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Rost is not a big place, but this hotel seems to be very central. It offers a restaurant and a pub, the latter is really a lounge where you can sit down for a pint or a glass of wine that you purchase at the reception, it also doubles up as waiting room for passengers for the ferry to the rest of Lofoten or the mainland. The information folder was not particularly updated, one might say, some of the information in the folder in the pub dated back to 2014. The rooms were ok, but the bathroom was not particularly clean, neither were the upstairs corridors where most of the rooms were to be found. If you tend to wake up at the sound of a needle dropping, you might want to ask for a room overlooking the parking lot and not the sound across which you find an old house full of black-legged kittiwakes, they are noisy! Otherwise, the breakfast was decent enough. Dinner in the restaurant is well worth the money, the fish soup was excellent. Especially so after a day out on the boat to Skomvaer. The lighthouse outside of Rost itself. I do recommend a trip by the boat Inger Helen rather than by rib. It takes longer, but is far more personalised experience. Also, you can rent bikes from the hotel, dead easy, no traffic to worry about and simply the best way to see the island. No worries about the bikes being stolen when you park outside a shop, a restaurant or somewhere else.
