Hotel Colombo

Albania , Berat District
BERAT, Rruga Santa Lucia
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50 reviews shown

10/10

Exceptional

14 Nov 2025

Jorge Batista

everything was execellent

6/10

Pleasant

04 Nov 2025

Stephen

This hotel is an odd experience. On a beautiful small island, it is a giant architectural eyesore. We stayed here as there are not a lot of choices. But the hotel is a few km outside of Vila Do Porto, is huge, soulless and not particularly welcoming. It’s like a giant concrete lot where they park all the island visitors. They advertise a fitness center as part of the hotel. It is in the same building but not associated and they charge you €7.50 a visit. It’s tiny and was crowded when I tried to go. Not worth it. The staff at the hotel were nice enough, the included breakfast is nice enough. But if you can find a more authentic place to stay on the island, go there instead.

Leisure Family

10/10

Exceptional

28 Oct 2025

Debra

Clean room

10/10

Exceptional

16 Oct 2025

Jorge Batista

All around great hotel.

One interesting thing is in the apartment suites they don’t have the AC in the bedroom only in the living room When it gets hot that AC in the bedroom comes in pretty handy

Leisure Self

8/10

Excellent

28 Sep 2025

Agnieszka

Pros: easy to park, comfy room and sofas in common areas, next to diving centre, good views from room.
Cons: most disappointing breakfast ever, same thing every day, tasteless eggs and cheese, no vegetables, very limited vegetarian options (don’t stay there if you’re vegan), gym is paid extra as is pool table. I wouldn’t guess this was a 4 star hotel, defo not value for money.

Leisure Partner

8/10

Excellent

23 Sep 2025

Lidia

Outdoor pool space was very pleasant

10/10

Exceptional

13 Sep 2025

Karen

Clean rooms

10/10

Exceptional

24 Aug 2025

Michele

Love coming back to this hotel!!

Leisure

10/10

Exceptional

07 Aug 2025

Luis

Great

10/10

Exceptional

28 Jul 2025

Joe

Keep up good work.

10/10

Exceptional

16 Jul 2025

Dave

Nice property. Easy parking. Breakfast was good. Nice staff.

Leisure Partner

10/10

Exceptional

21 Jun 2025

Lynn

Excellent!

Leisure Family

10/10

Exceptional

13 Jun 2025

Verified traveler

Comfortable stay

Great stay. Comfortable rooms and good service. The outside of the building looked run-down, but the interior was good. Parking was not clearly marked.

Partner

8/10

Excellent

08 Jun 2025

Cidalia

Nice property. Great staff. Breakfast was just ok. Not much of a variety.

Leisure Partner

8/10

Excellent

30 Apr 2025

Susanne Gudrun

Dont let the outside of the building influence you. The rooms ars big and clean, bed is a bit to hart for me, bathroom has a big tub and is very clean, breakfast is awesome and the pool just beautiful. You need a car to get around.

Leisure Self

6/10

Pleasant

19 Jan 2025

Rose

Furnishings are outdated and hotel is a bit away from a restaurant or bar. Staff was very friendly and the gym was nice.

Leisure Self

6/10

Pleasant

24 Sep 2024

Bianca

Podia ser um pouco mais barato pelo que e oferecido. Não é um hotel 4 estrelas. Café razoável, staff agradável. Mas o hotel é bem simples. Duas camas de solteiro unidas, não tem ac no quarto, tivemos que deixar a porta da varanda aberta. Não ficaria la novamente

Leisure

6/10

Pleasant

24 Aug 2024

Yogesh

Two days visit to see family. The hotel is run down but breakfast is superb. No coffee service in room,

Partner

4/10

Poor

06 Aug 2024

William

No soap in bathtub dispenser, and bidet drained VERY SLOWLY, no functioning air conditioning unit in bedroom and tv came on by itself in the middle of the night.

Leisure Partner

8/10

Excellent

14 Jul 2024

Christopher

Great value

Very spacious hotel that included a nice breakfast. While we didn't use the outdoor pool/cabana area, it looked like a great setup. The views from our balcony were great, although it was located close enough to private residences that you could hear them in the day time (construction, etc.)

The shower water temperature would fluctuate pretty constantly, which was a bit unpleasant. When using the sink, the water would dribble down the spout and onto the counter, which was a bit strange. You could also easily hear other guests while in the bathroom which is not unique to this hotel, but also not preferred.

The front desk was nice and pleasant. They were able to call us a taxi (as the taxi did not speak English) easily within minutes.

