An all-inclusive family holiday in Albania does not mean a buffet and a wristband. It means everything is handled, your guide, transport, hotels, meals and experiences, while your family stays free to move at its own pace, from the Alps to the Riviera. No exhausting drives, no over-packed days, no tired kids dragging through a fifth museum.
- Everything handled: hand-picked hotels, breakfast, one standout meal a day, a private guide and transport with child seats.
- Built around your family and fully flexible, change hotels or stay put.
- The signature route is 11 days, northern mountains to southern coast.
- From €120 per person per day, with no hidden extras.
- Easy to extend into Montenegro or Corfu for a multi-country trip.
What is actually included, the InAlb way?
Not hotel-brochure language, real things that make a family trip work. Hand-picked accommodation matched to your style, not a chain: boutique guesthouses, family-run hotels, mountain lodges or Riviera villas. A fresh local breakfast every morning. One extraordinary meal a day, from a farm-to-table feast to a food tour through Tirana’s old bazaar. Your private guide each morning, ready when you are. Private, air-conditioned transport with child seats. And complete flexibility to slow down, speed up or sleep in.
Per person, including hand-picked accommodation, daily breakfast, one extraordinary meal, a private local guide and all private transport with child seats. Every package is custom-built by group size and length, with no hidden extras.
The signature route: from peaks to Riviera
Our most popular family itinerary is 11 days and shows Albania in full: the wild mountain north, the historic south, and the Riviera to finish. You can shorten it, stretch it, or swap days, but this is the shape most families love.
| Days | Where | Highlight |
|---|---|---|
| 1–2 | Tirana | Arrive, food tour in the New Bazaar, Blloku |
| 3–5 | Theth & Valbona | Stone guesthouses, the Blue Eye of Theth, easy trails |
| 6 | Mrizi i Zanave, Fishte | Farm-to-table feast, sunset fig-picking |
| 7–8 | Berat & Gjirokaster | Two UNESCO cities, living castles |
| 9–11 | The Riviera | Ksamil, hidden coves, a boat tour |
You can also extend into Montenegro (Kotor, Budva) or cross by ferry to Corfu, Greece, for a multi-country family adventure. Ask a local expert and we will map it.
What does a day actually look like?
The honest answer is: whatever feels right. But in practice it tends to fall into three kinds of day.
On a beach day
Breakfast at the hotel, then your guide takes you to the beach, not the one on the map, the other one ten minutes further, with no sunbeds and water so clear you can count the rocks. Kids swim, parents read, and the guide knows where to get the best grilled fish for lunch. At some point nobody wants to leave. That is the point.
On an exploring day
Into the van, with your guide bringing the history alive like a local showing you their favourite corners rather than giving a lecture. You stop when something catches your eye, and by evening you sit down somewhere with no English menu on the door and food that makes you reconsider every restaurant you have eaten in.
On a slow day
Sometimes families just need to stop, so we build these in. The kids get a pool, you get a book and a glass of wine, and your guide checks in once to ask if you need anything. Rest is part of the experience, with no guilt and no schedule.
Mrizi i Zanave: the meal everyone asks about
Mrizi i Zanave is a farm, a restaurant and an experience in one, in Fishte about an hour north of Tirana near Lezhe. Everything on the table comes from the land around you, and the chef, Altin Prenga, is one of Albania’s most important culinary figures. What makes it magic for families is what happens before you sit down: kids walk the farm, pick figs as the sun sets, feed the animals, and then eat a three-course meal that teaches them food is a living thing with a story.
Families arrive expecting a vacation and leave having had something closer to a revelation. The moment it clicks is usually when they realise it is 10am, the kids are already exploring a 2,500-year-old castle, and nobody has had to queue, argue about a menu or figure out directions. That is what we mean by all-inclusive.
Common questions
Is this the same as a Turkish or Egyptian resort all-inclusive?
No. Resort all-inclusives are great if you want to stay in one place and not make decisions. Ours is for families who want to experience Albania, moving through the country, staying in places with character and eating food that tells a story.
Can we really change hotels as often as we want?
Yes. Some families move every night to see as much as possible; others find one or two places they love and stay longer. Your guide adapts to you, even mid-trip.
What ages is this suitable for?
All ages. Toddlers do beach days and farm visits, tweens explore castles and kayak, teenagers hike the Alps and do food tours. We have never had a family tell us their kids were bored.
Can we extend into Montenegro or Greece?
Yes. The most popular extensions are Montenegro (Kotor Bay, Budva) and Corfu, reachable by ferry from Saranda in under 45 minutes. Ask us about multi-country Balkans family packages.
How do we start planning?
Tell us how many people, what ages, how long, and the kind of holiday your family loves. We come back with a tailor-made proposal, usually within 48 hours.
Want this arranged privately?
Send us your dates and we adjust this into a real trip.
