Gardvik Vacations from $1,024

Absolutely incredible spa. We tacked on an additional two days at the end of our trip because we loved it so much. The spas, pools, hot tubs, steam rooms and rituals are all incredible. The breakfast is amazing and we looked forward to it every morning. Easy bus ride to/from Oslo. Cannot recommend this place enough!

Very good location, it was great to have access to a locker room before check-in and after check-out. There were some nice details like the water bottles you can borrow from the room to avoid the need of buying bottled water just to have something to fill up later. There were a few disappointments: quite a lot of dated / broken things (the front door didn't lock, the elevator didn't work one day of our stay, visibly worn details in the room) & our room had a view of an internal courtyard and a wall - somewhat understandable with the location and the building being old, but still not nice for almost 400 USD a night. Note: the question for rating staff in the review form on Expedia makes 0 sense as this place is fully automated (unless you have a special request, you will never talk to anybody).

Nice place, very comfortable and great location.

This should be at least worth 4 stars…and I’m not usually a moaner…. But, the whole of the front of the building is currently covered in scaffolding and white polythene sheet, the windows are also covered in polythene. So no view and restricted light. I understand maintenance has to be done but if this was communicated we could have made a choice not to stay there. Maintenance inside is very poor, shower control was dodgy, half the downlighters didn’t work, no instructions on heating or cooling and to top it all the WiFi didn’t work meaning I used up my data allowance. We rang up the helpline but said sorry it’s the weekend! So can’t recommend as it looks like the front will be covered for some months.