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  • Pater Noster

    Quirky stays in West Sweden

Unusual places to stay when you visit West Sweden

Activities, experiences and sightseeing on holiday are all great, but nothing sparks the imagination quite like a quirky stay. Here are some quirky stays in West Sweden that create holiday memories all on their own.

Pater Noster.

The world’s most remote design hotel

– Pater Noster, Hamneskär

Far out to sea, the tiny island of Hamneskär in West Sweden is home to a unique hotel. Barren and windswept, with magnificent views of the open horizon, the island is crowned by the Pater Noster lighthouse.

The island was inhabited by lighthouse keepers and their families, with the occasional shipwreck survivor, for more than a century. Since then the buildings have been sympathetically renovated to retain as much of their original identity as possible, and in 2020 reopened as a sustainably operated hotel and conference venue.

The restoration has already been awarded several prestigious international prizes, including first place in the American Gold Key Awards for Excellence in Hospitality Design. In 2020 the British Telegraph newspaper named Pater Noster the year’s most exciting newly opened accommodation.

Pater Noster

Glass cabins in West Sweden.

72 Hour Cabin

– Glass cabins, several places in West Sweden

Book your relaxing stay in one of the unique glass cabins that are part of The 72 Hour Cabin and allow all the stress and demands of daily life to be buried deep in the Swedish wilderness. The glass cabins can be found at several locations in West Sweden.

The inspiration for the design of the glass houses is the barns that one typically finds in West Sweden, with the major difference that the 72 Hour Cabin’s walls and roof are made of glass and offer unhindered views of the woodlands and lakes. These glass houses truly are a sensation for all of the senses.

Glass cabins

Treehouse Hotel Islanna.

Sleep in a treehouse

– Treehouse Hotel Islanna, Falköping

In their wildest dreams Anne-Charlotte and Bo Ottosson could not have imagined that so many people would want to stay up a tree. They have built two houses in an Oak tree canopy, one called Andrum (Breathing Space) and the other Sjunde Himlen (Seventh Heaven). Both provide a relaxing stay with an adrenalin kick given that your room is suspended over 6 metres above the forest floor.

A breakfast consisting of ecological produce and stovetop baked bread is winched up to your room. Not far from the tree hotel you can see thousands of dancing cranes at Hornborgasjön in springtime.

Treehouse Hotel Islanna

 

Upperud 9:9.

The old grain silo by the water

– Upperud 9:9, Åsensbruk

Were you to travel back one hundred years in time and tell a worker here at this former granary that people would travel from far and wide to stay here, he would think you were crazy. But they do.

Upperud 9:9 is a unique, thoroughly modern hotel framed in an old granary. The French balconies and high ceilings provide a roomy feel. You never know, you may just find a grain of wheat between the floorboards here.

Upperud 9:9

Lådfabriken.

Creative seaside accommodation

– Lådfabriken, Edshultshall

When you arrive at Lådfabriken you know that this is a stay with a difference. The building sits on smooth granite rock just 30 metres from the water. It was formerly a factory producing fish crates and wooden rowing boats. In 2008 the building was purchased by Johan Buskqvist and Marcel van der Eng who have individually designed each room on colour, form and design themes.

Lådfabriken

Tavlebord Honey Farm.

Stay in a beehive

– Tavlebord Honey Farm, Orust

At Tavlebord Honey Farm you can try being a beekeeper for a day, enjoy an organic coffee and treat, taste the locally produced honey and stay over at the farm B&B - in your own hive!

Tavlebord Honey Farm

Wrågården Moose Hotel.

Sleep inside a moose

– Wrågården Moose Hotel, Falköping

There are a lot of moose in West Sweden but these noble and very large, shy beasts are sometimes difficult to spot. So not everyone gets the chance to see one.

But you can at Wrågården Elk cottage – in fact you can get very close to these amazing animals at this hotel. And even stay in a moose-shaped, cabin-style hotel room.

Wood artist Sören Niklasson chain-sawed these amazing cabins into shape and they are located in the middle of Wrågården’s moose and fallow deer park. When you step onto your veranda in the morning the sight of these beautiful animals greets you.

Wrågården Moose Hotel

Salt & Sill.

Sweden's first floating hotel

– Salt & Sill, Klädesholmen Tjörn

There are hotels offering sea views and there are hotels…that actually float in the sea. Salt & Sill floating hotel, consisting of six two-storey buildings that float on two pontoons off the gorgeous island of Tjörn, is the latter.

Sea views, sea spray, salty water – it is literally all about the sea here, from the local fishy delicacies in the restaurant, to a dip in the sea outside your hotel room door. There is also a floating sauna boat here for you to enjoy.

Scandinavian design simplicity is the order of the interiors and at night you are lulled by a lullaby of gentle waves. The hotel is located at the tip of Klädesholmen, known locally as ‘herring island’.

Salt & Sill