Quality Airport Hotel Gardermoen

The stay was my first night on a 3 weeks' trip to southern Africa. This hotel served us the most disgusting lukewarm beer on the entire 3 weeks' trip, and by far the most expensive! Even in the middle of the Kalahari desert, with 40 degrees Celsius, we got proper beer!

Due to a flight diversion from Gothenburg to Oslo due to stormy weather in Gothenburg, we were offered one night here. And it was a pleasant stay. New, modern and fresh hotel. The room was nice and the bed comfortable. Excellent breakfast.

I came to a room that wasn't cleaned up after the previous guest, fortunately for me the staff was very fastly giving me an upgraded room. Excellent room with a lot of facilities. The breakfast is outstanding!

For the first time in life I must have mixed up dates when booking as we turned up and there was no booking on us that day. But luckily the receptionist helped us change it even if it was unchangable... The room was great, the dinner at the brasserie was excellent, as was the service there. Breakfast was top notch. We will definitively come back another time.

This was out of my comfort zone - an airport hotel that isn’t at the airport. Getting the shuttle bus from the airport is a challenge - I knew I had to get the S-22 but the signs at the airport are poor and the nettbuss website has broken links. Not the hotel’s fault but it would help if your website indicated which bus stop to go to. Next shock was the 70NOK ($8) for the pleasure of the bus ride - surely airport shuttles are normally free? Bus ride took about ten minutes and it dropped me right in front of the hotel into an enormous puddle. So after some acrobatics to get off the bus without submerging myself or my luggage I was checking in. Very helpful reception staff. The hotel looks like it’s recently been refurbished so is very clean and smart. The downside of this is that they’ve chosen dark colours throughout which makes the experience pretty depressing whether you’re in a meeting room or your own room. But no complaints about the room itself which had no frills but was comfortable. Food - buffet lunch and breakfast - was to a high standard, although lunch appeared to be the same each day. Dinner was ok - but trying to be a bit too clever as some of the flavour combinations didn’t work. The best thing about the hotel, surprisingly given my introduction, turned out to be the location. In two minutes you’re in the woods, from which you can walk or run around a lake (Nordbytjernet) and although you’re constrained by some big roads, you can do some good running routes. The hotel is huge, and has lots of conference facilities. So to compare with Radisson Blu at the airport, Quality gives more freedom to get outdoors if you’re not just flying in and flying out, which I value quite a lot. So four stars. Otherwise I think Radisson Blu is preferable.