Tag Hostel
Location: Rruga Tefta Tashko-Koço, Tirana, al
Star Rating: 6.8 Stars
Property Type: Guest houses
About this Property
Sustainable Accommodation
Friends Hostel in Tirana offers eco-friendly lodging with a shared lounge and garden views. The air-conditioned rooms with a patio and family rooms provide a comfortable stay for guests.
Convenient Amenities
Enjoy the convenience of free WiFi, a shared bathroom with a bath, and a hair dryer. Some rooms even feature a terrace for a relaxing outdoor experience. Bed linen is provided in all units for a cozy stay.
Exciting Activities
Explore Tirana's surroundings with activities like hiking, walking tours, and bike tours. Discover nearby attractions such as the Former Residence of Enver Hoxha and Toptani Shopping Centre.
Book your stay at Friends Hostel for a memorable and sustainable experience in Tirana.
Important Information
This property does not accommodate bachelor(ette) or similar parties.
Managed by a private host
Policies
Check-in: 12:00 PM - 06:00 PM
Check-out: 10:00 AM
Amenities & Facilities
- Offsite parking discounted rates available
- Non-smoking rooms
- Air conditioning
- Terrace
- Family rooms
- Safety deposit box
- Private check-in/check-out
- Shared lounge/TV area
- Shared kitchen
- Outdoor furniture
- Staff adhere to local safety protocols
- Guest rooms disinfected between stays
- Cleaning standards that are effective against Coronavirus
- Physical distancing rules followed
- Hand sanitizer in guest room and key areas
- Cashless payment available
- Fire extinguishers
- First aid kit available
- Sanitized tableware & silverware
- Contactless check-in/check-out
- Invoice provided
- Guests can opt-out any cleaning services during stay
- Smoke alarms
- Shared stationery like menus, pens are removed
- Guest room sealed after cleaning
- Physical distancing in dining areas
- Food delivered to guest room
- CCTV outside property
- Process in place to check health of guests
- Access to health care professionals
- Screens / Barriers between staff and guests for safety
- Face masks for guests available
- 24-hour security
- Delivered food - securely covered
- Security alarm
- Thermometers for guests provided by property
- Mobile app for room service
- Television in common areas
- Free wired internet
- Offsite parking discounted rates available
- Internet access
- Private picnics
- Covered parking
Rooms Available
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Budget Double or Twin Room
The unit offers 3 beds.
Max Occupancy: 2 (2 Adults)
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Family Room
The family room offers air conditioning, a tea and coffee maker, a terrace with garden views as well as a shared bathroom boasting a bath. The unit has 5 beds.
Max Occupancy: 5 (5 Adults)
- Coffee/tea maker
- Shower
- Air conditioning
- Fan
- Shared toilet
- Electric kettle
- Terrace
- Linen
- Toilet paper
- Shampoo
- Body soap
- Key access
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Deluxe Double or Twin Room
The twin/double room includes a shared bathroom, well-fitted with a bath, a shower, a bidet, a hairdryer and slippers. Among the room amenities are air conditioning, a tea and coffee maker, executive lounge access as well as a patio and garden views. The unit has 3 beds.
Max Occupancy: 2 (2 Adults)
- Coffee/tea maker
- Shower
- Air conditioning
- Hair dryer
- Refrigerator
- Fan
- Toilet
- Heating
- Shared toilet
- Slippers
- Dining area
- Electric kettle
- Executive lounge access
- Wardrobe or closet
- Bidet
- Linen
- Dining table
- Toilet paper
- Shampoo
- Body soap
- Lockers
- Key access
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Bunk Bed in Mixed Dormitory Room
Providing free toiletries, this double room includes a shared bathroom with a bath, a shower and a bidet. This air-conditioned double room features a tea and coffee maker, a dining area as well as a balcony. The unit offers 1 bed.
Max Occupancy: 12 (1 Adults)
- Coffee/tea maker
- Shower
- Hair dryer
- Refrigerator
- Fan
- Toilet
- Shared toilet
- Slippers
- Dining area
- Electric kettle
- Executive lounge access
- Wardrobe or closet
- Bidet
- Linen
- Dining table
- Toilet paper
- Shampoo
- Body soap
- Lockers
- Key access
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Basic Triple Room
The triple room offers air conditioning, a tea and coffee maker, a terrace with garden views as well as a shared bathroom featuring a bath. The unit offers 3 beds.
Max Occupancy: 3 (3 Adults)
- Coffee/tea maker
- Shower
- Air conditioning
- Hair dryer
- Refrigerator
- Fan
- Toilet
- Heating
- Shared toilet
- Slippers
- Dining area
- Electric kettle
- Executive lounge access
- Wardrobe or closet
- Terrace
- Linen
- Dining table
- Toilet paper
- Cots
- Shampoo
- Body soap
- Lockers
- Key access
Guest Reviews
- Ib (10/5): Everything OK........................... - Everything OK.................. can only recommand.......................
