Adrian B.
Yelp
Nearly a year ago (I know, I've been lazy), we flew to Stockholm and thence to Sigtuna for our wedding. We landed that night at -15 and it got down to -22. It was mostly around -12 during the day thereafter
We stayed 3 nights at the Sigtuna Stadshotell. We fully recommend it, but it was a comedy of errors - but you know what, it was so lovely, we were happy, and they did their best to sort things out
I have included a few photos of Sigtuna itself - you couldn't wish for a more wonderful place to get married. Let's start with the Hotel itself
We checked in - nice, friendly staff; good start. We went to our room and...it was absolutely freezing. There were 2 heaters but neither was on, nor could we get them to work. They gave us a portable heater...and then a second one...at last some warmth - and this was a huge room
We went downstairs while it warmed up: they gave us some lovely snacks, sandwiches and cakes, not to mention the scotch, rum and coffees
A man came the next day to fix the heaters - he did (but we kept the 2 portable ones anyway). He had to come back twice more: once to fix the (orthopaedic) bed which had jammed in a difficult position, and again when the hairdryer blew up when plugged in
We were out all the next day - write ups elsewhere - and in the evening they produced some very nice cakes things for us with our nightcap
Wedding day - up early and out at 9:30 to get flowers, wedding cake and oh, yes, get married and have lunch, back at 16:30. Hmm what's going on? Apparently there was no electricity for all that time; it had only just been fixed. Good thing we hadn't ordered our wedding lunch for here (we had originally - but that's a story for later) - all the julbord lunch guests were of course impacted - but they somehow sorted it all out
Up in the morning for breakfast (super BTW, and see photos for the view) to check out and depart for the Waterfront in Stockholm...agggaahhh, no hot water...well no, of course not, since there had been no electricity all yesterday! We dressed, they gave us towels and passes and off we went in the snow to the nearest gym, which had agreed to let their guests shower
You couldn't make all this up!
I mentioned the wedding lunch - we had originally wanted to have our lunch at the hotel but they said they were only doing julbord (you get enough of that as it is...) so we booked elsewhere. On arrival, they were astounded to hear that - of course they would have accommodated us and allowed us to sort out a menu with them. As it turned out, good job we didn't
Seriously, Sigtuna is a marvellous and magical place and I have put some narrative to all the pictures so you get some idea
And if we go back we would stay here again - it's a super Hotel