Outdoor dining

Reviews of VH Eurostar Durres Hotel & Beach

4 out of 5
VH Eurostar Durres Hotel & Beach
193 Rruga Pavaresia, Durrës, Qarku i Durrësit

Reviews

4.0
Rating 10 - Excellent. 14 out of 202 reviews" "
Rating 8 - Good. 15 out of 202 reviews" "
Rating 6 - Okay. 29 out of 202 reviews" "
Rating 4 - Poor. 36 out of 202 reviews" "
Rating 2 - Terrible. 108 out of 202 reviews" "

4.8/10

Cleanliness

4.4/10

Staff & service

4.4/10

Amenities

4.6/10

Property conditions & facilities

4.6/10

Eco-friendliness

Reviews

2/10 Terrible

Sophie

Travelled with family
Liked: Cleanliness
Disliked: Staff & service, property conditions & facilities
The hotel is in a great location for local restaurants and exploribg Durres. Unfortunately, this hotel did not mention that a lot of the facilities were closed to it being off season before we arrived. There was no notice that the menu is fixed for half board and the staff did not ask our dietary requirements before serving the food. When we checked in, there was no hotel information given to us at all and all of the times for breakfast/lunch/dinner and checkin/ out differed on expedias website, the hotels website, and at the reception desk which was confusing. It was also said that the hotel was accessible but it is not. There was no ramp when we arrived for a wheelchair, that we needed, and then the staff put out an unsafe plank of wood which was not fit for purpose. We requested an accessible room for wheelchair when booking and had confirmed this prior to arrival with the hotel (as was not guaranteed by requesting alone) - but when we went to our room the grab rail was brokedn off the wall and left on the bathroom floor, there was not enough room in the bathroom for my sister to mive her wheelchair and to safely transfer from her wheelchair to the toilet and no shower chair/ room for her to wheel into the shower. When entering and exiting the hotel, staff did not always reciprocate a hello/ bye so this felt rude and unwelcoming.
Stayed 7 nights in Sep 2023

4/10 Poor

Leonard

Disliked: Staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
There was a front desk person and he was requesting me to pay 10 euro extra for parking when the parking it shows on expedia for free, I have 2 night to stay on that property and I bought some drinks the first night left them on the fridge for the second night and the cleaning people have cleaned all the drinks out of the refrigerator. The last thing I have to say is they were trying to make me charge 25 euro more then the price of expedia advertising. Thank you to expedia they have given me the extra money back. The shower was all mold and smells very bad.
Stayed 2 nights in Aug 2023

2/10 Terrible

Lawrence, North Wales

Stayed 2 nights in Aug 2023

4/10 Poor

Jane

Stayed 1 night in Aug 2023

2/10 Terrible

Mohmed

Stayed 1 night in Aug 2023

2/10 Terrible

Verified traveller

Travelled with family
Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Worst hotel on the entire planet
DO NOT WASTE YOUR TIME BOOKING THIS HOTEL. We arrived to be told they had no rooms available and did nothing to find us an alternative. We returned the next day and they said they had a room but not the one we booked. The room was beyond disgusting - dirty, broken curtain poles, fire doors nailed open, dripping water leak from the ceiling in the bathroom, shelves falling off in the wardrobe - simply appalling. The so called half board food is worse than school dinners and there is no customer service whatsoever, the staff are just rude. The next morning we went downstairs to see families sleeping in the bar area as they had also been told there were no rooms and others being told they needed to leave their rooms as they needed to give them to someone else. The additional service charge is also a complete joke -€25 pppn for nothing! The hotel also does not have any of the things it advertises…. No pool, no private beach, no beach cafe. It’s all lies. Needless to say; we left. They refused to refund our additional service charges and laughed in our faces!
Curtain pole fallen off and just left in the room, beds not even made with bedding.
This is supposedly a fire door
Fire door!
Stayed 10 nights in Jul 2023

2/10 Terrible

F

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Stayed 2 nights in Aug 2023

2/10 Terrible

Drita

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Service was bad. Would not recommend.
Stayed 2 nights in Aug 2023

2/10 Terrible

Hakan

Stayed 26 nights in Jul 2023

2/10 Terrible

Lola

Travelled with family
Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Hidden charges and costs. Not worth what you pay.
Upon arrival you are told about service fees you must pay that I was unaware of. €25 per person per night, which included my 2 year old daughter and 17 year old sisterinlaw which on hotels.com were both classed as children. So this came up to €450 extra that I was not anticipating, plus another €33 card payment fee. Staff were so rude and clearly do not know the meaning of customer service. I paid for a room for 3, which was meant to include a double and one twin bed. I was greeting with one double bed and a sofa that wasn’t even a sofabed. One towel to share between us. No aircon most of the stay. Complete false advertisement on beach front, it is not a beachfront hotel. And does not have any sort of views! They do not have a private beach, another lie which I don’t understand how hotels.com is even allowing this hotel to be advertised on their site. They had no pool and told me it was “under construction” there just wasn’t one full stop. Food - I’m Muslim, when I asked about some of the cold cuts or meat that were being severed they told me that they did t serve pork at all then a few days later they actually had pork chops, so completely unreliable and now I’m not convinced I didn’t eat pork. There was a leak at the top of the stairs on the floor I was on so going up or down the stairs was such a health hazard and my daughter nearly dropped down them. Towels were dirty. Cleaners kept taking out our electric key card so we’d come back to a warm/ hot room.
Stayed 6 nights in Jul 2023

