Thanks for the review. I wanted to stay last September but it hadn't opened yet plus I am wary of staying in any property within the first few months of opening.

I am bit confused as you say there was no Diamond recognition and your rate included breakfast. Do they not give free breakfast to Diamonds?

Is room service an HGI standard? Prices seem cheap but probably quite expensive for Albania?



I hate this stupid practice of advertising prices in euros when the country's currency is not the euro nor related to the euro. I assume the hotel actually charged you in ALL, but did they give you an accurate exchange rate? Do they accept euros (including coins) at the front desk at a fair rate, or do they treat it as an exchange transaction attracting commission?

(For reference, HRK is unofficially pegged to the euro, and I couldn't work out what euro exchange rate DT Zagreb used since they billed in HRK on my GBP card, but it appeared to be *better* than the interbank rate; meanwhile DT Minsk adds a 6% markup when converting their USD rates to BYN.)

You mentioned the taxi driver wanted €21 - did he have euro coins for change or how was that supposed to work if you didn't have a €1?