Thon Hotel Polar

Great location, close to all city shops etc. Staff were very friendly and helpful. Breakfast was amazing.

The hotel is situated in a perfected location with joint access to a lovely restaurant next door. It’s no more than a 5 minute walk to the harbour. There are buses within a 2 minute walk to easily access the airport and other destinations. The staff are super friendly and make you feel very welcome. The rooms are decorated nicely and are very clean, the beds are comfortable and the room is kept warm so you don’t feel the cold in the winter months. We had lovely views of the church and the mountains. The breakfast was very nice and run from very early to 10:30 each morning, there was so much choice.

The room was spacious and provided some space to hang our coats. It lacked the usual luggage rack or any closed space (drawers, wardrobe) to store clothes. The bed was spacious and very comfortable to sleep in. Overall, the room offered plenty of space to also sit and relax. Bathroom was spacious and had a huge walk-in shower with good pressure and temperature. Nothing really to complain here, apart from a broken toilet seat cover (might have been difficult to repair over the Easter holidays). The breakfast was pretty awesome. The hot food sections had nice fried veggies, roasted cauliflower, omelette, eggs in all possible preparations, bacon, ... The cold cuts sections had several meat cuts and sausages, in addition to a good cheese selection. Really nothing missing here. Lactose and gluten free options were also available. Several freshly baked breads were provided. Good selection of muesli ingredients. The coffee was a wide choice of Nespresso capsules.

Great location, good variety of options at breakfast, staff were friendly and helpful, room cleaning was done daily, given it was fully booked we were surprised at how quiet it was which was fantastic. We would stay again.

Our room was small, with a large window which lookout onto a roof area, and further back the walls other buildings, so natural lighting flowed into the room. A small fridge, electric kettle for tea making. Bathroom was compact, though with a comfortable layout. Quarter circle curved style shower recess, excellent flow of hot water and a sensible shower rose with good coverage. Bright well-lit bathroom, ample supply of thick towels. Our stay should have been two nights however in our previous destination our Hurtigruten vessel did not pick up passengers due to bad weather, so one night only in Hotel Polar. At night our room 258 had noises coming from the floor area above, as if someone was doing light maintenance, disturbing, on and off as it was after midnight and between 3and 4 am. Breakfast as with all Thon hotels we used was excellent.