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If it\u2019s highly recommended by Mick Hart, you know it must be good!<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

9 April 2025 ~ Sleep and Fly Gdansk What More Could You Ask For?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As a follow-up to my series of posts \u2018How to get from Kaliningrad to the UK and vice versa\u2019, I bring you Hotels by the Airport!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Having been held up at the Polish border more times than Dick Turpin held up the overland stage, I decided that a good contingency plan when travelling to the UK from Kaliningrad would be to bed down for the night in Gdansk and then proceed to the airport the next day. “But,” said a relative, “as your flight to the UK requires you to get out of bed at the godforsaken hour of 3am, why not stay at a hotel close to the airport itself?” “Hmm,” I said, “I\u2019m not sure about that.” And then she said, some have bars, and suddenly I couldn\u2019t be surer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Relative to this post<\/strong>
How to get to Kaliningrad from the UK<\/a>
Russia Kaliningrad Visa Information<\/a>
Is the Poland to Kaliningrad Border Open?<\/a>
Kaliningrad Gdansk London Luton Tips for Survival<\/a>
Tawerna Rybaki Gdansk Old Town a Warning to the Unwary!<\/a>
Hotel Mercure Gdansk: Reasons to Stay There!<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sleep and Fly Gdansk What More Could You Ask For?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

A search on Google under \u2018Gdansk Airport Hotels\u2019 quickly rummaged out a handful of places that were too expensive to contemplate. Paying over the odds for a room is OK when sliding beneath the sheets with a delectable bit of totty, but just for the sake of crashing out, it simply isn\u2019t worth it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Besides, I did not need to stay at the Hilton just to impress everybody, all I had to do was lie. And, of course, it works out cheaper!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The out-of-season price for a bed at Gdansk Airport Hampton by Hilton was, at the time of booking, \u00a3117 a night; the H<\/span>i Hotel Gda\u0144sk Airport Lotnisko was \u00a364 a night; not bad as hotel tariffs go in this extortionate era. But, unless I am much mistaken, this hotel is one of those self-service jobs, meaning it does not have a reception desk, or, even if it does, the desk is unmanned, unwomaned and everything else in between, which we will not dwell upon here, because we do  not wish to propagate woke. I imagine, without validation, that it must be one of those impersonal places where access is determined solely by an electronic code, with not a human or anything vaguely like one neither in sight nor on site. For me, this proposition was out of the question, as you will understand better if you read my post Tawerna Rybaki Gdansk Old Town a Warning to the Unwary!<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

That left but one more option, a hotel near the airport, which, as luck would have it, the travelling relative I spoke of earlier stayed at on her outward journey after visiting us in Kaliningrad. \u201cIt\u2019s comfortable,\u201d she said. \u201cIt\u2019s very close to the airport, and it has a bar.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sleep and Fly<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The sixty quid price tag for a one-night stand, sorry, for a one-night stay, at the hotel she referred to is a lot easier on the pocket than the \u00a3100+ at the Hitler ~ Hilton ~ almost half the tariff in fact. Being almost twice the price, perhaps if you booked at the Hilter, they would allow you to stay there twice in one night. This complication appealed to me,  \u2018stay one night get the same night free\u2019, but the deal breaker with Sleep and Fly was the name of this hotel. Perhaps if they have a step ladder, I could cross the word \u2018Sleep\u2019 out or change the name of the hotel slightly to one that suited my lifestyle, viz \u2018No Sleep Then Fly\u2019. As long as it did not prove to be \u2018No Sleep No Fly\u2019, there would be nothing for me to worry about, a most unlikely scenario as I have a knack of finding something, however elusive it may be.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hmm, Sleep and Fly? I mused. I liked the name a lot. It was perfect for an insomniac.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Central<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