- Konrad (6/5): W porządku, obsługa obiektu OK, dobra lokalizacja, ale czystość może pozostawiać nieco do życzenia. -
- Yousif Ismael Yousif (10/5): -
- Jelena (1/5): - En mistään. En mistään
- Aneta (5/5): - Příjemný pan majitel a naprosto výborná lokalita v centru Tirany. Bohužel recepce je na jiné adrese než je uvedena na bookingu a check in je velmi chaotický, ubytování je nakonec v jiné budově než je na fotografiích. Pokoj byl bohužel neuklizený, na posteli byly vlasy a další špína.
- Vaidas (7/5): - Amazing service, helped with all of the issues that came along the way. Loud people in other rooms.
- Weronika (1/5): -
- Fernández de Corres Zubia (5/5): -
- Mounir (1/5): Je ne recommande plus - Rien
Le minimum de service Tres salle
Beaucoup de bruit
Pas d’equipement
Je ne recommonde pas et surtout les fille et les familles
Pas de propoete
- Mohammad (4/5): -
- Jelena (10/5): -
- Lucie (6/5): -
- George (1/5): If you book tjr 5 bed room like I did think again! On the day they send you a completely different location which is in - It was cheap The beds the room the shower the toilet pretty much everything
- floor (1/5): Maakt de kamers niet waar. - Ze hebben een oplossing gegeven op het probleem. Toen wij aankwamen en ik de reservering liet zien ging de mevrouw bellen ze kwam terug met de mededeling dat het al vol zat. Terwijl ik dus een reservering had en er nog meer bookingen konden gedaan worden via Booking.com. Ze gaf aan dat ze een mooier hostel een kamer kon regelen en dit zou 5 minuten lopen zijn. Toen verdween ze en heeft ze de locatie doorgestuurd. Het andere hostel was uiteindelijk 21 minuten lopen en verder van het centrum. Dus ik ben niet te vreden met dit hostel.
- Pietrini (5/5): -
- Simona-Luciana (10/5): - I warmly recommend Tag Hostel to true travelers — those who come to a hostel for genuine experiences, adventure, communication, and life stories. Those who choose hostels only to save money would do better to look for a suitable hotel… (a hotel is a place where you pay for comfort, and where the kind of communication and experiences that truly enrich life are often missing 😊).
Tag Hostel is located in a very central, yet quiet area. Those who have written comments about a lack of security are simply reflecting their own fears, shaped by their past experiences. Yes, it is true — the doors are not locked. The people who choose this hostel have a kind of culture that does not even allow them to consider taking what does not belong to them.
It was a beautiful experience to live here, full of learning, and when I return to Tirana, this is where I will stay again.
Be blessed, Alisa, and all the people I met there 🙏♥️
- ZIYE (1/5): Worst i never stay - nothing There are thieves stealing things, and they turn on the lights at five in the morning every day, Someone's still calling at 1 in the midnight. The sheets are dirty too, with snot all over them, The room stinks
- Vivek Kumar (9/5): -
- Melanie (1/5): Nicht zu empfehlen - Nichts. Trotz Buchungsbestätigung und vorab vereinbartem Late Checkin über booking war das Hostel ausgebucht, als wir nachts ankamen. Wir mussten dann nachts 1 Uhr eine neue Unterkunft für 7 Personen suchen.
Nicht zu empfehlen-schlechte Kommunikation, nicht verlässlich!
- Sabaz991 (1/5): - Posizione e cortesia del proprietario Pulizia
- Rootless (10/5): - Location and comfort. I am absolutely on a very small budget..I don't expect 5 star hotel conditions in a 180€/14 days room.
My room though is perfect I have extended my stay to 80 days!.
- Chiara (3/5): - The guy that welcomed us was kind and it seemed like he was genuinly wanting to help. The bathroom was really dirty. The pillows smelled. We wouldn't have wanted to stay more than one night.
- Kenneth (7/5): Great hostel in central Tirana - Great hostel in central Tirana. Easy to access property. Just a 5 minute walk to the airport bus.
- Ilda (7/5): -
- Francis (8/5): -
- Gintaris (1/5): If you are not royalty this hostel is not for you. Royal🤣🤣🤣 - Nothing
- Simone (7/5): Good Value for what you pay for - Overall solid for the price paid, and the area is a short walk from the center. Also checkout the bakery nearby. Not the cleanest of places but overall manageable, parking is hard to find
- Reimo (2/5): - Centrally located, everything you need is within walking distance. There were no locks on the doors, basically someone could walk into the room from the street. The overall impression is like a homeless shelter, extremely dirty.
