A Day Trip To Sopot Beach & Pier

It was our third day in Gdansk and we decided to grab a taxi to Sopot beach and explore and pier. It was a beautiful sunny and hot day, so to spend it by the beach was the ideal thing to do. Sopot is hugely popular with locals who want to get away from the city and have a ‘mini break’ without going too far.

A SUNNY DAY ON SOPOT BEACH & VISITING THE PIER

It was probably about a 20 minute taxi drive from Gdansk to the beach and you arrive next to a restaurant literally on the beach front path which is very busy, called Bar Przystań that does a lot of seafood. We grabbed a nice cold drink and sat down with the view of the sea and beach in front of us.

We then walked along the beach and paddled a bit in the sea taking in the sights and taking lots of pictures. We carried on walking until we reached the pier and then back up the beach until we reached the wooden walkway to exit the beach.

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As we exited the beach, we came to the entrance to the pier. There is a little bit of the pier you can access before you reach the gates to enter which you have to pay in order to get past. The ticket to get onto the main bit of pier costs 10PLN which is about £1.96. There are lots of stands and shops before you get on the pier that sell lots of jewellery, kids toys and teddies and other touristy gifts and souvenirs. The toilets before the pier will also charge you a small fee for entrance so keep that in mind.

Walking along the pier, we got to see a lot of the boats and ships that dock up in the harbour and there were plenty of seagulls flying about. There are also speed boat excursions which you can book onto and they will take you to a nearby island or around the bay.

After we had explored the pier, we walked a little bit further until we reached a cafe and club on the corner and decided to stop for lunch. It wasn’t great in terms of service but the food was alright. I ordered their Goats cheese salad and a Diet Cola and we relaxed for a little bit. Once we had finished lunch, we walked back towards the pier entrance and there was a lot of shops and it felt a little bit like you were entering Disneyland.

We went into a few shops including H&M and a really cool sweet shop called Candy Trendy Shop that had so many rooms of different sweets and chocolate. My Dad bought some nougat and I bought a pack of Uno Flip cards, which I’ve never seen before. There was a room of chocolate and chocolate coated raisins and beans, then sour sweets and other pick and mix sweets, games, candyfloss and nougat. There was so much to take in, it was like a sweet tooth paradise!