Feels Like Home

Modern, clean flat a wee bit out of town, but close to good public transport links - 6-8 mins from a tram hub, <5 mins to the bus stop. The flat was plenty big enough for a family of 4. All the appliances are modern. I quite liked that the laundry room and bathroom were the same room, you rarely see that in the UK. It means that all your washing can stay in that room till it comes out clean. The huge worktop in the laundry/bathroom meant there was plenty of storage space for all our toiletries and laundry detergents. There is even a little office room - very handy for storing unused suitcases and souvenirs. The flat had a cute little balcony too, which proved handy for drying stuff, though our balcony didn't get a lot of sun - wrong side of the building.

Note that these are really nitpicky - compare them to my positive comments, this really is a lovely flat: Most places I've stayed on Booking.com have had more than 1 loo roll provided, some biscuits or chocolates on the table, in one case a small bottle of milk in the fridge. This place was very light on the welcome compared to other places we've stayed...3 sachets of instant coffee and 4 portions of long life milk. The nearest place to buy anything was a 20 min walk away at 7pm on a Sunday, so we spent the first hour of our stay in Lidl! It's worth noting that this flat overlooks a huge secondary school. We visited during the summer vacation, but I can imagine this place is quite noisy and busy at school start and end times. There wasn't anywhere handy to hang towels to dry. We needed the clothes airer for drying clothes, and there's only one hook in the bathroom. We ended up hanging them on the coat rack, but I don't know what we'd have done if we'd been rained on and needed to dry coats. In case the owner does read this...someone's swiped your mop. A proper mop bucket was provided, but there's no mop in the flat! Who takes a mop home?

No air conditioning but the summers are getting quite hot in Norway.