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in 2008, and still not done in 2018, but there’s still time, although I have got rid of the Rough Guide as it was out of date by then.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
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- Schwerin
- Bad Doberan
- Rostock/Warnemunde and
- Rugen Island, where Binz seems a good place to stay.
I was playing holiday porn, and found, in expedia, a hotel in Sassnitz, with various routes, by plane, bus and train and in one case a ferry.
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.
I added some comments, this may still be doable!