2015 Travel Guide
Odd Hotels / Baltic Hotels / Valentine's Day Hotels / → All Tags
This Baltic Beach Hotel Is For Real and In the Mood for Love
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]
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Cubicle Dreamin': Testing The Beer Theory in Luxembourg
Cubicle Dreamin' is a feature in which we ask the hotel mavens to take some time out of their busy work day, surf the Internet, and tell us what hotel they wish they could beam themselves to right that very second--all on the slave driving companies dime, of course. Oh, like these people aren't surfing aimlessly anyway--at least now their purposeless clicking will be cobbled together into useful hotel stories--we hope. Have a destination hotel you are just dying to leave your cube for? Send the story our way.
In this episode, Hotel Maven Amanda K jaunts to Luxembourg...in her mind. Enjoy.
Since I heard the (apparently true) rumour that Luxembourg holds the record for beer drinking, I've been contemplating a holiday there to try and check this story out in person. When in Luxembourg ... it looks like the Sofitel Luxembourg will provide me with the 5-star comfort I'll need after spending a night or two testing the local beers.
Being walking distance from the city center (read: from the pub) is a key consideration, yet the Sofitel is still far enough out of downtown to be quiet on the morning after. A number of recent guests make mention of the extra-large and extra-comfortable beds, also an important factor for sleeping off my consumption of record-breaking beer. And they even do room service breakfast at no extra cost.
As far as sightseeing goes, there are a few nice things to see in Luxembourg and walking from the Sofitel into town gives a nice view of the gorgeous bridges. Seems like a good combination to me: a comfy hotel, a few beers, and a another tiny country to add to the brag list of where I've traveled.
[Photo: jarusoba]
Related Stories:
· Sofitel Luxembourg reviews [TripAdvisor]
· Biggest Drinking Destination: Luxembourg [Jaunted]
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