Hotels Stockholm

The beauty of Stockholm - The Venice of the North!

Many hotels in Stockholm are well-known for their reputation of being one of the best hotels in the world. In terms of quality as well as money-for-value ratio, 3 to 5 star hotels in Stockholm have reached the highest level of satisfactory of their category. Many come to visit Stockholm for its natural beauty. Not only the captal of Sweden but also known as the "Venice of the North", the is actually made of 14 islands. The city's vicinity to the water makes it even more attrative for a summer holiday visit. You can go swimming and fishing in the middle of town and the locals take advantage of the few hot summer months to plan events almost on a weekly basis. Live music festivals and open air shrimp buffets are special events in addition to Stockholm's abundance of museums, restaurants and bars. The city has a very rich cultual live and over 1.6 million inhabitants live the typical swedisch outgoing lifestyle you might have come across when meeting swedisch people anywhere else.
The Old Town of Stockholm is called "Gamla Stan", and that is where most older buildings dating back as far as the 16th centuries now serving as cafes, restaurants, museums, shops and hotels for the tourists. This Old Town beauty in addition to the Royal Palace makes Stockholm such an attractive place to visit and stay for a couple of nights in one of the renominated luxury hotels. Quite a few visitors who are interested in the history of Sweden and Stockholm, have a look at the Vasa Museum, housing the 17th-century Royal warship Vasa. The Vasa was salvaged in 1961 after it sank more then 300 years before in 1628. Also interesting to see is the biggest and most antique open-air folk museum, the Skansen, as well as the Gröna Lund amusement park which is located just next to the Skansen museum. Although Sweden is not the most inexpensive coutry in Europe many visitors would be surprise about the few but cheap hotels in Stockholm that you can book over the internet. Granted, but only a few cheap hotels are around the Old Town centre in Stockholm there are some others a little bit further out of town as well as a number of cheap private rooms or bed and breakfast accommodation in the historical centre.