We tried a pork sandwich and a hamburger from the bar, which were large portions. They were tasty but not great, but a good value nonetheless.

All in all it was a nice stay and we would come back.

Partner

6/10

Pleasant

12 Jul 2024

Gorete

The bar needed a bigger TV and better speakers

8/10

Excellent

04 Apr 2024

Verified traveler

Excellent service, free parking, very good breakfast buffet, thankfully the restaurant was open for dinner. Only discomfort was the hard mattress, which is common in Portugal, but difficult to have a good night's sleep.

Friends_and_family Family

10/10

Exceptional

14 Nov 2023

Geraldo

All good

8/10

Excellent

17 Oct 2023

Nelia

The hotel was very clean and the front desk staffing were very friendly and accommodating. I would say the only thing lacking was that their was no shampoo or conditioner in the suite bathroom. But overall, a good hotel.

Leisure Family

10/10

Exceptional

16 Oct 2023

Natasha

The staff are absolutely outstanding. They helped arrange an airport transfer for me early in the morning even when all the taxi drivers refused to come. Thank you for the incredible service from Hotel Colombo

Leisure Self

10/10

Exceptional

08 Sep 2023

Michele

Beautiful spot! Very clean and love the pool & cabanas !!

Leisure Family

10/10

Exceptional

02 Sep 2023

Gina

Great stay

One night stay before heading out of country
Great breakfast
Clean rooms

8/10

Excellent

05 Jul 2023

Hudson

We were here for my daughter's birthday and the team sent a cake to our room, it made us feel very special. The staff was very friendly and helpful, the pool was lovely as was our stay.

Leisure Family

10/10

Exceptional

16 Aug 2021

Kaio

i will be back

Business Partner

4/10

Poor

15 Jul 2021

Iain

Waited over20 minutes at check in only one poor girl behind counter queue of about 12 people. Balcony rail rusty, air con rusty.Pool out of use for 2 days. Ordered monitors and pina colada, took 20 mins to arrive costing 15euros and hopelessly wrong, no mint

Partner

6/10

Pleasant

09 Mar 2020

Verified traveler

This hotel is the largest on the island by far and seems out of scale with the rest of the island architecture. The building is a little dated and in need of some repairs and a facelift, but overall it met our needs for our stay. There are huge floor to ceiling windows/doors in the rooms that open to a balcony overlooking the farmland below the hotel and ocean beyond. The sun makes the rooms really hot in the afternoon (and we were visiting in the winter!) so it is nice to be able to open the doors and get a cool sea breeze. We were traveling with a small child so the downside to opening the doors was the balcony has large openings under the railing (almost a foot of open space) and we had to be super vigilant that the child didn't get close to the edge. There is an outdoor pool and a jacuzzi in the gym adjacent to the hotel. Use of the jacuzzi is included for hotel guests and the gym can be used for a small daily fee.

Leisure Family_with_children

6/10

Pleasant

18 Dec 2019

Verified traveler

It may have been a very property at one time, but now it's dated. For example the round CRT televisions in 2019 is very for a hotel. The staff was pleasant and helpful. The property seemed clean, my room was clean. But the is visible water damage on many walls and hall carpets, the lights in the lobby are missing some parts. There was no hot water, I took lukewarm showers for the week I stayed there.

8/10

Excellent

20 Sep 2019

Verified traveler

Enjoyed the location and the pool area both areas added quite and security

Leisure Partner

8/10

Excellent

23 Aug 2019

Verified traveler

The hotel is in a perfect location, and the staff was very accommodating to our needs!

Friends_and_family Partner

6/10

Pleasant

19 Aug 2019

Eric

Wildly Meh

Hotel Colombo is a little outside Vila de Porto which makes it inconvenient if you don't have a car. It is very plain and expensive for what it is. I only stayed there because there were no other rooms left on the island.

4/10

Poor

30 Jul 2019

Stephen

Okay; If you have to......

Gym closed. Cockroaches in the air conditioner. Bed solid foam. Fridge in room produced noise of a motorbike on tickover.

On the positive, all staff were extremely nice and helpful.

Business

8/10

Excellent

04 Jun 2019

Rosalind

A great stay

We had a very enjoyable stay at the Hotel Columbo. The staff were very friendly and helpful. The lady who makes the cakes made us a special birthday cake which we all agreed was superb. The cakes at breakfast were also fantastic (made by the same very talented lady). There was also fresh fresh fruit salad and a great buffet for breakfast. We were out late all day and very nice to come back to meals by room service in our apartment rooms which were very good value. Overall highly recommended.

