Balka Strand Bornholm — Hotel in Bornholms Regionskommune

Travel hints.||From Copenhagen Town Hall to Ystad in Sweden you must calculate 1.30 hours by car. Then the catamaran ferry from Ystad to Rönne on Bornholm 1.20 hours, plus 0.35 hours from Rönne to Hotel Balka Strand. In all: Four hours tops traveling time including waiting time (from Copenhagen Airport even half an hour less).||||The Prices (for one Car Passage):||Öresundsbron is 390 Danish kroner (if you do not subscribe to continual transits). The Faergen catamaran-ferry is 1083 Danish kroner, or you might be in luck to buy a cheap ticket for 843 Danish kroner, or a pensioner's ticket for 566 Danish kroner.||||Our Room.||My wife and I arrived shortly before 15.00 o'clock, and we took a nap right away in preparation for our evening dinner in the hotel restaurant. This was a most welcome decision.||Our room (27 square meter) was nice with a private terrace (most of the rooms are at ground level).||||Hotel Layout.||The hotel layout includes five steps up to the restaurant. But you can always find an alternative route without steps – or you may use the staircase elevator, if you are in a wheelchair.||Wi-fi was available for free all over in the hotel.||||With only about 200 meter to Balka Beach we went for a dip every morning, enjoying the slanting rays of the morning sun before the clouds took over the agenda. ||From our hotel, the asphalt road, Boulevarden, skirts the beach, so it is an easy walk. However, right at the access to this northern end of the beach (next to the tiny Balka boat harbour) seaweed tend to accumulate, so we walked a few steps south along the beach toward the tiny brook, Melâen MÉLâön.||After this refreshing swim in the seaweed-iodic water, we had our breakfast and started this day's expedition to the Bornholmian sights.||Luckily, the next day the municipality cleared away the seaweed, and we initiated a beach-stroll for ourselves every evening, enjoying the rays of the setting sun illuminating the thin clouds with changing colours here at the east coast...

We stayed in a familyroom for 3 nights and it was perfect. Our sons had one room with separate beds, a tv and a small bathroom. Me and my husband had the bedroom and our own large bathroom. We had a small kitchen also with a tv. We never cooked anything but it was perfect with a fridge so we could store some milk, youghurt, beer, soda and snacks. It's clean and simply furnished but have everything you need (even a hairdryer :-). We had 2 patios, one in the front and one in the back but someone had borrowed 2 chairs so we only had 2. After letting the reception know about it we had 2 more within minutes. The staff were very friendly and serviceminded. Answering our questions in a nice way and gave good recomendations. The breakfastbuffet was very good. Had everything we wanted. (We never had lunch or dinner at the hotel so we can't comment on that.) Balka Beach is very close!! Just a very short walk down the street. It's a beautiful beach and even had sunbeds for the rent of only 10 DKK. The area was very safe and without much traffic - we...

Pros: close to beach, decent pool, complimentary breakfast which was fine, spacious room options for families at affordable prices, small playground to entertain the kids. Cons: our pillows and blankets smelled terrible - they came to replace them but the replacements smelled also- that was gross. One shower in our unit did not work (fortunately we had two showers so used the other). There are some ants in the rooms but I suppose that is to be expected at the beach. Also, when we checked in, they have us a dirty room- although they fixed it immediately so I can only imagine it was an oversight. Oh also, in the apartments, you must take out your own trash which I found a little weird for a hotel. Really it felt more like a nice motel but considering there are few options around, this seemed to be one of the best. And we would stay there again. You really can't beat the location. Balka strand is a...