sturgeon2k
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The hotel is very well located with great access to Stockholm and a metro station very near. The staff were so helpful and friendly at all times. Contacting them before and during the stay was so easy by email and they responded fast, I couldn’t ask for more. The building and interior are stylish. If arriving late at night it’s quite hard to get in as the door is locked and the staff don’t man reception all night. You can easily get in once you have a keycard but this isn’t possible of course when checking in. ||There was a very small gym, I didn’t use it but tried the sauna once but had to leave as it had a sign saying it takes 45 mins to warm up. ||Breakfast was good, a nice selection including various local delicacies and the food was good quality. Everything including hot drinks are self service. It can get busy on weekends but no surprise there. ||The room we had was one level above the basic room and was on the top floor, not facing the street after I read this would be noisy. It faced an office/apartment block. It was fairly well sized but there were some odd and inconsiderate design choices which have dragged my review score down. ||The bathroom was quite spacious but the shower was very weak, in an enclosure with gaps at the bottom. The first night this meant the water flooded the entire bathroom as the shower didn’t stay straight. The toiletries were all Byredo and very nice. The bathroom had a transparent big glass window in the door, with a transparent net curtain covering it. Why on earth does a hotel designer think this is a good idea? To walk past and see someone on the toilet? The same can be said for the exterior windows with very transparent thin curtains meaning they’d get a nice view when it was dark and the lights were on. ||The bed was comfortable, but it was effectively two single mattresses pushed together, each with their own duvet as is typical in Scandinavian countries (and a good idea!). Nice soft pillows which didn’t leave your neck at an awkward angle. Absolutely no other amenities in the room-no slippers, no water, no tea or coffee machine. Iron on request but a very lacklustre steam-less iron (essentially a hot plate) which does almost nothing. I think this was mostly down to ‘sustainability’ but somewhere to refill water in the hotel lobby or on each floor would have ticked this box. ||The curtains didn’t block much light and with the big window in the bathroom door, light streamed in from there too into the room, even though there’s a curtain you can pull across (by the way, this curtain isn’t practical to give you privacy in the bathroom /on the toilet as you can’t open the door with it drawn)||Storage was ok, some drawers provided and open hanging space near the door for a few items. A mini fridge built into one of the cupboards which is handy, as well as a safe. ||Overall I’d recommend it. Just pick your room carefully and be prepared for a lack of bathroom privacy if sharing a room, very little protection from light and some weird design choices.