{"id":1303463,"date":"2026-09-30T10:27:18","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T10:27:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hostelworld.com\/blog\/?page_id=1303463"},"modified":"2026-10-01T16:31:23","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T16:31:23","slug":"sarande","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.hostelworld.com\/blog\/europe\/albania\/sarande\/","title":{"rendered":"Sarand\u00eb"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":200,"featured_media":0,"parent":1302169,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"hw-hub-city","meta":{"footnotes":"","hw_hub_hero_eyebrow":"","hw_hub_hero_h1":"","hw_hub_hero_intro":"","hw_hub_hero_image":"","hw_hub_hero_overlay":"","hw_hub_hero_cta":"","hw_hub_why_title":"","hw_hub_why_body":"","hw_hub_why_link_label":"","hw_hub_why_link_url":"","hw_hub_why_cards":"","hw_hub_stats":"","hw_hub_countries_title":"","hw_hub_countries_intro":"","hw_hub_featured":"","hw_hub_regions":"","hw_hub_hostels_title":"","hw_hub_hostels_intro":"","hw_hub_hostels_cta_label":"","hw_hub_hostels_cta_url":"","hw_hub_hostels_source":"","hw_hub_hostels_location_type":"","hw_hub_hostels_location_id":"","hw_hub_hostels_currency":"","hw_hub_hostels_count":"","hw_hub_hostels_cache":"","hw_hub_hostels":"","hw_hub_when_title":"","hw_hub_when_intro":"","hw_hub_seasons":"","hw_hub_costs_title":"","hw_hub_costs_body":"","hw_hub_cost_rows":"","hw_hub_cost_note":"","hw_hub_money_reads":"","hw_hub_rail_title":"","hw_hub_rail_body":"","hw_hub_rail_link_label":"","hw_hub_rail_link_url":"","hw_hub_rail_image":"","hw_hub_routes":"","hw_hub_events_title":"","hw_hub_events_intro":"","hw_hub_events_source":"","hw_hub_events_continent":"","hw_hub_events_count":"","hw_hub_events_cache":"","hw_hub_events_cta_label":"","hw_hub_events_cta_url":"","hw_hub_events":"","hw_hub_events_pills":"","hw_hub_reads_intro":"","hw_hub_article_rows":"","hw_hub_show_read_time":"","hw_hub_all_title":"","hw_hub_all_body":"","hw_hub_all_cta":"","hw_hub_trips_title":"","hw_hub_trips_note":"","hw_hub_trips":"","hw_hub_faq_title":"","hw_hub_faq_note":"","hw_hub_faqs":"","hw_hub_cta_title":"","hw_hub_cta_body":"","hw_hub_cta_buttons":"","hw_hub_newsletter_title":"","hw_hub_newsletter_body":"","hw_hub_newsletter_shortcode":"","hw_hub_hub_term":"","hw_hub_scope_rows":"","hw_hub_country_hero_eyebrow":"","hw_hub_country_hero_h1":"","hw_hub_country_hero_intro":"","hw_hub_country_hero_image":"","hw_hub_country_hero_overlay":"","hw_hub_country_hero_cta":"","hw_hub_country_stats":"","hw_hub_country_intro_title":"","hw_hub_country_intro_body":"","hw_hub_country_facts":"","hw_hub_country_cities_title":"","hw_hub_country_cities_intro":"","hw_hub_country_cities_live":"","hw_hub_country_cities":"","hw_hub_country_trips_title":"","hw_hub_country_trips_intro":"","hw_hub_country_trip_types":"","hw_hub_country_do_title":"","hw_hub_country_do_body":"","hw_hub_country_do_points":"","hw_hub_country_do_tag":"","hw_hub_country_do_more":"","hw_hub_country_food_title":"","hw_hub_country_food_body":"","hw_hub_country_food_points":"","hw_hub_country_food_tag":"","hw_hub_country_food_more":"","hw_hub_country_nightlife_title":"","hw_hub_country_nightlife_body":"","hw_hub_country_nightlife_points":"","hw_hub_country_nightlife_tag":"","hw_hub_country_nightlife_more":"","hw_hub_country_transport_title":"","hw_hub_country_transport_body":"","hw_hub_country_transport_points":"","hw_hub_country_transport_tag":"","hw_hub_country_transport