I have stayed at the Concordia nearly every time I have visited Lund over the last fifteen years, and it is still one of my favourite hotels anywhere. In Lund I have only otherwise tried the Grand, which certainly lives up to its name, and has magnificent decor and highly professional staff, but which because of its scale cannot convey the sense the Concordia always provides of being a much cared-for guest in a substantial and commodious but definitely domestic town house. The staff at the Concordia are unfailingly pleasant and helpful - every interaction with them is a pleasure - and the breakfast exemplary -- at most hotels one instinctively avoids the scrambled egg, for instance, but at the Concordia it is a comfort and a joy. We needed to leave to catch our flight home at 4.30am and they provided us with an exquisite picnic breakfast to take with us. The Concordia, furthermore, is exactly where one would wish it to be -- very close to what by Lund standards are the bright lights and bustle of Stortorget, but in a quiet, handsome, historic street, the next house along from the one in which Strindberg wrote 'Inferno.' One other thing: there is a chess board in the lobby, at which one can occasionally make a single move in a long-running and inconclusive contest against some other unknown guest or guests. You win every time at the Concordia.