Quite spooky to spend a night at the hospital but once you get beyond that this is not a bad deal. Bergen hotels tend to be super pricey. Norwegian standards for hotels is rather average compared with American hotels. Here is my bottom line advice: if you have problems in terms of mobility, and if you can not afford a cab to go back and forth from the hotel to the city, then stay in a hotel downtown. You have to take a bus to go downtown. THe bus stop is behind the train station: you will see absolutely no sign as to how to get there. You better be in good health without heavy luggage if you want to go up a steep but short hill up to the bus stop. I keep harping on this as I am thinking of folks who are worn out and have 2-80lbs luggages each. Transportation is rather cheap. The ride by bus is less than 15 minutes. Once you get there, you stll have to walk about 1/2 mile to the hotel. It is slightly uphill. We enjoyed staying away from the city: the hotel area is super quiet. We could not find the hotel after we got off at the bus stop so we flagged off an Ambulance [ YEP, we were really desperate ] and they gave us a ride. Imagine arriving at the hotel check in in an ambulance! Kidding aside, the Nordics folks are amazingly nice. The price, booked last minute, was half of what hotels were asking for downtown. TV sucks but we were not in the room to worry about that. The room itself was roomy. The mattresses are thin: same in most hotels where we stayed in Norway. Double Bed = 2 single beds that you will need to move side by side to make a larger bed. Both beds are on rollers: just like in hospitals. Breakfast was free and does the job: definitely not a healthy hospital meal! *smile* No Internet access in the rooms but again we were in Bergen to be outdoors. Bergen is a great city to start your Norwegian dream vacation. Spend at most, and I mean at most, 2 days in the city itself. Spend the rest in the outdoors along the coast. Skip Oslo if you had to choose between Oslo and Bergen.

We arrived in Bergen, on the cross country train from Oslo, just before 6pm with no room booked. The train guard had warned us that there were no rooms available in Bergen and was advising people to get off a few stops earlier at Voss. We risked going on to Bergen and spent an hour or so in the tourist information office - waiting to see if they could find us a room. We were given directions and paid for our first night at the Haukeland Hotel and found it pretty easily after a short bus ride half way up the Ulrikken mountain. The receptionist who booked us in was very friendly and explained the hotel is used for hospital patients and their relatives only in the winter, but in the summer they rent out rooms to tourists. Our room was clean and more than adequate, a large single bed and a sofa bed. A balcony and en suite toilet/shower and a TV. Breakfast the next morning was very extensive and we booked to stay in the room another night we liked it so much - and it was half the price of our room near Oslo!

I arrived in Bergen in the ferry at 9pm without a hotel to go to, and managed to get the last room available in the city via the Tourist Information. As with the previous reviewer I was surprised to find it was 'attached' to the hospital. But I was pleasantly surprised by the size and comfort of the rooms, and the amenities in the general area for the very reasonable price they charged - and an extensive breakfast selection! Would happily stay there again or recommend to anyone looking for reasonably priced, clean and pleasant accommodation not too far from the city

I was impressed when I saw the place from the station: it sits up on the side of the big northern mountain ridge. No, wait, that's the HOSPITAL! It's a hospital's hotel, for patients and families. It didn't say that anywhere on the website I found. Anyway, it's about a 10-minute walk from the bus stop -- a mostly pleasant walk. But the good thing was BIG rooms. A sofa, large bathroom... space to spread out in. I stayed for three days and really liked it. The best square foot-for-$ value I got in 8 European rooms! At $70, a steal in Bergen. It's the most expensive city I've ever been to and I live in Japan!