aja Warnemuende in Warnemunde

I'm a seasoned traveller but I've never seen a hotel with an uglier interior design. I've seen hotels with outdated, even broken or dirty furniture, but never one where someone seemed to have put in some thought and failed miserably. I came here for a weekend get-away, and decided to treat myself to a weekend here. It was almost 500 Euros for two nights, one guest. I think it's fair that I had at least some expectations. The ones that were met: the hotel is super close to the beach and the breakfast buffet was good. Now to the rest.
When I walked in, I wasn't even sure whether I was in the right check-in area because the reception looked like an underground car-park. The cold, impersonal and simply weird design extended into the "spa" area (huge, loud, crowded, noisy like a public bath, NOT where you'd ever go in order to relax) and the hallways. I wasn't worried yet, after all, I was not going to spend any time there. Surely the room would be nice, or... even just... normal?
Turns out I should've been worried. The room looked like a drunk person decorated it using The Sims 1. The "couch" was a weird contraption of two massive brown foam boxes at a right angle with an oversized blue foam pool noodle on it. The walls were bright orange and on the desk, which consisted of random white plastic shapes stacked on top of each other, sat a huge bright blue lamp. To finish off the blue-orange hyper-modern fever dream, there were two curtains: a blue one at the window and an orange one that ran between the bed and the bathroom, offering a nice little hospital feeling. The orange one was necessary because the bathroom was completely see-through and on top of that, there was only one door for the toilet area and the shower, so you can close the shower OR the toilet, but never both at the same time. I have never ever experienced anything like this before and I hope it never happens again.
The staff at the reception was very reserved and impersonal. I'm a friendly person and usually get friendly reactions back, but not here.
To finish off, for 500 Euros I excpected more than a haunting interior design, a stressful spa experience and stand-offish staff. Walking back to the train station I admitted to myself that this was probably the biggest waste of money of my life.

Arrived at the hotel. Not even a welcome or happy to have you stay with us. They don’t explain anything to you at the reception. It is kind of up to yourself to figure out where everything is. Didn’t know where the spa was, where breakfast is served etc.
Got to the room. It was amazing. But there is no phone or binder that tells you anything. So you have to go downstairs to ask something. The bathroom door doesn’t close, so you’re basically doing your business infront of the other person. There are no facial tissues in the rooms! I went down to the reception and the lady said we need to buy them. Like what a joke. For the fact that I am paying a lot for the stay it is kind of ridiculous. You don’t even get slippers for the spa. The hottub was closed due to covid (which is ok).
The front desk staff made me feel stupid every time I would ask something. Definitely wouldn’t come back here.