Best Ilinden Hotels

Ideal place to stay if you are on transit. They offer free transportation from and ro the airport, have a nice restaurant and pool to relax. The restaurant is mainly Italian, but we picked the few Macedonian dishes (Shopska salad, meze, cheese platter) and it was more than enough for two. Especially the salad and meze were really great. We asked for bread and got some freshly baked flat bread, very good. The room was also nice, comfy bed amd balcony. But there is nothing to do in the vicinity, you would have to take a taxi or come by car.

Perfect hotel. Wonderful stay. Lovely staff. Great spa centre.

I have been at hotel Russia three times. This is a good hotel. Service is good. But last time I've been there, I tried to call reception from room phone about almost thirty times, and it did not work. So I went to reception to talk to receptionist for what I nedeed, and at the end when I told about the room phone, he did not care at all, but he was trying to find a non sense reason. So I recommand to the hotel staff to be more responsible with clients.

We had a great stay at Aloha Apartments in late February going into March. We had a choice of rooms when we got there, so chose a bigger one on the ground floor by the pool, which was bright, and a nice view. Obviously as it was the end of winter we didn't use the pool or sit in the garden, but for sure in better weather it must be a pleasant place to relax in. The room was very clean and comfortable, with plenty of room. The shower room was great, and there was always hot water, and clean towels whenever we needed from the hallway area. There is the entrance to a well in the room, working, I assume. The top part of it has been made into a coffee table. It's probably the most unusual feature of any apartment we've ever stayed in. Elora and George, who run the apartments, were always very welcoming and helpful with organising very good excursions and supplying a decent local taxi service. The apartments are maybe a mile or so from the city centre along the Vardar river, in an old part of the city. It's easy in the Balkans to mistake old or traditional areas as run down, but it's not, and consequently you have to see past the immediate view to its unspectacular charm: you are staying in a historic area which is more authentically Skopje than the city centre, with all its statues and grand buildings. The apartments are well situated to walk into town, though we usually got a taxi back, a ten-minute trip which costs 100-200 denar - very cheap. I liked the local dogs in the neighbourhood, who came to investigate us each time we came out of the gate, keeping a friendly distance and always strangely quiet. We really enjoyed our stay at Aloha, and highly recommend it, winter or summer.