Ohrid Tickets and Tours

5 Countries Balkan Tour in 6 Days from Albania

Great time on 5 Countries in 6 days Tour

had a wonderful time on Go As Local’s (GAL) 5 countries in 6 days tour of the Balkans. It was a small group of 5 in a roomy VW van. Our tour guide Redi was absolutely the best. I must admit the drives in between locations were somewhat long. There are very few limited access freeways in the Balkans. Redi was also our driver and he was very conscientious and a gentle driver especially important on mountain roads. The locations and scenery were wonderful and diverse. The hotels GAL selected for us were nice. Rate 5/5

3 Day Balkans: Montenegro, Kosovo & North Macedonia from Albania

A taste of the western Balkans

Our guide, Xhulio, was very nice, helpful and informative. He was always trying to tailor things as much as he could to our interests, we never felt rushed by him . As to be expected, this trip entails a lot of time in the car to get to these sites in three different countries in a 3 day timeframe. The trip is meant to hit highlights in each country and give you a feel for possibly coming back and exploring some more. The trip does well with that. The hotels we stayed in were nice and with a good breakfast and in a good location. The car for travel was comfortable. Lake Ohrid, Prizren and Kotor were the favorites for our family. The communication from the tour operator was excellent.

From Tirana & Durres: Day Tour to Ohrid, St Naum, North Macedonia

Ohrid is amazing but don't expect to have time to swim - still recommend

Tour guide was great and asked them to stamp our passports when we crossed the border which he didn't have to do. With a group our size, I think it went pretty well. I really appreciated that they hired a local guide in Ohrid to take us around and she was fantastic, and the boat ride was also great. I think there was some confusion about whether there was time alotted for actual swimming (which there really was not if you wanted to not be rushed and be able to eat lunch and relax). I think maybe an extra hour in St. Naums and making it clean that this was the better place to swim and where to go to get changed and everything would have been helpful since the description mentions swimming. There was also an issue with the bathroom at St Naums so we spent about 25 mins of our 45 of limited free time waiting in a bathroom line and eventually had to use the mens to make it back to the bus only a few minutes late (which was a bit uncomfortable since men were still using urinals). But the bathrooms can be controlled by the tour guide - I just think a little more planning around the bathrooms and swimming element would be ideal since it seems like one of many selling points in the trip descriptions. But we are overall happy we went with Ohrid being the only really great part of the trip.