OK so normally we wouldnt be so excited by the idea of a Nordic spa. In our heads, Scandi beauty treatments scream naked saunas, self-flagellation with birch sticks and lots of snow. But were making an exception for the Grand Hotel in Stockholm which opened a subtly different Nordic-inspired...
November 13, 2009
While we waited ever so patiently for Nov. 4th to pass, we hardly noticed it was, uh, November. In fact, its sorta-kinda almost Thanksgiving, which means the holiday season is about to infiltrate every last cranny of your life (much like Sarah Palin did the last two months, but...
November 07, 2008
Once again, our roaming correspondent Monica Guy is summing up a hotel scene for us. This time, she's checking out hotels in Stockholm. Got a question or suggestion about Swedish hotels? Send it our way.There are two things that make the Grand Hotel Stockholm special.Firstly, it's the hotel in which...
February 12, 2008
Once again, our roaming correspondent Monica Guy is summing up a hotel scene for us. This time, she's checking out hotels in Stockholm. Got a question or suggestion about Swedish hotels? Send it our way. The key to understanding the Stockholm hotel scene is that nobody goes to a Swedish...
February 11, 2008
The ambitiously named World Travel Awards are a set of gongs handed out by travel agents from across the globe who vote in numerous categories. And this year the fourteenth edition of these awards has given three different prizes to the Grand Hotel Stockholm: Best Swedish Hotel, Best Swedish...
November 20, 2007
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