Radisson Blue Strand Hotel
As pr-manager Im always looking for news, but sometimes its great to re-visit old friends as well. Radisson Blue Strand Hotel, invited us to a hotel tour and lunch. Strand is one of the five star hotels in Stockholm. The hotel is situated superbly close to everything in Stockholm! The archipelago boats are virtually by the front doors, the best city shopping just a two minute walk, Old town just 5 minutes away and the island of Djurgården with many of the main attractions a nice walk along the Strandvägen boulevard.
The restaurant is really great with one of the best views in the city and they are also well known for their fantastic brunch.
Their Tower suite has its own terrace with a view of the Royal Palace and is really one of a kind.
Tower Suite with view of the Nordic Museum, Vasamuseum and Skansen, all on Djurgården
Picture this terrace with a view of the Royal Palace in the summer...
Tower Suite
Oaxen floating luxuryhotel docks in Stockholm
The well renowned archipelago restaurant Oaxen Krog is closed for the season, but their yachthotel "The Prince" is moving in to the city between December 26 and March 30 to the exclusive Strandvägen 13-15 quay. The boat, named Prince van Orangiën, was originally a dutch river boat.
The decoration is made with oak, ebony, Brazilian rosewood as well as Belgian slate and five different sorts of marble. On board there are six double cabins and one single cabin all of them with a touch of the 30's.
The Oaxen Krog was chosen as one of the "S Pellegrini World's 50 Best Restaurants", and has been recognised in swedish and international media.
Jumbo hostel joins STF
In 2010 the Jumbojet Hostel, Jumbo Hostel, at Stockholm-Arlanda Airport will join Svenska Turistföreningen and
Hostelling International, STF/HI.
In the end of November this year Jumbo Hostel was nominated in the category "Best Hotel Novelty of the Year" in the Hospitality Awards in Paris. No price was won but plenty of attention on the International Hospitality Arena
in Europe.
Budget hotels in Stockholm
Photo: Columbus Hotel
The "Allt om Stockholm" website lists their favorite low-budget hotels and hostels in Stockholm.
Hotels in the Norrmalm-Vasastan business district
Hotel Micro - Just next to the shoppingstreet Drottninggatan. Micro is Hotel Tegnérlundens cabin rooms. Rooms for up to 4 people - shower in the hall. From 495 SEK excl breakfast.
Colonial Hotel - hotel on Västmannagatan in the Vasastan district. breakfast is always included in the price. Single/double room 590/690 SEK (shower in the hall). Room with bathroom costs 795/995 SEK.
Queens hotel - Hotel located on the shoppingstreet Drottninggatan. Rooms are all individually decorated and breakfast included. Price approx. 1000 SEK/room.
Södermalm hotels
Columbus Hotel - Stay in the relaxed and trendy SoFo-area with pubs, restaurants, independent shops and nightlife around the corner. Single room from 995 including breakfast at this 3-star privately owned hotel.
Log Inn - Stay on a boat with a view of the City Hall on the Södermalm side. The cabins are small but cosy. Prices from 595 SEK inkl breakfast.
Tre små rum - Smallest hotel in the city with 7 rooms on the trendy Södermalm-island. Bathroom in the hallway. Rooms from 795 SEK.
Hotel Zinkensdamm - Family hotel on Södermalm next to the Tantolunden park. Hostel, bar and café in the building. Rooms cost ca 1000 SEK.
Stockholm - most priceworthy city in Scandinavia
According to the hotels.com site, you can get the lowest hotel prices in Stockholm compared to the other capital cities in the Nordic countries. A night in Stockholm costs 957 kronor compared to Helsinki: 1032 kronor, Copenhagen 1097 kronor and Oslo 1202 kronor.
Stay by Royal Invitation
The Swedish Crown Princess Victoria is getting married during 2010. Why not make your visit a royal one by staying at the many castles and palaces in the Stockholm area. Here we have listed the ones with a personal interior and cool design to it.
Rosersbergs Palace is actually owned by the Royal Family and is the only Royal Palace in Sweden which offers accommodation.
A colourful and pleasant environment and design is also available at these Castles: Häringe Slott, Ulfsunda Slott and Görvälns Slott, where the rooms are all decorated individually and set in a beautiful surroundings outside the city area. For golf lovers we recommend the Golf course Bro Hof Castle and a stay at a manor house nearby. Bro Hof is one of the best golf courses in Sweden and offers a top class experience.
