The hotel is quite good, large, and centrally placed, very close to the main train station. It’s easy to walk around town from here.
However, there are a number of minor aspects with our stay here, entailing I will not stay there again, next year when I plan to return to Gothenburg.
The Good:
Staff is very friendly, as most Swedes tend to be. It is always nice, and you feel welcome. The hotel is very central. The rooms at the lower tier are not very large, but not overly small either. It would have been a bit too small for my wife, who likes to do yoga in the morning in the hotel room, but okay for a short visit, like we had (two nights). The room, albeit not large, had a very large and good quality TV, that even had the Norwegian main channel. They had BBC World News, but no CNN. One of the two is good enough, though.
The bed was good, slept very well. The duvets were sufficiently thick, and also quite nice.
The window could be opened, which I prefer to an air conditioned room.
The not so great:
We arrived around noon, and were informed that check-in time was 4PM (!), but we could either store our baggage at the hotel until then, or pay an early check-in fee for 200 swedish kroner, around 20 US dollars. We chose the latter, since roaming around for 4 hours weren’t an option. It’s not that steep a price, but hello - the room was ready, so why do we have to pay extra? Policy, I guess, and I can live with that, but it’s not exactly a plus in my book. Also, we chec
