ba_cityflyer

I'm looking at hotels in Stockholm for an upcoming weekend break, and was saddened to see this list of ICHG hotels in the country http://www.ichotelsgroup.com/h/d/6c/...rectory/sweden

Does anyone want to guess why ICHG have no properties in the country?

Any, perhaps more importantly, anyone care to recommend a good hotel in central Stockholm? The Hilton is looking the most likely candidate so far; I don't want to spend much more than ~1200SEK.

layz

They did have The Grand Hotel Stockholm as an IC until recently, but they decided to cancel their IHG affiliation for 2011.

Was a bargain too at 30k/night.

chistery

I'd recommend Hotel Rival but it may be above your budget.

sdsearch

Well, be glad there's a Hilton in Sweden, because there's none in Norway!

In general, the "big" chains have sparse representation north of the Baltic. Choice (through a separate Choice Scandinavia) has a good presence there, but if you belong to Choice Priveleges in (the rest of) Europe or elsewhere in the world, you can redeem but not earn at Choice Scandinavia properties.

Radissson also has a high presernce in Scandinavia, where it tends to be labeled "SAS Radisson" (ie, a tie-in to the Scandinavian airline).

But Hilton, IHG, Marriott, Hyatt, Starwood... don't count on them, if they have anything, it's just this country but not that one, and only likely a property or two at best in only the capital city.

There's also a bunch of Scandinavia-specific hotel chains, like Scandic (which used to be part of Hilton HHonors for a while last decade but now indie again), Riva, etc. Chains you'd likely not to encouner much outside of Scandinavia...

no-backpacker

There is a Hilton (Doubletree) in Oslo.

Xxx.

Hannibal Lecter

There's not any in Norway either, that's weird consider Scandinavian Airlines once owned 40% of IHG

Best Western seems to have a high-profile presence , but it is certainly not the budget brand it is in the US.

nicolas75

The former SAS Radisson, Europe, Asia and Middle East Radisson's master franchise, is now called Radisson Blu.

sdsearch

Well, as you said, it's a Doubletree, not a Hilton proper. At any rate, it's brand new, and it's still the only HHonors property in Norway, and of course therefore it's only in the capital (Oslo).

Hannibal Lecter

there's a Grand Hotel in Oslo as well, which also has a Spa (As our hotel guest you have free access to our facilities in the SPA department)


http://www.grand.no/

no-backpacker

Sorry, I'm not that into the Hilton brand. I just walked past it last weekend when I was in Oslo.

The Grand hotel is ok, but I didn't like the SPA facilities free for guests. The swimming-pool is small and the changing-rooms are very small. I never tried any treatments. The breakfast is very good and the breakfast-area is nice. 5* prices, but I would not rate it as 5* international standard. The same goes for Hotel Continental, which is supposed to be the best hotel in Oslo (Norway?).

Xxx.

Pharaoh

Unfortunately not any more. The Oslo Doubletree left Hilton in August, 2012 and is now Hotel Oslo City Centre.

Fortunately, they are honoring existing Hilton bookings.

Petrus

There is a rather new Courtyard Marriott in central Stockholm which is getting good reviews.

johhenrik

Good hotels in Stokholm are:
Sheraton
Nordic Light
Radisson Blu

These are all very well located in the city.

Hilton is fine to, next to the old town of Stockholm.

taffygrrl

It's 2019 and still no IHG properties in Stockholm! They seem to be making a big play for Helsinki, though.

ShopAround

I stayed at the Indigo Helsinki not long ago. It's a nice property but as we know, IHG really doesn't take care of its elites well. That trip, I had three Marriott stays and one IHG. At all the Marriott properties, I had breakfast/lounge access and complimentary late checkouts. At the Indigo Helsinki, I paid 10 euros for a 3:45pm checkout and breakfast would have been 25 euros - I went to a local grocery store and picked up some breakfast food for a few euros instead.