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This Baltic Beach Hotel Is For Real and In the Mood for Love

Where: 23/25 Juras Str, Majori, Jurmala , Latvia, 2015

All Latvians know that the place to have a seaside holiday is the resort town of Jurmala, stretching along the coast just half an hour away from the capital, Riga. Even Brezhnev and Khrushchev thought it was the place to be, back in the day.

Our pick for a cool place to stay on the Latvian coast is the architecturally challenging Baltic Beach Hotel, not least of all because it looks like it could topple over at any second. In fact, we weren't even quite sure if it was still open. Yet it's been standing long enough now that we feel pretty comfortable with the construction so perhaps we could be brave enough to request a room smack bang in the middle of that overhanging bit.

Recent guests to the Baltic Beach Hotel have a lot of mixed opinions on the place. Some name it a relaxing spa hotel, and one of the few in the Jurmala region to be right on the beach; others complain that there are barely any sea views, and that service is stuck back in the Soviet era.

We still think it's unique enough to deserve at least a short stay--perhaps the "Cupidon's Touch" package, with the Valentine's Day season starting up? For 99 Lats ($180), "Cupidon" gives you one night in a sea view room, breakfast, a spa program and best of all, a "Romantic date with surprise in Spa café Angels Garden." We're itching to know what the surprise is.

[Photo: liber]