Unique Baltic Sea beach stay in northeast Germany

• Peaceful pools: Koserow's top hotel on Tripadvisor, SEETELHOTEL Nautic Usedom Hotel & Spa is a comforting sanctuary between a peaceful lagoon and a beautiful sandy Baltic Sea beach on Germany's nature-blessed Usedom Island. It's all about recharging body and mind here, with heated indoor and outdoor pools helping things along nicely.

• Soothing spa: After a day at the beach, or hiking or biking in the surrounding natural park, switch off in the number of saunas and relaxation rooms. For a surcharge, you can bubble away in the couple's Jacuzzi and melt away any strains and stress with a massage from the treatment menu.

• Island eating: Savour the local speciality of freshly caught fish at Oberdeck restaurant, or choose from other regional and global dishes made supremely with seasonal ingredients. There's an evening menu that changes daily, alongside the à la carte menu. Grab beers at the Sky Sports Bar and get stuck into the range of German sausages and cheese at the applauded breakfast buffet.

How to get there

Berlin Brandenburg International Airport is around 300 kilometres away, just over three hours' drive. By train, the journey takes around four hours: take the airport express train to Berlin Gesundbrunnen and then the ICE 1710 train towards Ostseebad Binz for six stops (around two hours), alighting at Züssow. Take the RB23 train from here to Koserow (11 stops; 50 minutes) and then walk a kilometre to the hotel.

Good to know

Entry requirements

The passport, visa and health requirements at the time of booking can be viewed on the Foreign and Commonwealth Office website for UK citizens, and on the Department of Foreign Affairs website for IE citizens. It is your responsibility to ensure that you and all members of your party are in possession of all necessary travel and health documents, and in compliance with any other immigration/entry requirements before you travel, including whether your passport must be machine readable or which visas/waivers may be required for entry, such as ESTA for USA travel and/or ETIAS for EU travel. Please also be sure to check the validity of your passport and allow up to 10 weeks for passport renewals.