The 231 guests rooms are replete with Art Deco detailing, curated artwork reflecting upon the building’s past and Munthe’s folkloric paintings, parquet floors, warm colour palettes – reds, greens and pink or green bathrooms. Villa Inkognito sits aside the main building and is a private 11-bedroom villa with its own kitchen, dining room, bar and library alongside a gym and 24-hour host.
Hole up in Vestkantbadet, the city’s first public baths, with its serene indoor pool, infrared sauna and cold plunge pool, again all to the backdrop of a Per Krohg mosaic wall. There are seven dining options ranging from the Ekspedisjonshallen – the old tellers hall - for all day dining with Per Krohg’s mural behind you, to the eighth floor Nordic-Japanese dishes of Chef Frida Ronge in Oslo’s first rooftop restaurant Tak Oslo. Don’t miss Isakaya cocktail bar on the seventh floor or the afternoon tea served at To Søstre.
SUITABLE FOR:
- Hotel collectors
- Architecture buffs
THINGS TO DO AT THE HOTEL:
- Take a dip in the rooftop lap-pool, which remains open and heated even during winter
- Soothe tired limbs in the Roman bath with a treatment in the bathtub room,s or make an appointment with the sleep therapist Aleksander Andersen
- Hone your yoga skills in the gym
- Feast on the fabulous brunch in Ekspedisjonshallen
- Hide away in the Kinoen screening room, perhaps watching a crime thriller
- Listen to live Jazz and Soul downstairs and DJ beats on the roof
- Sit front of stage at the gilded theatre Lysverker Scene for cabaret, live podcasts and magic shows
- Get your sugar fix with a cinnamon bun at Kafé Lucy
THINGS TO DO NEARBY:
- Watch the Changing of the Guard at the adjacent Royal Palace
- Walk on the roof of the Opera House
- Delve into Norwegian life at the National Museum with its capsule MUNCH collection
- Take a boat out to Bygdøya, home to the Fram Museum, and marvel at Amundsen’s ship
- Explore Bjørvka, Oslo’s Venice, with its canals, beach and floating saunas
- Immerse yourself in the life and works of Edvard Munch
- Take to the skies at the Holmenkollen ski jump
NOTA BENE
Although children are welcomed at Sommerro, the vibe here is very much adult.