_more":"","hw_hub_country_money_title":"","hw_hub_country_money_body":"","hw_hub_country_money_points":"","hw_hub_country_money_tag":"","hw_hub_country_money_more":"","hw_hub_country_safety_title":"","hw_hub_country_safety_body":"","hw_hub_country_safety_points":"","hw_hub_country_safety_tag":"","hw_hub_country_safety_more":"","hw_hub_country_entry_title":"","hw_hub_country_entry_body":"","hw_hub_country_entry_points":"","hw_hub_country_entry_tag":"","hw_hub_country_entry_more":"","hw_hub_country_season_title":"","hw_hub_country_season_intro":"","hw_hub_country_season_note":"","hw_hub_country_season_rows":"","hw_hub_country_budget_title":"","hw_hub_country_budget_intro":"","hw_hub_country_budget_note":"","hw_hub_country_budget_rows":"","hw_hub_country_budget_currency":"","hw_hub_country_events_title":"","hw_hub_country_events_intro":"","hw_hub_country_events_source":"","hw_hub_country_events_country":"","hw_hub_country_events_count":"","hw_hub_country_events_cache":"","hw_hub_country_events_cta_label":"","hw_hub_country_events_cta_url":"","hw_hub_country_events":"","hw_hub_country_hostels_title":"","hw_hub_country_hostels_intro":"","hw_hub_country_hostels_cta_label":"","hw_hub_country_hostels_cta_url":"","hw_hub_country_hostels_source":"","hw_hub_country_hostels_location_type":"","hw_hub_country_hostels_location_id":"","hw_hub_country_hostels_currency":"","hw_hub_country_hostels_count":"","hw_hub_country_hostels_cache":"","hw_hub_country_hostels":"","hw_hub_country_faq_tit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city guide","hw_hub_city_hero_h1":"Things To Do In Sarand\u00eb","hw_hub_city_hero_intro":"The Albanian Riviera's main town, looking across at Corfu, with a UNESCO ruined city down the coast and a spring the colour of antifreeze inland.","hw_hub_city_hero_image":"1304030","hw_hub_city_hero_overlay":"light","hw_hub_city_hero_cta":"Where to stay | #areas\r\nWhat it costs | #money","hw_hub_city_live_stats":"1","hw_hub_city_stats":"30min | Ferry to Corfu\r\n\u20ac10 | Entry to Butrint\r\n50m+ | Divers have reached in the Blue Eye, without finding the bottom","hw_hub_city_intro_title":"A concrete resort town with very good things around it","hw_hub_city_intro_body":"Sarand\u00eb itself is not the attraction. It is a horseshoe bay lined with apartment blocks built fast and without much planning during the boom years, and the promenade is pleasant rather than beautiful.\r\n\r\nWhat makes it worth basing here is everything within an hour. Butrint, twenty minutes south, is a Greek, Roman, Venetian and Ottoman city in a lagoon and the best archaeological site in the country. The Blue Eye spring is forty minutes inland. Ksamil's islets and turquoise water are fifteen minutes away. Corfu is a thirty-minute ferry.\r\n\r\nIn July and August it is full, loud and priced accordingly. In May, June, September and October it is a cheap and comfortable base for the south. Two or three days works.","hw_hub_city_facts":"Getting in | Furgon from Gjirokast\u00ebr 1 hour, from Tirana 5\u20136 hours\r\nCorfu ferry | 30 minutes, from about \u20ac20 each way. Passport needed\r\nCurrency | Albanian lek. Euros accepted more widely here than elsewhere\r\nLanguage | Albanian and Greek. English in all tourist places\r\nBeaches | The town beach is small. Ksamil is fifteen minutes south\r\nSeason | May to October. Much of the town closes in winter","hw_hub_city_areas_title":"Where to stay","hw_hub_city_areas_intro":"The town runs along one bay. Promenade for