Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
Balestrand Hotell
HOTEL
( 57 69 11 38;
www.balestrand.com
;
s/d Nkr850/1340; mid-May-mid-Sep)
This summertime-only, family-run hotel, is a friendly, jolly, intimate place that eschews
the tour groups that fill so many beds elsewhere in town. It's well worth paying more for
inspirational views over the fjord.
Midtnes Hotel
HOTEL
( 57 69 42 40;
www.midtnes.no
; s Nkr790, d Nkr850-1290; )
Beside St Olav's church, this 32-room family-run place, has a breakfast room with great
views of the water, an attractive terrace and a lawn that extends down to a jetty, where a
rowing boat, free for guests, is moored. Breakfast, with three kinds of pickled herring,
hams, prawns and more, is a meal in itself.
Kvikne's Hotel
HOTEL
( 57 69 42 00;
www.kviknes.no
;
s/d from Nkr1110/1720; May-Sep; )
The dreamy pale-yellow, timber exterior of Kvikne's Hotel belies the more-is-more
late-19th-century Norwegiana aesthetic in its lounges and dining halls. Of its 190 rooms,
all but 25 are in the newer building, erected in the 1960s. They're comfortable to a fault
but a little dated for the price.
Balholm Bar og Bistro serves snacks and light meals and you can take your drinks into
the salon where there's plenty to look at outside and in. The hotel is on a point just south of
the ferry landing.
Eating
Pilgrim
CAFE
( 915 62 842;
www.detgylnehus.no
; meals Nkr90-185)
Next door but two to the tourist office, this kooky-as-anything little place is integrated into
Det Gylne Hus (Golden House), an equally eccentric art gallery. The food, by contrast, is
simple, traditional stuff: locally caught sea trout, elk patties, reindeer sausage or meatballs.
If it's sunny, the terrace, with freshly cut flowers adorning the tables, is just the spot.
