Trondheim Hostels

A proper 5 star hotel in Trondheim! Even though we are from Trondheim ourselves we decided to spoil ourselves in a luxury stay at Britannia. We booked a Deluxe Room which is more than large enough for two people. The room included a seating area and table, as well as a desk. Where other hotels tend to save money on building their bathrooms ”institution style”, that is definitely not the case here. It was the nicest and most comfortable hotel bathroom I have ever seen. A couple of observations you might find useful: - Room service is open throughout the night, which means you can always get food without having to leave the hotel at any time of the day (and night). Perfect if you arrive late. - Room service is blistering fast. Food arrived within 20 minutes from us ordering and the food was excellent. - Housekeeping does a extra round in the early evening to prepare the room for the night. We were so pleasantly surprised about this when we came back to the room and found it all tidy. New towels, bed made up ready for sleep, new water bottles and of course chocolate. They had even put a dust cap on my half full glass of juice. A very nice touch! - Entrance to the spa is included. We went there on a Saturday afternoon and it was too crowded for our taste. Try visiting during off-hours. A number of different treatments can be booked too, but we did not try those. - Breakfast is served in the iconic Palmehaven where you can order from the menu, eat from the buffet or do like us: both. All is included in the room fee. You can order breakfast to your room but I would strongly advise to at least go to Palmehaven once. Our stay was overwhelmingly positive, but there are two negatives I want to remark at the end of this review. - We had arranged a few items (strawberrys, sweets and drinks) to be ready at our room on arrival. These were not there when we arrived, so we had to call the receiption to sort it out. They were quick to bring it to our room - but as I had ordered it as a surprise it wasn't quite the same. - The waiter at one of the hotel restaurants, Jonathan Grill, didn't know the difference between tenderloin and entrecote. When he brought the meat to our table he kept insisting that the entrecote was the tenderloin, while it obviously wasn't. In the end we just ”agreed with him” and swapped plates between us so that I got the entrecote I had ordered and my girlfriend got her tenderloin. I would expect that any waiter at a steakhouse, at least at a 5 star hotel, to be able to spot the difference.

The Radisson Blu hotel is still trustworthy, the hotel is decorated in a Nordic style, simple and clean, but the material quality is very good. The hotel is 35 minutes from the airport bus. The airport bus has a stop at the hotel entrance, half an hour during peak hours. Walk about 10 minutes from the city center. Trondheim is the oldest city in Norway and the birthplace of Vikings.

We were given a disgusting room that had not been washed by by the staff. (Depicted in the photos) Also in mind the current covid-19 situation, these kind of sloppiness isn’t safe for costumers when you find something that can resemblance human liquids on the wall. When we informed the staff about the issues, who had already been snide from the start, we were met with little willingness to cooperate. After not wanting to join us upstairs or see the photos we had taken, the owner immediately comes and shouts at us. He says that we’re not welcome to stay there if we have any comments about how they run their business, so we can leave immediately and find a new hotel in town. Plowing our luggage trough the snow with no help of fetching a cab for us, we eventually find a nice hotell in the same price range with a much more nice approach to our situation. We spend a lot of time of our stay on this, something that should not have been necessary. Steer clear of this hotel, unprofessional and crummy from beginning to end. Don't think these will be running any new hotels in the near future.

We stayed here for 4 nights, while at a conference in the hotel. Overall, it was a lovely experience. The rooms were clean and functional, yet smaller than I had anticipated. Our room had a double bed, one sitting chair, and a desk. Each side of the bed had a nightstand. The room also has a rack to hang clothes and some awkward shelves that open in a way that make them unusable. There was very little space around the furniture though. It was quite cluttered with our luggage. The location is so/so. It's along the water/harbor, which is nice, but it's a 10+ minute walk into the city center. It's not a flat walk either. You have to cross over the train tracks via a walking bridge. It was doable, but kinda annoying. The best part of our stay were the lovely and accommodating staff and the restaurant. The breakfast, as others have pointed out, is pretty darn amazing. While our other hotels in Norway had similar options, this hotel really took it to the next level. There was nothing overlooked. If you could imagine it, they had it. It really was quite remarkable. The fried eggs topped with crispy bacon were so very amazing. The eggs tasted SO much better than U.S. eggs. They also have so many more options than traditional fare of eggs, meat, and potatoes--they have a yogurt bar, meat and cheese bar, pancakes with toppings bar, veggies and dip bar, juice bar. Really, you name it. The catered event lunches were nice, too, and loaded with tasty desserts. One drawback was that hotel lacks self-service laundry options. We used a drop-off service nearby that was SO expensive. We couldn't find anywhere to do it ourselves. Overall, this hotel is a solid choice for Trondheim. The breakfast alone is worth coming here!

