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I stayed here on business and booked this hotel based on a previous stay where the bed was acceptable. In this case the bed was terrible. The room had 2 1 metre singles. Both were in really poor condition and terribly uncomfortable. I took the mattress topper from the unused bed and put it on the one I selected to double the thickness. With this the bed was just about usable. This was ¿¿160 a night too!Also be careful about staying in hot weather, if you have a street facing room it is very noisy outside - all night even mid week, so opening the window to get some air could be an issue.Otherwise the staff are friendly and the breakfast is acceptable, just try the bed before you unpack.

This hotel is not worth the money or the disappointment. The loud music from the club downstairs and screaming people outside will keep you awake until 0330, housekeeping is mediocre to average, the beds are simply boxsprings (no mattress) with thin foam toppers that will leave you with a bad back, and the included buffet breakfast is awful. The restaurant was abandoned by staff and everything was run out an hour after the breakfast started. Cold tinned cocktail sausages of a doubtful nature, no eggs, and everything else including coffee run out, and not a single staff member to be seen. There is no sign of any kind of staffing or customer service attitude in this place. And poor security. They open the lobby security door in the daytime and allow anyone at all to enter the building and go upstairs to the rooms, the reception desk is often abandoned because the person there needs to leave to do everything that a complement of house staff should be doing (such as fetching toilet roll because they don't bother to leave you some in your room). No landlines, no clocks, door ringer disconnected, and 2 bar wifi.Surprising that this place survives, but obviously the great location is what keeps them going.

Same as one of the reviewers before, we would not have chosen this hotel should we not book through Norway in a Nutshell. The location of this hotel is good, around 5-10 mins walk from the airport bus station and 10-15mins walk to the train station. There is a disco downstairs, people were queuing to enter at 11pm. We stayed on the top floor, i.e. 8/F, but it is in fact the roof-top. A series of rooms were built on the roof-top as if temporary accommodations. We didn't expect paying NOK1100 for this temporary setting. The room is spacious though, but it was very deem. The light in the bedroom blink at mid-night. We were scared!The kitchen was very interestingly equipped. The electrical kettle was leaking seriously. We cannot boil water by this. We looked for a saucepan to boil water but there was no lid available.Since there was a disco downstairs, it is very noisy throughout the whole night considering that we were already on the top floor.I would not recommend this hotel. If you can accept this quality, I would suggest you to go for a hostel instead.

Excellent location in the heart of Bergen and walking distance to all major attractions including the wharf area, restaurants (can be sooo expensive) and art galleries(get a combined three-venue ticket from tourist information .. near wharf..as well as a travel card much cheaper) and the main shopping stores as well as a number of smallish supermarkets. The hotel has a major drawback, it is above a disco and Bergonians love to party, however the music does stop at 3.00am (thankfully, it is only fridays and saturdays) and though the noise is discernible in the rooms it is not too bad as there is good insulation, but then the guests coming in make a racket as does the small crowd hanging about the taxi rank over the road (square). The rooms are spacious and warm, and reasonably furnished, there is also a fully equipped kitchen, the beds are comfortable and set back from the front of the building, while the free-to-air TV is as bad as elsewhere and there is also a guest laundry. To sum up, there are better places to stay and they would probably be a lot more expensive and no doubt quieter; we were there for two weeks and I suggest that would be the maximum, comfortable stay, although there are long-term guests who spend up to four months! Eating out can get very costly, so an extended stay or even three days, makes an apartment more cost effective. For example, a 330m beer with a 10 per cent alcohol content in Dickens Bar cost nearly $A20, an uncooked 300-350gm piece of rump in a supermarket about $A25, a glass of wine can cost $A30. Norway is expensive so it pays to plan your trip and do a bit of research i.e. pack the right clothes, there are great places to see in and around Bergen as it is very scenic, with great walks; take the funicular cable car to the summit of Floyen Mountain and revel in the numerous, uncrowded wooded trails and breathe in that crisp, mountain air.

We might not have chosen this hotel if we hadn¿¿¿t booked it through a tour with Fjord Tours, but considering how everything in Norway is so expensive, I guess it was okay for the price. The location close to the city centre and train station is very convenient, the room was spacious, and it was good to have a kitchen to make our own meals. However, the rooms aren¿¿¿t especially new or luxurious. For our purposes, it was fine (during the same trip, we¿¿¿ve also stayed in hostels), but someone who likes brand-new, super-comfortable hotels might find it so-so. I was a bit surprised that there was no wireless Internet, but you only need to ask the reception desk for a cable to have access to free good old-fashioned wired Internet. Unlike some other reviewers here, we found the reception staff helpful and nice.