Ancient City of Butrint: UNESCO Site

Explore the ancient city of Butrint, a UNESCO World Heritage site in Albania. Discover its rich history and natural beauty in a 2-3 hour visit.

Duration: 3 hours
Cancellation: 24 hours
Highlights
  • Butrint National Park - UNESCO World Heritage Site
    10th century BC
    Six different civilisation
    Ruins
What's Included
  • Bottled water
  • Professional guide
  • Hotel pickup and drop-off (if option selected)
  • Local taxes included
  • Private transport by air-conditioned car/minivan
  • Hotel/port pickup and drop-off
What's Not Included
  • Food and drinks
  • Entrance tickets
Additional Information

Butrint, a historical city in Vlorë County, Albania, is an ancient archaeological site situated 14 kilometres south of Sarandë. Nestled on a hill, it overlooks the Vivari Channel and is part of the Butrint National Park. Revered as one of Albania’s premier archaeological locations, Butrint is recognized for its deep cultural, historical, and natural…

Location
Port of Saranda
Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

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Sydney_p
Oct 22, 2025
Tony is a knowledgeable... - Tony is a knowledgeable guide in this stunning national park. Truly worthwhile and a must see in Sarande.
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Jlschwam
Oct 8, 2025
Great day trip - Perfect way to explore the ruins. Our tour guide was very informative and fun. We walked away learning a tad more about the roman history in the region.
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4peas_11
May 31, 2025
Wonderful experience - We had a great visit to Butrint as part of a day trip from Corfu. Very interesting site with Roman ruins and other remains intact. Well explained by tour guide. Site is quite big, but mostly under trees so you can get some cover from sun. Remember to wear good shoes/trainers as some uneven and rocky parts and some steps/steep inclines.
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Daniel_a
May 9, 2025
Professional Guide made our tour remarkable - Our guide, Toni is a very wonderful person. So far, our trip to the Ancient city of Butrint has been the highlight of our stay in Albania. We loved how he explained the history of the site, he went over and beyond to make our tour a remarkable experience. His explanations were very detailed, in a way that you could imagine sceneries from the days of the Roman Empire. His jokes were also top-notch.
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D9256pmthomass
Oct 31, 2025
Very impressive ruins you can see on your own with rising water level - Very impressive ruins with good signage and a very nice museum at the top of the hill. I would skip a tour (if you have a car to get to site) and visit the museum first and can buy a book on Butrint up by museum and do tour myself (skipping the "Palace" site which is now under water). Negatives were that mosaics are covered with sand (to protect them) so you can't see that and water level is rising in site so harder to imagine exactly what it looked like since some of site is under water. Recommend visiting it! Probably want 2-3 hours to visit.
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Thomas
Oct 26, 2025
Good but probably didn’t need guide - Guide was knowledgeable but think i could have navigated equally well ourselves because there was good signage. Would have liked a bit more time at museum.
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Frank_h
Sep 30, 2025
Good 1/2 day tour - Good communication through WhatsApp. Tour guide picked us up at our hotel. Drove us to the tour destination after picking up the other participants. Stopped and got us all water. Paid the admission fee (tour description said we would have to pay separately). Gave a informative and well paced tour. Would have returned us to our hotel but we requested a different location which the tour guide accomodated. Overall good experience. Only negative was the coffee stop, in that it was a good bit out of the way and not very interesting.
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Deborah_w
May 22, 2025
Visiting the Butrint site... - Visiting the Butrint site was wonderful and our guide was knowledgeable, but I woud have liked more time in Butrint to explore. The visit to Butrint was packaged up with some other sites in southern Albania that I wasn't interested in, and this put time pressure on the Butrint component.
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Dianelevene
Oct 12, 2024
Nice Tour - We had a lovely tour and enjoyed the site. It was more climbing than I expected but it was a very interesting tour. We thought the guide gave a good overview of what we were seeing.
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Ryan_l
Aug 9, 2025
Cool Site, Disorganized Company - The tour of Butrint was good, the guide gave interesting information about what we were seeing and was mindful of the heat, always taking us to shaded areas when possible. But the booking itself was totally disorganized and poorly communicated to me and to the guide. At 10pm the night before my tour I got a message saying the tour would start an hour later than my 8:30 booking. No explanation or check to see if that worked for me. Luckily it did, so I went at 9:30. However, during the tour it was revealed to me that the group was on a full day tour of several places, when I only booked a “2-3 hour” tour of Butrint alone. As such, I had to go with the group to a second location unplanned, and thankfully the guide agreed to drop me off at my hotel before taking the group to the next 3 stops. Because of this terrible coordination (the guide had no idea I had booked the shorter one stop tour), I ended up being on a 5 hour tour that started an hour late. Just very poor communication and organization on the part of the tour company, but again the guide was very helpful, informative and accommodating. No complaints about him specifically, and Butrint was very interesting.
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Cancellation: Free cancellation up to 24 hours before the start of your experience (local time).