Hotell Svanen
This ‘low-price hotel’ is an excellent choice, with simple, pleasing rooms with cable TV and private toilets. The SVIF hostel is part of the hotel, sharing the all-day reception, kitchen, drinks machines and sauna...
Whether you're looking for Sweden's urban edge in Stockholm or Gothenburg, or are seeking out its raw nature along the coast or in Lappland, Lonely Planet authors have found a range of accommodation to help you on your way.
This ‘low-price hotel’ is an excellent choice, with simple, pleasing rooms with cable TV and private toilets. The SVIF hostel is part of the hotel, sharing the all-day reception, kitchen, drinks machines and sauna...
Close to Centralstationen, ubersleek Hotel Duxiana is one for the style crew...
A new boutique offering, stylish Stureplan offers individually designed rooms with pared-back Gustavian chic (think high ceilings, spangly chandeliers and antique tiled stoves) and high-tech touches like flatscreen TVs...
Another design option, the Nordic Light is a minimalist Scandi statement, with slick, well-equipped rooms. The signature ‘mood rooms’ ditch conventional artwork for custom-designed light exhibits, which guests can adjust to suit their temperament...
Sweden’s largest hotel is the 23-storey Gothia Towers (take tram 5). Its 704 rooms ooze Nordic cool, especially the ‘Design’ options: they’re all sharp, clean lines and good bathroom windows for a vista-friendly soak...
Just off Lilla Torg is one of Malmö’s finest slumber spots, with spacious, elegantly understated rooms featuring beautiful oak floors and snowy-white fabrics...
Hip Hellsten is owned by anthropologist Per Hellsten, whose slick slumber number features objects from his travels and life, including Congan tribal masks and his grandmother’s chandelier...
Excellently situated on the main square, the Behrn Hotell goes the extra mile, with homely rooms individually decorated, ranging from strictly business to farmhouse to edgy modern Scandinavian...
The most fun place to stay in town is this one, run by the thoroughly entertaining Matt and Lindy, an Australian-Swedish couple who go out of their way to make sure you enjoy the area...
Emma couldn’t be better located: it’s on the main pedestrian shopping street, right above a whisky bar...
STF Vandrarhem Gällivare is across the footbridge from the train station. Accommodation is in well-equipped cabins, bikes can be hired, and a variety of activities can be organised.
This great hostel in Tänndalen is 7km west of Funäsdalen along Rd 84, on a steep hillside with well-equipped rooms (kitchens, full baths, sturdy wooden bunks) in several red cottages with awesome views of the mountains across the valley...
Within the fortress, this SVIF hostel is one of Sweden’s finest. Old prison cells make up the single rooms, with larger rooms in surrounding buildings.
This is where the literati, glitterati and nobility call it a night. A waterfront landmark, with several exclusive restaurants and a see-and-be-seen piano bar, it remains Stockholm’s most sumptuous lodgings...
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