Villa Silvester

Lovely cheap place with a great view and amazing service! Would recommend traveling here with a Range Rover though, as it is a bit difficult to reach this accomodation with a normal car

Estuvimos 7 amigas para pasar una noche haciendo la ruta de Valbone a Teth. Los anfitriones fueron muy hospitalarios. Silvester nos ayudó en todo lo que necesitamos y nos consiguió un taxi para ir a Schkoder. También la comida riquisima, totalmente local y hecha con amor! No es un apartamento, es más tipo hostel (lavabo compartido), pero con todo lo necesario

Wir waren zu zweit für zwei Nächte hier. Wir haben nicht im Voraus gebucht und wurden sehr herzlich von der Mutter von Silvester begrüßt. Es gibt 3 große Mehrbett Zimmer mit 4-6 Betten pro Zimmer( teilweise auch Doppelbetten) . Badezimmer gibt es zwei die auch ganz ordentlich waren. Die Kommunikation mit der Mutter war schwierig aber mit Google Übersetzer kriegt man alles hin, Silvester spricht sehr gutes Englisch. Wir haben 10€ pro Nacht und Bett gezahlt. Verpflegung wurde alles von der Mutter zubereitet( frühstück 5€; lunch 10€; Abendessen 10-15€) fanden wir alles sehr lecker hatten insgesamt 4 essen und ein Frühstück zum mitnehmen das um 5 Uhr morgens frisch für uns zubereitet wurde. Tee und Kaffee bekamen wir gratis über die gesamte Dauer. Auch für unsere Wäsche wurde nichts berechnet. Insgesamt hatten wir eine sehr schöne Zeit hier und es war der perfekte Startpunkt un früh auf den valbona pass zu kommen. Insgesamt gerne wieder <3

Throughout our 4 night stay we felt very uncomfortable. It always felt like we are under surveillance and we felt pressured into eating overpriced food.

We did not once see the guy from Airbnb. Only one Lady (I think it's his mother) that barely spoke some English.

In the Airbnb they said that you can use the kitchen. We had to discuss with the lady (which did not work bc no way of communicating) and later with the Airbnb host. We finally managed to gain access to the kitchen and everything was dirty. Also we were under constant observation of the lady while we were in the kitchen.

The following day we had breakfast (5€ per person it's okay) and lunch cooked by the lady (10€ per person, overpriced in my opinion however it's okay too) we said that we will have lunch and dinner the following day too. The next day then (third day of our stay) at breakfast the lady showed one of us a small note about lunch on her phone. It read something like "I can not cook tonight but you can have some tomatoes and cucumber and chicken". We did not really understand and nodded and later we noticed: SHE WANTS US TO COOK AND DO EVERYTHING OURSELVES AND STILL GIVE HER 20€ IN TOTAL FOR BASICALLY NO WORK.

We then went to the supermarket and brought some rice and tomato sauce and cooked our self lunch with none of her ingredients.
She was very pissed and still wanted the 20€ which we did not give her bc we brought everything, cooked and made the dishes (cleaner then before).

As a peace treaty we said that we would eat her lunch tomorrow (bc to be fair she brought the ingredients for us)
So we did and it was okay.

We felt like she saw us as walking money bags and this was very uncomfortable.

At the end we got accused of stealing a towel from the Airbnb guy.

The rooms are very cold (even in summer, no radiator) and everything gets kind of damp in there.

Also there is a big wet yellow spot on the right of the double bed, I don't know if it is mold.
Also there is no toilet brush in the toilet, which I can only can imagine gets very messy with more than 2 people (the room is intended for 4 persons)

EDIT: The owner of the Airbnb wrote us that he is not amused about my review. He said that we should learn Albanian if we don't want to have communication problems. I mean yes I can see the point there and I agree that you should be able to speak a few words of Albanian if you want to go there BUT this was not in the description of the place. It just said that the owner speaks English.

So: if you want to stay here, please be fluent in Albanian.

We booked a few nights in what seems to be a great villa with lovely owners and got it confirmed a few weeks before heading to our destination. The day before our arrival we wanted to get more clear instructions on check-in and coordinates but with no answer. Upon arrival to the tiny village, we were still not getting answers from the host/hostess about our booking. We called, texted and tried getting in contact over AirBnb. Nothing. No answer. We ended up getting our money back lucky - but it was an enormous bummer to travel a long distance over difficult roads to not reach our end destination. Thankfully we managed to get a room in Bujtina Polia just a kilometre down the road.