Name: Hotel Dolce Vita
Address: 1 Km From Shkembi I Kavajes, Durres, Durres, Durres, 2008, Albania
Rating: 6

Air conditioning

24-hour reception

Elevator/lift

Currency exchange

Heating

Newspapers

Garden

General

Non-smoking rooms

Room service

Fridge

Smoking allowed in bedrooms

Family room

Minibar

Hairdryer

Shower/Bathtub

Shower

Safe (in room)

Mini-fridge

Rooms

Laundry

Safe-deposit box

Concierge services

Telephone

Deposit boxes

Services and amenities

Buffet breakfast

Cafe

Restaurant

Poolside bar

Meals

Wi-Fi

Internet access

In-room internet

Internet

Nightclub

Recreation

Parking

Garage

Swimming pool

Outdoor pool

Water sport facilities

Pool and beach

Business center

Meeting and presentation facilities

Conference Hall

Business

Beauty services

Beauty and wellness

Children's playground

Family/Kid Friendly

Kids

Location

At the hotel

Room amenities

Tirana International Airport

Hotel Dolce Vita

Durres

child-bed

child-bed-fee

external-private-bathroom

private-bathroom

shared-bathroom

10-beds

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4-beds

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king-bed

queen-bed

limited-time

lounge

treatment

no-window

bay-view

bosphorus-view

canal-view

city-view

courtyard-view

garden-view

golf-view

harbour-view

inland-view

lake-view

land-view

mountain-view

ocean-front

ocean-view

oceanside

panoramic-view

park-view

partial-ocean-view

partial-sea-view

partial-view

pool-view

river-view

sea-front

sea-view

street-view

sunrise-view

sunset-view

water-view

with-view

annex

basement

main-building

1-bedroom

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4-bedrooms

5-bedrooms

6-bedrooms

not-guaranteed

wired-internet-access

smoking

sauna

duplex

safe

mini-bar

breakfast-for-1

breakfast-for-2

pets-allowed

wi-fi

kitchen

Great location,beautiful hotel,nice and clean beachside,very helpful and friendly staff,especially Ronaldo,which look after customers very well.We would reccomend this place in 100% and we can not wait to go back there next year:-) Kasia and Adi from uk

Dolce vita

I stayed with my familjy over a weekend and enjoyd the garden and sea view. The breakfast is good, staff is very helpful, big and secured parking place, close to the beach and pedestrian walkway by the hotels. The rooms are average but we had terrace view wich was perfect to the sea. The price is average to the hotel conditions. I Recommend it.

Very nice environment

A friendly family owned hotel. The owner makes a personal effort to welcome and chat to all guests. Have stayed here 3 times now. The manager Bladi and his staff are very efficient, accommodating and nothing is too much trouble. The sandy beach is clean and well maintained. There is night club right  next door -something which may not please people looking for  peaceful nights. Apart from this, I love this hotel. 

Hotel Dolce Vita, Golum, Albania

Hotel is at really nice place. Close to the beach and have really nice facilities. Foods in the hotel's restaurant are well enough and so suitable price. many rooms have nice view and all of theme clean...

Good Price Good Service

It was pretty good in this hotel. We had a room on the first floor, with balcony, but not with the sea view, and that is much better for us. During the night it was not so nosy like on the the other side. The rooms are clean. When we came, we didnt have any towel, but then we asked and  every day new towels. We had all inclusive, the food is tasty, not so many options, by the three days you get to know all the menu. Breakfast is always the same and nothing special. Lunch and dinner were better.  Few times there were only plastic glasses. People that dont have all inclusive service, were taking food from restaurant. 
Pool is not so big, but its really nice. Swimming pool for little one are there. The only problem with the pool I have experiences is when you get to the pool at 11 pm you have no beach . Its because, people leave their towels during the night so they dont have to get up early. BeCause its not obligatory that you have to have beach chair at the pool, but at the beach it is not possible not to have one. I have complained abt that to the hotel. They said its not alloew to leave the towels, and that the guest make problems. After that I saw the guy who took all the towels but the next day the same situation. In the pool can be people that are didnt stay in hotel.
There is small parking in front of the hotel, but few meters there is bigger one, but its not paved, and the car was covered by dust in one day. 
The sea is reallynice, and the beach too, warm. Few days was very windy and waves are big. There were also jellyfish in the sea. Lucky we didnt have any bigger problems with that.
Hotel is in the 2.touristic zone. 
The toilet at the swiming pool is awful and although there is a lady who cleans, its still so smelly and almost never is there a toilet paper.

