Clarion Hotel® Ernst

Booked a "de-lux" room. In all fairness the room was spacious and sort of nice. However there were no windows. Ventilation was inadequate and no daylight to wake me up in the morning. Lack of windows made room depressing and boring. I tried to let front desk know that I preferred room with window but were told none were available. Only a few rooms actually had external windows... and those were also sealed to prevent guests from opening them. Tried a red wine from mini bar. It was spoilt with big chunks of red stuff in it... "Cash free hotel" prevents me from using cash for my bar purchases - thus exposing my bar bill to my wife back home. This is also a practice prohibited by law in Norway but hotel is not bothered by following the law. Breakfast was crowded... but food was sort of ok. Nice choice of hot food. Too few coffee machines and long queues for a cup of coffee... Lobby bar closes at midnight on a Saturday evening. Slow and less than competent staff .. Way too expensive for this kind of hotel. Also they wanted to charge me more for parking than advertised on their webpage... only argumebting that "prices went up". Really not nice. Next time we try another hotel even though we are somewhat committed by membership in loyalty program. Just not good enough.

The Hotel deliveres as good as the Nice pictures og and on the Hotel. Serviceminded Staff, Nice and clean rooms. The trainingroom whas good enough. Bed was good and breakfast was also very good. I Will Come back to This Hotel. I can recomend the Autum burger, that was realy good as well!

fantastic beds and excellent breakfast, quite dark rooms and furniture (mix from starwars aesthetics and jamesbond`s seventies, but worse), the sauna and gym o.k., lunch and dinner simple (not much to choose). The coffee and tea could be better. We were not informed that there was a renovation going on so that the building was packed in plastic...and it was loud in the morning. Nice personal, especially in the restaurant.

We use that hotel for a stopover to reach the ferry the next morning. location for this is ideal. within 5 mns drive you are at the ferry dock, so for the 8 am boat you can leave the hotel by 7:10- 7:20. butr back to the hotel. some parking lots in an underground garage directly next to the hotel - we were lucky to get one of the last ones. elevator from there to hotel defect / under construction. friendly staff at reception. elevator to second floor defect. no "can we help you with your luggage?". rooms nice (we had ours towards the open patio in the newer part of the hotel (rooms to the road might be noisier). disappointing: garbage bin in the bathroom was not cleaned up from previous stay, and minibar contained empty whine bottle. breakfast buffet was very good - unfortunately not eniugh time to enjoy it.

We stayed overnight here en route to Stavanger in the train. We had a warm welcome from the staff and our room was very comfortable and clean. The en suite bathroom has a nice shower but a rubber mat and a bathmat would be useful as it gets very slippery. The decor in reception is quite funky and we enjoyed a nightcap in the gold throne chairs. Lastly thanks to the staff for finding a taxi for us to the station. It was quite moist on the way!