Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
Inspired gourmet meals, like roasted stag in lingonberry-chanterelle sauce, and French
standards like
moules frites
(mussels & fries), are served up in this elegant but cosy 17th-
century vaulted cellar, the oldest building in town.
Båten
FLOATING RESTAURANT
(Magasin 1, Inre Hamn; 5pm-late Mon-Sat Jun-Aug)
The huge Båten ('the boat'), on a boat moored at the harbour, is a highly rated open-air
restaurant and a very popular summer drinking (and eating) spot.
Information
Sharing the same building as the library at the edge of the town centre, the
tourist office
(
054-540 24 70;
www.visitkarlstad.se
;
Bibliotekshuset, Västra Torggatan 26; 9am-7pm Mon-Fri,
10am-6pm Sat, 10am-3pm Sun)
has lots of info on both town and county (including fresh-air
escapes in the region's forests) and its rivers and lakes. Internet access is available in the
library. Banks and ATMs line Storgatan.
Getting There & Around
Karlstad is the major transport hub for western central Sweden. The long-distance bus ter-
minal is at Drottninggatan 43, 600m west of the train station.
ber of routes, including Karlstad-Falun-Gävle (Skr289, 10 hours), Karlstad-Göteborg
(Skr199, two to three hours), Stockholm-Örebro-Karlstad-Oslo and Karl-
stad-Mariestad-Jönköping (Skr309, six hours).
Intercity trains to Stockholm (Skr420, two to three hours) run frequently. There are also
several daily services to Göteborg (Sk210, three to four hours) and express services to
Oslo (Skr358, three hours).
Värmlandstrafik
( 020-22 55 80)
runs regional buses. Bus 250 travels to Sunne
(Skr107, 1¼ hours, one to five daily) and Torsby (Skr144, two hours, one to three daily).
Free bikes are available from the city's two
Solacykeln
booths:
Stora Torget
(
054-29 50 29; Stora Torget;
7.30am-7pm Mon-Fri, 10am-3.30pm Sat May-Sep)
and
outer har-
bour
(outer harbour;
9.30am-5.30pm Mon-Fri, 10am-3.30pm Sat Jun-Aug)
. All you need is a
valid ID.
