Hotel Enkelana

Relaxing hotel , quick check-in, room comfortable particularly the bed, decent shower. Balcony with view of the lake. Nice bar area with access to the lake. I only had a drink at the bar , nothing ro eat . Just a short walk from the bars and restaurants in the area. Nice place to stay.

We stayed 2 nights and I read the reviews of the hotel before booking, so I knew it was a 3 star hotel which would be basic in some respects. I booked this hotel because it is right on the lakeside and I could book rooms with views over the lake. Also, the hotel is at one end of the promenade in Pogradec; you can walk out of the hotel and find restaurants, cafes and shops. Also the hotel is very near the main lakeside beach but also has its own beach area with sunbeds and parasols (free to use). I feel I got what i wanted: we had two suite rooms with lake views. The rooms had a double bed, a sofa seating area and also a balcony. This was perfect for enjoying the view of the lake and mountains. The bathroom in our room was basic: the shower made the floor wet. The breakfast in the hotel restaurant was quite basic: there was usually a line of people waiting to get food from the buffet table; the tables were not always completely clean. The buffet itself was adequate: bread, cake and the Albanian fried savoury doughnut things, with eggs, sausage, tomato, cucumber, feta- type cheese, olives, some jam and cereals The coffee was poor. The hotel has a good cafe/ bar/ seating area on the ground floor. The beach area is partly sandy, partly pebbly. Outside the hotel, the ground is a little higher above the lake than the main beach, so you step down to get in the water and there are little jetties you can use. The lake water is clear and pleasant to swim in. (We visited in August when the temperature was high 20s). After Tirana, we noticed that people did not speak as much English here.

This hotel has a good position, with main street on one side and the lake on the other. Close to the shore so lovely walks to be had in the evening while the town folk are taking their promenades! It has a large comfortable lobby, and a good ground floor coffee bar. My room was large with a small balcony overlooking the lake from the side of the hotel. My bed was large and comfortable with good linen. Plenty of space in the room to put things down, and hooks to hang things. Good lighting. Negatives: there was no shower door so the water goes everywhere in the bathroom - paddling pool! Breakfast was very disappointing: only fluffy, tasteless white bread, no fresh fruit, the coffee was undrinkably strong instant coffee and luke warm. Tea no better. Poor selection overall. This really lets the hotel down!