Overview
- St. Peter-Ording placed 18 of roughly 1,100 chairs on a platform, offers free use through March, and plans full beach placement by Easter with rentals starting in April.
- Zingst set out the first 30 chairs ahead of its season opener, keeps them free until late April, and targets full deployment of about 535 units between after Easter and May 1.
- On Sylt, initial chairs are on the Westerland promenade with the first beach placements expected at Easter and a total of about 8,000 planned across the island.
- Further rollouts are scheduled across the coasts, including Norddeich from next week, Büsum starting March 27 and April 13, Norderney from April 1, and Wangerland in early to mid-April, while Warnemünde continues beach prep.
- Operators report rising demand, with Strandbutler.de nearing five-figure bookings for 2026 and the Schleswig-Holstein association projecting roughly 10,000 chairs across listed Baltic resorts.