Three minutes from Bergen Train Station. For anyone doing Norway in a Nutshell or catching the Bergen Line to Oslo, this is the most practical address in the city. For everyone else, it´s not the most central hotel in Bergen, 15 minutes walk to Bryggen.
The design is raw concrete, blonde wood, and grey everything. Claesson Koivisto Rune did the interiors, and it shows a commitment to Scandinavian minimalism that borders on austere. If you want warm, cozy, traditional Norwegian atmosphere, look elsewhere. This is closer to a well-designed lab than a mountain lodge.
The rooms are small. Storage is a few pegs and an open rack instead of a proper closet. The beds, though, are genuinely comfortable.
Book a room facing the courtyard on an upper floor. Station-side rooms get train noise and platform announcements, especially with the window cracked. And you'll want that window cracked, because there's no air conditioning. The digital panel on the wall looks like a thermostat. It's a thermometer. You can't adjust the temperature.
The on-site restaurant, Matbar, has a long communal table and organic gastropub food. Good option for solo travelers. The fitness center is better equipped than most Bergen hotels, with actual weights, not just two treadmills and a dusty elliptical. Free laundry access is available at the sister hotel next door, Grand Hotel Terminus. Ask the front desk for the code.
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