Business Class Flights to Sopot, Poland

Located on northern Poland’s Baltic Sea coast, Sopot is a resort city known for its sandy beaches, health spas, and seaside culture. Sopot is also known for having the longest pier in both Poland and greater Europe, Sopot Pier, which is more than 563 yards long as it stretches out into the Baltic Sea. A small city, Sopot has a year-round population of about 40,000 people. It’s larger metro area includes the nearby coastal cities of Gdansk and Gdynia. The three cities together are often called Tricity.

Because it is a popular resort area, the majority of the people who fly to Sopot are tourists. Flights to Sopot arrive at Gdansk Lech Waelsa International Airport (GDN), located in nearby Gdansk, about 6 miles from Sopot’s city center. The airport serves about 6 million passengers each year. Direct flights to Sopot, Poland, are available from several cities in Europe, including Oslo, Dublin, Rome, Prague, London, Riga, Paris, Helsinki, and Copenhagen among others.

Vacationers who fly to Sopot will find that public transportation in the form of trolley buses and commuter rail service is readily available to take them from Gdansk Lech Waelsa International Airport into Sopot or into Gdansk or Gdynia, as the three cities share one public transportation system.

When they have spent enough time at the beach, visitors who have booked tickets to Sopot often spend their afternoons and evenings in the city center’s designated pedestrian zone, a historic neighborhood lined with restaurants, shops, and cafes. Tourists and locals alike also enjoy walking along Sopot Pier to take in the views of the Bay of Gdansk and watch the passing fishing boats and pleasure cruisers. If they’re lucky, tourists can see some of the region’s natural wildlife run across the beach, like wild boars, who make their home in the nearby forests. 

Another popular sight in Sopot is the Sopot Lighthouse, a historic landmark built on the Baltic coast in 1903. If the weather doesn’t cooperate for a day at the beach, many visitors head to the Grodzisko living history museum. Located in nearby Gdansk, the reconstructed medieval settlement features period-style buildings with thatched roofs, a hand-dug moat, and historical re-enactors who can interpret the area’s long history. Because it’s so close, many of the Gdansk’s museums and historical churches are with

Tourists who fly to Sopot for vacation will find that one of the city’s most visited and iconic attractions is the Krzywy Domek, or crooked house. Built in 2004, the 43,000-square-foot house was designed to resemble illustrations by Polish artists Jan Marcin Szancer and Per Dahlberg whose work often appeared alongside fairy tales. More than just a photo op, the Krzywy Domek is home to numerous restaurants and other shops, so tourists can pick up a souvenir to take back home. 

Tourists also book business class flights to Sopot to attend, or to compete in, the annual Sopot International Song Festival. Held in August, it is one of the largest festivals of its kind in Europe. In addition to contestants from European countries, the festival also welcomes singers from North America.

Sports are popular among Sopot’s locals, especially basketball, tennis, football (soccer) and rugby. The home games of Sopot’s professional men’s basketball team, Prokom Trefl Sopot, are played at the 11,400-seat Ergo Arena, which is located on the border between Sopot and Gdansk. 

Notable people who have lived in Sopot include the German actor Klaus Kinski and Polish jazz pianist Leszek Mozdzer.