The hotel website presents it as luxurious, but it isn't really. The vaunted "parquet", for example, isn't what you and I would think of when we say "parquet", but that pale, thin layer stuff a bit like lino that bends when you walk on it, and the wooden furniture in the rooms is mostly cheap bambooo that you can't sit... more

Business brought me to Albania twice in the summer of 2007-June and now August. I stayed at this hotel 2 weeks the first trip and 1 week the second. WOW. You must come here. I could have stayed at the Sheraton but why? I know it will be like any other US hotel chain-- expensive and cold but of course... more

The Hotel President and its staff were quite a surprise... Yhe hotel was the cleanest I've ever seen, with cleaning people working until midnight. Spotless. The room was modern, bed very comfortable,desk and internet access...Bathroom. plenty of hot water, all tile and colorful..The Hotel's restaurant may have the finest food in Tirana with excekkent service from multi-lingual staff. The restaurant's... more