There are a couple of plus points about the hotel: central location, kitchen facilities, and friendly staff.

However, the hotel requires major modernisation. Everything from the bathrooms to the curtains are old and grubby. I stayed in a suite, which was very spacious, but very out-dated. The lobby area seems more like a train station waiting room. I had no awful experience byt expect a lot more at the price.

The only great thing about this hotel i s the location. Otherwise what you get is not worth the price. The bathroom was old and it took forever to get hot water in the shower. Also the drain did not work sufficiently so whenever I took a shower I was up to my ancles in dirty water. The double bed was too small to be classified as double and the upper madrass kept slipping of the bed while we were sleeping. During the weekend there were a lot of noise outside which kept me awake.
The breakfast might have been good, if it weren't for the awfull fish smell that surrounded the room.
My conclusion is that this hotel needs a serious make over to be able to correspond with the price level.

My husband and I stayed 3 nights at this hotel in August 2007. The hotel is very basic, but rooms are clean. Breakfast was very nice. The rooms also have small kitchenettes (ours was in a small separtate room, and I liked that). OK to be able to make your own meals if you want to. Our room also had a very small balcony (shared with another room), but I do not think the cleaning lady had been there this summer. It was dirty with empty bottles and rags laying on it!

The position in Oslo is great - close to the royal park and the royal castle, and close to both the Karl Johan street and the shopping area in Bogstadveien. We will probably stay here another time - not because the hotel is something special, but because of the position of the hotel and the small kitchenettes!

We stayed in this hotel on New Year's Eve and were not overly impressed.

We chose the hotel as we had difficulty finding accommodation on New Year's Eve as a lot of the hotels were closed for the holidays.

For the price we paid, we expected a bit more. First of all, we booked a double room but really it was a large single size bed with one set of pillows. When we asked to have a room with a larger bed, we were shown a really tired, and smelly room...so we took the first one.

The decoration of the room was nice enough but as we were on the lower ground floor, to the back of the hotel, we had a disappointing view of empty offices (luckily we had curtains to block them out!) - a pity as the location is right opposite Slottsparken.

At the time, the reception said they were keeping only 2 floors open, but it seemed pretty strange to us to keep the least attractive rooms open which had no view.

The breakfast was a typical buffet style and had a fairly decent selection of food.

In terms of location, it was pretty central, near the main Karl Johans gate, opposite the Slottsparken and near Bogstaveien - a nice shopping street with lots of shops, cafes and restaurants.

Overall, we wouldn't recommend this hotel however if we had a larger room on a higher floor overlooking the park, then our experience probably would have been different.