There is paid parking in front of the house, because the hotel said we could park, we got a fine.
- DM (5/5): -
- Kateryna (1/5): - Розтошування близько до центру Ця житло було заброньовано бо наше заброньоване житло на цю дату в іншому місті виявилося зайнятим. Нам треба було переночувати ніч перед вильотом. Я не примхлива , але тут був жах. Брудно , посуд не митий , взагалі його дуже мало. Чиїсь забуті зелені шльопанці, мені здається там взагалі не прибрали після минулих постояльців. Відсутня плита , була одна маленька електричка кастрюля. Не працююча микрохвильова , чайник - о так , він працював. Але я не змогла зранку погріти молоко для кави - нема де. Дверка у ванну - зачинялася із страшним грохотом. Пів ночі ії грюкали сусіди. Це те що стосується самого приміщення , і оцінюю я саме його зараз.
А ось стосовно парковки буде окрема історія. Ми коли приїхали припаркувалися у дворі навпроти. Господар сказав пішли я знайду інше місце. Ми пройшлися вулицею , знайшов місце і сказав перепаркуватися туди ( в описі заявлена безкоштовна громадська парковка яка не потребує попереднього резервування ). На ранок ми отримали штраф за паркування. Я звʼязалася з власником щоб вирішити цю проблему , бо це не наш штраф , це він показав нам це місце , але він не зʼявився , став писати що то фейковий штраф , і на останок скасував моє бронювання позначивши як не заїзд. Тобто щоб з мене списали штраф за не заїзд. У мене є всі скріни переписки , фото кімнати , фото його журналу де записано моє імʼя і що я оплатила 30 євро за житло. Ну і звісно фото штрафу на сусідній вулиці зранку. Я зараз видохну цю поїздку і буду писати офіційну претензію. У мене достатньо бронювань було , жодного разу таких проблем ніде не зустрічала як в цьому місті за один день дві проблемні броніа.
- Nurefşan (10/5): Güvenilir bir konaklama imkanı sunuldu. - Personelin güler yüzlü ilgili olması evde televizyon ve klima var hemde ev şehir merkezine yakın Tuvalet biraz daha temiz olabilirdi
- Esterelle (10/5): Emplacement incroyable - L’emplacement ne pouvait pas être mieux. Les chambres étaient très propres Les espaces communs étaient très salles (douches/ SDB). Petit problème : il n’y a plus de porte d’entrée donc n’importe qui peut entrée et sortir à sa guise.
- MING (6/5): -
- Kacper (8/5): - Świetny stosunek jakość cena. Była nawet dobrze działająca klimatyzacja!
- Tomasz (10/5): -
- Bartosz (3/5): -
- Bojan (4/5): -
- Jáchym (8/5): -
- Prayagha (1/5): Bad -
- Alexandre (10/5): Exceptional -
- Jincy (10/5): Exceptional - Everything that I had experienced there was nice Nothing
- Sofiia (6/5): Pleasant - There is an option of late check-in which was very helpful with our late flight. The location is 10mins from all sightseeing spots in the center. Host is very friendly as well. The apartment wasn’t as clean as we would expect (bedsheets and pillows).
- Steven (9/5): Superb -
- Guliyeva (10/5): Exceptional - Mostafa is a very good host
- Nuno (4/5): Disappointing - Location and staff Not very clean
- Erensirin (1/5): BERBAT -
- Nusrat (6/5): Pleasant -
- Mikel (7/5): Good -
- Mola (1/5): Bad - The location It was a dirty, I do not recommend, I have bad experience, I was allergic because of old & dirty bed. I didn't sleep whole night.
- Eridon (5/5): Passable -
- Paul (7/5): Cheap but alright option. - The staff is very friendly and the price is unmatchable. The room smelled a bit weird and it was not very comfortable.
- Hana (9/5): Handy and nice for good rest - Really great (nice, easygoing and affordable) option for resting before or after flight.
We stayed one night, can imagine more. Hostel in nice condition, shared units with a few rooms with enough privacy, at the same time very nice and clean shared bathroom and kitchen.
Location in peaceful tiny street in walking distance with all needed, bus to airport, fruitmarket, many stores, nice surroundings with lovely athmosphere.
For the price much above expectations and above common average.