convenience, hills for quiet and views.","hw_hub_city_areas_map":"1","hw_hub_city_areas_zoom":"14","hw_hub_city_hostels_pins":"1","hw_hub_city_areas_live":"","hw_hub_city_areas":"Promenade | First-timers | The waterfront strip: restaurants, bars, the ferry terminal and most of the beds. Busy and central. | 39.8750 | 20.0050 |  | \nAbove the bay | Views and value | The streets climbing behind the front, cheaper, quieter and with the view down over the water. | 39.8790 | 20.0090 |  | \nKsamil | Beaches | Fifteen minutes south: the islets, turquoise water and the best swimming in Albania. Rammed in August. | 39.7680 | 20.0030 |  | ","hw_hub_city_itin_title":"How long have you got?","hw_hub_city_itin_intro":"The routes we would walk, in the order we would walk them.","hw_hub_city_itin":"","hw_hub_city_do_title":"Things to do in Sarand\u00eb","hw_hub_city_do_body":"Butrint is the reason to be here. A city continuously occupied from the Greek period through Roman, Byzantine, Venetian and Ottoman rule, abandoned to a lagoon and now UNESCO-listed: a theatre, a baptistery with mosaics, a Venetian castle and forest paths between them. Entry is 1,000 lek, about \u20ac10, and the bus from Sarand\u00eb takes twenty minutes.\r\n\r\nThe Blue Eye is a spring welling up from a depth divers have not reached, forty minutes inland, and the colour is genuinely startling. It gets crowded from mid-morning.\r\n\r\nKsamil's four small islets are wadeable in shallow turquoise water, which is why every photograph of Albania features them and why they are overwhelmed in August.\r\n\r\nIn town, L\u00ebkur\u00ebsi castle above the bay has the sunset view and a restaurant, and the ruined synagogue and basilica are in the middle of the promenade.","hw_hub_city_do_points":"Butrint | About \u20ac6, twenty minutes by bus. The best site in Albania\r\nBlue Eye | Forty minutes inland. Go early to beat the coaches\r\nKsamil | Fifteen minutes south, and rammed in August\r\nL\u00ebkur\u00ebsi castle | The sunset view over the bay and Corfu","hw_hub_city_do_tag":"things-to-do","hw_hub_city_do_more":"All things to do in Sarand\u00eb","hw_hub_city_free_title":"Free things to do in Sarand\u00eb","hw_hub_city_free_body":"The promenade and the town beach cost nothing, and the evening walk along the front is what the whole town does between six and nine.\r\n\r\nL\u00ebkur\u00ebsi castle is free to walk up to, and the view over the bay and across to Corfu at sunset is the best free thing here.\r\n\r\nThe ruins of the fifth-century synagogue and basilica sit open in the middle of town.\r\n\r\nMost of the coast north towards Himar\u00eb has free beaches and coves, and the ones that charge for a sunbed will not charge you to swim.","hw_hub_city_free_points":"L\u00ebkur\u00ebsi castle | Free to walk up. Sunset over the bay and Corfu\r\nThe promenade | The evening walk, and the town's main social event\r\nSynagogue and basilica ruins | Open, in the middle of town\r\nBeaches | Free to swim, even where sunbeds are charged for","hw_hub_city_free_tag":"free-things-to-do","hw_hub_city_free_more":"All free things to do in Sarand\u00eb","hw_hub_city_food_title":"Eating and drinking in Sarand\u00eb","hw_hub_city_food_body":"Seafood, and it is cheaper than anywhere across the water in Greece. Grilled fish and calamari run \u20ac8 to \u20ac15, and mussels from the Butrint lagoon are farmed a few kilometres away and cost very little.\r\n\r\nThe promenade restaurants charge a premium for the view; one street back, the same food is a third less.