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Compare on Discover Cars too →Car hire in Tirana, 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.
Tirana is Albania's only airport that rents cars, and the handover is either at a desk in the terminal or in the car park just outside it. Which one applies to your booking is written on the voucher.
The airport is seventeen kilometres from central Tirana and about forty minutes from Durres, so it is the practical pickup point for the whole centre of the country; check the desk's opening hours if you land late.
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.
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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.
Have your passport, licence, voucher and the main driver's card for the deposit ready before you reach the desk, and photograph the bodywork, glass and wheels during the joint inspection.
If the trip crosses into Greece, Montenegro or Kosovo, confirm the written permission and the green card at the desk — the barrier is not the place to discover they are missing.
An SUV is close to necessary north of Shkoder: the road to Theth and the tracks around Komani lake are unsurfaced, steep and single-lane.
Ground clearance does not extend the insurance, though — unsurfaced roads stay outside the cover on most tariffs, so agree that specifically before you go.
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.
The handover point and any out-of-hours fee are set by 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.
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