Warm hearted staff, easy fast communication in english, pleasant experience. There was no dislike, but to have a table would be nice🙂
- Ivan (1/5): Bad - Nothing, but the staff was OK. This accommodation is a borderline scam operation. It is not really a hostel, but a series of apartments spread across a neighborhood in Tirana. The pictures on Booking do not match the actual accommodation. It does not matter which type of room
Here was our experience:
- It took us about 30 minutes to find the place, as the provided directions were incorrect. A local first showed us one of the apartments, where we found some tourists who were frightened by the conditions. From there, we managed to contact the accommodation.
- Despite our reservation, they were not expecting us. They only started looking for a room in an apartment after we arrived.
- Initially, they placed us in a room that looked unkempt. The staff member from the "hostel" said he would change the sheets right away, but then realized that someone was already staying in the room. He then took us to another room.
- Overall, the apartment was dirty. The most alarming part was finding various old foodstuffs in the common kitchen cupboards, including meat in water that had clearly been there for a long time and smelled awful.
- Alexandre (10/5): Exceptional - Good hospitailty
- Simon (3/5): Poor - Good location, nice big room.
Great potential if the rooms are actually cleaned and the bathroom is sorted. No street signs for hostel making it hard to find, room was not clean (condom packet and loads of dust and crap under bed, previous guests items left in the room on the floor, door handles and surfaces not wiped or cleaned at all) We checked the kitchen for some glasses for drinks but all the crockery and utensils were filthy, not just a bit dirty, completely neglected. The bathroom is falling apart, you can only shower at certain times of the day if at all, toilet flush worked sometimes but not all the time. Twice hostel workers just walked into our private room without knocking, so we ended up locking the doors even when we were inside. But the real kicker was the bed bugs, me and my partner were ravaged by bed bugs, the window was closed and we weren't bitten at all before bed, then we woke up covered in bites so we have no doubt the bed was riddled.
- Xinyu (10/5): Absolutely 100% recommend - Friendly and considerate staff, good hygiene and decent location.
- Adamová (8/5): Very good -
- Krzysztof (9/5): Superb -
- Jorge (10/5): Great people there, good price - BEST-HOSTEL-EVER
The staff is sooo nice, it has a great location, it has a balcony, great shower, everything!
Keep going 👌🏻
- Ivy (4/5): You get what you pay. I would rather pay more and stay at a better hostel. - Katrina was definitely the best thing about the hostel. She's a volunteer there and made it as nice and safe as possible. The location is great. 10 minutes walk from the square. There are 2 supermakets within a 5 minutes walk either side. That anyone can walk into the hostel and the rooms. They need locks on the doors. That toilet was in the same room as wet floor shower so the floor and toilet seats were always wet when you use it.
- Karli (8/5): Very good - Location perfect
- Sebastian (6/5): The photos on booking aren’t the real place - There is not like the photos and info show
- Salem (1/5): The owner can tell you few hours before arrival that there’s not free place for you - Hours before my arrival, the hostel owner told me that the hostel was full and there was no bed for me Hours before my arrival, the hostel owner told me that the hostel was full and there was no bed for me
- Fabian (10/5): Exceptional -
- Natasza (4/5): Disappointing -
- Anonymous45 (1/5): Worst Experience in the Hostel. - Me and 3 other room mates found ned bugs, and texted to owner he said "keep quiet and don't make things big" he wants to hide the fact and put me in anothe room which is okay, but then when I came back from walk a volunteer staff told me to get out amd gave my money back. she was angry and she said I'm telling a lie and she insulted me and said "You must Sleep on the street with bed-bugs" I just needed Wifi to make booking for another hostel but she said "no" even refused to use toilet, if you don't leave "I will call immigration office"
then owner on WhatsApp said he didn't know about it.. he asked me to cancell the booking buylt why should I.. cause they kicked me out, not me. and hostel sent "no show up notice"to booking.com
I showed up but why they reported "no-show" Really don't understand
- Anonymous45 (1/5): Worst Experience in the hostel witjlh Bed bugs. - There are "uncountable Bed-Bugs🐞🐞🐞🐞🐞in the hostel" Already previous 2 comments mentioned about bed bugs before.
Me and 3 other room mates found ned bugs, and texted to owner he said "keep quiet and don't make things big" he wants to hide the fact and put me in anothe room which is okay, but then when I came back from walk a volunteer staff told me to get out amd gave my money back. she was angry and she said I'm telling a lie and she insulted me and said "You must Sleep on the street with bed-bugs" I just needed Wifi to make booking for another hostel but she said "no" even refused to use toilet, if you don't leave "I will call immigration office"
then owner on WhatsApp said he didn't know about it.. he asked me to cancell the booking buylt why should I.. cause they kicked me out, not me. and hostel sent "no show up notice"to booking.com
I showed up but why they reported "no-show" Really don't understand
- Jef (8/5): good value - Katrina showed top hospitality
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