Hel Beach

Hel peninsula is a skinny finger of land that curls across the Polish coastline and Hel is a small village right at the tip of that peninsula. This doesn’t make it that easy to get to Hel but the journey there is all part of the fun.

A train takes around 2.5 hours from Gdansk to Hel whilst a car ride will take around 1.5 hours depending on traffic but like we said the trip to Hel is something really special.

The narrowest part of the pensinsula is at the very beginning and here there is just enough land for a road, a rail track and a few metres of land with views of the Bay of Gdansk on the right hand side and the Baltic Ocean on the left.

As you move further down the pensinsula then the land starts to widen out a bit and houses start popping up as well as cycle paths. Then you come across little holiday resorts (which are well worth visiting by the way), some forested areas, windsurfing clubs until you finally reach the town of Hel.

Here you will find plenty of shops and bars to keep you happy as well and this is also where you will find the beach at Hel that faces the Bay of Gdansk. The beach here is a little narrow and can get very crowded but if you walk across to the other side of the peninsula, on the Baltic side then the shoreline is wider and much less crowded.

Location: Hel Peninsula, Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland