Zhong Hua Hotel

Sopot


Unique hotel housed within a 19th-century bathing pavilion right on the beach (it's Poland's only beach hotel), but one quite incongruously done out in Chinese style with lacquered furniture and lanterns. The rooms also have little Chinese touches and bathrooms with marble fittings. There's a decent restaurant on the premises and the sand comes right up to the door.

Even the receptionists have little explanation of the Chinese styling, the owners perhaps having got ready for hordes of Chinese tourists that never came.


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