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Think about your dream vacation. Now picture it without all the hassle of planning your hotels, where to go, what to do, renting a car and dealing with traffic. After all a vacation is supposed to be relaxing. With a guided tour, all the logistics are taken care of for you. Professional tour directors with local knowledge enable you to discover more than you ever could traveling on your own. Insider experiences bring a destination alive and give a unique insight into the culture and customs of the region. Learn about colorful historic characters and landmarks. Travel in comfort in your deluxe motorcoach, many with complimentary Wi-Fi. We’re proud to be rated as one of the most reputable tour operators in Albania that focuses on arranging a wide variety of tours and transfer solutions. Our group of experienced and knowledgeable travel specialists who are dedicated to delivering superior, quality service, guidance, and assistance to make your Albania travel an exciting and fun-filled affair. We offer a wealth of opportunities that will help you explore the best destinations, top attractions, and natural wonders, experience the rich culture, history and heritage of Albania as well as indulge in exciting and adventurous activities. Our experienced team is capable of arranging the best tour and travel package by keeping in mind your interests, travel requirements, budget, and specifications. We are your one-stop destination to get a customized Albania tour or travel package or book a reliable transfer service. VATO has a wide network and good local contacts to ensure the visitors or tourists get a chance to enjoy a pleasant Albania travel experience. Just give us your time frame, interests and budget to get a customized itinerary to have the utmost fun and enjoyment. As one of the experienced tour operators in Albania, we are always eager to provide you with the highest standard of service, reliable assistance, and convenient transfer solutions. Having extensive years of experience and expertise in promoting a sustainable Albania tourism, we are proud to have multilingual tour guides who are highly knowledgeable and experienced. Transport & Transfers VATO Albania provides numerous transportation services to our clients all over Albania Whom it’s the best for? For pretty much anyone who needs: Transfers between airports, ports, and city centers in all large cities of South Central and North Albania From 1 person to groups of 60 per vehicle – we provide all sizes of vehicles. Obviously, we can serve much larger group – we just bring few vehicles. We had cases serving events when hundreds of people arriving at the same time. Transport of city tours. All our vehicles are modern and air conditioned, those are fully equipped with microphones and stereo system for proper guided tours. Tours may be combined with transfers and can be of any duration. Long distance transfers. We provide transportation between the cities for our clients. Depending on a group and budget it can be done with buses, speed trains and local, domestic flights. Tell us your case and we’ll offer you best option possible. Special requests. Sometimes it is necessary to transfer some cargos (bikes or bicicles), provide a transportation that equipped specifically for people with disabilities or just deliver a missing suitcase from the airport to the passenger’s hotel room. All this we are perfectly able to do. Upon request, we can provide meet-and-greet service in your language, make sure that bottles of water are waiting for you in the bus or help you out with maps of the cities. Please feel free to contact us about your transport-related needs. Day Tours & Activities Vato offers many private customized day tours, - in many cities around Albania, with Berat and Albania as a most popular destinations. By default, all our private tours include licensed professional guide and a comfortable, air-conditioned bus (according to the size of your group) for the agreed amount of time. Whom it’s the best for? Tourist groups. All tourist groups that are coming to Albania, regardless of country of origin, age, and number of people, will enjoy our day tours. Business groups. Companies or business people, who gather in one of the Albanian cities for an expo event, team building or business meeting, and do not mind to spend 1-2 days visiting and exploring local highlights and surroundings. School groups. We highly support educational tourism and love to see school and university groups, that come to know Spanish (and Portuguese) land and culture. Pilgrim groups (religious tourism). Day trips to main churches, cathedrals, and saint Muslim places all over Albania and Balkans For all the groups, regardless of the type and purpose, upon your request we will include lunches and dinners, get you audio phones for walking tours in city centers, organize entry tickets to any museum or sight. We can organize you guides in dozens of languages: English, Spanish, Russian, German, French, Dutch, Arabs