Rruga Himarë · Himarë · Albanian Riviera
A pool on the hill, eleven minutes above the beach.
Hotel Frida stands above Himarë, up past the football field, where there is room for a proper swimming pool and somewhere to leave the car. The town and the water are a walk downhill; the quiet is the point of being up here.
The rack
Four keys hang behind the desk.
Two triples, a quadruple and a fifty-two square metre family suite. Two of them have a kitchen. Every one has a balcony, air conditioning and its own bathroom.
- 01
Triple Room
- Floor area
- 30 m²
- Beds
- One full bed and one sofa bed
- Aspect
- Balcony over the pool
- Kitchen
- Yes
- 02
Triple Room with Balcony
- Floor area
- 30 m²
- Beds
- One twin bed and one full bed
- Aspect
- Balcony
- Kitchen
- No
- 03
Standard Quadruple Room
- Floor area
- 30 m²
- Beds
- One full bed and one bunk bed
- Aspect
- Balcony, mountain view
- Kitchen
- No
- 04
Family Suite
- Floor area
- 52 m²
- Beds
- One full bed, one bunk bed and one sofa bed
- Aspect
- Balcony, mountain view
- Kitchen
- Yes
Free to guests
The water you can walk to in a towel.
The pool is open through the season, all ages, with towels, loungers and umbrellas set out on the terrace and a bar at the end of it. Booking.com’s own guest summary puts the pool first among the things visitors rate highly here.
The terrace runs on into the dining room, so breakfast, a long lunch and a drink after dark all happen within about twenty paces of the shallow end.
The pool, the bar and the table
Downstairs
The bar under the arches.
Lit niches, a counter faced in mottled red and black, and a dining room used all day — breakfast in the morning, lunch and dinner later, with the television on when there is something worth watching. It is a family hotel and the room behaves like one.
Breakfast is served here and is added to a booking separately rather than carried by the room rate.
Downhill
Everything is below you.
The address names the football field because that is how the turning is found: the fenced pitch sits just below the hotel, and the road carries on down into Himarë from there.
Spille Beach is an eleven-minute walk. Allow longer on the way back — the whole return leg climbs, which is the trade a guest makes for the pool and the parking space.
Getting here, and the map- The five-a-side pitch below the hotelthe football field in the address
- 56 m
- Nearest groceryon Rruga Ar Mihail
- 180 m
- Petro Ruci stadium
- 665 m
- Himarë town centre
- 838 m
- Spille Beachwalking — about eleven minutes downhill
- 950 m
- Himarë Castlethe old village on the ridge
- 1.4 km
- Marachi Beachwalking
- 1.6 km
- Livadhi Beachwalking
- 2.4 km
- Potam Beachwalking
- 2.5 km
Straight-line distances from the hotel's own coordinate, except the rows marked walking — those are Booking.com's own walking estimates.
What is here, and what is not.
In the stay
- Parking
- Free, private, on site. No reservation needed, and there is a garage.
- The pool
- Free to guests, seasonal, all ages, with towels, loungers and umbrellas.
- WiFi
- Free in the rooms. It is the one thing guests score below the rest.
- Air conditioning
- In every room, with a balcony and a private bathroom.
- The lift
- Upper floors are reached by lift.
- Languages
- Albanian, English and Greek at the desk.
Worth knowing first
- Breakfast
- Served in the restaurant, and added to the booking separately rather than carried by the rate.
- Pets
- Not accepted.
- Cots and extra beds
- Not available. Children of all ages are welcome in the beds the room already has.
- Parties
- Not held here. This is a family house and it is run as one.
- Smoking
- The whole property is smoke-free, indoors and in the rooms.
- A deposit
- A refundable cash damage deposit is taken on arrival and returned when you leave.
- Cards
- Cash is the only payment method the property accepts on site.
The score
Guests on Booking.com put it at 8.6 out of 10.
Cleanliness carries it and the WiFi does not — that is the honest shape of the seven category scores, and the weak one is printed here with the rest rather than left off.
Read the reviews on Booking.com- Cleanliness
- 9.2
- Value for money
- 8.9
- Staff
- 8.8
- Facilities
- 8.8
- Comfort
- 8.8
- Location
- 8.4
- Free WiFi
- 7.5
Questions people ask first.
- How far is the beach?
- Spille Beach is an eleven-minute walk downhill through the town, about 950 metres on foot. Allow longer coming back — the hotel sits above Himarë, not on the shore, and the return leg climbs the whole way.
- Is the swimming pool included?
- Yes. The outdoor pool is free to guests and open seasonally, with towels, loungers and umbrellas, and a pool bar beside it. Booking.com's own guest summary puts the pool first among the things visitors rate highly here.
- Is there parking?
- Free private parking on site, with a garage and accessible spaces. No reservation is needed, which is the practical reason many guests choose the hill over the seafront in August.
- What are the check-in and check-out times?
- Check-in runs from 1:00 pm to 11:30 pm. Check-out is from 6:30 am to 10:00 am.
- Do the rooms have a kitchen?
- The Triple Room and the Family Suite have a private kitchen with a refrigerator, kitchenware and a kettle. Every room has a dining area, a desk, a wardrobe, a flat-screen television and a private bathroom with a shower.