You get what you paid for

+Very nice beach, warm and beautiful sea. Good quality food but not a lot to choose from. Friendly staff.
-Weak breakfasts, they didn`t have fruits at breakfast. There wasn`t animation, there isn`t what to do in the evening. In the sea view room music was very loud till 2am.

An average hotel

Is a good place for family holidays or weekends bay the sea. if you are lucky enough to get a room with sea view you can see pool and sea. food it average if you have low standards of breakfast. but I would recommend it if you don't want to spend lot of money.

Beatiful view

....but many things would have to change.

The biggest problem, as well as in other Albanian hotels, is the food and the food service.  It has nothing to do with a four star hotel level.  The breakfast menu was very plain, very narrow selection.  All 10 days only one and the same type of ham-like salami,  only one and the same type of soft cheese, no hard cheese at all, nothing  sweet at all, no cake, no croissant, only one type of black tea and not always available. Some days we have just fruit tea. No mugs for tea. Just glasses or espresso cups or plastic cups. Believe or not, no real coffee (freshly brewed) in a four star hotel !  Just a very poor quality instant coffee from a vending machine.  Plastic spoons.  One type of bread, not very tasty, hard, no buns, rolls, etc.  No toasts and toasters of course.  Fortunately we had just half board, breakfasts and dinners. Regarding dinners, the time for dinner was quite short and early (from 19.00 to 20.00). Consequently the restaurant was full. Selection quite narrow and the food quality very average.  No thermostats for soup or main dishes, consequently we ate cold stuff frequently.  No sweets.  Just plain water to drink.   

Hotel has some sun umbrellas and sun loungers, but not enough for hotel guests.  You have to wake up earlier to occupy some.  It happened once that our towels and personal belongings disappeared from our loungers.  When we reported stolen items at the reception, it appeared finally that these items were taken by hotel staff at the beach and our loungers and umbrellas were given (sold?) to some local people, not hotel guests.  Some loungers were run-down, torn.  Toilet at the hotel pool is extremely smelly.  The hotel has its own disco that operated each day until midnight. The neighboring hotel operated its own live music stage just 20 meters apart.  So we had a mix of two music streams in our ears each day. I would suggest of course an agreement between the two hotels that one evening plays disco, next evening plays live music, etc.

Last but not least, very important but negative comment. There are two stairs from the hotel to the beach and the pool area. Both without handrails. I am not sure if handrails are mandatory under Albanian construction standards. In every case, very unfriendly to older people, small kids or guests with injuries or disabilities.The same applies to the pool. There is only one pool and the entrance to this pool is only via pool ladders. No stairs into the pool. Well, older people or guests with injuries or disabilities are not welcome here. 

The positives are close proximity of the hotel to the beach, nice sea view, and very nice garden with tables for eating outdoor on the grass. I would definitely recommend not to buy half board or full board and to eat inside buffet-style with above mentioned shortages but instead to eat outside a la carte style.  It is much better and not that expensive in Albania after all.  Taking into account that tourism in Albania is just still developing, I rate Average rather than Poor. Fingers crossed !

It could be a nice place to stay, but....

food? horrible. After travelling for 20 hours we get to the hotel only for them to keep us outside for another 2 hours. After 2 days, the cleaning ladies didn't even come anymore, we had to buy our own toilet paper after asking for it twice. The DJs were nice, that's the ONLY good part. After paying for All Inclusive we had to pay for the sunbeds (5 euro) and the guy that came to get our money was living in his own universe. He didn't understand or speak English, he would  communicate in signs. Overall, not a good experience.

awful

I don‘t recommend this Hotel either, its have bad food, its have very bad service, its high priced but location is good, and WIFI is very bad. I personally wouldnt go on this hotel 2nd time, its high priced and its not for it value, it have good location.

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