Gdańsk- has anyone been?

[hairycabbage]

Dh and I have booked a long weekend in Gdańsk without really researching it first so I know very little about it!
Has anyone been and can recommend it? Or offer any advice/ top tips?
Any dos/ donts would be much appreciated

it's a beautiful city.
you can take boat tours out of the harbour.
the food is lovely (if a bit rich). nothing beats a huge slice of rye bread with smalez (sp?) and pickled cabbage salad.

if you can, also go to sabot - the most amazing beach. it's a bath city with grand hotels by the sea.

Boat tour sounds amazing, thanks.
Dh has some food allergies that make eating out tricky but not impossible but I like to try everything on offer

Go to hell

(Hel)
Get the ferry from gdynia
Its gorgeous.
Also sopot.

Enjoy, loved visiting

Thank you!
Furiously taking notes...

yes to hel!
there is a seal rescue station, very interesting to visit.

Ooh I'd love that!

Just seen this post so maybe you've been already ! Gorgeous 2
spired cathedral in oliwa, lovely organ recitals if you're into that kind of thing, there 's some kind of botantical gardens near by too and a local folklore museum. Sopot has a very long promenade and lovely beach with those
Wicker beach chair things that protect you from the wind, lots of nice shops and a huge old grand hotel built in the 1900's, also charming villas built
around the turn of the century. Gdansk is very much like amsterdam, lots of high gabeled 3 storey merchants buildings, windy little passages, hard to believe that 90% was destroyed and then rebuilt after the war.