2/10 Terrible

emine

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
before you book in this hotel, read what happened to me I booked this hotel, all fees included and I paid the hotel, for 3 day after some time I received an email saying that we have received the money, but when you come, you have to pay me another 150 euros to clean the room, after a week I went to the hotel with a reservation and they forced me to pay another 150 euro , I agreed to pay another 150 euros extra, but they still asked me for another 100 euros if something broke. I did not have 100 euros, and they did not allow me to chek in to the hotel, they left me on the street they took all my money and i have to go back home without vecation they were not people but bad animals I called the agency to return my money, but without success. the agency could not get the money back. be careful if you order this hotel because it will cost you a lot and the people who work there are very rude
Stayed 3 nights in Jun 2023

4/10 Poor

Stanley

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 1 night in Jun 2023

4/10 Poor

Stevies

Travelled with family and small children
Disliked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities
Thay change my reservation to upgrade for a full apartment and then thay won’t cancel the reservation to begin with crazy I thing this place is a scam First of all there is no hotel this place is a apartment complex second there is no pool And the apartment we stayed was the worst place I ever seen broke toilet seat broken shower no light at one of the bathrooms none of the rooms doors in the apartment will close so no privacy whatsoever you could fill the sand from the floor that’s how dirty they were broken power outlets on and on and on just a disaster
Stayed 4 nights in Jun 2023

2/10 Terrible

Louisa

Travelled with partner
Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Please do not book here. Miss advertised by expedia President suite with a sea view comes with sheets and towels on website But when you arrive its 25 euros on top of the room price. No towels at all due to a laundry issue Phone lines dont work so you cant speak to reception Private beach is just a patch of sand across the road with no beds or umbrellas out. Please please please do not book here.
Stayed 1 night in Jun 2023

2/10 Terrible

Yusuf

Terrible! Inflexible!
Stayed 4 nights in May 2023

4/10 Poor

Ronald

Stayed 4 nights in May 2023

2/10 Terrible

Viola

Stayed 2 nights in Apr 2023

6/10 Okay

Ryan

Travelled with family and small children, Travelled with group
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service
Disliked: Amenities, property conditions & facilities
The property description on Expedia shows an indoor pool which is why we booked the hotel because we had kids who wanted to swim. We called the number listed and asked and were told the pool was open. After checking in, we got the kids ready to swim and were told there is no pool. We were then refused a refund at the hotel and were told to call their main office and were again refused. Maybe it’s better during tourist season, but I would not recommend staying here at all.
Stayed 1 night in Apr 2023

8/10 Good

Charity Jaclyn

Liked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities
Durres
Stay was ok, geat room and shower. No duvet civers given. Too cold jn room couldnt work the aur conditioner. Lication ok, staff ok. Lavk of infirmation in general and kn buses tobthe airporr
Stayed 1 night in Mar 2023

8/10 Good

Leonard

2/10 Terrible

Mohamed

Stayed 4 nights in Oct 2022

2/10 Terrible

J

Disliked: Staff & service
Deceptive- be aware
The hotel is fundamentally trying to rinse you for as much money as possible. Everything listed online as free (parking/meals/facilities etc) they try to make you pay for. They also charge a spurious city tax that no other hotels seem to know about. The facilities themselves are fine though maintenance around the hotel is poor- our bathroom smelt awfully damp for instance. Not a 4 star experience
Stayed 1 night in Sep 2022

4/10 Poor

Gelu Dan

Business traveller
Liked: Staff & service
Disliked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Far away from the pictures
The only good thing is the friendly staff from the restaurant, other than this AC not working properly in the rooms, water dripped from the ceiling into the hallways, a special smell of humidity is inside And very disappointed is that, my deposit is still not refunded after more than 2 months from checkout, and they are still delaying this process
Stayed 2 nights in Jul 2022

6/10 Okay

Anila

Travelled with family
Disliked: Staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
As soon as I arrived at the hotel I had to pay €108 even though online it said that I have paid everything. No body welcomed us when we first arrived. Later on I found out that drinks, even water was not included as part of our meal. I was charged for all the drinks and had to pay for every single drink. Very expensive but, the staff was lovely and working hard in bad hotel conditions.
Stayed 9 nights in Jul 2022

4/10 Poor

Verified traveller

Travelled with family
Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 1 night in Jul 2022

8/10 Good

Ahmet Metin

Liked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Price would be the main reason to stay
Not directly near the beach as advertised but close.So called private beaches were not free and i didn't use them at all Extra taxes were added during check-in which were not stated in hotels.com web site. Moreover, they didn't let me pay the next day after the check-in. It was hotels policy not to let in the guests without paying first. Other than that, facilities were new and quite comfortable. I stayed 4 nights and they didn't change the sheets at all
Stayed 4 nights in Jun 2022