^Journey starts: Kaliningrad Central Bus Station<\/strong>^<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The fact that on the occasion of my leaving Kaliningrad recently we passed through both the Russian and Polish borders without let or hinderance, whilst mildly ironic in and of itself, since the time before and the time before that, we had been kicking our heels for hours, did not in any way invalidate my decision to split the journey across two days. On the past two travelling occasions, the long inevitable interval between arriving at the airport and the flight, which is a painful seven hours, was extended by delays from seven hours to 10 hours and to 15 hours respectively, which rather takes the Wizz out of flying with Wizz Air. Never mind editing \u2018Sleep and Fly\u2019, how about adding an \u2019S\u2019 to \u2018Wizz\u2019!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the unlikely event that the flight is delayed the morning after the night before, having stayed at the airport hotel, at least the disruption will occur when most who sleep are rested, and with any luck you might still get home when the buses and trains are running during daylight hours.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Apart from these considerations and the precautions they invoke, if the truth be known, I was looking forward to the novel experience of staying close to the airport and strolling at my leisure to the terminal in the morning. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ice Cold in Gdansk<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

As there had been no holdups on our journey through border control, the bus from Kaliningrad to Gdansk rolled up at the airport at the time advertised.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On alighting from the bus, I was glad, mighty glad that I had worn my thermal-lined Russian coat. It was cold, mighty cold, and there was a nasty, razor-sharp, fingers-freezing gusting wind whipping across the hillock on which Gdansk Airport proudly perches. I tell you, without a word of a lie, it was enough to blow a moustache right off, even a big important one such as that belonging to Lech Walesa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now, either the directions given to me by word of toe on how to get to Sleep and Flies had not been given correctly or my interpretation of them had not been up to snuff, as, after wandering up and down a little, I ended up where no one wants to be, somewhere in no-genders land, stuck beneath the pillar of a large concrete flyover, just me, a suspicious rucksack and, crammed inside two cars, a herd of Polish security men, none of whom, by the way, took a blind bit of notice of me, even though my frozen fingers resembled glowing red sticks of dynamite. (\u2018Ere, whoever said that dynamite is red?” “La de la, de da, de la ~ Shut up!”)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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^Gdansk Airport on a cold evening: In there somewhere is my motel<\/strong>^<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

A half-glass-empty man at best, I had already convinced myself that I would never find my hotel and would be forced to spend the night inside the airport terminal, before it up and occurred to me that airports have information desks, where you can get answers to rareified questions like does my hotel exist?  Gdansk has an excellent desk, behind which a young man sits with a beard as silly as mine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fortunately, not only could this bewhiskered fellow converse quite well in English, but he was multilingual enough to understand the language of chattering teeth. His assistance was par excellence. No sooner had I mentioned Sleep and Fly than he said, \u201cWhat?\u201d I suppose he could hardly  hear me above the sound of my knocking knees. \u201cSleeep and F-f-flies\u201d I said, and he leaned over the counter a mite to see if they were undone. As they weren\u2019t, thank heavens (think icicles, but large ones), it dawned on him, like tomorrow morning, that here was a silly old fart of an Englishman without a hapeth of directional sense who was having the utmost difficulty in telling his Sleep and Fly from his elbow. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Quickly, he whipped out a folder ~ his beard was larger than mine ~ and proceeded to show me patiently, on the nicest map imaginable, something on a street in Naples, and then, swiftly finding the right page, but showing it not to the quite right person, Captain Horatio Compassless, he said, like Studebaker Hoch, \u201cFollow the Yellow Brick Road\u201d. Shucks, no he didn\u2019t say that at all, that\u2019s what Macron tells the migrants as he waves them on to Dover. No, what the young man said was, to get to the end of the rainbow, I would need to follow the long blue line. And sure enough, there in his folder was this long blue line.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Leaning over his desk, as he might a castle parapet, he pointed at the ground. We had already done the one about flies, so I wondered what he was getting at, and then I saw it for myself. I was actually standing on top of it! The blue line was beneath my feet. This young man didn\u2019t lie. How could he with that beard!  I thanked him for putting up with me, pointed myself in the right direction, that certainly made a change, and was off like a shot from a peashooter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(In case you didn\u2019t get it, by coincidence, or through someone using their brains, the blue line was right beneath me as I stood at the information desk.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Being the sort of man whose glass is always more than empty when it\u2019s someone\u2019s turn to fill it up, I was already of the conviction that the blue line would peter out before I got to where I was going, and cuh, huh, would you believe it, if I hadn\u2019t been right, I\u2019d be wrong. However, all was not entirely lost and neither, I am relieved to say, was I.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before leaving home I had taken the wise precaution of memorising what the hotel looked like from a photo on its website. Now you might say, why bother? Why not  use your smartphone and look it up on Google? Ah, now then, now then, now \u2026 that\u2019s because you\u2019ve got a smartphone, and I\u2019ve got a phone that is not so smart, at least not as smart as I\u2019d like it to be. My Russian Tele-2 sim card doesn\u2019t function in Gdansk. You might say, that\u2019s understandable, but neither does O2. Thus, whenever I switch on roaming, I am free to roam wherever I want without knowing where I\u2019m going, since every time I visit Gdansk, I can never ever ever, and never ever ever get an internet connection. (Take out a two-year rolling contract, which O2 continually steers you toward, you will be able to roam as you’ve never roamed before! But I don\u2019t want their two-year contract!)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anyway, on this cold and bitter evening, all was saved by my impeccable memory. I was standing on a small eminence at the side of a little round roundabout about to give up the ghost and sit in the airport terminal when, lo and behold, there it was ~ the On-The-Fly Hotel!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Sleep<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

