guests and hotel staff always walking around willing to help, the sun beds were very comfy as well and the wifi from the hotel reaches down to the beach! The first night we went out into Sarande for dinner and had a lovely time, it’s about a 15-20 minute walk from the hotel to the main ***** but was worth it. On the day of my birthday (8th July) we were brought a complimentary fruit plate and a bottle of Prosecco to the room when we got back from the beach, this was a lovely touch as the fruit is amazing! We had dinner in the hotel and had booked a table with Erind who reserved us the ‘best table’ all of his service was utterly superb, he was attentive, kind and made it a truly wonderful experience, he had remembered us from the day and served us personally all evening, honestly couldn’t have asked for anything better. The next day we did a beach trip with a company just outside the hotel, this was a private boat tour, they don’t do the big group ones for anyone wishing to do one, but the pick and drop off was great and we arranged our airport transfer through the same company. On our final morning we came downstairs and Erind greeted us in the morning having remembered us, he helped take our suitcase to reception to check out, we then came back to the restaurant as our pick up wasn’t yet and he gave us complimentary water and coffee, he was lovely and would be a main reason for coming back to this hotel, he deserves all the praise for his amazing service. Overall I would come and stay here again, good value for money. The food at this hotel is also amazing. You must have the chips and the bruschetta, we had lunch here a few times and dinner once, all of it was superb, definitely worth a trip for dinner as well, and they do cocktails but there’s no menu, so you just have to ask!