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Spile Beach · Himarë

The room

A stone-walled room under squared timber ceiling beams, with a freestanding oval bath on a stone-kerbed dais to the left, a low timber platform bed to the right, and three openings — a window and a balcony door onto the sea, and a two-leaf window onto the trees behind.

The whole room in one frame: three openings, the beams, the bath and the bed.

Three openings, rubble limestone walls, a beamed ceiling and a bath standing free on its dais. The sea is in the room before anything else is.

01 — The openings

Cut through the wall, not set in it.

The windows and the balcony door are driven straight through the rubble, so each one carries a deep stone reveal and a squared timber frame. Two of the three face the water and one faces the green behind, so the sea arrives from two directions at once.

A wide bed on a low timber platform, rubble limestone on every wall in the frame, a glazed door standing open onto a balcony above the sea, and a two-leaf window onto green.
The bed on its timber platform, with the balcony door open onto the water.
A white freestanding bath below a black pendant lamp, standing on a pale plaster dais edged with rough stone, beside a full-height glazed door onto a balcony above the sea, with white plaster to the left and rubble limestone to the right.
The bath below the pendant, beside the glazed door cut through the wall.

02 — The floor

Pale oak, then plaster, then stone.

Wide pale planks run the length of the room and stop at a poured plaster dais the colour of the walls. A kerb of undressed stone draws the join as a slow curve rather than a straight line, and the bath stands inside it.

A freestanding bath on a stone-kerbed plaster dais, two terracotta amphorae standing at the near end of the same dais under a wall-mounted television that reflects the sea, and two openings onto the water.
Two amphorae on the dais, two openings on the water, the television holding the sea.
A freestanding bath seen past a rough timber stool carrying two rolled white towels, with the sea and pines through a full-height glazed door and rubble limestone to the right.
The timber stool, two rolled towels, and the sea through the glass.

03 — The types

Four ways to book it.

  • Deluxe Double Room with Sea ViewOne queen bedSea view
  • Double Room with Sea ViewOne queen bedSea view
  • Triple Room with ViewOne twin bed and one queen bed
  • Triple RoomOne twin bed and one queen bed

Every room has a balcony. Check-in times and house rules.

04 — What is in it

In the room

  • Balcony
  • Air conditioning
  • Heating
  • Soundproofing
  • Flat-screen TV with streaming
  • Refrigerator
  • Wardrobe
  • Private entrance

In the bathroom

  • Private bathroom
  • Bathrobes and slippers
  • Hairdryer
  • Bidet
  • Towels

In the building

  • Free Wi-Fi throughout
  • Key card access
  • Fire extinguishers
  • Smoke-free throughout

05 — Every frame

A stone-walled room under squared timber ceiling beams, with a freestanding oval bath on a stone-kerbed dais to the left, a low timber platform bed to the right, and three openings — a window and a balcony door onto the sea, and a two-leaf window onto the trees behind.
The whole room in one frame: three openings, the beams, the bath and the bed.
A wide bed on a low timber platform, rubble limestone on every wall in the frame, a glazed door standing open onto a balcony above the sea, and a two-leaf window onto green.
The bed on its timber platform, with the balcony door open onto the water.
A white freestanding bath below a black pendant lamp, standing on a pale plaster dais edged with rough stone, beside a full-height glazed door onto a balcony above the sea, with white plaster to the left and rubble limestone to the right.
The bath below the pendant, beside the glazed door cut through the wall.
A freestanding bath on a stone-kerbed plaster dais, two terracotta amphorae standing at the near end of the same dais under a wall-mounted television that reflects the sea, and two openings onto the water.
Two amphorae on the dais, two openings on the water, the television holding the sea.
A freestanding bath seen past a rough timber stool carrying two rolled white towels, with the sea and pines through a full-height glazed door and rubble limestone to the right.
The timber stool, two rolled towels, and the sea through the glass.
A large frameless mirror with a wavy scalloped edge hung flat against a rubble limestone wall above a white plaster ledge, reflecting the ceiling beams, the pendant lamp, a wall-mounted television, the bath and the corner of the bed.
The wave-edged mirror against the stone, holding the wall the camera stands on.
A balcony with a glass balustrade and a folding timber table at dusk, looking down onto the paved beachfront street, the sand, the moored boats and the headland with the last of the sunset behind it.
Dusk from the balcony, straight down onto the beachfront street and the sand.
A room with white plastered walls and one exposed limestone pier, a wide oak plank floor, a long timber shelf running under a wall-mounted television, a glass-fronted fridge beneath it and a black hanging rail.
White plaster, one stone pier, the long shelf, the fridge and the hanging rail.