From a distance, and the closer I came even more so, the little hotel, which is deceptively large ~ larger on the inside than it appears to be on the out (fingers crossed it will be William Hartnell and not a regenerate blackman wearing a fixed silly smirk), the warmer and more inviting it became. With my teeth knocking and my knees chattering, I hoped it was not a mirage. (“You get those in warm places, don\u2019t you? Such as in deserts and the like.” \u201cBe quiet and just clear off!\u201d)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But it looked warm, and it was warm. Thank heavens, this was not England, where the only places that are warm are centrally heated migrant hotels. The rest of us simply cannot afford to switch the heating on. If ever I finish my time machine, I will guarantee Napoleon wins. Only then perhaps will the historically beaten, Macron-bound BREXITed French cease offloading their migrant surplus onto an ECHR-compromised Britain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My hands were so cold, seriously, that I had begun to get the hots. But then who wouldn\u2019t, I ask you, exposed, in a manner of speaking, to a gorgeous young lady like that. She stood behind the reception desk as though she was a blowlamp, her comely presence alone enough to thaw an iceberg. On the 14th <\/sup>of April 1912, had they stood her on the bows of the ship she could have averted a tragedy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seriously though, how nice it was, especially on a night like this, to book in face to face and not be forced to place one\u2019s trust in a series of memorised digits.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sleep and Fly Gdansk<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Going back to my booking experience, whilst perusing Sleep and Fly\u2019s website, I noted that the room of my choice had in several different places \u2018small\u2019 written next to it, leaving me in no doubt that the room I had booked would not be large, but was I prepared for titchy?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I did not take photos of the bedroom since for one thing my mitts had not recovered from the icy Polish air, and there was insufficient elbow room by which to angle my camera, and even if there had been, my phone, the non-connection type, most likely was not equipped with a suitable lens which could function adequately in a diminutive space like this. Funny thing, however, was that the room containing the shower and bog was almost as big as the bedroom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now let me stop right there. Yes, it\u2019s true, the room was small: but it was clean; it was warm; it was snug. The bed, I would find out later, lacked no conceivable comfort and, crucially for one like me, whose slumbers can be broken by the fluttering of a moth\u2019s wing, peace and serenity reigned, which, to a man like you, means quiet. To put it rather more succinctly, for the one evening I needed to be there, it fitted the bill like a bobby\u2019s hat.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Though Sleep and Fly had a bar of its own, making it Sleep, Drink and Fly, I wanted the experience, the very surreal experience, of sitting late at night within the airport’s cavernous interior whilst sipping thoughtfully on a pint of beer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Never known to be keen on flying (understatement) but reformed partly by my age (I recall the words of the swing song, \u201cToo old to die young now \u2026’), I always find the word \u2018terminal\u2019 when used in conjunction with scareports somehow grimly amusing. Sleep and Fly for tomorrow we \u2026, now whatever rhymes with \u2018fly\u2019, ah, obviously, its \u2018sigh\u2019, which is exactly what I did.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I was standing at the reception desk, before the attractive young lady, whom I believe I might have mentioned earlier, asking if she would be so kind as to give me an early morning call, when it dawned on me (dawn being rather too close for comfort) that there was no phone in my motel room, so how could she possibly ring me? Don\u2019t be so silly, Silly, they would ring you on your smartarsephone, which, of course, Old Silly, though it may sound silly, would not be able to make a sound as my phone had no connection. When I tried to explain the glitch, Beauty incarnate, the young receptionist, clearly did not understand me ~ but then whoever does? ~ and took my number anyway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I consoled myself with the fact that the degree I had awarded myself in The Use of Mobile Phones that Refuse to Connect in Gdansk had taught me how to set the alarm. My wife is fond of over-stating that \u201cMichael has a problem to every solution.\u201d Not this time it would seem. Sleep and Fly it would be.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Despite the cold, I plucked up courage and walked to the bar in the airport terminal, where I drank a pint of ice-cold beer whilst lapping up the peculiarity. There must have been about 40 people scattered around the gargantuan space, but they and the sounds they emitted appeared to me as if in a dream, like phenomena and apparitions swallowed whole in Jonah\u2019s Whale.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The near psychedelic contrast between drinking in the airport terminal and the next stop Sleep and Fly had shades of the Twilight Zone<\/em> about it. The stark difference in spatial parameters made me feel like Lemuel Gulliver, who had nothing much to boast about whilst he was in Brobdingnag, but when he got to Lilliput was naturally having it large. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"A<\/figure>\n\n\n
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My relative, the one who had stayed at Sleep and Fly the week before I travelled and had apprised me of its amenities, had reported to me then that the motel had a bar but that there was nobody in it. There was only me on this occasion, but that was fine with me, because if nobody else enjoys your company, you can always pretend to enjoy it yourself. Besides, what can be better than loneliness when you have no choice but to be on your own.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since I was their only customer, and the young receptionist had nothing much else to do but double as a bar person, I bestowed the honour upon her of serving me a second beer and then, looking at the time, as midnight was fast approaching, I thought I had better go to bed. I only had three hours to kill, or, if I could not sleep, which I generally can\u2019t, the case would be vice versa.  Each Dawn I Die.<\/em> That\u2019s a very good film, almost as good as The Lost Weekend<\/em>. I suggest you watch them both.<\/p>\n\n\n