Perfect place to be when you want that hotel feeling for your whole family in your home town. And what a breakfast - our two year old loved it and so did we! Since it’s so expensive, it’s nice to be able to buy hotel breakfast and skip the sleepover. so that is what I will do next time (since it’s in my home town ;)

The hotel does not have a reception and the check-in process is done with a key code being texted just prior to check-in. We advised at time of booking that we would not have roaming and asked for the code to be emailed but that did not work. So we had to phone on arrival and give new details and then wait for codes to be sent. Very frustrating and we were not the only ones. There was another couple having the same experience so it is clearly not an isolated incident. The room itself is modern, clean and comfortable however we were there in summer and it was quite warm. On various booking sites the hotel is advertised as providing ”air conditioned accommodation”. It does not. There is a ventilation system in place which I gather does something in winter but it is not an air conditioning. We had a street facing room and so could not open the window for ventilation because of street noise so it was a stuffy and uncomfortable night. The ultimate question for me with this hotel is would I stay here again and the answer to that is an unequivocal no. Call me old fashioned but this being my first experience with a ”reception free” hotel I would not do it again. No one to talk to on arrival, no one to give directions, no one to ask where to catch the bus, no area to sit and wait, no place to leave suitcases after check out. Not for me.

The great and nice hotel

Abbiamo prenotato la sera stessa una camera per due io e mio fratello. Siamo arrivati in albergo verso Mezzanotte stanchi morti e ci hanno consegnato le chiavi della nostra camera dove avremmo trascorso solo quella notte. Ci è stata consegnata una camera dalle dimensioni minuscole. Non vi era nemmeno lo spazio per la valigia. L’arredo era finto casereccio, palesemente fuori dai gusti odierni, ma questo aspetto non era neanche poi così grave, sebbene io ritenga che l’arredamento di una camera d’albergo sia indicativo di quanta cura viene posta affinché i clienti trascorrano una permanenza piacevole, sopratutto per un hotel 4 stelle. Il motivo della mia delusione è stato piuttosto la pulizia e la manutenzione: Pavimento sporco sia in bagno che in anticamera (sottolineo che siamo in tempi di Covid e io mi aspetto il massimo della pulizia). La tenda della finestra sulla camera si incastrava e faceva fatica a chiudersi completamente. La mia bajour non funzionava. Il bagno un disastro: piano del lavabo in plastica ingiallita con patacche in giro non lavabili. Carta igienica non ripiegata (si sa che la piega all’inizio della carta igienica è un buon segno di qualcuno che prima che tu arrivassi ha pulito e sanificato il bagno). La doccia, risalente almeno agli anni ‘80 con le pareti satinate e il telaio in plastica ingiallito. Macchie agli angoli delle pareti della doccia e in tutto ciò, la totale mancanza della ventola all’interno del bagno, dunque un’umidità indecente. Tornando alla hall principale, abbiamo consumato una colazione piuttosto scarsa di scelta, sopratutto per quanto riguarda i dolci. Come sempre all’estero la colazione salata non manca, tuttavia per coloro che gradiscono mangiare dolce, ahimè erano destinati a dei cereali insipidi che dal sapore probabilmente avevano preso un po’ troppa aria. C’è da dire che guardando la piantina del quadro d’emergenza la nostra camera era tra le più piccoline del piano. Inoltre quella mattina erano presenti lavoratori che ristrutturavano i bagni delle camere affianco alla nostra. Pertanto potrebbe essere che siamo semplicemente stati sfortunati a trovare l’unica camera disponibile dell’hotel, sebbene a colazione non abbiamo visto così tanta clientela. Ad ogni modo questa è la mia recensione al servizio che ho ricevuto e ritengo sia giusto condividerla. Una catena d’albergo così famosa come la Best Western dovrebbe vergognarsi ad avere strutture così vecchie e trascurate.

I liked it very much. It's all on foot. The view from the room is just super.