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Albania Tours & Holiday
Albania tours open up one of the Mediterranean’s last quiet corners. You’ll trade crowded coastlines for Ottoman bazaars, Roman ruins and a dramatic Ionian shore.
Albania sits at one of the Mediterranean’s most strategic crossroads, yet it remains quietly absent from the standard European itinerary. The country pairs wild northern mountains and idyllic valleys with a long, lightly-developed coastline and a deep layering of ancient Greek, Roman and Ottoman history.
Most Albania tour packages thread together UNESCO-listed Berat and Butrint, the Stone City of Gjirokastra and the Ionian shoreline, with the option to combine the route with guided tours of Kosovo and North Macedonia. For travellers who want a genuinely undiscovered Mediterranean trip, this is one of the few corners left where the welcome still feels unhurried and personal.
Explore our Albania Tours
Our Albania tour packages are put together by a small, well-travelled team that knows these routes first-hand. As a bespoke operator we run scheduled small group adventures with set departures, but every itinerary on this page can also be arranged privately for two travellers or a family group, with flexible dates and tailored stops. We’re an AITO-accredited specialist with an Excellent 4.9 rating, and most of our small group guided tours of Albania are bookable as either fixed-date Albania escorted tours or fully tailor-made trips.
Tour Packages Overview
1. London to Albania and the Balkans Rail and Sea Adventure
14 days, from £4,795 per person
A flight-free Balkan odyssey that begins under the Gothic arches of London St Pancras and rolls south by Eurostar, TGV and Italian high-speed rail to Bari, with a detour to Matera’s cave dwellings before crossing the Adriatic on an overnight ferry. From the Albanian port of Durres the route reaches Gjirokastra’s UNESCO-listed castle, Berat’s white hillside houses and Tirana’s Bunk’Art 2 nuclear-bunker museum, then traces the Adriatic into Montenegro for medieval Kotor, Mostar’s celebrated stone bridge and Sarajevo’s siege-era streets. View full itinerary →
2. Albania Explorer
9 days, from £1,450 per person
A nine-day loop that distils the country’s most rewarding stops into a single, well-paced route from Tirana. You’ll explore Kruja’s Skanderbeg-era citadel and the Roman amphitheatre at Durrës, walk the Ottoman quarters of Berat with its City of a Thousand Windows nickname, and pause at Ardenica Monastery before tracing the Ionian Riviera south through Himarë and Ksamil to UNESCO-listed Butrint. View full itinerary→
3. Albania, Kosovo and Macedonia – Hidden Europe
16 days, from £2,995 per person
A sixteen-day route across three countries that mainstream itineraries miss, beginning in Tirana and reaching the medieval kullas of Junik, the Ottoman streets of Prizren, Pristina’s Roman ruins of Ulpiana and the frescoed Gracanica Monastery in Kosovo. You’ll cross into North Macedonia for Skopje’s old bazaar, Mavrovo National Park and the ancient shores of Lake Ohrid, before circling back through Korçë, Permet’s thermal pools, Gjirokastra’s Stone City and the archaeological sites of Butrint, Apollonia and Berat. View full itinerary →
What to see on our Albania Group Tours
Explore ‘undiscovered’ Albania, delightfully devoid of mass tourism
Experience spectacular natural beauty from mountains to lakes to beaches
Uncover a rich ancient Greek, Roman and Ottoman history
Visit UNESCO World Heritage Sites such as Berat and Butrint
Take in the views on an incredible drive from Korce to Gjirokastra
Take in the highlights of this neglected part of the Europe on a combined tour to Albania, Kosovo and Macedonia
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Whether you need a visa to visit Albania depends on your nationality. Travellers from many countries, including the UK, US, EU member states, and several others, can usually enter visa-free for up to 90 days within a 180-day period. If your country is not included in Albania's visa-exemption programme, you may need to apply for an Albanian e-Visa before travelling.
Albania pairs naturally with Kosovo, North Macedonia, Montenegro and Bosnia and Herzegovina, all of which feature on our longer Albania escorted tours and multi-country Albania adventure tours. The Hidden Europe itinerary adds Kosovo and North Macedonia, while the rail and sea adventure links Albania with Montenegro and Bosnia and Herzegovina overland from London.
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