Hadn't I arrived late after a long day's travel, I would have given some effort to pick something else in the upmarket/middle range.

The nice thing about this place is that it's a few hundred meters off the Nida shore promenade up on a hill strewn with some pine forest. Nidus has a nicely styled bar in light beige and brown colors and restaurant with a menu that seems a bit off the Lithuanian basics.

The room was not what I'd expect for that price. I paid 310 LTL (92 EUR) for a double room "with balcony". Even though in the middle of August hi-season and a four-day weekend + national holiday flush, that was overpriced. My balcony faced a rusty roof and in many other small details in cleanliness and equipment, this wasn't what I had paid for. The TV was old and the channel set was limited.

Also the surroundings mainly gave you a light feeling of being in a quickly-built villa suburb, with the kind of gasthaus accomodation you'd find at the 10 kms perimeter of most European big cities at a lesser price.

The atmosphere wasn't that international, and this outfit apparently attracted some silent local upstyle people with the parking lot slowly filling up with black BMW's and SUV's.

At this place, you would expect an Internet working space somewhere. Here you had to squeeze in behind the receptionist's small desk and pay 0,50 LTL/min for a terminal that the staff apparently normally worked on.

Nidus was another reminder that if you check out your accomodation options before you book in Lithuania, you'll get value for money. Or then not.