\r\n\r\nGreek influence is strong this close to the border \u2014 souvlaki, feta and olive oil throughout \u2014 and a full meal with wine is \u20ac8 to \u20ac14.\r\n\r\nCoffee on the front is about a euro, and the Albanian habit of sitting over one for two hours applies here more than anywhere.","hw_hub_city_food_points":"Grilled fish | \u20ac8\u201315, and cheaper than Corfu across the water\r\nButrint mussels | Farmed in the lagoon nearby, and very cheap\r\nOne street back | A third less than the promenade for the same plate\r\nA full meal | \u20ac8\u201314 with wine","hw_hub_city_food_tag":"food","hw_hub_city_food_more":"All food guides for Sarand\u00eb","hw_hub_city_nightlife_title":"Going out in Sarand\u00eb","hw_hub_city_nightlife_body":"In July and August this is a proper resort nightlife: beach clubs, bars along the promenade, and music until three, with a crowd of Albanians, Kosovars and Italians rather than western backpackers.\r\n\r\nIt is loud and it is seasonal. By October most of it has closed and the town belongs to the people who live in it.\r\n\r\nBeer is \u20ac1.50 to \u20ac3 and cocktails \u20ac4 to \u20ac7, cheaper than the Greek islands opposite by some distance.\r\n\r\nKsamil has its own beach bars in season, and the quieter alternative is a long dinner on a terrace above the bay.","hw_hub_city_nightlife_points":"Promenade and beach clubs | July and August, until about 03:00\r\nSeasonal | Most of it closes by late October\r\nPrices | Beer \u20ac1.50\u20133, cocktails \u20ac4\u20137\r\nThe crowd | Albanian, Kosovar and Italian more than backpacker","hw_hub_city_nightlife_tag":"nightlife","hw_hub_city_nightlife_more":"All nightlife guides for Sarand\u00eb","hw_hub_city_transport_title":"Getting around Sarand\u00eb","hw_hub_city_transport_body":"The town is walkable along the front and steep behind it.\r\n\r\nLocal buses run to Ksamil and Butrint every half hour in season for about \u20ac1.50, leaving from the centre, and take fifteen and twenty-five minutes respectively.\r\n\r\nFurgons go north up the Riviera to Himar\u00eb in about ninety minutes and to Vlor\u00eb in three hours, and inland to Gjirokast\u00ebr in an hour.\r\n\r\nThe Corfu ferry takes thirty minutes on the fast boat and about ninety on the slow one, from around \u20ac20 each way, and you need your passport. Booking ahead matters in August.","hw_hub_city_transport_points":"Bus to Butrint | Every half hour in season, about \u20ac1.50, 25 minutes\r\nBus to Ksamil | Fifteen minutes, same bus\r\nCorfu ferry | 30 minutes fast, from about \u20ac20. Passport needed\r\nNorth to Himar\u00eb | About 90 minutes by furgon","hw_hub_city_transport_tag":"transport","hw_hub_city_transport_more":"All transport guides for Sarand\u00eb","hw_hub_city_money_title":"What Sarand\u00eb costs","hw_hub_city_money_body":"Cheap outside August and merely reasonable in it. Dorms are \u20ac10 to \u20ac22 depending sharply on the month, a meal is \u20ac8 to \u20ac14, and a beer is \u20ac1.50 to \u20ac3.\r\n\r\nA day is \u20ac28 to \u20ac45 in season.\r\n\r\nButrint is about \u20ac10, the Blue Eye a couple of euros plus transport, and the Corfu ferry \u20ac20 each way. Ksamil sunbeds are \u20ac5 to \u20ac15 a pair in August and free to walk past.