The Tide - Hotel

一共只有幾間房，很安靜！早餐內容不是很豐富，味道還行。相比更加網紅的小紅房子，我覺得這邊更舒服，至少不用擔心沒有充足的熱水洗澡。

Booked and paid upon demand for one single room for 5 - 9 August 2024. Cancelled 7 days before planned arrival, but was offered a 5% refund only. We requested a full refund on the day after the monies were drawn, on 30 July. So we cancelled 7 days ahead of planned arrival, but the hotel wants to unlawfully keep all of the NOK 15440. Bad business practices.

We spent one night and decided to come back for our last night in the Lofotons. Very, very accommodating. Very hospitable hosts. The rooms are very nice. The restaurant - The Havet- served one of the best meals we’ve had in Norway. We want to come back the next time we come to the Lofotons

The hotel personnel is very friendly and they provided a warm welcome. The room for three people doesn't have the best view but is still nicely decorated. The breakfast has a beatiful atmosphere and view, but the scrambled eggs and the pancakes were prepared early and kept warm, which reduced their quality quite much. At the moment, the parking lot is quite a construction site, but this will surely change in the future:) Other than that, the stay was very nice and Sørvågen is a good location to stay.

Considering that Norway is the most expensive country in Europe and that the breathtaking scenery and quaint fishing villages of Lofoten make it the country’s #1 tourist destination, the high price of the converted fisherman’s cabins here is pretty average. The cabins are refurbished to modern standard but are somewhat spartan. Mine had a stove-top but no oven, not even a microwave or a toaster, and the lack of a dish-rack meant that you had to use the dishwasher at least once a day or else improvise. The bathroom was similarly minimal. The bed was comfortable but not properly balanced, so the upper mattress kept on slipping off one side of the bed overnight! I had to park the car on the clifftop and walk the final 50 m to the cabin (which was 800 m from the reception). But these are minor issues: the setting is fabulous in all weathers (and staying a week meant I did see the harbour, village and mountains in brilliant sunshine, torrential rain, swirling fog and eerie stillness). Self-catering is a good option in a country where restaurant meals are exorbitant, and the traditional rorbuer on the water’s edge are definitely the place to stay. The environment is peaceful, the staff friendly and efficient, wifi excellent and everything clean and functional.

Das Zimmer war sauber, die Bettwäsche leider nicht und hatte zudem ein großes Loch, das Bett war bequem. Das Zimmer war eher klein, es gibt keinen Schrank oder Ablagemöglichkeiten, man muss also aus dem Koffer leben. Es gibt aber keinen Platz, um einen geöffneten Koffer abzulegen. Das Zimmer ist so ungeschickt eingerichtet, dass man nirgends ausreichend Platz findet. Das Bad war groß, alles funktionierte tadellos. TV mit norwegischen Sendern ist vorhanden. Zimmerreinigung wird theoretisch auf Anfrage durchgeführt, ist aber eigentlich egal, denn es wird scheinbar nur das Bett gemacht, eine Reinigung des Zimmers findet offensichtlich nicht statt. Der Ausblick war wirklich sehr schön auf den Hafen. Ein stabiles Wifi war vorhanden. Das Essen im Restaurant war gut, aber das Preis-Leistungs-Verhältnis stimmte allerdings nicht. Das Frühstücksbüffet war in Ordnung. Parkplätze sind ausreichend vorhanden. Fußläufig sind 2 kleinere Supermärkte zu erreichen, nebenan war ein sehr nettes Restaurant.