Empire Beach Resort Adults Only

The stay was amazing. Food was lovely. Drinks from the cocktail bar yummy. All the waiters and animation team were so nice and helpful. Amazing yoga, stretching,belly dance classes. All perfect also weather! I highly recommend to everyone. WE will definitely come back here!

I was Here with my mum on holidays at the beginning of March. All the people working here were so great and helpful. We had so much fun with the waiters and animation team. Amazing food and yoga, stretching, belly dance classes. wonderful animation nights. Beautiful weather. Gorgeous trip to the orange island. All perfect! I will recommend it to everybody also which children and will definitely come back soon :-)

On the weekends they have loud music until 4am, is impossible to sleep. The beach is tiny, less than 10 meters lenght, full of stones. Our room didn't had anything to dry the clothes even if the other rooms clearly had it. We asked for one drying device and they ignored us. There is nothing else to do in the hotel. You need to go to the town by car or taxi

When we asked for the vegetarian options in the restaurant, the waiter had a laugh with no reply on which we decided to eat somewhere else. The restaurant is always out of things. Basics like Coca Cola. Permantly. Very rude and arrogant service. Still, the waiters are asking for a tip. When refusing this they become angry. Without asking I would have considered a tip. The place is quite remote so if you want to eat somewhere else, a car is recommended. There is a lack of sunbeds on the beach although there are plenty piled up in the corner. The breakfast buffet is more then sufficient although they are always out of things like bread or juice. When asking for new bread, a rude reply is ready for you. When my girlfriend became sick I was asking for an apple at the reception because the restaurant was closed at that time in the morning. The lady told me to ask someone else. She wasn’t bothered and continued watching YouTube videos. It felt like the staff has either no idea about hospitality or is sick of it after a busy season. None of the staff laughed at any of the guests. In the end I am happy I only stayed for 4 nights. Because I could not have taken it any longer. The staff makes me frustrated and tired. You don’t expect this from a hotel in this category.

At first glance it is a very nice hotel, with a beautiful location, a nice swimming pool and a lovely beach. But there are also a number of things that are really substandard for such an expensive hotel (by Albanian standards). This review is about both the hotel and the associated beach bar Sanur. The first major negative thing was that there were ants in our room. Lots of ants. Even one in the bed. Even though we reported this 3 times, nothing was done about it. Most of the staff are rude and not helpful at all. Housekeeping also left the sliding doors to the terrace open, making the room accessible from outside all day long. This also turned out to be the staff's attitude at the beach. When all the beds at the seaside were occupied, the staff did not want to add any beds, even though dozens of them were messily stacked a few meters away. We weren't even allowed to pick them up and put them down ourselves. It was a problem that we had to solve with the reception, even though a solution would have been so quick and easy. It was also quite messy in other places in the resort, for example with maintenance items and cleaning supplies. A final point that was very strange is that there were hardly any drinks available at the hotel restaurant. The only things available were ice tea, a €50 bottle of wine or €6 Peroni beer. There was no drink such as cola, a glass of wine or a draft beer. It was also not possible to order certain side dishes such as french fries or grilled vegetables without ordering a steak. The breakfast, on the other hand, was really excellent. All in all, it is a beautiful and 'okay' hotel, but it is advisable to lower your expectations in advance.

We stayed only for a day to enjoy the pool. The pool has a very nice view. Sadly the toilets and area around it was dirty and with trash on the floor. We also tried the restaurant for lunch. The food was average, nothing that we wanted was available, and the fries “we’re reserves for people who ordered meat”?! Also the bar had “no wine or coca” only vodka and gin…. The service was very rude and I would really like to highlight the dirtiness of the pool area.