Nixe Binz Designhotel

Nixe Binz Designhotel

Ostseebad Binz, footsteps from the beach: the sun terrace at Nixe Binz Designhotel looks straight over the Baltic, and guests can carry their coffee down to the hotel's own Strandkörbe on the sand within a few minutes' walk. Open since April 2018 as the smaller, design-led sister of the four-star-superior Hotel am Meer, this sixteen-room property splits between a Jugendstil villa with its original grand staircase and a newer wing, so rooms range from double rooms deluxe with a private-beach-under-glass design detail to two-storey Baltic Dream and beach4you suites with fireplaces, built for longer stays and families. Every room carries a Marshall speaker for a favourite playlist, illy coffee and Ronnefeldt tea, and breakfast runs à la carte until eleven, which suits people who dislike being herded into a buffet at eight. The nixespa uses Clarins and Ligne St Barth for treatments, and there's a lift, laundry and dry cleaning, a concierge desk for booking excursions, free parking and free wifi. Pets travel too, for a small daily fee plus a refundable deposit. None of this is aimed at large groups or anyone chasing nightlife; with only sixteen rooms spread across a villa and a newer wing, it reads as intimate rather than grand, and travellers wanting a big lobby or late-night bar should look elsewhere along the promenade. What sets it apart from the hotels lining Strandpromenade is that private-beach-under-glass detail in its deluxe doubles, a small architectural joke no neighbour shares. For a couple wanting the Baltic outside the window and nothing demanding it of them, it is the address on this stretch of coast worth booking directly. Nixe Binz Designhotel pairs a Jugendstil villa with a modern wing steps from Binz Beach, its sixteen rooms built around a sea-view terrace and à la carte breakfast until eleven. The deluxe doubles' private-beach-under-glass detail is unmatched on this stretch of promenade.