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\"Mick
It’s that ‘Finish that last beer and go to bed’ look!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Either way there was not much time, and as much as parting with Sleep and Fly\u2019s bar whilst it was still in motion was a rum-un and a wrench, if I did not leave it now, I would be passing myself on the stairs in the morning when going up them to bed at night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, take it from a man who has stayed in a very small room where everything looked larger, should you be travelling, Gulliver, to or from Kaliningrad via Gdansk, unless transiting all the way by taxi, you could do very much worse than stay in Gdansk overnight and finish the last leg of your journey the following morning or afternoon by bus, if heading towards Kaliningrad, or, if going the opposite way, by taxi to the airport.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gdansk Old Town is beautiful, packed to the rooftops with atmosphere. There\u2019s oons of historic architecture waiting for you to soak up, together with splendiferous beers, and an enticing array of grub from an eclectic range of restaurants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On your return journey from Kaliningrad to the UK, if your flight is an early one, I advocate you take a room in a hotel next to the airport. You could, of course, elect to stay overnight in Gdansk again, but accommodation close to the airport mitigates potential meltdown in the unlikely event in the wee small hours your taxi-to-airport fails to show.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Should you go for the airport option, if, like I, you are somewhat sensitive when it comes to paying through the nose or through any other part of your anatomy, I would go for Sleep and Fly. Its pleasant and its comfortable. It\u2019s got a bar where you can sit and drink, which is extremely convenient for a first-thing hangover, and, as its less than 10 minutes walk to the airport, if you like your sleep you\u2019ll get more of it, since you wont have to factor in the time it takes to prepare for the taxi and the time it takes for the taxi to run you to the airport. In plain speaking, it\u2019s a simpler option, with less risk and less hassle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Plus, if like mine your phone is duff and and no morning call is forthcoming, back in the bar downstairs or even from your bedroom window, you will be able to see the plane you’ve missed taking off without you. And what could be nicer than that!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Main Thing<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sleep & Fly<\/strong>
Spadochroniarzy 12, 80-298 Gda\u0144sk, Poland<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tel:<\/strong> +48 604 746 077<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Copyright \u00a9 2018-2025 Mick Hart. All rights reserved.<\/strong><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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