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Hotel Prinos

Potam · Himarë · Albanian Riviera

Every room here

A balcony at Hotel Prinos with a round table and two wicker chairs, looking over the road and the beach to the sea, with a headland on the left horizon

faces the water.

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All three published room types carry a balcony, a sea view and soundproofing. Nothing in the listing faces away from it.

What is in front of you

The road first, then the beach, then the sea.

Hotel Prinos sits on the SH8, the coastal trunk road that carries the whole of this shoreline. That is the trade: the door opens onto the road that gets you here and parks your car for free, and the beach begins on the other side of it. In July and August there is traffic. Every published room type is soundproofed.

The SH8
19 mThe coastal trunk road runs along the front of the building.
The beach
37 mThe near edge of the beach, on the far side of the road.
The Potam strip photographed from the air: a row of white blocks, a line of parked cars along the road, a low sea wall, then rows of straw umbrellas on the pale beach and turquoise water
The strip from above — buildings, road, wall, beach, water, in that order.

The mirror

Two of the same view.

A large round mirror is fixed on the wall opposite the balcony door. It does something useful: from the bed, with your back to the door, the sea is still in the room. It is why the same circle marks every specification on this site.

A room at Hotel Prinos where a large round mirror on the wall reflects the balcony, its rail and the sea, while the open balcony door shows the same view directly
The door gives the rail, the beach and the water. So, from the far wall, does the mirror.

The room

There is one room here, and it is between 21 and 23 square metres.

Three rows appear in the booking channel and two of them carry the same name. They differ by a square metre and by whether the beds are one large one or three singles. Everything else — the balcony, the aspect, the soundproofing, the air conditioning, the bathroom, the refrigerator, the television — is the same in all of them. So this site describes the room once.

The room, in full
A room at Hotel Prinos with a slate-grey wall behind the beds, a double bed with a navy blanket, a single bed with a wooden frame, and a balcony door with the sea beyond

The slate wall behind the beds, the sea through the door.

Downstairs

A kitchen, a coffee house and a shop, without leaving the building.

The restaurant cooks Greek and Italian and serves breakfast, lunch and dinner, with vegetarian dishes and a buffet the children will actually eat. Breakfast is continental and American. There is a coffee house and a minimarket in the same block, so the coffee and the things you forgot to pack are both on the ground floor.

  • A restaurant serving Greek and Italian dishes
  • Breakfast, continental and American, with vegetarian options
  • A coffee house
  • A minimarket
  • Room service
  • A lift to the upper floors
  • A private beach area with umbrellas and loungers
  • Free private parking, no reservation needed
  • Accessible parking and street parking
  • A safety deposit box
  • 24-hour security
The reception counter at Hotel Prinos with a framed painting of a tall ship standing on it, a stack of old books, an orchid and a palm
The desk, and the ship standing on it.

Around the door

Five beaches inside a mile and a half.

Potam is a strip of shore south of Himarë town. The beaches run one into the next along the SH8, so a day here can be a walk rather than a drive. They are listed near to far. Which of them you wake up on is most of what separates one beachfront stay here from the next.

  • Prinos Beach
  • Potam Beach
  • Maracit Beach
  • Spille Beach
  • Gjiri i Filikurit Beach

Tables nearby

  • Restorant Portokalli
  • Cibo Restorant Mare e Terra
  • Sunsmile
The view north along the coast from a balcony at Hotel Prinos: the road below, the beach, and the hillside town of Himarë rising beyond
North along the shore towards Himarë.

On Booking.com

8.8 / 10

Read the reviews on Booking.com
The seven category scores published for this property, each out of ten.
Location9.7
Comfort9.1
Staff9.0
Cleanliness8.9
Value for money8.7
Facilities8.5
Free WiFi8.2

Rooms are held on Booking.com.

Dates, availability and the current rate all live there. Payment at the property is in cash.