gardkarlsen's Reviews

My wife and I went to Phuket in the middle of November 2009 and we stayed at Avista. We travel quite a lot and this year we have been to places such a…

I stayed at the Sheraton Hotel & Towers in the end of September 2009. The room was booked online at the SPG site and it was 1400 Hong Kong Dollar (app…

I stayed at Sheraton Heathrow hotel (not Skyline) for one night in September 2009. I booked the room on SPG online and got it for 69 GBP (including ta…

I arrived at Hotel Regency on a morning in September and to my delight I was informed that my room was ready already at about 10 am. The check in was …

We stayed at Dusit Thani Dubai in the end of May 2009 and we booked it through a Norwegian online travel agent as that gave us the best deal. The pric…

I stayed at Traders Hotel in Dubai in the end of April 2009. I booked the room online on the the Traders hotel website and it was 540 AED (about 150 U…

I stayed at Raffles Hotel Le Royal in mid April 2009. I booked the room online on the Raffles website and it was 165 USD plus taxes. The transport…

I stayed at Le Meridien in Siem Reap in the beginning of April 2009. I booked the room online on the the Starwood Preferred Guest website and it was 1…

I stayed at Renaissance Riverside Hotel Saigon Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam in the beginning of April 2009. I booked the room online on the Renaissance…

I stayed at Plaza Athenee in Bangkok in the beginning of April in 2009. The room was booked online and I had to pay about 4400 THB (125 USD) per nigh…

I stayed at Sheraton Skyline hotel at Heathrow in London in the end of March 2009. It is actually not the first time I stay here…I stayed here for o…

I stayed at Hotel Pulitzer in Amsterdam from March 16th to March 18th on a work trip to the city. I took it as they could offer a good deal on 2 night…

I stayed at the Traders hotel in Kuala Lumpur from Sunday 22nd of September until Friday 28th of September. I had room 3106 (which is on the club floo…

I stayed at Radisson SAS Plaza in the beginning on December 2008. It was my wife that did all the booking and I think we had to pay about 1165 kroner …

I stayed at Centara Grand at CentralWorld in the beginning of December 2008. I booked the hotel via the internet and it was 4000 THB per night. As I b…

I stayed at Grand Hotel Kempinski in the beginning of November 2008 in connection with a short business trip to Geneva. I booked the hotel in advance …

I stayed at Radisson Edwardian Berkshire Hotel in the end of October 2008 in connection with a short business trip to London. I booked the hotel in ad…

I stayed at Radisson SAS Hotel Norge in October 2007 in connection with a short business trip to Bergen. I booked the hotel in advance and paid 1215 K…

In September 2008 I went to Aberdeen on a short business trip. I was not sure where to stay so I asked a colleague of mine that had been to Aberdeen b…

This is a short ”trip report” from a visit to Flor & Fjære outside Stavanger. Flor & Fjære is a small garden located on the island of Sør-Hidle…

I stayed at Sheraton Grande Sukhumvit in Bangkok from June 27th to June 29th 2008. I have been to Bangkok a few times before and I have stayed at plac…

I stayed at the hotel for 1 night in June 2003 and I stayed at room 306. Location The location of the hotel is great. First of all it is located n…

I stayed at Copenhagen Admiral Hotel for 2 nights during my visit to Copenhagen in late November 2005. I only stayed for 2 nights and my company used …

This is a review of a stay at Renaissance Kuala Lumpur Hotel. I stayed there in the end of June 2008 and I was in KL on a business trip. I have been t…

My wife Nikki and I went to Samui many years back. Back then (1998)we stayed at Fair house on Chaweng Noi on the southern tip of Chaweng. As in Bangko…

My wife Nikki and I have been to Bangkok a couple of times before. Due to the difference in price level between Thailand and Norway this is one city w…

Getting a hotel in Cape Town at Easter time can be a bit of a challenge. We were a bit late with the booking so the number of hotels were going down d…

We stayed at Hotel Beau Rivage in Nice from April 25th to April 27th 2008 on a weekend trip to this city on the Frence Riviera. The hotel is located a…

I went to L’Ascot with a couple of colleagues in March 2007. We found the recommendation to this place in an old Pariscope (a free booklet that tell…

On our first night in Florence in July 2007 we were looking for a restaurant called Garga on Via dei Moro but I had forgotten the number so we never d…

One afternoon in April 2007 my friend Olav came into my office and asked me if I was up for some Thai food. Nikki and I was a bit skeptical as our tri…

So where do you go to find the best coffee in Stavanger? I have tested out some of the joints in town and in my opinion you can find the best coffee i…

We stopped by Simones to get some food before going to the movies in April 2007. We have been to Simones 1 time before and back then we were not blown…

I went to NB Sørensen 2. etage in Stavanger in the beginning of May 2007 on a work related dinner. I had to leave for South Africa the next day and t…

It is not always easy to get a table on short notice in Stavanger. I noticed that when I tried to book a table for a Thursday evening and I started ca…

This summer I went to Tuscany and Florence and I enjoyed the food, wine and scenery there (check out the trip report on http://gardkarlsen.com/florenc…

Akropolis is the only Greek restaurant in Stavanger to my knowledge and is has been around for quite some time. Nikki and I went to visit the place on…

I have been to the restaurant Bølgen & Moi a couple of times this year. This time I went to Bølgen & Moi due to some family celebration and we went …

In the continuing saga of "Gard's testing out places to eat in Stavanger" we have reached the small tapas restaurant Soleado. I visited this in the mi…

If you want to have some wine while you are in Bangkok you should check out V9 at the Sofitel hotel on Silom road. The bar/restaurant is located on 30…

If you want to go out in Stavanger for a glass of beer you should consider Cardinal. The place is located near the harbor in Stavanger (right behind H…

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 does…

I stayed at the hotel in September 2002 The hotel has a pretty good location on Sukhumwit Soi 18. This Soi is pretty quiet compared to all the cars…

We stayed at the hotel Marconi for 3 nights during our trip to Milan in June 2003. Location We took the Malpensa Express from the airport Malpens…

We stayed at the Hotel Continental for 4 nights during our trip to Venice in June 2003. Hotel Continental is a 3 star hotel located near the train sta…

We stayed at The Hilton Hua Hin Resort & Spa for 3 nights in the end of September 2002. We came to Hua Hin on a bus from Bangkok and just as we go…

I was thrilled when I got the message that we would be going on a company trip to Rome. Since I had been there before I got the task of finding a hot…

Jans mat og vinhus is a kind of institution in the restaurant environment in Stavanger. They have kept it going for many years and most people in town…

When we started looking for hotels in NYC we discovered that the prices had gone up a lot since we were there last time. In 2004 we stayed at Hotel Th…

We stayed at the Radisson SAS Hotel Beijing for 6 nights on our travel to Beijing in March 2003. We stayed there from march 15th. The hotel itself…