Numa Topp Oslo

Spacious, well-designed apartments with full kitchens in Oslo's most upscale residential neighborhood.

This is not a hotel. It's an aparthotel with no reception, no lobby, no human being to greet you. Check-in happens via a PIN code on your phone. Extra towels come via WhatsApp. If that sounds fine, read on. If it sounds stressful, stop here.

The apartments sit inside a 19th-century building in Frogner, one of Oslo's quietest and wealthiest neighborhoods. High ceilings, herringbone floors, modern Scandi furniture. The rooms are genuinely spacious by Oslo standards, with full kitchenettes that include a dishwasher, stovetop, oven, and a Nespresso machine. This is where the real value lies. Oslo restaurants will drain your wallet in two days. 

Rooms facing the inner courtyard catch noise from a restaurant below, especially on weekend evenings. Ask for a street-facing room on Skovveien if sleep matters to you. The building also lacks air conditioning, which is a non-issue for ten months of the year but miserable during a July heatwave.

Skip the hotel breakfast add-on. Walk three minutes to Åpent Bakeri Inkognito instead. The Royal Palace park is a five-minute stroll. Karl Johans gate is ten to fifteen minutes on foot. You're central without feeling like you're in the tourist zone.


Star rating
3

Hotel category
Apartment

Crowd Pleaser
Design Forward

Request a street-facing room on Skovveien. Courtyard-facing rooms get restaurant noise on weekend evenings.


Frogner is embassy-heavy, residential, and quiet. Safe streets, good bakeries, zero grit. A 10-15 minute walk gets you to the city center.

What to do nearby


2.3km Insider pick
Norway’s national opera and ballet in a purpose-built, walkable waterfront building that doubles as a public plaza.
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See three internationally important Viking Age burial ships, including the exceptionally complete Oseberg, and the associated grave goods that provide direct evidence of 9th-century shipbuilding and elite burial practice.
2.4km
Experience Oslo's original sauna village with architecturally unique wood-fired saunas including the city's only wheelchair-accessible floating sauna, and guided Aufguss rituals that commercial sauna boats don't offer.

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