Where To Stay In Stockholm
I went to Stockholm earlier this month: my trip was wonderful. Rather than focusing on general sites there for tourists, my coverage is more specific and in two parts: how to get there (click here), and where to stay.
The Sheraton Stockholm
The Sheraton is the best place to stay in the city. Why? It doesn’t have the fussiness of the Grand Hotel, and yet
it has the excellent design of newer properties. It has the solidity of a large operation, but unlike many established hotels it had a refurbishment in 2006. The Sheraton is excellent for the business traveler, and has a full set of rooms of many sizes for corporate conferences. And yet it does not have the soullessness of business-only hotels.
The hotel also has supreme location. Stockholm is a wonderful walking city from any home base, but the Sheraton’s is ideal. It is 200 meters from the Central Station, with its fast train to the airport, and it is just across the bridge from the Gamla Stan, or Old Town. The hotel offers 465 spacious and newly renovated rooms decorated in Scandinavian style. It is the highest compliment to pay to any hotel to say that I never once found anything lacking: every need, large and small, had been anticipated.
Jenny Moore, a Sheraton account manager, one morning took me behind the scenes to give me a tour of how the hotel is run. Everything was impressive. (For further details, click here.) After our tour, Moore and I repaired to the hotel’s restaurant, threesixty, where we had delicious prawn sandwiches and talked about Stockholm. We also talked about Stieg Larsson’s Milennium trilogy of novels, which have put Stockholm on the world cultural map in a way perhaps nothing else has done since the heyday of film director Ingmar Bergman.
I had just finished reading the third book in the series, in French translation, since for some odd reason the English translation is only being published in the U.K. (later in the U.S.) in October. Moore told me that the Sheraton had put together a booklet to tour the sites in Stockholm that are mentioned in the novels. I had coffee at one of the mentioned cafes, the Mellqvist, the next day. I sat there for a long time, feeling grateful for the airline that had brought me to Stockholm, the hotel that made my stay so easy, and the wonderful weather that accompanied me during every step of my holiday.
Sheraton Stockholm Hotel Tegelbacken 6, Box 195 · 101 23 Stockholm, Sweden · Phone: +46 (0)8 412 34 00
www.sheratonstockholm.com
