If you’re a devoted member of the Salvation Army, or if you teach Sunday school back home, this is one of the safest and most reliable choices in town. Guests here are more interested in value (not to mention values) than in frills. In the city center, a short block from the Students’ Grove at Karl Johans Gate, the Bondeheimen was built in 1913. A cooperative of farmers and students established this hotel, now a Best Western, to provide affordable, teetotalist-friendly accommodations when they visited Oslo from the countryside. Although small, the compact rooms are comfortably furnished, often with Norwegian pine pieces. Bedrooms are larger than standard, with tasteful furniture, and the bathrooms, although small and mostly without tubs, contain shower units and heated floors. In case you didn’t get the message by now, Bondeheimen translates as “farmer’s home.” Onsite is Kaffistova, a restaurant dispensing reasonably priced food that’s just a cut above typical cafeteria fare.
Facilities:
Restaurant; boutique; laundry service; dry cleaning; nonsmoking rooms; rooms for those w/limited mobility.
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