ODA

Nous avons dîné avec des amis au restaurant Oda Garden, en plein centre de Tirana. Tout ce qu'ils ont servi était incroyablement bon. Excellente cuisine albanaise traditionnelle, qui vaut vraiment la peine d'être essayée !

Cuisine familiale, simple mais bonne. L'atmosphère est magnifique, vous mangez dans une cour avec des plantes et des petites lumières. Le tout entouré d'un groupe qui joue et chante des chansons traditionnelles.

Wir fanden es sehr schön dort! Die Musik am Abend hat uns gefallen und sie ging auch gar nicht so lange. Außerdem schluckt der wunderschöne Innenhof die Geräusche von der Straße, man denkt gar nicht, dass man mitten in der Stadt ist. Das Zimmer war super, das Frühstück auch!

This hostel is beautiful and in a great location, BUT there are no lockers to store your belongs (all of the keys to the lockers in the room are lost and the owners haven't bothered to fix it.) So if you're a digital nomad or just carrying expensive equipment with you, don't stay here. There is no lock on the room door either, and no door stopping restaurant guests or random people from walking into your room and stealing your stuff. With that said, Tirana is generally safe and the entry to the hostel is a bit hidden.

The second issue is there is no common area, you can't sit in the garden because that's for paying restaurant customers.

Again if you need to work or study you'll have to work from bed or go find a cafe, I went to Destil Creative Space and a couple of others and thankfully Tirana has a coffeeshop scene where they allow you sit and work from your laptop.

The third thing is the internet sucks. Like really, really sucks. I tried to have a phone call on WhatsApp and it dropped 5 times in 15 minutes.

Lastly there is no kitchen or fridge, but eating out in Tirana can be affordable.

Like the other reviews said from your window you can hear a live band play in the restaurant below (the band stops around 11pm but bring ear plugs if you want to sleep earlier.) I absolutely loved the live music every night playing old classics so for me it was part of the experience I really enjoyed. You feel like you're in the Disney movie The Aristocats. Most of the staff was completely unfriendly, BUT Neta, the older woman who cleans the rooms was very sweet and helped me with my bags and brought me my water bottle I forgot while leaving.

I stayed at this hostel for 4 nights.

I loved this hostel worker they where nice people I really liked that young kid he played traditional Kosovo Albanian music just because I’m from Kosovo???????? big respect