Villa Ruscha was an amazing find right on the beach promenade in the lovely town of Binz, on Rugen Island in Northeastern Germany. The rooms were a bit pricey, at 100 euros per night, but I think the quality we got for that amount was totally worth it. The room was absolutely beautiful and contained a full kitchen, as well as a large bathroom and a well-decorated quaint bedroom overlooking the beach and whole promenade, with a pretty big balcony to sit on and stare at the passers-by. I think that officially Villa Rushca is not a "hotel" per se, but rather a guest house, or whatever definition they have for it in Germany, but your experience as a guest is really undistinguishable from staying at a hotel. It looks like a hotel, acts like a hotel and provides all a hotel would, so...

The staff only consisted of one woman at the front desk, who didn't speak English, but she was incredibly helpful and friendly and let us do our desperately needed laundry for free... more