and other languages. Many other activities are available: culinary, language and dancing courses, tours to theme parks, private boat parties, tapas, winery and gastronomy experiences, events in special locations Accommodation Albania offer excellent accommodation choice from backpacker hostels to luxury fie star hotels. Depending on your intended activities we will get you the right option. We work closely and have special deals with large Albanian hotel chains as well as with many individual hotels, so you can be sure we will get the perfect accommodation for your group at a best available rate. Whom it’s the best for? Touristic groups. All sort of tourist groups coming to see the beauty of Albania Here we offer wide range of four, three and two star hotels, depending on the budget and needs of the group. Business group travel. We understand that apart of comfort of the hotel and convenience of the location, in many cases meeting rooms, audio-visuals, interpreter services, special catering a ‘’must have'' for your event, and a hotel should be able to provide it. We’ll get you the right place. School trips. Most of the times price come first in those kinds of arrangements. We kow it and have many economic options – good three and two star hotels or not so central accommodation, also hostels. But of course, range of upper class hotels in your disposal as well, - all depends on a group. Special events. We encourage you to contact us if you are coming to Albania for the numerous expositions, congresses, festivals, popular concerts, international sport tournaments etc., - when tens of thousands of visitors coming at the same time and it is not easy to find good and reasonably priced accommodation. We will make sure you still get the best deal possible. It is very important that to have a quote from us fast and accurately, you indicate us as many details about the group as possible. Knowing an approximate budget per person per night is very important. Other details as group size, dates, proposed meal arrangements etc., will help us to see a clear picture about what needs to be done and offer you a perfect fit for your case. Business Travel & DMC Besides being a tour operator and a travel agency Vato also serves as a Destination Management Company (DMC). We do organize business events - proper accommodation, transfers, meetings, seminars, group dinners and incentive leisure trips for companies. If you come to Albania with your group for a business, - we will offer you a wide choice of meeting and conference venues, excellent VIP transportation, professional interpreters, organize catering and supply you with anything else you might need to guarantee the success of your event. Restaurants & Night Life Probably the main thing that happens to all of us - we get hungry a few times every day. Here at Vato Tours we are happy to organize you any kind of restaurant or food arrangement during your stay in Albania To our groups we offer typical Albanian cuisine , sea food, and wine, to mention a few. Depending on your needs we can offer authentic dishes - just let us know what you are looking for. We can offer you everything from economic tapas bars to luxurious and exotic restaurants. We can arrange dinners combined with a dance traditional show or the enchanting sounds of a piano player. You can also enjoy private group dinners in special places such as a Medieval Castle or on top of a Mountain We cater lunch boxes to your bus, pastries to your hotel conference hall, or add a multi-course meal to your private sailing cruise event. If you come with school or student groups, we are happy to help with economic, yet perfect and delicious buffet options. Apart of all sorts of meals arrangements, we do organize a night life for our clients. There are thousands of bars, numerous cocktail lounges, and many night clubs to make sure you will have an incredible night out. We arrange tickets to the main clubs, VIP-zone reservation, 'free bar' for drinks and anything you need.
It hasn’t always been easy, but it’s been exciting! In 2013 Braho brothers Isuf and Alket , started only with a badge. Living in a historic area where many visitors where coming they start offering free tours . Showing the city to the guests through the eyes of 2 local teenagers. Learning from the guests different cultures ,different languages it was something fun. Than 1 day Alket went to an internet cafe and printed a badge for Isuf – And there our history started with the Blue Badge madden from Alket where it was writen ” Isuf Braho Tour Guide” Today we are known as Vato Tours operating a variety of tours from single day tours ,to extended tours through some of Albanian’s most remote and fascinating regions. With over 8 years of touring experience, we have the knowledge to host exciting, comfortable and safe tours throughout Tirana and all over Albania We coordinate all accommodation, attractions and meals directly, the team takes responsibility for all aspects of our guest’s touring experience.