Name: Vatnahalsen Høyfjellshotell
Address: Vatnahalsen, Gudvangen, Gudvangen, Gudvangen, 5718, Norway
Rating: 9

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Vatnahalsen Høyfjellshotell

Gudvangen

If you will have a chance to spend a couple of days in central Norway then I will reccommend you Vatnahalsen mountain hotel. Wild nature around fresh water lakes and many waterfalls. Not far from the hotel one can find the most popular bicycle road in Norway that was named as Rallarvegen.

mountain hotel

We came riding the bike from Finse and spent one night at this hotel before heading to Flam. Room and bathroom very good, clean, very good food, nice view, and friendly staff. It was perfect!! I felt liking staying more. I do reccomend this hotel.

A great stop at Rallarvegen

What a wonderful surprise this hotel is! The environment is incredible and the hotel itself seems to be made to feel good in all circumstances. The rooms are cozy, there are multiple common areas, one with pool and another with board games, all decorated differently and super warmly. The staff is adorable and the food very good. In short, this small stay at this hotel put a lot of beauty in our heart, after having suffered multiple discomfort due to Storm Hans. We loved, our children (17 and 22 years old) and ourselves!

Coconut of well-being and calm

We had booked this beautiful hotel for two nights in the last week of June. It was on non cancelable basis and I had already made the payment. I faced some flight problem and my entire itinenary got changed. I requested them to refund my money if possible. It was nice of them to accept my request and immediately refunded my money.
Thanks a lot...

Great Hotel !!

On the Oslo-Bergen train journey, due to the departure of the Flamsbana the following morning, we stopped for one night at this hotel, unique in the area and discovered in a rather emergency situation and fortuitous only through the reading of a travel diary. It was a very beautiful discovery and one of the most beautiful experiences of the trip. It looks like a mountain hut of moving beauty with the window of the room framing so green that it looks like a picture. Arriving at the small station of Myrdal, we traveled a dirt track that crosses the railway right with a walk of about 20 /25 minutes. The route may not be very convenient by disrupting our common trolley, rather than sending out three pieces of dirt, or perhaps in the most favourable climatic conditions by arriving at the dining table.

An Unexpected Surprise

It's a quaint inaccessible place with dark corridors, visible plumbing and rooms that needed a makeover long, long ago. 

It is only reachable by using the expensive Flåm Railway, or walking or riding 20 kilometres. 

It was originally built as a sanatorium in 1896, but it was never used for its intended purpose. Instead, it became popular as a hotel because of the Bergen Railway. 

After the Bergen Railway was opened in 1909, and especially after the Flåm Railway was connected with the Bergen Railway in 1940 it became a go to destination but times, tastes and fortune change. My first impression; I thought I was in an old folks home.

It's on different floor levels within so one goes up/down a few steps to get to different rooms. It's not for wheelchair users. 

We arrived here without any welcome as 'cash cows'. We were part of the Flåm £15O a head railway trip off as guests of Norwegian Prima. 

Our train guide walked us up a slope from the station, in the rain, into the hotel, on a wet dank afternoon, only to tell us to go down two floors inside, for rather poor - tasting filtered cool coffee that sat on the tables in flasks. 

As we were cash cows other cash cows who were there from an earlier Flam train trip had blocked the narrow hallway which was annoying given the cold rain and wind as we were held outside jostling to get in. 

As we were a crowd we were put in an ugly nondescript room packed tight with fellow travellers. 

It resembled a school assembly hall with a public sector school dinner approach. 

So once we got into the downstairs room allocated for us we poured flasked coffee into tiny hotel style cold cups ending up with lukewarm lousy coffee which is unpleasant. 

If the (cold, limp, thin) waffles that sat plated on a top table were loving made fresh by the hotel's chef, from the finest flour, mountain butter and cream, treacly cane sugar from Mauritius and fresh free range double yolked XL eggs from happy chickens living their best life on a mountain side then sadly it isn't working as these potentially microwaved limp offerings had all the hallmarks of vegetable oil and powdered egg factory manufacturing.  

The raspberry jam (I expected cloudberry) and runny sour cream helped but honestly if you were served this stuff in a local cafe you'd be reluctant to pay and you wouldn't return. 

Given it's a £150 a head they have a cheek serving this rubbish. 

Having loitered here two hours and looked around the hotel and its surroundings to relieve boredom I was glad ours was a brief visit. If the food served to guests is anything like the poor quality we got it has little going for it except the location. We have no desire to return.

Pretty lousy all round but the views are breathtaking

Despite being a bit older, this hotel was very comfortable. The bed was comfortable, an amazing view from the room, very comfortable. I enjoyed sitting outside with a drink and taking in the views. Very easy to get to from Vatnahalsen station. But as stated on their website it is only accessible by the flam railway, so everytime you want to leave, you will either need to walk/ride the 20km to flam or pay for the train (which is quite expensive).

Amazing

From the outside it looks like a youth hostel, but inside it's pretty nice, and you can guess how it might have been here in the best days of the hotel. The staff is very friendly and extraordinarily attentive. The dinner buffet (you can't go anywhere else) is extensive and delicious, there's something for everyone. The bikes have to be left outside, you don't have to lock them up ( here is not stolen). The location is great, no traffic. You can only get there by train, bike or on foot or away. Overall, highly recommended.

Great location, good atmosphere.

A simple and clean hotel. We reached it via Myrdal railway station (a rocky path with slopes of 1,5km). Be careful if your luggage is heavy or if your mobility is reduced. Very nice to be away from everything. A Tyrol near the inn is very nice (back on foot or by train). Dinner and breakfast are quite proper and picnic available if necessary. Do not expect to swim in the empty pool this August. I do not think the local temperatures allow it. Depart the next day by Vhalsen railway station located a few metres from the hotel.

Hostel away from everything

Lunch, lunch with no reservation with the warmest reception Quality dining in a carefully decorated place with a splendid panorama Home more than accepting Recommended +++++ Access by hiking trail or the last stop of the Flamsbana

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