Te Stela Resort

Spent a night here before flying out of Tirana. Room was nice, spacious with great bathroom and shower. We were provided with a cot for our daughter which was very nice. All staff friendly and helpful. Great pool with kids areas. Massive play park. Plenty of free parking. Free breakfast included which was good (fruit, pastries, pancakes, yoghurt, hot food). About 20 min drive to the airport. Would recommend.

Comfortable, good value hotel. Offered many amenities but in process of upgrading so most spa services were not available. I did use the lap pool and visited the turkish bath room but there were no other spa services to avail of. Breakfast was got and filling with scrambled, poached and boiled eggs, bacon and sausage, some chocolate stuffed pastries, yogurts, cereal and some fresh fruit. Also a self serve coffee and juice machine. The location is a 15 min drive away from downtown so you would definitely need a rental car or be part of a tour bus group to stay here. The staff was friendly. It would have been nice if they knew of some good authentic Albanian restaurants to recommend, other than pizzerias. Just be mindful they host local musician percormances on weekends and they usually shut down the party late. I could slightly hear music into the late hours in my room but not enough to keep me up. There is also a shopping mall about 1/2 km down the street to visit. Overall a nice place for retirees or families who want to stay in the hotel and use the pool facilities or hang out at the restaurant, and who dont mind being away from all the action downtown.

Room was clean but the key for the room did not always work which is annoying when you get in late and you just want to go to bed. Some of the staff are rude and one of the ladies who takes the money at the pool bar don't give you your change back she puts the money in the change box which I don't like if I think you deserve a tip I will leave it and considering a service charge is added to your bill automatically I think its rude to presume it's ok to keep my money. The young ladies on the ice cream stall are lovely they are friendly and good with the kids. The park is good for kids but it needs abit of tlc swing rope needs looking at as the rope is cutting through use and purple slide needs screwing back down. Cleaners are good and friendly other staff need to learn to treat the cleaners with some respect. At times by the pool it would smell of sewage. Overall the place is good but some of the staff let the place down.

Te Stela is a lovely relaxing hotel with lots of amenities for families. It has supervised parking, 2 pools and helpful staff. The huge restaurant next door serves excellent Albanian food very cheaply, along with the beer produced by Te Stela brewery. The location is not very inviting between warehouses but access is easy for travelling to the coast and there are direct buses to the centre from QTS mall next door. We had a really restful break there between driving and sightseeing.