Saturday, September 06, 2008

Stockholm holiday: the hotel




Our hotel was a closed-down swimming pool. Apparently, the Stockholm local authority is building, or indeed, has built, a replacement elsewhere. I can imagine this pool being a rather fine place to have swum at, surrounded as it is by a small park and centrally located for convenience. Still, it served rather well as a hotel - apparently the rooms were the original pool changing areas.

Mrs D is on the bed to give a sense of scale. It was taken with my backside pressed against the door, so size is certainly on the New York model of hotel rooms. No mod cons here, not even a cupboard or wardrobe. I have to say though that the beds were extremely comfortable, and it was immaculately clean. Seeing as this was a budget hotel, by Swedish standards at least, we were pretty pleased with it overall, once we abandoned the idea of getting a hotel for our money - more a very well-run hostel.

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