Finding overnight accommodation in Northwest Europe [closed]

I'm going to visit Amsterdam next week for a couple of days and then I'd like to take a series of bus and/or sea trips ending up in Warsaw, or anywhere on the east shore of the Baltic Sea (from Gdansk to St. Petersburg). I'm yet to decide the details of this trip, whether it will be so distant or not, but I would like to know the following:

When arriving at a reasonably large town in the Netherlands, Germany, Denmark or Poland how likely am I to find cheap overnight accommodation without prior booking?

The idea is to arrive to a town, go sightseeing, have my six hours of sleep and then move on to the next town. But the plan isn't going to work if I have to spend most of the time finding a bed and shower instead of enjoying the sights.

So, are such services common in Western Europe?

Best Answer

For Poland, it depends on the season of course, if you plan to visit Gdansk during the weekend or holidays (anytime in July and August) I doubt you'll find anything cheap anywhere on whole Polish coast. This year, due to well-spread terrorism in Egypt, Turkey, Tunisia, etc., most Polish people chose to visit Polish seaside and it was all booked long before holidays. However, weather in Poland is tricky and usually July means rain so some of them resigned, but it's still pretty crowded.

If you decide on smaller towns on Polish coastline, chances for relatively cheap accomodation and ability to quickly find it, rise. As someone suggested, avoiding Gdansk, which is biggest city near Baltic Sea in Poland, and finding something in surrounding small villages, makes it possible to get to Gdansk in reasonably short time. I'd suggest east from Gdansk, because north from it, there is Sopot and Gdynia which are also big and crowded so you would end up farther north. And on the other hand, you can find accomodation in every single smallest village around the coast so don't hesitate to choose them :)

Poland, at all, is much cheaper than Western Europe, so I'm sure you can find decent room for about 20 EUR, maybe bit more in nicer hotels.

Not sure about Warsaw, it's obviously the most expensive in Poland and I guess finding anything cheap during the weekend might be hard, but don't take it for granted, I've never been looking for a room in Warsaw