Listen, if you’ve ever dreamt of lying on a sunbed in a beach club on a summer’s day, cocktail in hand, slow lounge music playing and everyone around you looking like they’ve stepped out of a summer advert, Plage 18 will give you that experience, but without the plane. There you are in Tihany, past the lavender fields and the little cobbled streets, and suddenly you arrive here and it’s like another world opens up.
The beach is white pebbles, cool umbrellas, a clean design but not the over-the-top fancy one. It’s stylish. The service is casual but attentive – if you look back twice at the waiter, he’s already there. The music is just present enough to make you feel alive, but you can also have a conversation. And when the sun starts to go down, that’s the point where suddenly everyone slows down. All the conversation stops for a moment, everyone stares at the horizon, and even the gin and tonic slips more. Somehow everything is calmer there, but still exciting. It’s like being relaxed and turned on at the same time. It’s hard to explain, you just have to experience it.
