Hotel Oasis

A garden-courtyard hotel that trades sea views for quiet, space, and a rate that leaves money for the boat trips. The garden is the point: breakfast under the trees, kids with room to run, and somewhere genuinely cool to retreat to at four in the afternoon when the front-line beach hotels are still radiating heat.

The beach is a short walk; Butrint, Ksamil and the Blue Eye are easy day moves. For families doing a week in the south, this is the sensible-money option — spend the difference on a private Riviera boat day and you have made the better trade.