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Oasis Hostel

Rruga 1 Maj, Himarë

Getting here

The hostel is on Rruga 1 Maj, about 0.9 km from the centre of Himarë and 1.1 km from Spile beach — near enough to walk, far enough that the bikes are the point.

By bus

Himarë sits on the SH8 coast road between Vlorë and Sarandë, and the buses that run it stop in town, about 0.9 km from the door.

From Ioannina airport

144 km, and the hostel will arrange a shuttle for it — a paid one, arranged in advance rather than on the day.

On arrival

Reception takes check-ins from 14:00 until 23:00. Bags can be left before that and after checkout at 11:00, free either way.

The address

Rruga 1 Maj
9425 Himarë
Albania

No map pin is drawn on this site. The one coordinate pair in circulation for this hostel resolves only to a residential street in Spile and could not be confirmed against the building on any source — so the address, the two phone numbers and a Maps search are what is offered instead of a pin that might be a hundred metres out.

Aerial view of Himarë town, its pier and the curve of Spile bay under the Ceraunian mountains
Himarë from the air — the town, the pier and Spile beach, 1.1 km from the door.

Around Himarë

These are the ones this site has a correctly identified photograph of. The hostel's own website names several more as near — Borsh, Filikur, Jale, Llamani, Porto Palermo, Qeparo, Akuariumi, Bunec — and they are listed here without a picture rather than illustrated with a stand-in.

Aerial view of Himarë town, its pier and the curve of Spile bay under the Ceraunian mountains

Himarë and Spile beach1.1 km

The town beach, the pier and every bus that stops in Himarë. The nearest swim to the front door.

Livadhi Beach and its bay seen from the hillside above, the Ionian Sea calm below the coastal mountains

Livadhi2.5 km

The long pebble bay south of town — the one the free bikes were built for.

White limestone cliff falling into turquoise water at Gjipe beach on the Albanian Riviera

Gjipe

A canyon mouth on the coast north of Himarë, reached on foot or by boat. The hostel runs a bus tour to it.

A stone arch and dry-laid walls inside the ruined old village of Himarë Castle

Himarë Castle

The old walled village on the hill above town — a stiff walk up, stone lanes and a view down the whole bay.

The sun setting into the Ionian seen over the bow of a boat off the Himarë coastline

The bay at sunset

West-facing the whole way down this coast, which is the entire premise of the boat party.