Reviews of Hotel Villa Ballkan
Omaraj, 4001 Shkodër, Albania
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Reviewed: 23 August 2025 · Stayed in August 2025
Verified reviewReviewed: 18 August 2025 · Stayed in August 2025
Verified reviewService and view from the balcony
Reviewed: 1 August 2025 · Stayed in July 2025
Verified reviewClose to the Shkodër lake
Reviewed: 25 July 2025 · Stayed in July 2025
Verified reviewVery nice and calm place, well located close to the lake. Free bicycle and very good breakfast. Host are very nice and our son as played with host daughter :)
Nothing :) but just a comment for improvement have an A/C colder and maybe more blackout curtains.
Reviewed: 21 July 2025 · Stayed in July 2025
Verified reviewReviewed: 11 July 2025 · Stayed in July 2025
Verified reviewThe stuff is helpful, the owner is willing to help, the view is garden. This place would be good if you have a car or motorcycle and already know what you want to do during your stay, keep the place as a place to sleep in only. or if you just want a place to relax in for a couple of days.
Accessing the place to take you stuff from the fridge is not 24/7, only if the staff are awake. The owner is doing the job remotely which makes it difficult to cope with. A lot of bugs and spiders are in the room and in the place around I don't know if they don't put pesticides. The Shkodra Lake is not easy to swim in except from going to a fancy restaurant which is 15 minutes-walk from the place. No busses can be found on google maps to go to the downtown in Shkodra, only the busses that the owner tells you about and they end at 7 pm. The owner could help you doing tours, anyways you can get better prices doing the same thing if you searched better.
Thank you for the review . Of course that we are not in the center of the city but anyway we are 11 km from the center in a quiet area (at the same moment you arrived and you said it was far from the center and that you think it was in the citycenter we offer to you all me money back and you can finde a hotel in center you didn’t accept), surrounded from the lake and the mountains, from the first moment you have been in contact with owner and the staff was avviable from 07:00 am to 24:00 . We have book for you daily trips with the local tours to shala river , buss schedule, taxi to go in the town and other the other information you needed but look that for you was not enough and the last thing we have bicycles for all of our guest to go to the lake in less the 5 min ,and the lake is exactly 900 meters from the hotel . Anyway we wish you all the best and thank you
Thank you for the review . Of course that we are not in the center of the city but anyway we are 11 km from the center in a quiet area (at the same moment you arrived and you said it was far from the center and that you think it was in the … Show more
Reviewed: 7 July 2025 · Stayed in July 2025
Verified review👍
Reviewed: 13 June 2025 · Stayed in June 2025
Verified reviewvery friendly hosts. close to the lake, highway and Shkoder. cozy room and good water pressure in the shower (I love that).
Reviewed: 7 June 2025 · Stayed in June 2025
Verified reviewVery friendly staff, welcoming and available. Nice rooms, clean and comfortable. Bonus points for allowing the use of all equipment within the property, including table tennis and bicycles.
Low Wi-Fi signal in the outside rooms
Reviewed: 5 June 2025 · Stayed in June 2025
Verified reviewGood value for money and very helpful staff.
Need some insects treatment as I found many spiders in my room.
Reviewed: 28 May 2025 · Stayed in May 2025
Verified reviewEverything, host is so nice, and i highly recommend this place.
Reviewed: 24 September 2024 · Stayed in September 2024
Verified reviewWe managed check-in remotely via whatsapp. The room was clean and bed comfortable There was a special welcome drink available - Rakija (did not tried) Quiet place Safe place to park a motorbike. Owner apparently has even CCTV on the land.
i don´t know about anything.
Reviewed: 10 September 2024 · Stayed in September 2024
Verified reviewProperty has good sunset view. And that’s where all the good about this property ends.
1. Extremely basic room. Basic to the point of no proper insulation or roof. It is horribly hot during the day and one tiny AC can’t do much when the entire sun falls straight into the room. There is no proper ceiling but an unfinished something. 2. Curtains provided do not protect from any sun. 3. No microwave, no electric kettle (was provided one after asking), no fridge(can use a common commercial fridge at a different building which remains closed during the night) 4. Something as basic as toiletries not provided. Literally nothing other than a hand wash. 5. No blankets provided, only a bedsheet. 6. This isn’t a con but just an information- the property doesn’t have lake access. You have to drive into a beach bar which charges you to get inside. 7. The price of food isn’t remotely reasonable. We ate outside since the entire property felt like ‘creating a stand alone something in the middle of nowhere to earn some money but not remotely bothered about hospitality, how a person will stay and to provide basic amenities as blanket, toiletries and a proper ceiling and black out curtain. 8. No hand shower in the washroom Yes one can always say I should have checked the listing but I have visited 20+ countries in different continents. I haven’t seen something this shabby. Yeah views are good. That’s about it.
I'm so sorry about your comment, we tried to accommodate all your requests you come st 12:00 am and i give you the room 4 hr beafore the chek in i give you the boiler when you ask , in the same review you whrite that there is and ther is not hand wash, but your comment seems exaggerated to me, just look at the other reviews and you understand that what you say is not true. anyway thanks for your comment.and of you need all te thinks you ask for you go to a 4 or 5 stars hotel witch cost 100 euro and more not to a guesthouse like mine and you paid 26 euro . what you call an unfinished ceiling is a modern Scandinavian style ceiling but perhaps the 20 countries you visited do not include Scandinavian countries.
I'm so sorry about your comment, we tried to accommodate all your requests you come st 12:00 am and i give you the room 4 hr beafore the chek in i give you the boiler when you ask , in the same review you whrite that there is and ther is no… Show more
Reviewed: 19 July 2024 · Stayed in July 2024
Verified reviewPeacfull area, kind owners
Reviewed: 22 June 2024 · Stayed in June 2024
Verified reviewNice accommodation near Shkoder. We used it for staying overnight and an early departure to the Theth. The host was great. He provided us with small bottle of raki and 2 glasses 😀
Thanks a lot
Reviewed: 27 October 2023 · Stayed in October 2023
Verified reviewGood place to sleep for one night. The facilities were very basic, but the room had everything that we needed.
Reviewed: 19 October 2023 · Stayed in October 2023
Verified reviewReviewed: 16 September 2023 · Stayed in September 2023
Verified reviewReviewed: 25 August 2023 · Stayed in August 2023
Verified reviewNice & Quite Good for a Quite vacation close to the Lake.
Remote location (but good for a Quite vacation close to the Lake)
Reviewed: 9 August 2023 · Stayed in July 2023
Verified reviewThe room was very clean and comfortable, host was really nice and helpful. We could also use the washing machine in the hall.
The only drawback was the window in the bathroom that faced directly into the yard and had no curtain or blinds causing a lack of privacy.
Reviewed: 4 August 2023 · Stayed in June 2023
Verified reviewReviewed: 23 July 2023 · Stayed in July 2023
Verified reviewAir conditioning
Reviewed: 11 July 2023 · Stayed in June 2023
Verified reviewBig house in the middle of nowhere - almost unpossible to find. No signs, nobody to ask. Big garden, plenty of parking places. Still under reconstruction, some rooms have to be finished. Good value for the money.