I hope to travel on a holiday along the German Baltic coast sometime. I shall use my trusty ‘Rough Guide to Germany’ as my first and last reference book. Originally written in 2008, and still not done in 2018, but there’s still time, although I have got rid of the Rough Guide as it was out of date by then.

Locality & Map

Courtesy of Google Maps

View Larger MapI’d like to visit

• Schwerin
• Bad Doberan
• Rostock/Warnemunde and
• Rugen Island, where Binz seems a good place to stay.

When

This area is very busy in the summer and also very dramatic in the winter. I need to decide. I don’t need to travel in the school holidays anymore.

More Advice

There’s plenty of that

• Mecklenburg Western Pomerania from wikivoyage.
• Here’s a picture gallery from pxhere.com

How to get there!

Doesn’t seem that easy, flights are either difficult and expensive, or just plain expensive (to Rostock). The inter-rail shop is here. , but if I google, Hamburg to Rostock the train fares seem exceptionally reasonable, the tickets from Berlin are more expensive but are still cheaper than a round of cocktails. Jan 2019

Reviews

The Guardian and Observer say

• Islands in the Baltic, from the Guardian July 2008.
• Kick back in the Baltics, from the Guardian June 2007.
• Hitler’s Holiday Camp, from the Observer August 2001

Wikipedia has an entry on Prora, the site of the Observer article.

At Heiligendamm [wikipedia], some of the villas which date back to Imperial Germany have been taken over by the Kempinski chain but that’s probably more than I’ll want to pay.