Pie Oskara

Location,location,location!!😆Perfectly equiped kitchen with everything you might need.

Smelly water from tab. Very thin walls,you can hear neighbors quite well.

The location of this apartment is great — really close to Cape Kolka and just off the beach in Kolka. The apartment itself is comfortable, and having a kitchen for a couple of days on my travels was nice to be able to cook for myself. A note on accessibility: this apartment is on the second floor of an older apartment building with only steps (no elevator).

The water smelled quite strong, even for bathing — definitely bring your own drinking water.

Very clean and comfy flat with all necessary equipment for staying. Really quiet and perfectly located near to the sea!

The apartment was in an old Soviet time three stories white-brick apartment building, the ones from 1950ies and 1960ies you can see all other the Baltics (and former Soviet states). I have been a bit curious of how these houses look inside, so when I noticed a renovated apartment in one of these houses in Kolka was offered for rental, I got interested. My wife was first a bit skeptical, but once there agreed it turned out to be a good idea. The apartment was indeed in an old Soviet time apartment building. The building and the staircase and were quite worn out. However, the apartment itself was very tastefully renovated. The kitchen, bathroom and floor were all brand new, the kitchen well equipped, there was a working wifi and a large screen TV. At the same time the limed brick walls, the old style front door and inner doors were left intact. Thus you could enjoy the standard a spoiled tourist expects of a modern hotel room or short term rented apartment, and at the same time experience the retro Soviet nostalgia that made us curious. The house was in the outskirts of the small village Kolka, 200 meters from the lovely long beach. You could have a nice <2 km walk along the beach to the extremely scenic Cape Kolka, the norther tip of Kurzeme/Courland were the Baltic Sea and the Bay of Riga meet.

Kolka is a very sleepy small village. The nature at and around Cape Kolka and the surrounding Slītere National Park is probably the only things to see there. (Well, there is a Livonian community house, were you can get information about the Livonian people and culture, but it was closed when we were there). So do not expect any spectacular night life!