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.
We can't talk about hotels in Stockholm without talking about the hotel everyone's talking about - the Hotel Rival.
The first thing everyone will tell you is that the Hotel Rival's owned by former Abba star Benny Andersson. He's not the only celebrity to own a hotel - Clint Eastwood owns the Mission Ranch in California, Bono owns the Clarence in Dublin and Cliff Richard has the Arora in Manchester, complete with, er, Cliff-themed rooms. But by all accounts Benny seems to be doing the best job of it.
Anyone who's anyone has stayed at the Rival....we're the exception that proves the rule, although we did peer in through the window.
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.
Family strife in Stockholm, where the Clarion Hotel Stockholm (pictured above) competes in arty pretentions with the brand new just-opened (last week) Clarion Hotel Sign.
The two Clarions look fairly similar on the outside, and they both cost a packet. But whatever you do, you mustn't ever confuse the two. Here's why:
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.
Spending the night on a mattress of ice in the designer igloo hotel IceHotel, 200km north of the Arctic Circle in Sweden, may well be something to boast about. But we HotelChatterers like our creature comforts and the simple pleasures in life.
So we're sticking to Sweden's slightly warmer southern capital of Stockholm and to its Nordic Sea Hotel, whose proudest selling point is its Absolut Ice Bar.
Absolut bloody freezing, we guess. But as you know, in Sweden, hotels aren't about cosy mattresses and comfort but about style, design and the being seen. To get in with the A-crowd in this city, it's no pain, no gain.
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.
Firstly, it's the hotel in which all the Nobel prize-winners stay before being ferried over to the City Hall for the grand prize-giving ceremony everyone would love to be at.
Secondly, it's the only hotel we've seen that manages successfully to combine old-style traditional furniture and antiques with brand spanking new modern design from some of Sweden's most spanking modern designers.
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 hotel in order to sleep.
That's not because Swedish hotels are noisy, dirty or uncomfortable - the complete opposite - they're superb. But staying in Sweden's capital is a fundamentally different hotel experience from staying anywhere else in the world. It's because staying in Stockholm is all about style, health and design.
This week we'll be breaking down the Stockholm hotel scene for you starting with our four Top Tips before you book your room.
