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Had a lovely stay. Comfortable room and quiet and wonderful breakfast

It was a lovely place, the rooms were clean and comfortable and the food at the restaurant was really good. I would have stayed longer if I had more time this trip.

If you are drawn to this hotel by seeing it on People of the North, then prepare to be disappointed. The location is lovely and the rooms are large, and of course the view of the fjord is stellar, but there are several areas for disappointment. The dinner menu, for example, remains the same night after night. There is a "white fish of the week," rather than a selection of fish for main courses. There is lamb; it is fine. But if you are at the hotel for several nights, the menu is dull and you might want to eat elsewhere (but "elsewhere" place is not open on Sundays or Mondays, so plan carefully). Breakfast if ample, with many choices, but it can also get repetitive after a few days. Surprisingly, there are no bathrobes nor irons in the rooms. Water pressure is good and the bedding is comfortable. I do not understand why the hotel does not receive more guests from European countries that are now miserably hot in summer; the French, English, and Spanish should be flocking to Norway. Instead, the hotel receives as many as six bus-loads of Asian guests daily, and they stay only one night, and they are loud. I do not understand why the hotel chooses to operate in this manner, but maybe it cannot stay in business otherwise, given the aforementioned lack of vacationers from Europe (and the US). Despite the lovely view and close proximity to the cider route, I did not feel that I was in Norway; I felt that I was visiting Shanghai. There is a nearby public ferry to another fjord, too.