Wonderful place to stay. Less than 2 minutes walk to the lake. Less than 15 euro per night for large double room with sunny balcony. Superb value. I cannot recommend highly enough.

This accommodation place in Ohrid is very good.I've had a very good experience with this apartment.

My wife and I did a 2 week tour of Macedonia. We spent 8 nights in Ohrid we will never forget thanks to Matjan. You cannot go wrong with this choice! They had a family room which is difficult to find anywhere in Europe. I love to travel, but hate hotels and am hard to please, so I would definately recommend this apartments for anyone headed to Ohrid.

This was a room in someone's house, typical of that kind of accommodation here. You probably won't find this one, but it's representative of what to look for and what to expect. When you arrive, especially if you come by bus, there will be a several people at the station asking if you need a room. If you come by hired car, the drivers know all these people and can hook you up. Make sure to bargain a lot and agree on a price before you say yes. Agree on the price for the number of people (all of us, or each?) and the number of nights that it's for. It'll save a lot of misunderstandings later. At Some Lady's House (I don't think they have names...) we were shown to a clean room with a bed and table. Landlady brought another little table in and kind of fussed over us a little. On the way in she shooed some oversized chickens out from under the table and showed us how to work the shared restroom. It was nice that it and the rooms were accessed from outside so you don't have to enter the rest of the house. It was a semi private room, so you walked through another room to get to it. It was separated by some French doors. Since it had only lace curtains,we added a blanket for extra privacy. There are three rooms, and the other two were rented to maybe 10 teenagers on summer break. They weren't too noisy, but there were a lot of them for one toilet, and they sort of never left, they just hung around the yard all day. Landlady kind of rode herd on them, shushing them if they got to noisy, warning them not to mess with our stuff. The only thing we didn't like was that our interior room was kind of airless and hot since it had no windows, if you wanted to close the door for privacy. It's also quite a walk to the lake, about 20 minutes. In the morning, Landlady made us coffee, set up a table for us, and put an umbrella over us when the sun came out. There's an outdoor sink and clothesline which we were really grateful for for washing our now stiff clothing... There are a couple tables with chairs in the grassy yard to hang out on, and a couple couches in the yard, one complete with shaggy pink faux fur. These rooms are nice because you get to see how Macedonians live. It's certainly not like a hotel room (that kind of apartment is available too) but they're a little quieter and more private than a hostel dorm room. We had pretty good luck with this kind of room.

As tired as we were, we only had two nights at most if Ohrid if we were going to make it back to Croatia in time, so we headed out to the lake to look for a place to swim. It turns out that the house was about a 25 minute walk to the lake through town.

Ohrid town is a nice little place, and is well equipped for tourists. There are grocery stores, restaurants, hotels and apartments for rent everywhere along the lakefront, and street vendors selling whatever kind of ice cream or t-shirt or keychain you could need. There's a wide pedestrian street with shopping and cafes, and an old town topped by a fort an castle on the steep hill overlooking the lake. The tourists seemed to be mostly Macedonians and Serbians. I think buses come down from Belgrade.

Water taxies plied the shore, and people were by the water, sunning on any flat surface - seawalls, docks, rocks - there are just a couple beaches in town and they're packed or private. We headed up the hill through maze of streets and levels of the old neighborhoods, climbing through narrow alleys and staircases between houses. Scattered through the neighborhoods of ancient houses were even more ancient churches. They were of a distinctive red-brick design, and were mostly built in the 1200s. In fact, the entire town is a UNESCO world heritage site because of it's historical significance and and good condition. High on the hill there were sweeping views of the lake, which was big enough that the far shore in Albania was out of site on the horizon.

An ancient, fortified, stone wall follows the top of the ridge, protecting the city from invasion. Beyond that is a steep natural drop-off, also protecting the city, but also having the effect of protecting the lake from us swimming in it... With about a 20 minute walk over the hill and around the corner, you can follow a little path down to a small, pebbly beach and lake access. The lake water was crystal clear here, unlike the water taxi and runoff clouded water in town. We waded out and snorkeled over beds of aquatic plants and fish. The rocks are sharp, since there isn't the wave action of the ocean, so wading is a little painful, but woth it to enter the cold water of the lake.

Later we walked back through the woods, and explored the rest of the town. We drank our nightly bottle of very-inexpensive-wine back in the room, too tired to make it back to the beach one last time.

We had run into the Serbian Guys on the way to the beach and they'd pointed out Marshal Tito's lake palace out across the lake on a peninsula, so in the morning we headed out to find it. It turned out to be about a 7 kilometer walk over there, so we hiked along the lake shore all morning. We passed several resorts and beach bars, muddy shores, and beaches with gravel laid on top create the popular Balkan "shingle beach" that they like. We came across the Macedonian Navy in a dredged out creek channel, consisting of one tiny gunboat and an inflatable Zodiac. Just in case.

Again we were trying to find a less crowded beach - everything was choked with people and umbrellas, it's an incredibly popular area it seems. We finally reached Tito's palace as our poor feet, blistered from two weeks of walking, were ready to give out. And it was closed. It appears that the current president still uses it, so you can't get close enough to see it. Oh well... We continued on in search of our beach, and finally found it. Well, sort of. We climbed down a tall cliff to the lake edge, then waded to a shallow cave in the cliff with a dry spot to put the packs and our clothes while we swam. We'd found the only spot on this end of the lake not infested with people! Getting ready, I whacked my head on the cave roof so hard that I knocked a poor bat out of his crevice and he started crawling around the beach, sort of stunned to suddenly be out in the daylight. That didn't go over too well with Z. We tried swimming out far enough to see the palace from the lake, it was right there... but no luck. They'd done a pretty good job with the privacy thing.

We enjoyed the lake and town the rest of the day, and in the morning reluctantly headed off on our long journey to Albania.

Ohrid is a stunning place to visit. I remember everyone telling me about Ohrid and how special it is. Maybe cynicism comes with age but it really is beautiful. Everyone was spot on about Ohrid.Ohrid is UNESCO protected and there exists artifacts from this region from 5000BC. 

We arrived in Ohrid very early in the morning to avoid the heat  (high 40 degrees!). The drive is great, the scenery is splendid.  The first thing we did was go to Sv Naum chuch. Sv Naum was a must see for me. Apparently the actual church dates back to the early 10th century but this lies underneath the current Church. The current church dates back to 16th Century. Still though you can see the original church through some glasses on the floor. Sv Naum's tomb is in the chamber, legend has it that if you put your ear on the tomb you can hear Sv Naum's heart beat. Additionally if you touch the tomb of Sv Naum your wish will come true.  Nethertheless MissL did attempt this. I love legend stories like this. 

What to do after visiting a magnificent church? Go swimming of course in Lake Ohrid. The water is perfect here. It is the right temperature and clean. Coming from Australia we have the magnificent beaches here but Lake Ohrid was delightful!

Afterwards the trip to nearby Plaosnik proved amazing. A Roman amphitheatre , Sv Clement, Sv Jovan and Kaneo. At Sv Clement there was exavations currently in place as the Church was much larger originally than they thought. An interesting fact is that during Ottoman Rule , Macedonian Orthodox churches were not allowed to be taller than a mosque. If they were taller than a mosque, they were torn down.

Did I like Ohrid, Yes very much. Outside Sv Naum there is a musician who sells a recorder like instrument. I could hear his music in my head during the whole day.