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Has anyone stayed in an Oslo airport hotel for an overnight stay?
We arrive late but leave midday the next day and the 2 hotels on airport (radisson blu and park inn) are expensive but would save on shuttle / taxi.
Had anybody any recommendations for hotel on perimeter of airport?
Many thanks.I stayed at a Choice Hotel with its own shuttle to and from the very short distance to it, a few years back and as an airport hotel it was fine. Very slick service and geared to passengers arriving and departing at all hours. I remember the gotcha was to book shuttle seat the night before otherwise the first shuttle might be full – and second one too late if you were on the first flight out.
Scandi Choice Hotels are a completely different thing to the US ones so don’t worry about that, the level of the hotel is fine for a night
I think we arrive at 22.30 and leave next day at 15:00 so happy with shuttle just the two on airport would save shuttle fare but happy with that recommendation thank you.
I assume you’re talking cash rates – did you check if redemption rates were any better? I’ve stayed at the Radisson before and it was massively convenient 🙂
I only have a lucrative amount of Hilton points for redemption and none in any other hotel chains unfortunately but the radisson comes in at £181 for the night whereas perimeter hotels are £100ish. But the radisson doesn’t even come with breakfast!
Going back a few years now but we stayed at the Radisson blu because we had our 3 kids with us and they could do a suite type thing which would accommodate us all.
It was expensive and underwhelming. Room not good, issues with not enough beds etc. We had another overnight booked a few days later at the end of the trip – no attempt at service recovery.
It may have changed for the better, but the temptation to trade off the convenience alone is probably too great.
There aren’t that many choices – most of the ones on hotels.com are ok, although as Swiss Tony says, it will still feel expensive for what you end up paying. The most important thing is that the hotel’s shuttle is running after 2300.
Going to the city at that time of night will be just as expensive
I only have a lucrative amount of Hilton points for redemption and none in any other hotel chains unfortunately but the radisson comes in at £181 for the night whereas perimeter hotels are £100ish. But the radisson doesn’t even come with breakfast!
Ah – no worries, I was thinking if there was a mismatch in points / £ cost for the hotel, and there were cheap ways of buying points (I have no idea if there is), then you could consider that. All said with no real basis, just floating it 🙂
Have stayed at the Radisson at the airport a couple of times, positioning for Qatar flights the next day. It is massively convenient and saves an enormous amount of faff and potential heartache. The first time we did it, it was snowing heavily so very pleasant to be inside within a few minutes.
But, buy a bottle of gin in duty free in UK – even if you only drink half of it, it will be cheaper than one G&T in the bar!
PS: Also did a 2 night stay prior to one of the trips, mostly due to the beast from the east and possible flight cancellations ahead of our first ever ex-EU venture, but that also works well with an easy train ride into Oslo for a day trip.
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