The best accommodations Stockholm

Budget & Tips

Stockholm is an expensive city, so it's a good idea to find the right accommodation to spend your money elsewhere, at restaurants or museums. For students, solo travelers or group trips, hostels are always a good option. Whether for a private room or a dormitory bed, hostels are inexpensive, and offer the opportunity to make new acquaintances by sharing common living spaces. Otherwise, Stockholm has a good list of reasonably priced hotels. You should also ask about the breakfast on offer, which is often a hearty buffet. The local secret is to rent apartments or private rooms. Airbnb offers picturesque accommodations at cheap prices. For example, an apartment all to yourself for just 730 SEK per night, right in the middle of Gamla Stan!

To be booked

Some hotels are already full several months in advance, so it's imperative to find out before you leave.

What's very local

What could be better than seeing Stockholm from the inside, in an apartment or in the home of a local? There are many options for visiting Stockholm this way, and it's often the accommodation of choice for travelers. As Swedes are welcoming and willing to share, you'll find reasonably priced apartments or rooms to rent in some incredible neighborhoods, with the charm of having a pied-à-terre of your own! These options are sometimes more economical than hotels, with more space and a very local atmosphere. Your host will be able to guide you for ideas for visits that are little-known on tourist itineraries.

Airbnb: www.airbnb.fr/s/Stockholm--Sweden

For food lovers

Some hotels offer outstanding breakfasts. For example, Hotel Frantz in Södermalm prepares wonderfully cooked breakfasts in their restaurant, which is open to the public. If it's not just breakfast you're after, Hotel Skeppsholmen also has a great restaurant, Restaurant Långa Raden, where they serve succulent traditional dishes. Most of the time, it's a sweet and savory buffet with waffles and lingonberry jam, or slices of salmon.

Smokers

Outdoor smoking is banned in Sweden in certain public places, including restaurant terraces and station platforms. That said, snus, or small bags of powdered tobacco placed under the lip, remains common practice both indoors and outdoors, harming no-one but the consumer. The use of snus is far less harmful than smoking tobacco, and is very popular in Scandinavia.