Thon Bryggen Orion Hotel Bergen - Reviews - Bergen

I stayed here for just one night in January 2003. The hotel is located quite near the center of town so it is easy to get around in the city. It doesn't take that long to get to Fløien. This is one of Bergen's most visited attraction. It will take you on top of a mountain and you get a great view of the city.

The room itself was pretty standard: a couple of chairs, TV with the normal cable channels, a water boiler if you want to make some coffee or tea, a small fridge with drinks and chocolates and a small desk. The bed itself was a bit on the soft side for my likings and the pillow was too thin. The bathroom was quite small and there was only a shower curtain when it comes to the shower. This means that the water splashed all over the floor when I took a shower and the curtain kept sticking to my back. I don't have a big problem with that but I do of course have some thoughts about the fact that this shower curtain has probably been stuck to many other people :-) I found little bottles of shampoo in the bath room. And in the shower there is a big container of soap. Many hotels has gone over to bigger containers which are put on the wall. I guess it is more environmental friendly to do this compared to handing out small shampoo bottles.

I brought my laptop along hoping that they had some sort of broadband connection at the hotel. But they only had normal phone lines so I didn't bother trying to hook up.

The breakfast was a traditional Norwegian hotel standard: bread (with all the stuff you can have on bread), cereal, egg in different variations and coffee/tea/milk/juice. You can also get evening food at the hotel but I didn't try it out. I would guess that you get bread and different stuff to have on the bread.

Like most other "small" Norwegian hotels (there is about 230 rooms) they don't have that many other facilities such as a pool. But they do have non-smoking rooms and even rooms for women.

If you bring along a car I think you can park it outside the hotel. I think the fee was about 9 US dollars.