Tirana Car Hire

At Tirana International Airport, at one of the rental offices, or delivered to an address in Tirana. Those are the three options the booking tool offers, and the airport is the busiest of them. Other Albanian towns appear as places to hand a car back or have one delivered, not as pickup points.

Yes. A car taken from Tirana can be returned in Durres, Shkoder, Vlore, Saranda and a dozen other towns, which is what makes a one-way run down the coast workable. The one-way charge sits inside the total the search shows, and it varies by car, so it is read there rather than quoted in advance.

Wheels and tyres, the undercarriage, the windscreen and the interior. Those four exclusions are the ones that catch people out in Albania, where loose stone thrown up by passing traffic accounts for most windscreen and paintwork damage. Higher cover levels are chosen per car at the booking stage, and the car's own page states what each one adds.

No. Albanian rental conditions permit a hire car on paved public roads only, which rules out Theth, Valbona, the Lake Koman shore road and the national park tracks. Reaching those places means a local 4x4 transfer or an organised tour instead of a rental car.

A valid national driving licence with the details repeated in Latin script, still valid past the end of the rental. Copies and phone images are refused. An International Driving Permit is worth carrying if the licence is valid only in the country that issued it, and some cars require a physical embossed credit card in the main driver's name, which the booking shows car by car.

Some cars carry no deposit, and the search can be filtered down to them, along with cars that need no credit card. Where a deposit does apply, each car's page shows the figure before booking.