Friends

8/10

Excellent

02 Sep 2018

Graham

Excellent assistance from hotel staff - they were able to help us book some events while we were there.

6/10

Pleasant

21 Aug 2018

Aida

AC DOESN'T COOL ROOM AT ALL. OUR FAMILY HAD TO SLEEP ALL IN ONE ROOM Where THE AC WAS AS IT DIDN'T COOL THE ENTIRE APARTMENT. STAFF CAME IN TO REVIEW AND SAID THATS HOW ALL ROOMS ARE. I had stayed at this hotel in 2016 and this wasn't an issue. Don't stay in room 218.

8/10

Excellent

19 Aug 2018

Marilyn

Views of ocean

Close to city gorgeous views. Breakfast is included but get their early and not at 10 because food is scarce.

8/10

Excellent

17 Aug 2018

Verified traveler

Hotel was spacious and clean with plenty of parking.

6/10

Pleasant

09 Jul 2018

Verified traveler

Not what i expected

This hotel looked really nice on the website but we discovered this to be a bit misleading when we arrived at the property as it was a bit run down. Having said that, the room was nice, clean comfortable, the pool was large, the ocean view was nice, location was fine for us, and the breakfast buffet was very good. However, the tv was an old clunker, there was no kleenex i had to buy my own, and the food at the bar was lousy. Overall the hotel accommodation was fine. I would consider this a 3 star hotel though.

6/10

Pleasant

30 May 2018

Verified traveler

no kitchen no dinner at night good thing there was local

10/10

Exceptional

17 Feb 2018

Verified traveler

Superb quality and choice at buffet breakfast.
WiFi Sauna,pool included.
Superb views.
Great staff.

6/10

Pleasant

25 Sep 2017

Verified traveler

Two single beds, Double was requested, A cricket in the door kept us up most of the night.

Partner

2/10

Poor

14 Aug 2017

Verified traveler

Ugly, dirty, unkept \"hotel.\" Do NOT stay here

I rarely write an overwhelming negative review but this Hotel easily deserves it. The one positive thing was the friendly staff. Besides that, I wouldn't recommend this \"hotel.\" I don't understand how it was rated with 4 stars. It barely deserves one. The photos online are misleading The place looks more like a rundown industrial prison. The hotel and rooms are filled with rust, water damaged furniture, broken light fixtures, and exposed wire. The beds were decent ignored you like a firm mattress. They don't offer bottled liquid soap or shampoo. Everything is an upcharge like the Lock for the safe and the gym. The \"cleaning\" of rooms consists of replacing towels but not much more. Be careful of crickets in your room keeping you awake. I question how Hotel.com vetted this hotel. I would NOT recommend this place to say the least.

Family

2/10

Poor

14 Aug 2017

Michael

Poor quality, poor performance, highly disappointe

Where do I start? The photos are completely deceiving. The hotel has not been maintained and is in extremely poor shape. It's rated as a 4 star hotel, I barely would give it one. Rugs, Carpets, furniture, walls, light fixtures.... all BROKEN or not working in some way. The rooms were damaged by water and uncomfortable at best. Crickets in the rooms. Cockroaches in the driveway. The linens were stained. The restaurant was barely open. The bar and open area was overwhelmed due to lack of people to serve. Everyone at the hotel was hard working, there just weren't enough and the hotel honestly looks like a prison and not a hotel. I absolutely would not recommend this hotel to anyone. The gym is not free. Highly disappointed and I'm questioning my loyalty to hotels.com based on the deceiving nature of the photos and reviews.

Family

10/10

Exceptional

25 Apr 2017

Verified traveler

Very nice and clean hotel

Very good family place. The view it is amazing, quiet.

8/10

Excellent

24 Apr 2017

Verified traveler

Nice and convenient to all activities.

Staff is warm, accommodating and very friendly. Good restaurant on site.

4/10

Poor

07 Sep 2016

zilda

worst stay ever

We only stay for 2 nights but when we asked the staff for any help they where not very friendly to answer any question.. when one of our friend couple got sick she asked for a special request.... which was chicken soup, the response was not profession. They did not even they to ask kitchen staff instead brush us of and told us there was no chicken available. For the love of god since when we have shortage of chickens in azores anyways this is the first hotel we ever got treated that way so we moved to other more professional accomation which I might add was alo more respected in our eyes.

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