Sheraton Sopot Hotel Conference Centre and Spa, Poland

The Sheraton Sopot Hotel Conference Centre and Spa is set be one of the most luxurious five-star hotels on Poland’s Baltic coast. Operated by Starwood Resorts and Hotels Worldwide, the hotel will be situated between Tri-City Landscape Park and Gdańsk Bay’s 4.5km-long sandy beach, adjacent to Molo pier, the longest wooden pier in Europe.

Sopot, commonly known as the 'summer capital of Poland', is a small well-appointed seaside resort situated between Gdańsk and Gdynia, and is famous for its spas.

Costing €93m, the five-storey, 89-room hotel (including 13 suites) will open on 1 July 2008, with its conference centre opening in mid-December 2008.

The hotel is being developed by Haffner’s Centre Ltd. The major shareholders for the project include PKO Bank Polski SA (49.5%), the City of Sopot (32.3%) and NDI (18.2%).

SHERATON FACILITIES

The facilities will include a conference centre with 4,300m² of meeting space (11 meeting rooms with the largest being a 600m² multifunctional audio hall that can be divided into four) and a 400m² ballroom. A boardroom will seat 15 and four meeting rooms will seat between 25 to 40.

There will be two all-day dining restaurants, two bars (the Hotel Bar with 36 seats plus 20 seats on the terrace and the Rotunda Bar which will have 40 seats inside and 60 seats on the terrace) and a lobby lounge with a fireplace and library corner.

The main hotel restaurant will feature an open show kitchen and can be separated into two parts. The main section will have 88 seats, leaving the smaller section (68 seats) for private functions and banquets. The terrace adjacent to the restaurant will have 40 seats. The Rotunda pan-Asian restaurant will provide 40 seats, with 60 seats on the terrace and a private dining area for 18 people.

The resort, as befitting the history of the town of Sopot, will also have extensive spa facilities. Set over 2,000m², the spa will offer various treatments including a steam room, sauna and flotation tanks. The spa has been designed to benefit from natural daylight and Baltic sea breezes.

ROOMS

The rooms will feature Sheraton's signature ‘Sweet Sleeper Bed’. There will also be 70 zipped twin beds and 76 twin beds. All rooms will offer seaviews, air-conditioning, flat screen LCD cable television and internet access. The rooms are geared towards the business traveller but there will also be facilities for the more casual visitor such as a kids' club and babysitting service.

CONTRACTOR

One of the main contractors for the project was TRIXX International, which specialises in lighting systems and interior/exterior finishes.