\r\n\r\nEuros are taken more widely here than elsewhere in Albania, usually at a rate that favours the restaurant.","hw_hub_city_money_points":"Dorm bed | \u20ac10\u201322, with August at the top\r\nA day, all in | \u20ac28\u201345 in season\r\nButrint | About \u20ac6, and the best value entry in the country\r\nPay in lek | Euro prices here are rounded in the seller's favour","hw_hub_city_money_tag":"budget","hw_hub_city_money_more":"All budget guides for Sarand\u00eb","hw_hub_city_safety_title":"Staying safe in Sarand\u00eb","hw_hub_city_safety_body":"Sarand\u00eb is safe, and the summer crowds bring the usual opportunistic theft on packed beaches rather than anything worse.\r\n\r\nThe sea is generally calm here, which lulls people \u2014 but boat traffic in the bay is heavy in August and swimming outside marked areas puts you in it.\r\n\r\nKsamil's islets are wadeable but the channels between them drop suddenly and the current picks up in wind.\r\n\r\nThe coast road north to Himar\u00eb is spectacular and has no barriers for long stretches, which matters if you hire a scooter. Emergency number is 112.","hw_hub_city_safety_points":"Beach theft | On packed August beaches. Take little to the sand\r\nBoat traffic | Heavy in the bay. Swim inside the marked areas\r\nKsamil channels | Sudden drops and current between the islets\r\nEmergency | 112","hw_hub_city_safety_tag":"safety","hw_hub_city_safety_more":"All safety guides for Sarand\u00eb","hw_hub_city_trips_title":"Day trips from Sarand\u00eb","hw_hub_city_trips_intro":"Everything worth doing in southern Albania is within an hour and a half.","hw_hub_city_trips":"Butrint | 25 minutes | Bus, about \u20ac1.50, entry about \u20ac10 | Greek, Roman, Venetian and Ottoman city in a lagoon, UNESCO-listed and the best archaeological site in Albania. |  | 1304046","hw_hub_city_trips_tag":"day-trips","hw_hub_city_trips_more":"All day trips from Sarand\u00eb","hw_hub_city_season_title":"When to go","hw_hub_city_season_intro":"May, June, September and October. August is full and the town triples in price.","hw_hub_city_season_note":"Average highs. The sea is warmest in September, and the Riviera season runs roughly from May to mid-October.","hw_hub_city_season_rows":"January | 14 | 1 | Mild and mostly closed\r\nFebruary | 14 | 1 | Quiet. The sea is cold\r\nMarch | 16 | 2 | Warming. Butrint is at its best with nobody there\r\nApril | 19 | 3 | Good. Everything reopening, sea still cold\r\nMay | 23 | 5 | Excellent. Warm, affordable and quiet\r\nJune | 28 | 5 | The best month. Warm sea before the crowds\r\nJuly | 31 | 4 | Hot and filling up. Prices climbing\r\nAugust | 32 | 3 | Peak. Full, loud, and double the price\r\nSeptember | 28 | 5 | Superb. Warmest sea of the year and thinning crowds\r\nOctober | 24 | 4 | Still swimmable and very cheap\r\nNovember | 19 | 1 | Closing down. Mild and empty\r\nDecember | 15 | 1 | Shut. Mild, and only the locals","hw_hub_city_events_title":"What is on while you are there","hw_hub_city_events_intro":"The season is the event, and August is when the diaspora comes home.","hw_hub_city_events_source":"api","hw_hub_city_events_count":"8","hw_hub_city_events_cache":"24","hw_hub_city_events_cta_label":"All events in Sarand\u00eb","hw_hub_city_events_cta_url":"https:\/\/www.hostelworld.com\/events\/europe\/albania\/sarande\/","hw_hub_city_events":"Summer season | June to September | Promenade and Ksamil | When the beach clubs open, the ferries run hourly and the town is at full volume. |  | \nDiaspora August | August | Citywide | Albanians from Italy, Greece and beyond come home, which is why August is the busiest and priciest month. |  | \nButrint concerts | Summer | Butrint theatre | Occasional performances