Best Western Karl Johan Hotel  

Excellent location at the heart of he city. The hotel staff is very nice helpful. The decoration is also very excellent, the room is nice and lovely! Surely you will enjoy staying here.

Comfortable room, good breakfast.

Internal view of building.

The location is perfect. Very close to Royal Palace. About 15 minutes from central station. Many shops around. Everything is perfect!

Excellent situation, though this did have one significant disadvantage (see below). Right on the main square and in the centre of town. Nice building, well decorated and maintained. Great view from the room. Good breakfast; pleasant staff; excellent value for money given the location and standing of the hotel.

The downside to the excellent location was that I was woken up at 2.00 am by Oslo's raucous nightlife - shouting, car horns, police sirens. This coould be reduced by new double glazing, but the old fashioned windows are part of the hotel's charm. The other irritation was that the only free tv channels were a very limiteed number of Norwegian speaking ones. While it is customary and expected to have to pay for films in room, I have never before been expected to pay for bbc World or cnn - I consider this unacceptable in a supposedly international, cosmopolitan hotel.

The staff were really helpful and friendly - they went out of their way to make our stay more enjoyable. I have recommended the hotel to my friends and will definately return to it.

Location was perfect. Room size and decor was very good.

Like a lot of Norwegian Hotels, Best Western also had extremely spongy beds with ultra-soft matresses. VERY uncomfortable for the back and to sleep on. Fortunately, the room was big enough for me to to put the top matress (60mm thick) on the floor and sleep on that. I got some fairly reasonable sleep after that.

Excellent reception staff. Spatious room. Ideal location. Comfortable interior hotel layout.

Sound-proofing from the street isn't bad but could still be improved.

Good service, and very polite and kind staff

The hotel is very nicely in the middle of town, i.e. walking distance to most offices where you may have meetings. A grand staircase speaks about an interesting past, and all hallways are very nicely decorated with paintings, old furniture, mirrors etc. The room was comfortable and the wifi good. There is a business center that you can use if relevant once you have checked out.

Excellent price. Friendly staff.

Situated in the centre of Oslo, so easy to see the city center and close the trainstations

This hotel should have been renevated some years ago, bit worn out and outdated. Noisy area. Hotel room was fairly small and TV was screwed to the wall next to the bed so no visible when laying in bed!?

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they ran out of ice buckets

The location was paramount to our trip

The room was very warm since air conditioning was not available.