Queen of Stockholm's hotels (Hotels in Stockholm)

Member Name: Pinotage

Product:	Hotels in Stockholm
Date:	07/01/01 (94 review reads)
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Advantages: Wonderful location and ambience

Disadvantages: Tiny rooms and expensive

I've been on a millionaire's luxury yacht only once in my life. It didn't go anywhere but was wonderful.

Barbara Hutton's ship became hotel Mälardrottningen in 1982. It is moored alongside Stockholms old town at Riddarholmen island. You couldn't be more central. Proles like me can use Gamlastan underground rail station, a couple of hundred yards from the gangplank while other guests use the helicopter landing pad on a raft moored a little behind the ship.

When I hear the word yacht I think of a sailing boat, but Barbara Hutton was a millionaire's daughter when a million really was worth a million. Her eighteenth birthday present was this cruise ship with sixty rooms, a restaurant and bar and sauna.

The rooms or cabins are tiny. I had a single cabin with a shower room/toilet. A small desk had been squeezed in with a TV and phone. The true joy of the cabin is waking to the splendid view of Lake Mälaren from your porthole.

There are great views from breakfast room in the bridge of the City Hall,- where Nobel award ceremonies are held, and the royal churches of the old town. Setting off for the day is special when you must cross a gangplank to dry land, but even better is returning in the evening to a drink in the wood paneled bar in the wheelhouse.

Mälardrottningen - which means 'Queen of Lake Mälaren' - is a first class luxury hotel with prices to match. If you must have more room than these cabins can offer then the nearby Sheraton has the largest rooms in Stockholm. But for a unparalleled location and the chance to stay in a millionaires luxury yacht Mälardrottningen hotel has no equal.

Mälardrottningen Hotel
Riddarholmen 111 28
Stockholm

tel: +46 8 24 36 00
web: www.malardrottningen.se

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