in the Greek theatre among the ruins. |  | \nOrthodox Easter | Spring | Citywide | Marked visibly in the Greek-influenced south. |  | \nOff season | November to April | Citywide | Much of the town closes. Butrint and the Blue Eye are empty and at their best. |  | ","hw_hub_city_budget_title":"What your trip will cost","hw_hub_city_budget_intro":"Pick how you travel. Per person per night, in euros, in season.","hw_hub_city_budget_note":"August runs well above these figures. May, June and late September are roughly half of it.","hw_hub_city_budget_rows":"Shoestring | 10 | 9 | 2 | 5\r\nMiddle of the road | 20 | 20 | 4 | 15\r\nComfortable | 40 | 38 | 8 | 30","hw_hub_city_budget_currency":"\u20ac","hw_hub_city_hostels_title":"Where to stay in Sarand\u00eb","hw_hub_city_hostels_intro":"A seasonal scene along the promenade and the streets above it, with more opening each year. Live from Hostelworld.","hw_hub_city_hostels_cta_label":"All hostels in Sarand\u00eb","hw_hub_city_hostels_cta_url":"https:\/\/www.hostelworld.com\/hostels\/europe\/albania\/sarande\/","hw_hub_city_hostels_source":"api","hw_hub_city_hostels_count":"12","hw_hub_city_hostels_cache":"12","hw_hub_city_picks":"Best for solo travellers |  |  | \nBest for a party |  |  | \nQuietest |  |  | ","hw_hub_city_hostels":"","hw_hub_city_faq_title":"Sarand\u00eb travel questions","hw_hub_city_faq_note":"The ones we get asked most.","hw_hub_city_faqs":"Is Sarand\u00eb itself worth seeing? | Not especially. It is a concrete resort town on a pleasant bay, and the reason to stay is everything within an hour: Butrint, the Blue Eye, Ksamil and the ferry to Corfu.\r\nWhat is Butrint? | A city occupied continuously from the Greek period through Roman, Byzantine, Venetian and Ottoman rule, then abandoned to a lagoon. UNESCO-listed, about \u20ac6 to enter, twenty-five minutes by bus, and the best archaeological site in Albania.\r\nIs Ksamil as good as the photographs? | The water genuinely is that colour, and in August the beaches are so crowded that the photographs become impossible. Go in June or September, or go early in the day.\r\nHow do I get to Corfu? | A thirty-minute fast ferry from the terminal in the middle of town, from about \u20ac20 each way. Take your passport \u2014 it is an EU border \u2014 and book ahead in August.\r\nWhen should I visit? | June or September. The sea is warmest in September, May is cheapest with everything open, and August is full, loud and roughly double the price.\r\nIs the Blue Eye worth the trip? | Yes, and go early. It is a spring welling up from a depth divers have not reached, with a colour that does not photograph convincingly, and the coaches arrive from mid-morning.\r\nCan I get up the Riviera from here? | Yes, furgons run north to Himar\u00eb in about ninety minutes and Vlor\u00eb in three hours, along a coast road that is one of the best drives in the Balkans.","hw_hub_city_cta_title":"Say yes to hostels, meet the world","hw_hub_city_cta_body":"Compare Sarand\u00eb hostels \u2014 live prices, real reviews and free cancellation on most bookings. Then meet the people already there in the app.","hw_hub_city_cta_buttons":"Find hostels in Sarand\u00eb | https:\/\/www.hostelworld.com\/hostels\/europe\/albania\/sarande\/\r\nGet the app | https:\/\/hostelworld.onelink.me\/IdiK\/f5a50nhd","hw_hub_city_newsletter_title":"Get the good stuff monthly","hw_hub_city_newsletter_body":"New city guides, deals and route ideas. 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