Hotel Mundal

This hotel is off the beaten trail. Not difficult to get to, but not in town or village. It dates from 1891, and many of the furnishings look original. It has a terrific Victorian look and feel about it. I just adored the place. Beds could be a little bigger (I am 6 feet 3 inches), but like the rest of the hotel, the beds are old timey classic. I took plenty of pictures, and no rain til I was about to leave, and even the rain was beautiful in the romantic view. Great staff, great price, especially for Norway. If you want high rise steel and glass, do not go here. If you want to see Norway, cool place.

Hope they never renovate and upgrade this old pearl. It is fantastic to be given an iron key, made back in the day when this wooden hotel was built. The location is fantastic, great view of the fjord and the mountains. Not the greatest wine and dine, but unbeatable on historic atmosphere. Hope the owner understands and appreciate the importance of keeping it in its original fashion.

This is a sad story that I hate to tell. The husband visited this hotel about 40 years ago, and has, since then, always said it was the only place he would pay to go back to. Well, we actually planned our Norway trip around staying here, so it was an important stop. Well, driving up to the hotel I could tell the town seemed a little beat. But then we got to the hotel. Oh My! So bad! I was hoping the husband wouldn't notice! Paint chipping and cracking, roof in terrible disrepair, grounds unkempt. Even the foundation looks bad! So very sad this place is. The inside is not much better. The employees are all foreigners and really don't seem to care much about anything. We had the Tower Room - sort of the king of the road! But so worn out! The furniture was like Grandma's attic, and the beautiful porch was all peeling paint and mold. So, so sad.||We went to dinner in the dining room, and this is very good news. It was one of the best dinners I had in Norway!! Who could have guessed?!? I had delicious tomato soup and lamb chops. Breakfast was OK, too.||So. We had the opportunity to talk with several people about the hotel. Rumor has it that the family that had owned it forever had to eventually sell, and the buyer, who promised to fix it up and care for it, had fallen short of his promises. Very sad, indeed.

1. Location: great view of the fjord and the mountains.||2. Services: Excellent, Staff are friendly and helpful.||3. Breakfast: Complimentary and great choices.||4. Condition:1891 built with iron key, clean, very quiet place for sleep, But the outlet need to be updated to fit the new device ||5. Parking: free||6. Wifi: free||7. Will recommend it

We were traveling by boat and visited this hotel for dinner. The hotel is historic and charming. We were a group of 7 and had booked that morning. The meal exceeded our expectations - the presentation of our tomato soup was lovely and the halibut delicious. The service was attentive.

This historic hotel has a wonderful location to the fjords and glaciers. The hotel is in need of some work, but the interior is mostly lovely and historic. Large, beautiful dining ( except for the ugliest ceiling lamps I have ever seen) with classical music in the background. We had a room adjacent to the stairway - which I would not recommend. Very noisy as guests came and went - a whole busload arriving at midnight and leaving at 06 banging up and down the stairs. Single beds pushed together for a double bed. Not a person who speaks Norwegian here! All staff are from lithuania , and speak English. They are all very pleasant and accommodating, but it seems strange in such a historic place.

We hired a car in Bergen and traipsed our way for a few days around western Norway, trying to stay in real hotels. A mixed bag, with a range of disengaged staff, under-invested-in properties, and crap American white wine being passed off as Chablis. Until we got to the glorious Hotel Mundal on beautiful Fjærland Fjord. |I'm sure it helped that the weather was perfect and a 100 ft old style cruiser was sitting in the fjord, but Hotel Mundal still commanded the village of bookshops and lovely houses like a duchess. We had the Tower Room, which is generous, balconied, and had the best bathroom view imaginable up the fjord to the glacier. A drink on the terrace (split a 1/2 of pleasant champagne to celebrate my wife's birthday the day before - hotel that night in Geiranger hadn't anything vaguely appropriate), a walk through the village, a visit to the Glacier Museum and then the best small hotel dinner we had - eaten in lovely big room, well presented food, cooked with even a little flair. Capped off by a complimentary desert for my wife because the lovely Polish waiter had overheard us talking about her birthday on the terrace! |Sure the old lady could use some work - and it's coming soon, according to our chat with the owner on checking out. But regardless, this grand hotel is true to its heritage in every important way, from the passion of the owner to the enthusiasm and courtesy of the staff, from the grand scale to the detail of the stencils around the cornices, from the (discretely displayed) lists of grand visitors to the perfect furniture. |If you can't tell, we loved it and will be back.

Lovely view, fantastic nature! But please remember to look after the building as it needs care and renovation. To use showercutains in front of bedroom windows is not good. Nice breakfast and friendly staff.