Hotel opens in Hammarby Sjöstad
Image: Hammarby sjöstad area
Hammarby Sjöstad is an exciting new district in Stockholm where the City has imposed tough environmental requirements on buildings, technical installations and the traffic environment, from day one. The new district will now get its first hotel - Hammarby Sjöstad Park Inn hotel with some 177 rooms. RBG Bar & Grill will tempt guests with gourmet burgers, light bites, a choice of soups, local dishes, salads and signature dishes from the grill.
The Hammarby Sjöstad area is a popular district and has already several restaurants, nice strolling areas by the lake etcetera.
The New Park Inn hotel
Scandic builds a flagship hotel in Stockholm
Scandic Hotels is a leading sustainable hotel chain. Standing at the junction of Kungsgatan and Vasagatan, Scandic Stockholm will offer over 400 rooms, a gym, conference facilities, a restaurant and a bar. Construction has already started and the hotel is set to open in autumn 2011. The area around Vasagatan is one of Stockholm's most expansive and exciting, with its central location and numerous ongoing development projects. And this is where the city's big new hotel – Scandic Stockholm – will be built. The flagship hotel will have over 400 rooms, meeting facilities, a restaurant and a large hotel bar/lounge that is open to everyone. Read more about it in the pressrelease.
Shop til you drop - hotel in the store
Bildcollage: Room & Serve
Rica Hotel on Kungsgatan is nothing less but a departmentstore-hotel! The hotel has a direct entrance to the trendy lifestyle department store PUB, which makes it a perfect place to stay for trendy concious shoppers. The hotel itself now has an interior to match, and with a nice view over the market at Hötorget square, Hötorgshallen food hall and the blue Concert Hall (Konserthuset) in Stockholm.
1 000 new hotel rooms in Stockholm in 2010
In 2010 Stockholm will get over 1,000 new hotel rooms, new conference facilities and larger exhibition grounds.
- On October 26, Hotel Skeppsholmen opens on the verdant island of Skeppsholmen, next to the Museum of Modern Art. While other hotels look abroad for inspiration, this new hotel has chosen to use all the best that Sweden has to offer. The interior of the yellow house dating from the 1700s was decorated by the Swedish design trio Claesson-Koivisto-Rune. www.hotelskeppsholmen.com/
- Stockholm International Fairs is expanding its exhibition grounds by 10,000 m2, to 70,000 m2. The new exhibition space will open in December 2009. www.stofair.se
- The international Marriott chain plans to open a four-star Courtyard Hotel at Kungsholmen in Stockholm in February 2010. The hotel, which looks out over Rålambshov Park and Riddarfjärden, will offer 270 large rooms and conference facilities for meetings of up to 300 people. www.stockholmcourtyard.se
- Elite Hotel Marina Tower is situated in Saltsjöqvarn, an old mill from which there is a fantastic view of the harbor and the inner city. The hotel will have 187 rooms and plans to open in February 2010. www.elite.se/marinatower
- In 2010 Stockholm will get a new hotel and conference center in the downtown area. The Stockholm Waterfront Congress Center, with capacity for 3,000 guests, and a Radisson Blue hotel, with 418 rooms, will be directly linked by train to the central station and will be located next to City Hall. http://www.waterfrontbuilding.se/hotell_e.html
- In the summer of 2010, Stockholm will get a new five-star hotel. Nobis Hotel will open on Norrmalmstorg, with 200 rooms. www.nobis.se
- Recently opened are the charming Lydmar Hotel, with its view of the Royal Palace, and Story Hotel. Story is centrally located in Stockholm’s fashionable neighborhood, but offers lower prices thanks to a new hotel concept. www.lydmar.com, www.storyhotels.com
Three Design Hotels
In October Stockholm will have three official Design Hotels in Stockholm. Each of them have chosen a main caracteristic for Stockholm - each hotel being unique and at the same time different.
1) Clean crisp water
Stockholm is a city built on 14 islands and has an archipelago of 30 000 islands
Hotel J is a design hotel with a fresch navy style, by the waterfront
2) Light and darkness
Stockholm has light summers and dark winters 
Nordic Light Hotel is its name a hotel focusing on light.
Urban and Nature
Stockholm has wild nature in the middle of the urban city 
Hotel Skeppsholmen is contemporary and swedish, with locally produced food.
Preview at the new Marriott
The international Marriott chain will open a Courtyard hotel in Stockholm, on Kungsholmen five minutes walk from the City Hall. Me and my colleagues went for a preview. Lots of day light, spacious rooms and a well planned logistics were some of my first impressions. Im looking forward to the opening in the end of February 2010!
