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.
With slick, black-clad staff looking straight out of a Filippa K fashion catalogue, this is another hit with Scandi design fans. Interiors mix understated chic with subtle nods to the original ’70s fit-out.
This is a popular weekend getaway for Stockholmers, with a breezy Hamptons vibe. The chic summer house, built in 1912, is named after the boats used in the America’s Cup. The scent of nonchalant wealth wafts unmistakably through the air here.
A cute building in a line of cute buildings, this welcoming hotel has individually decorated rooms and a superb Art Nouveau style. It has been updated in the gentlest possible way, mostly preserving the original feel of the place.
Located in a modern tower block, with all the usual luxury mod cons.
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.
This Art Nouveau hotel, dating from 1911, has rooms in many different styles, all luxurious and some with excellent harbour views.
Flaunting an eight-storey tower and neoclassical columns, this friendly hotel, housed in an 1895 building, offers wonderfully cosy (albeit smallish) rooms, many of which have been recently renovated. Rates are cheapest when booked early.
This sister hotel to the slightly more upmarket and smaller Nordic Light has an impressive 9000L aquarium in the foyer.
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.
Popular with rock stars, the rooms at forever-hip Berns come equipped with CD players and styles ranging from 19th-century classical to contemporary sleek.
Nautical antiques, art and model ships define the wonderfully quirky Victory. Most rooms are fairly small (though perfectly comfy), while the museum-like suites are larger. There are also four apartments available for long-term rentals.
At one time the world’s largest motor yacht, this stylish, cosy option features well-appointed cabins, each with a bathroom.
Owned by ABBA’s Benny Anderson and overlooking leafy Mariatorget, this ravishing design hotel is a chic retro gem, complete with vintage 1940s movie theatre and over-the-top art deco cocktail bar.
Family-owned and highly recommended, Columbus is nestled in a quiet part of Södermalm, near T-Medborgarplatsen, and set around a cobblestone courtyard by a pretty park.
Yo-ho-ho, me scurvy barnacles! It’s a tight squeeze but this pink-painted, glass-fronted building feels like a creaky old ship loaded with character. At just 5m wide, the 17th-century building is Sweden’s narrowest hotel.
Just off buzzing Götgatan, this historical slumber spot has labyrinthine hallways, affable staff, and both budget and standard rooms. The latter are the winners, with old floorboards, rococo wallpaper and the odd chandelier.
Perched between the chaotic Slussen interchange and Södermalm’s underground highway, Stockholm’s white-on-white Hilton sports modern comfortable rooms with swirly marble bathrooms.
Expect old-style luxury (with more modern touches where it counts; for example, in the bathrooms). The building dates back to the 1470s, and is packed with antiques and portraits of Lady Hamilton herself.
Kom Hotel, in a quiet location opposite Johannes Kyrka and just north of the city centre, has interesting contemporary architecture and a notably friendly staff. It's owned and operated by Stockholm's YMCA and YWCA.
Not only does this hotel dominate Nybrokajen with its tower, ivy-covered facade and copper roof, it also has a wonderful glass-roofed courtyard and luxurious, individually styled rooms with wooden floors and great views.
While a little less luxe than its sibling Hotel Hellsten across the street, Rex’s stylish, functional rooms still deliver the same flatscreen TVs and svelte, Greek-stone bathrooms.
The M/S Rygerfjord, launched in Bergen in 1950, sailed along the Norwegian coast until it was moored and converted into a floating hostel and hotel some 10 years ago. Next to it is Rygerfjord II, built as a boat hotel in Poland in 1986.
Head here, the closest hostel to Centralstationen, for clean rooms, friendly staff, free bike hire and excellent facilities, including a sauna, a laundry and a kitchen (with a free stash of pasta).
Near T-Rådmansgatan, north of the city centre, this pleasant, informal basement hostel comes complete with a kitchen and laundry.
Located in quiet Gärdet, a quick metro ride from Östermalm, Stockholm’s first ‘designer hostel’ ditches low-cost drab for smart, contemporary rooms featuring red pin chairs, fluffy sheepskins, textured rugs and designer flatscreen TVs.
Views from this hotel near the Viking Line terminal close to Fjällgatan are stunning enough that buses routinely bring camera-laden gawkers here. It has charmingly old-fashioned rooms, each with a phone, desk and TV.
The legendary af Chapman is a storied vessel that has done plenty of travelling of its own. It’s now well anchored in a superb, quiet location, swaying gently off Skeppsholmen.
With a foyer that looks like one of those old Main Street facade recreations you find in cheesy museums, the Zinkensdamm STF is unabashedly fun.
