The Best Hotels Near Sterneck, by the Record
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Three low-slung buildings styled after an American roadside motel, sitting on the North Sea coast where the light does most of the decorating. Rooms run from doubles to family suites, many with balconies and dune or sea views, all done in bleached-out colors that look like the weather got there first. Breakfast is a buffet; the in-house restaurant handles lunch and dinner. There's a small spa with sauna if the wind off the Wadden Sea gets to be too much.
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The honor bar runs on trust: you pour your own coffee or beer, and the tab sorts itself out later. Hotel Zweite Heimat is a boutique hotel just behind the dunes in Sankt Peter-Ording, a North Sea town Germans have been retreating to for beach walks and hot springs forever. Wide plank floors and a beach-house feel keep things unfussy, while rooms come with breakfast nooks and views of woods, sand, or a nearby lake.
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The old castle stables on a vast northern German estate got a sleek contemporary extension, and the result is an 80-room luxury hotel that holds a Michelin Key. Rooms are finished with timber from the surrounding forest, and the spa is properly equipped for the post-golf crowd, there being a 27-hole course next door. The restaurant sources venison from the estate itself, which is the kind of farm-to-table story that writes itself.