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Compare on Discover Cars too →Car hire in Albania runs from a Toyota Yaris for the coast road to a high-clearance SUV for the mountain tracks north. Most offers include basic cover, and booking stays simple: you normally need a passport, a driving licence, a phone number and a payment card. Rates are quoted in euro while fuel, parking and any fines are paid in lek.
A car is useful in Tirana for destinations such as the castle and bazaar of Kruje, the cable car up Dajti mountain, the Bovilla reservoir and the Roman amphitheatre at Durres, especially with several stops in a day or with luggage.
If your plans stay inside the town, compare driving with city buses, the furgon minibuses and taxis; the furgon network reaches most of the country for a few euro and asks nothing of you at the wheel.
Bring your passport and a valid driving licence. A foreign licence is accepted for a tourist stay, and an International Driving Permit is expected alongside it when the licence is not written in the Latin alphabet.
The minimum age is usually 21 with at least one to two years of licence held. Drivers under 25 often pay a young-driver surcharge, and the SUV and minivan classes commonly set the threshold higher.
Albanian local companies are unusually flexible about the deposit: a card hold is the norm but cash deposits and debit cards are widely accepted. It is still an offer-level rule, so read the specific tariff.
Settle the border question before you book. Greece, Montenegro, Kosovo and North Macedonia are all within a few hours, and every crossing needs the supplier's written permission and a green card arranged in advance.
The catalog covers the main rental categories:
Albanian fleets are built mostly around Volkswagen Golf and Passat, Skoda Octavia, Toyota Yaris, Hyundai i20, Dacia Duster and older Mercedes saloons and similar models, and a manual gearbox is still the cheaper default — confirm the transmission on the offer card if you need an automatic.
Compare the total price together with the deposit, insurance excess, mileage policy, fuel rule, cross-border permission, accepted payment methods and the return conditions.
In Tirana, agree the overnight parking before you arrive: spaces are watched by an attendant rather than metered, and a guarded lot costs a few hundred lek and removes the question entirely.
Weigh city buses, the furgon minibuses and taxis against a rental when deciding whether you need the car for the whole stay or only for day trips.
Practical points on traffic, documents, payment, insurance, road quality, border permission, parking and vehicle return.
Albania drives on the right. Central parking is informal: an attendant in a hi-vis vest takes a few hundred lek and watches the car, and a guarded lot is the safer option overnight. There are no motorway vignettes and only one toll in the country, on the Kalimash tunnel road towards Kosovo.
Availability and delivery fees depend on the supplier.
Albania uses the lek (ALL), and the euro is widely accepted for larger payments although change comes back in lek.
Rates on this page are shown in euro, while fuel, parking, the tunnel toll and any fines are normally settled in lek under the supplier's terms.
From Tirana, common road trips include:
Popular nearby areas include the castle and bazaar of Kruje, the cable car up Dajti mountain, the Bovilla reservoir and the Roman amphitheatre at Durres.
Prices and availability can change during the day.
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Albania is the country on this site where a car changes the trip most. The riviera villages, the stone towns of Berat and Gjirokaster and the mountains north of Shkoder are all a bus timetable apart, and the timetable is a furgon that leaves when it is full. Pickup points here cover Tirana, the Durres coast, the south and the north.
Rates are quoted in euro while fuel and parking are paid in lek. There are no vignettes and only one toll in the whole country, on the tunnel road towards Kosovo — the cost of driving here is fuel and time, not charges.
The southern run is the one people come for: Vlore, the Llogara pass at a thousand metres, then the riviera down through Dhermi and Himare to Sarande, Ksamil and the ruins of Butrint. The Blue Eye spring sits just inland.
Inland, Berat and Gjirokaster are both a morning from the coast, with the Osumi canyon between them. North of Shkoder the Rozafa castle, the Komani lake ferry and the Theth valley are a different country again — and the road there is where a high car earns its keep.
Tirana is the country's only airport that rents cars. The handover is either at a desk in the terminal or in the car park just outside, and the airport is seventeen kilometres from the city and forty minutes from Durres.
Give the flight number when you book so a delayed arrival does not release the car, and check the out-of-hours fee if you land late.
The SH trunk roads are new and good. The roads off them are not, and a route that looks short on the map can be an hour of broken tarmac.
With an EU, EEA or UK licence, no. With a licence in another alphabet, yes — and the traffic police here do stop cars to check.
Yes, with the supplier's written permission and a green card, both arranged before you travel.
Very. Local companies take cash for the rental and often for the deposit too, in lek or euro.
Not for the coast or the main towns. For Theth, Komani lake and the northern tracks, yes — and check whether the tariff covers unsurfaced roads at all.
