Skansen Hostel

No reception, No entering telephone calls.Bathroom small and not convenient. Water stay on the floor. No place to put soap & shampoo in the shower. Old TV with limited chanels (Norwegien). However - excellent location!!! and relatively good breakfast in Victoria hotel. The price is considered low in Norway in comparison to other hotels, but Norway is expensive and the feeling is that you get less for paying much money.

Very NOISY, no Elevator, if summer is hot and your room is facing the sun in the evening time, i can imagine you can never sleep at all, cause there is no air-con. You have to go to Hotel Victoria to coordinate everything.

Feels more like a hostel than a hotel. Bathroom is not very nice and toilet is far too high (feet cannot touch the floor!!!). Awful smell in the corridor. As front door is also the entrance to the bar, bangs continuously during the evening

The hotel is mainly an old B&B, borrowing the reception and breakfast from the neighbouring Hotel Wictoria. Tiny rooms, with a minimal bed, tiny tv, and generally rundown all over. However; for one night, with NO family or spouse it will work ok.

A really bad hotel: my doubleroom was a single room, no cleaning of the bathroom when I was there, the breakfast at Victoria hotel was not very good at all, the room was of a very low standard. Quite noisy street, very warm room, and a risk to set off the firealarm when taking a shower. For 20-30 € more, you will get an hotel of a much higher standard in Stavanger -a real hotel. However, centrally located, good wifi.

This is a crappy 2 star hotel to a 4 star price. I could hear the breathing from the neighbour room and the sigh when I asked her to turn down the volume on the TV. Never again!

Look, Norway is an expensive destination. If you could care about facilities and the ambience don't choose this hotel. If all you need is a bed (and a single one at that) then this hotel ticks a lot of boxes. If you fly budget airlines and accept all the comprimises that entails then think of this as another link in that chain! The location is simply spot on so if that's important then you'll be happy.

This hotel just does not worth its price. Reception and breakfast are in the hotel next door, just the street to cross, no big deal. But, the hotel just looks like it's not finished, the furniture is really cheap, the bathroom is very very small without even a shower tub! Yet, the room is clean at least. Finally, I have to recommend it anyway as the prices in Stavanger are just awfully expensive, even compared to the rest of Norway and Skansen is the cheapest I could find.

Excellent breakfast at nearby hotel. Convenient location near city center.

Great location, great breakfast, a bit pricey, but that's Norway. I don't understand other reviewers concerns about checking in at the hotel next door. The entrance and hallways look industrial, but I wasn't staying in the hallway. The room was very clean, bed was VERY comfortable, the TV worked, the shower was hot, bathroom clean, there was a little grocery store around the corner, what more do you need? I think all rooms face on the street, so it was a little noisy with the window open, but the hotel is a couple of blocks from the outside noisy bars, so couldn't hear any of that.