La Brisa Boutique Hotel

NOISE NOISE NOISE ………from morning until midnight ( 4am one night ) on the beach every bar is competing to have the loudest thumping music. The hotel looks great and that’s about it , the breakfast is bang average , the coffee is awful unless you pay again , the restaurant is also run separately from the hotel so you cannot add anything to your room but have to pay separately , same on the beach. We followed the instagram page for the hotel for a few months and it looks wonderful , believe me it’s not , you think your going for a relaxing , calm stay to unwind and I ended up putting my noise cancelling headphones on in bed just to try to get to sleep. If you want Ibiza on speed go, otherwise stay well away.

La Brisa Boutique hotel was a huge dissapointment. I don't know where to start. First of all the location of the hotel is right next to the three noisiest bars in the area. This combined with the walls and windows that are like paper and don't provide any noise reduction ensures that you hear clearly the cacophony of 2000's bangers usually from 4pm and always until the midnight. When we complained about this to the staff they acknowledged it as a known problem that is out of their control and pointed out that their website mentions about it, which is true but their take on it really downplays just how noisy it is. From their website: "During the high season, Dhermiu is a noisy area with music but in the heart of which the comfort and relaxation of a cosmopolitan environment are provided". The music from the bars is not the only source of noise because the walls and doors between the other rooms (our room had door directly to the room next to us) and the corridor are equally thin. You will hear the talking from the rooms next to you or from the corridor clearly. Earplugs for this hotel are highly recommended. We also complained about all of this to the staff but they said there is nothing they can do. All of the hotel's rooms are equally noisy. One evening, at exactly 00:00, a sewage service truck arrived at the hotel and made a loud noise for 45 minutes. We called the reception and they said they don't know why the truck got there so late. We couldn't sleep because of the loud noise. So first we had to listen the loud music from the bars and after that a loud noise from below our hotel room because of the truck. The breakfast was a dissapointment too. There was a coffee machine that served instant coffee. It tasted very bad. To get proper coffee you had to buy it from the barista. The hotel is very expensive and we didn't expect this type of greediness. The breakfast was mediocre at best and always exactly the same. When we arrived to the hotel we expected that there will be one bottle of champagne and chocolate in the room because we ordered it in advance. There was nothing and when we complained about it they said it is there now. We went back to the room and there was just one bottle of prosecco and a card. No chocolate and definitely no champagne. :D From the balcony chair we found previous guest's toe nails. One star comes to the beach. It was just like in the pictures and very comfortable for swimming.

I’ve been at La Brisa recently with my family and we enjoyed it a lot. It was an amazing experience. One of the most luxurious hotel in Albania, probably the best in Dhërmi. The room was spacious and comfortable, the breakfast plenty of choices, the restaurant high class one, the rooftop pool fantastic, the beach amazing, the staff generally polite. 2 things I didn’t like there: 1- The female staff at the rooftop pool told us there are no towels up there, you have to go to the beach to get some and come back here. Only when I insisted, she gave us 2 towels, we were 4 persons. 2. There were people smoking inside the Artur restaurant while we were having lunch and the restaurant was full of people, a lot of children snd infant there. This is unacceptable for this kind of hotel. Anyway it was a great experience there.

Style and interior very nice. Location is good , but can get quite noisy in the evening. On the positive side, music stops at 24.00 o`clock. Good breakfast, but terrible coffee included. You could order and pay extra , but this should not be necessary when you look at the price you pay to stay in this hotel. Very serviceminded employees in the reception. The rooftop with pool is very small. The roof has few sunbeds , expencive prices and is almost always out of towels. We also had a towel issue at the beach, they would not let us take towels with us on a boat trip unless we booked the trip with them.

This place is amazing. We escaped from a prepaid room in Durres and drove 2 hours south to Dhermi. The hotel staff and accommodations at La Brisa were very high end. The food was delicious and the beach was well maintained. The water had that aquamarine look and was so clean! I wish we could have stayed longer! Go to La Brisa and avoid Durrës at all costs!

A great experience, fantastic rooms and views! The staff were friendly and attentive. The restaurant had very nice food, which was easily ordered to the room. The beach bar and lounge area were excellent. Definitely would return and plan to.