There are times when you want to push the metaphorical boat out. When you're looking to slip into something a little more exclusive. With those moments in mind, here's our insider's guide to Stockholm's fanciest hotels.
Stockholm’s Grand Hotel has issued an unprecedented public apology for hosting an awards ceremony for European right-wing politicians, following a storm of angry protest.
Petter Stordalen, the owner of the Nordic Choice Hotel Group, has performed a swift U-turn by re-introducing bacon at the chain's Swedish hotels, just a week after banning processed meat.
Sausages and bacon have been taken off the menu at some Swedish hotels after the owner of one of Scandinavia’s biggest chains yielded to the influence of his environmental campaigner wife.
Hotels aren't just the preserve of tourists in Stockholm. They are also home to some of the hippest drinking spots loved by locals. Here's our pick of places to stay snuggly during autumn and winter.
One of the rockstars of the travel industry, Norwegian Petter Stordalen, meant to make a James Bond style entrance as he jet skied to a hotel opening in Sweden's Malmö. Instead, his clumsy crash made international headlines.
UPDATED: Hotel reservation website Booking.com has agreed to allow hoteliers in Sweden to charge cheaper online prices elsewhere, following a long legal battle.
Hotels in the Swedish countryside are OK for a slumber, but a slumber party or anything more advanced involving wining and dining? Forget it, thought <b>Paul Connolly</b>... until he stumbled across a jewel.
A woman who died at a Stockholm hotel late last month after being raped could have been saved if the police had better telephone and radio coverage, a new internal report has revealed.
When a Chinese billionaire commissioned the Dragon Gate hotel "to unite China and Sweden", he probably never imagined that it would still be without a single paying customer ten years on. The Local finds out more as the motorway oddity nears its tenth anniversary.
A 58-year-old Swedish-born hotel owner in Austria said skills acquired during Swedish military training helped him survive after he was trapped for four days in the lift of his abandoned hotel without food, water or central heating.
Swedish furniture giant Ikea has roped in US hotel chain Marriott for its long-discussed launch of a new branch of budget traveller hotels across Europe.
Tourists visiting Stockholm face a greater chance of being ripped off by taxi drivers than almost every other major city in the world, The Local's <b>Geoff Mortimore</b> discovers.
Emergency crews were called to a hotel in central Sweden on Wednesday morning to help free an employee who had become trapped behind a bed following a staff party.
A hotel in the popular Swedish ski resort Åre advertised through a website, on travel blogs as well as being featured on a tourist website of the area, turned out to be fake when a local paper revealed that there has never been a hotel in that location.
Residents in one of Stockholm's wealthiest districts are up in arms over proposals for a bijou exclusive hotel, planned by one of the country’s most well known venture capitalists.
