Balkan Beauty Stays by He-Ra Apartments Skopje

The location was saved only by a restaurant/pub immediately next to the apartment. It had exceptional staff, very friendly, and good food.

Wow. Big question. Let's start with some late night techno club that started the music very late and lasted until 5:00 a.m. No sleep. But the real challenge was that this was a classic tale of bait and switch. We arrived at the prearranged meeting place and our host escorted us to the property. He was cordial and did his best to explain the property with multiple language barriers on our end. When he opened the front door, and showed us in, all four of us (50+ year olds, experienced travelers) were instantly perplexed….to a point we were speechless. I was flabbergasted. How could I make a whopper mistake after carefully making this booking? Nothing, I really mean nothing, was what we booked. Checklist: - Of the 20 pictures from Booking.com NONE were of our property. - We booked 2 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms.. You guesses it! One bedroom, one bathroom, second bed in salon. - Coffee maker listed as part of kitchen. Nope. - Super cool picture on Booking.com of balcony view. Not even close. I could go on and on. The point - you see one thing on Booking.com, but get something totally different. Clearly a buyer beware property. Hark, not all is lost. Despite one bedroom not two, despite one bathroom not two, despite a broken chair at the dinner table, yada yada yada, the unit was okay to good. It wasn’t what we booked but it was nice. Therefore, we adapted, stayed and enjoyed our time. Now the million dollar question, “Had I made a mistake?” The clear answer is no. We reviewed all information and I had checked all the correct boxes. We then reviewed the website and paperwork, everything was in order. We saved pictures from the website, took pictures of the unit, absolutely nothing is the same. In the end, it worked out. The unit was nice and comfy...just nothing as expected. It is apparently part of a large number of apartments and the photos and description is of the model unit.

Easy communication, good location, very clean

Staff was very flexible and friendly.

Smoke cabin inside the house, smelled thoroughly like tobacco in the house

Everything was perfect,clean,confortable

Clean room in the center of the city Everything was near

Spacious clean but dated

It has a cigarette room so Smell of cigarettes soon as you walk into apartment so if you don’t smoke I wouldn’t advise staying here otherwise big clean spacious apartment had everything you Need in it and 15 mins walk to main square

Great location, very spacious apartment (we booked the deluxe) good value for the cost. Very good contact and arrangement with the owner /host. Well equipped kitchen

Bedroom was very bright in the mornings, probably could do with better blinds - we had eyemasks so we were fine but just worth keeping in mind.