6/10 Okay
John
Travelled with partner
25 Aug 2025
Disliked: Staff & service, amenities
Hotel Norge is an acceptable hotel. Not amazing as its star rating might suggest but neither was it terrible. The good stuff first: the room decor was nice as it was throughout the rest of hotel. The lobby had an air of quality and we loved the dramatic mood lighting, no doubt from some serious investment put into the establishment by Scandic. Norge’s location was also very good - all the key locations you’d want to visit in Bergen were easily walkable and the light rail that you can catch from the airport terminates just outside.
Then there was the no so good stuff: check-in was long, despite there being three receptionists being on the welcome desk. The receptionist we got directed us to the elevators only to find our room was on the same floor and thus were not needed - confusing! The pool amenity wasn’t free for hotel guests and you had to pay extra to use it which left a sour taste after what we paid.
Speaking of the room, to get to it we had to walk through a series of long corridors - past commodes, luggage trolleys and cleaning carts that were being stored. This felt rather unwelcoming and like we ourselves were being stored in the broom cupboard! The cleaning carts had printouts of the day’s events and cleaning schedule on it, complete with the Scandic logo - not sure that was supposed to be seen by us guests!
If given the chance again, I would probably only consider booking Hotel Norge if no other five or four star hotels were available.
John
Stayed 3 nights in Aug 2025