First things first. It's our first visit to Poland and there's no downsides of note.
I say so as we found only a few folk rude, surprisingly in a kebab joint and a cafe in Sopot - the so called hospitality industry - but that's likely cultural as often we are polite through gritted teeth ourselves, so hypocrisy recognised Sopot is a real gem of a place and a good base to tour this part of Poland.
We visited Gdańsk and Gdynia too. The train station is under 10 minutes uphill walk from Sedan. We chose Sopot as it's a sea side place and it was the end of the summer season.
The Sedan hotel is quaint. It is also genuinely charming. Charming also describes all the staff we met on our 7 nights here. It wasn't a long enough stay really.
You do need a level of physical fitness for this hotel as there are steps into it, there isn't a lift and staircase is quite steep. We were fortunate on arrival that the chap who checked us in, very quickly, also took our cases to the 1st floor also very quickly.
Breakfast food here is first class, especially as I'm a fish lover. There's herrings & mackerel on offer daily with cress and tangy pickles. My wife isn't a lover of such briny, vinegary things but there's lots for her to enjoy including scrambled eggs, ham, cheeses, jams, yoghurts, cakes and pancakes.
They bake their own breads too but their white loaf wasn't to our taste as it's dry, open textured and coarse but that's personal taste. We observed plenty of guests eating copious amounts of it with butter so We're in the minority here - story of our lives too.
The breakfast coffee machine has an umbilical milk tube feeding into it for cappuccino, it also offers espresso and black coffee as it wheezes, grinds and then eventually splutters out good coffee; if it were a human the sounds it makes at work would easily burn off hundreds of calories. It kept breaking down and it was retired on our second last day.
Our 1st floor room had two cosy single beds. It was a small room with a separate shower room with a shower that's even smaller than on Norwegian cruise ships. If you are thin you should be ok. I'm not.
Still we managed just fine but there is a caution here as the temperature on the shower is finely set - a slight twist of the handle either way and it's quickly scalding or cold. So beware you don't accidentally knock against it; it's not a mistake you are likely to make twice.
The prevailing noise outside our room was seagulls crying with the odd crow caw. There's in-room coffee & tea but no milk and tv and air con we didn't use.
The hotel offers 2 course lunches at 35 pz a person. We did try to get lunch but the day we did they only had chicken as they were waiting on a delivery so that was that.
The hotel also houses a Thai massage parlour (see photo) with a separate entrance so it was our first port of call day 1 but they don't offer traditional Thai massages. We found this strange so we went elsewhere 5 minutes walk away.
So we really enjoyed a great stay and it's a 5 star place all the way. read more