Petit Hotel Elita

A comfortable, clean, modern hotel close to the centre of Shkoder. Located up a side street which initially doesn't look particularly promising. But the hotel itself is excellent, with a stylish, modern feel and efficient, professional staff. Unlike quite a few places in Albania the toilet/ shower / plumbing is top quality. Also has air conditioning, which is very welcome. Breakfast is served in a nearby restaurant (just round the corner). It was superb (including some of the best bread, butter and honey I've ever tasted). Highly recommended. (One thing to note - the pedestrian centre of Shkoder comes alive in the evening particularly at the weekend. Bars, restaurants, music, even fireworks. Petit Hotel Elita isn't directly adjacent to all that but there will probably be some noise till quite late. So go out and enjoy the party atmosphere.with all the fashionable local young people. It's really lively. Mediterranean living at its best!)

For the money, this hotel offers a nice room: modern design and clean. Bed and beddings are comfortable. Strangely, on my second night there, part of the ceiling light just clicked on by itself, and I couldn't shut it off. It went off by itself after about a minute or two: a bit spooky. That is pretty much all you get though. The front desk is nice but not too helpful: they can't help arrange taxi or tell you accurate information about buses to Tirana. The breakfast they offer is not onsite: it is in the hotel's sister restaurant a few hundred meters away. There is a cafe next door, but it offers no food whatsoever: strictly coffee only (as it is with every other coffee bar in the neighborhood). Location is great: close to the center and plenty of restaurants nearby. So long as you know you are just getting a nice room and much else, you'd be fine.

Nice new rooms, good locatin. BUT beds are not comfortable, towels clean but hard. The receptionist is rood, unhelpful and unpleasent. They won't help you with luggage. No breakfast included. If you want, you have to pay extra and have to walk to another site. I won't recommend it.