It will be a four star hotel for both business and leisure travellers with easy access by car or metro. All 229 deluxe rooms, 40 premium rooms and the topfloor suite will be facing either the Rålambshov park and lake Mälaren or the new Lindhagens park. The rooms are spacious (min 26 sqm) and half of them will be connecting rooms, which makes them flexible.
The hotel will also feature a family restaurant "Björk bar & Grill" facing Rålambshovsparken with room for 160 guests a bar plus meeting facilities. The meeting area will be located in an open area on the first floor. The Grand Ballroom for 200-370 people offers day light, and so does the 12 meeting rooms etcetera.
The hotel is situated at the end of Norr Mälarstrand with a great view of Lake Mälaren.
New Elite hotel by the waterfront
Stockholm will get a new unique water front hotel in February 2010. The former industrial estate Saltsjöqvarn (mill) will turn into a top class hotel named Elite Hotel Marina Tower. 
The hotel will have 187 rooms and suites and meeting capacity for up to 450 persons plus a wellness centre, gym, restaurant and bar.
It takes some 20-25 minutes to reach the hotel from the city by boat or five minutes with a bus from Slussen
Other waterfront hotels in Stockholm
Radisson Strand Hotel
Hotel Diplomat
Hotel Esplanade
Grand Hotel
Hotel Lydmar
Hotel J
Skeppsholmen goes for Swedish
The new Hotel Skeppsholmen goes for the modern swedish feeling, says the Managing Director Joachim Olausson in business paper Dagens Industri. When other hotels look for inspiration abroad, Joachim and his team finds their inspiration in Sweden. The hotel is situated in former military buildins from the 1700s but the interior will show the very best of contemporary Swedish cuisine, art, design, fashion and music. The hotel will also be eco-labelled. Casual luxury, genuine feeling and charming, warm and caring personality will be the trademarks for the new hotel, signed by renowned Claesson Koivisto Rune
The new hotel opens October 26 in 2009
Its hard to believe that this is five-ten minutes walk from the city centre
Nice details...
All photos by Max Plunger
Queens hotel new member in Your Hotels
Queens Hotel is situated on Drottninggatan in Stockholm and has 53 newly refurbished rooms. The Your Hotel has 8 member hotels in the Stockholm area.
Millennium experience at Sheraton Stockholm
If you read the Millennium triology or maybee seen the movie "The Girl with the Dragon Tatoo" lately and is curious about Stockholm, then you just have to stay at Sheraton Stockholm. They are now offering a Millennium package, which includes:
An attractive Millennium Trilogy Guide Book with focus on Södermalm area which helps take you on a themed tour of Stockholm and includes a map with all addresses.
A free coffee break at Mellqvist Kaffebar. Often visited by the characters of the books
Accommodation for two at Sheraton Stockholm Hotel, Harriet Vanger and Mikael Blomkvists preferred hide-away.
Full Buffet Breakfast to kick-start your adventure.
Package rates from only SEK 1590, valid through August 31st, 2009.
Read more about Millennium in Stockholm here
Choice hotels buys Nordic hotels
The norwegien Choice chain have bought the Nordic Hotels chain including Nordic Sea Hotel, Nordic Light Hotel and Nordic Blue hotel in Stockholm.
Berns Hotel expands
Berns Hotel will open additional 17 rooms in the end of May 2009. Berns is an entertainment mecha in a classic building from 1860s. The hotel is one of Stockholms well known boutique Hotels and the cellar hosts a trendy night club.
The new rooms will be contemporary with a homey feel to it. Berns Hotel will have 82 rooms in total.
Rica Hotel focus on sleep
A "great stay away experience" is something that is important for the Rica Hotel Group. The Rica Hotel group have, therefore, started a collaboration with a sleep-scientist. The collaboration have resulted in a guide to better sleep, illustrated by the Hollywooddirector and photographer David Ichioka who have been specialised in photographing sleeping people. According to the booklet saying goodnight to your day, breathe softly, use the bed only for resting and sleeping and dim the lights are great habits to prepare you for a good nights sleep. The booklet also lists habits for while you are sleeping and when you wake up and som facts about sleep and sleeping. Great fun and deadly serious at the same time.
There are four Rica Hotels in Stockholm
Cool atmosphere at Story Hotel
Visited the new Story Hotel, and that was a pleasant surprize. Central location, nice rooms and affordable prices is the concept behind the new Story Hotel, situated on Riddargatan 6 in Stockholms fashionable are Östermalm. To keep the prices low they only have an online booking and check in service. You pay with your credit card and get a five digit code to use upon arrival at the hotel. Comfortable beds, nice rooms and breakfast is included in the price. The hotel also offer a restaurant and a bar.