6/10 Okay

Arjana

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 1 night in Feb 2022

2/10 Terrible

Leonard

Travelled with family, Travelled with partner
Liked: Property conditions & facilities
Disliked: Cleanliness
After I have paid on full directly from Expedia when I got to the property they charged me 70 euro because of there properly taxes, also i got the room for 14 days they never did clean the room.
Stayed 14 nights in Jan 2022

6/10 Okay

Dukagjin

Business traveller
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, room comfort
Stayed 1 night in Jan 2022

10/10 Excellent

Aslam

Stayed 1 night in Nov 2021

10/10 Excellent

Colin

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Pleasant stay.
Very pleasant stay. Was bit wary after reading reviews,but staff very pleasant,and helpful. Place was clean and breakfast was ample. Did not matter to us that not on beach like described,but it's only a 30 second walk out of front door.
Stayed 1 night in Oct 2021

8/10 Good

Motaz, Lexington

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Stayed 6 nights in Oct 2021

4/10 Poor

Milica

Stayed 7 nights in Aug 2021

2/10 Terrible

Erlis

Travelled with family, Travelled with family and small children
Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
This property sucks, They left myself and my pregnant wife stranded at 2 in the morning in a foreign country even though we had reservations months prior.
Stayed 17 nights in Aug 2021

4/10 Poor

Baftir

Liked: Property conditions & facilities
Disliked: Staff & service
Stayed 6 nights in Aug 2021

10/10 Excellent

Carlos Alberto

Business traveller
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Disliked: Amenities
Nice place to stay. Friendly Albanian people.
Stayed 4 nights in Aug 2021

2/10 Terrible

Alexandros

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
From hell Lying
The hotel is not front of the beach there are misrepresenting themselves with pict of another hotel
Stayed 4 nights in Aug 2021

2/10 Terrible

NOOR

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Very bad 👎
The hotel is very bad , the stuff were unprofessional, they know how to collect the money but not providing any services.
Stayed 1 night in Aug 2021

2/10 Terrible

Nicola

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
DO NOT BOOK
Would not let us check in with the booking from Hotels.com as it is peak season and they don't like the price on Hotels.com website. I could book through the hotel for 50 Euro per person per night, which is much much more than what Hotels.com advertises. People in Reception when we arrived shouting all over because of dirty, unclean rooms, so probably a good thing we were not allowed to stay!
Stayed 1 night in Aug 2021

6/10 Okay

Silvana

Travelled with family
Liked: Room comfort
Stayed 7 nights in Aug 2021

6/10 Okay

Verified traveller

Business traveller
Disliked: Staff & service
I have never in my life met more rude staff than the staff here. I got a confirmation on my mail and when I arrived at the hotel 12h later the lady told me
Stayed 5 nights in Aug 2021

2/10 Terrible

Bardhyl

Stayed 9 nights in Jul 2021

2/10 Terrible

Hussam

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Horrible stay
Horrible stay, they are very rude and impolite, when you ask for something they shout at you and dont respect you. The hotel was fully booked even though we had a prepaid double room and had to wait till 4 to check in. Their branch in Tirana made us leave beacuse they were overbooked as well, so we had to cancel our booking on hotels.com and find another hotel. They turned off the air conditioning at night and the weather was very hot 40°c and they kept lying and saying it will be fixed, and refused to move us to another room or refund so we can stay at another hotel. The booking was including taxes, but they forced us to pay 15 euros for 3 nights as city tax and said its something else. The pictures said its beachfront, but it is not on the beach and the beach they told us to access was a public beach and we had to pay to use it. I would not reccommend Albania for anyone for holiday, we spent most of the time angry and fighting for a decent room.
Stayed 3 nights in Jul 2021

10/10 Excellent

Arsim

Travelled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Belmond hotel
Hotel was AMAZING.Modern and very high standard hotel,clean and good service.Walking distance to sandy beach.Breakfast was good.
Stayed 1 night in Jul 2021

2/10 Terrible

Inesa

Travelled with family
Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
The parking was full of suige water I could not even come out of my car
Stayed 2 nights in Jul 2021

8/10 Good

Hossam

Travelled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Fair
Fair
Stayed 3 nights in Jul 2021

2/10 Terrible

Verified traveller

Travelled with partner
Disliked: Cleanliness
I booked a room for 15 days when I got here to check in they said they don’t have any rooms available… waited in the lobby for hours when I had made an reservation & paid in full… next day I got eat breakfast with my fiancée & they tell me I haven’t paid for the free breakfast when I made sure when booking the room it came with free breakfast…. Ruined my morning waiting 20 minutes for them to tell me yeah you did pay for it.. very unprofessional at least…
Stayed 1 night in Jul 2021

2/10 Terrible

Anna

Travelled with family
Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 10 nights in Jul 2021

2/10 Terrible

Verified traveller

Travelled with group
Disliked: Cleanliness, amenities, property conditions & facilities
It was horrible at
Stayed 1 night in Jul 2021

6/10 Okay

Alexander

Travelled with family
Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 10 nights in Jul 2021