Arkona Strandhotel

The location is nice, close to the beach. There is a band playing at the ground floor sometimes in the evening till 10 pm. The breakfast and dinner buffet was good. The pool is smaller than thought.,but very nice, usually full of kids playing there. The bed is very disappointing, very uncomfortable : there were two single mattresses on a double bed. The bedsheet was not changed during our stay at all as there was a chocolate stain on it.

We had a family suite with a balcony. The view over the ocean was wonderful, but it was on the first floor right above a smoker's tent (there is no smoking in the hotel proper). On the first night there was some event in the restaurant, maybe a wedding, and the guests went out to the smokers' tent to smoke, drink and shout until 2 in the morning. We had to close the windows for the poisonous fumes and the noise, though there was no A/C on a summer's night. Is it not obvious that a family suite should not be right above a smokers' tent?!

We had a great time at the hotel and it is nicely located at the beach walk with its restaurants and the beach just across terrace. The pool is on the small side but the kids and us enjoyed it. The breakfast was fresh and you could order omelettes and eggs as you like them. It also had a lot of different choices. Rooms are large enough and very clean, and if you choose the 6th floor there are smaller terraces to use for everyone - with a view to the sea. There was a problem with parking in the hotel and we had to park in the next house over, without an offer to reimburse although it was the hotel staff that made the mistake. You can expect English speaking skills to be low. Sometimes, people were outright rude as they knew no English, and in nearby stores it is cash only. Altogether we liked our stay very much, also because it was less of a "normal" resort for us and we could just relax and have a good time. We made some tours to the cliffs. Stralsund were we enjoyed the Medieval festival and other places.