The hostel is on the seaward side of the road at Potam, 1.4 km from the centre of Himarë. If you can see the public-beach sign on the pebbles, you are outside it.
Address
Potam, Himarë 9425, Vlorë County, Albania
Plus code
3QR3+MX Himarë
Coordinates
40.0916573, 19.7548942
Check in
14:00 – 23:00, and out by 11:00. Reception is staffed at limited hours.
The Vlorë–Sarandë coaches run the SH8 along this coast and stop in Himarë town, 1.4 km from the hostel. From the stop it is a taxi, or a walk south along the shore.
By car
Turn off the SH8 down to Potam and follow the shore road. There is no parking on the property itself, so plan for the public parking around the beach.
By ferry
Himarë has a summer ferry link along the coast and across to Corfu, landing at the town port rather than at Potam.
By air
Vlora International Airport is the nearest, up the coast to the north; Tirana and Corfu are the other two usual ways in.
Around here
What is within reach
Potam Beach
Across the shore road
White pebble, water that goes from clear to deep in a few strides, and a wooded headland closing off the southern end. Public beach, and one of the quieter ones on this stretch.
Himarë town
1.4 km up the coast
Spile beach, the promenade, the supermarkets and the cash machines, and the coach stop on the national road.
Livadhi Beach
Past the town, to the north-west
A kilometre and a half of pebble between two headlands, facing west — the long one, and the one that gets the sunset.
Himarë Castle
In the hills above the town
The walled hilltop village behind Himarë, still partly lived in, with the whole bay laid out beneath it.
Porto Palermo
South along the coast road
Ali Pasha's fortress on a spit in a turquoise bay, with a Cold War submarine tunnel cut into the hill.
