Guest User
January 31, 2023
The hotel is excellently located, a few steps from the Hurtigruten landing pier in the harbour area, It is 5 minutes by foot from the central square with many restaurants - this compensates for the lack of a hotel restaurant. The surroundings are a bit shabby, and there are no attempts to improve the impression by decorating the hotel breakfast terrace e.g. with flowers. I very much like the Scandic policy of providing free bikes to the guests, but in this hotel there had seemingly been no maintenance of the bikes. The gear was broken and the brakes did not work well, making the bikes dangerous. Even for Norwegian standards the hotel is a bit pricey in relation to quality: I paid 185 euros (1850 NOK) for a basic room with sea view. The bathroom was newly renovated, clean and shiny. Breakfast was awesome and very plentiful, like it tends to be in Scandic hotels. However, the extra effort to provide local products had not been taken by this hotel, which is a pity. The overall impression of the hotel was a lack of management: everything routinely required was fulfilled, but it seemed like nobody cared to go that extra step to take care of the property and the amenities provided.. You can probably find better options in Svolvaer, even if the location ot this hotel is hard to beat.