Hotel Lubicz is a modern hotel in the Baltic resort town of Utska. By Eastern European standards, the rooms are clean and adequately furnished. The hotel is a bit of a walk to the beach and the historic downtown area. I'm sure in the summer it is a bustling resort full of activity.

Staying there in the off-season, however, is another story. The place was dead, and to save money (I suppose), all of the lights in the halls were turned off which gave the hotel a gloomy feeling. It felt a bit like walking through the hotel in "The Shining".

The hotel has a nice pool and spa area. The prices are very reasonable by Western standards. Even though the hotel was almost empty and it was the off-season, the staff weren’t able to schedule me in for a massage. Not due to the fact that they had other bookings, but more due to red-tape. Similarly, the empty restaurant requested that I make a reservation for the self-serve breakfast, which seemed a bit silly when 80 percent of the tables were empty. Old habits of Communist Poland die hard.

This is the only hotel I have ever stayed in in Poland, and I would doubt it can be beaten. I arrived, unannounced, at half past eleven at night and was given a room and and meal without any problem at all. The service provided by the excellent staff is second to none. The hotel also benefits from a great swimming pool, jacuzzi and wellness centre as well as a restaurant producing some of the best food I've had anywhere, try the mushroom soup, followed by fillet steak; fantastic.

The hotal proudly shows its 4 stars above the entrance and it deserves every one of them.


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