Reviews of Don Mare

Breakfast not that good. It was poor, not covered and a lot of flies where on the food.

Nothing - it was awful

Where do I start?! Worse booking I’ve ever made! Completely misrepresented. The room was nothing like the pictures they used to advertise on booking.com - see pictures attached to review. It was older and smaller, paint was peeling, it smelt of damp, had electrical wires hanging out the ceiling. The “Mountain View” was in fact a building site which was noisy between 7am and 9pm! And it was so close we had no privacy. To make matters worse, when I complained to reception, I was told the picture on my booking represented a more expensive room (several hundred euro more) and this was not their problem!! They were rude and blamed booking.com. Their customer service was shocking. Avoid at all costs!

Great location on the beach. Lovely friendly staff.

Breakfast limited, for quality of hotel and only one cup of coffee included (not uncommon though in Albania) Noisy music until 11 or 12 (maybe later in high season!) as beach bars all going strong

Location is amazing and dhermi beach strip itself has such a luxury feel!! Well worth getting a hotel with beach access to not pay beach bed prices.

The hotel rooms were not ready! The room they TRIED to give me was extremely outdated and the furniture was literally peeling. The bathroom was newly plastered with newish fittings but was not complete and out any pain and was still a building site. Directly outside the balcony (at the back) was a building site and loud and dusty. I complained and showed that it’s not what was advertised and asked for a room change. I was upgraded to a sea view suite that had recently been modernised. The bathroom was still plastered like the previous room. But the room itself was luxury, contemporary and modern. They moved me instantly and swiftly to make up for it. The beach bar is great and staff there were lovely! But I was still slightly disappointed they even tried to place me in the original room when another updated was very clearly available

Right on the beach with a nice bar and beach set up. It’s also very close to many good restaurants and is on the quieter end of the beach promenade.

Our room was facing the back of the hotel which is practically a building site. Luckily we were only there for a night and didn’t have any noise disturbance. The room itself didn’t quite look like the photos, it might be that the beach view rooms are better but I can’t be sure. Finally we had quite a lot of noise from other guests in the middle of the night and we didn’t feel the staff managed the situation swiftly.

Location is nice, bed comfortable.

Coffee was not included in the breakfast, despite high prize of the rooms (I booked in May). The hotel is definitely not a 4-star-hotel. What I found odd was, that there where no comments online, so be aware, that they might delete them.

The location and the view from the hotel is amazing! Breakfast was ok, but not great.

Many things! First, the staff is very pushy by telling people not to break things in the hotel. Before you check out, they check the room and make sure you don't leave until they check. We lost our apple air pods and after checking the app, one hotel staff had it. Our shower didn't have cover and the floor was all wet after the shower. I think is a great hotel, unfortunately the inexperienced staff doesn't make a good job.