Malmö Arena — Attraction in Malmö kommun

I had a chance to visit Malmo Arena during a ESC week in Malmo in May 2023. I got lucky to buy tickets for all 3 Live Shows, and I had a fantastic and unforgettable time! The arena is away from Malmo City Center, but it is easy to get there using different ways - by a metro (only 1-2 stops from Malmo Center), by a bus, by a taxi (I personally used Uber/Bolt, and my ride was only €13) or by an electric scooter (Malmo has very nice and safe bike lines all over town). The arena is located near a shopping mall, in case if you need some place to hang out before a show. Also another plus is a McDonalds right next to the arena which is open until late in case if you get hungry after a show. The metro station is right next to the arena, by the way. The arena looks outdated and not fresh from the outside, it definitely needs a “face lifting”. Inside some parts also needs be remodeled, but in general everything looked good. The arena was very clean every single time I went there. I liked the fact that little food stops were all over, almost next to each entrance to the audience. The same good situation with the toilets. Well, again, I believe that men toilets needs to be remodeled, and maybe they need to use some air sense to fight with the clearly sensitive toilet smell. The audience which was built for ESC was absolutely outstanding! Probably this year there was one of the best Eurovision stages ever! The way the lights were made and the way they were working were magical! Sweden always use the highest modern technologies to support shows like Melodifestivalen or Eurovision. Big respect for that! To my knowledge, the arena this year could fit about 15000 people, and every single show was completely full. The only one gap inside of the audience to me was seats count. It was easy to find Sections and Raws, but the actual seats positions were very weird located. For example, seat #1 could be located in the middle of a raw, and not in the beginning what you would expect. I had #1 seat on one show, by the way, and I was tricked this way, not paying an attention on a number on a sticker and thinking that the first row’s seat was #1. The arena has free Wi-Fi. And it was super fast uploading videos to my social media taking like 10-15 seconds, which was incredible, because imagine how many thouthands of people were using Wi-Fi! Finishing up my review, I want to say that I had a fantastic experience inside of Malmo Arena! My only one general statement is that the some parts of the arena needs to be remodeled at some point on the future. I hope to come back to Malmo again one day and watch a show like...

Very good Arena, modern and clean. But I really need to rant about one thing: Ignoring my Advice to not take Water with them, my friends wasted 4 Litres of Water. If we can't take it inside, someone could've at least reused it in any way. Maybe give it to the homeless, just let it stand somewhere or something. But why throw it away? I understand that you don't want Alcohol, but sealed Waterbottles? Anyway, inside there is a bar I believe. We just tried to find something to sit while we wait and found some chairs in said bar (it really didn't scream "yo guys here is a bar", it basically looked like normal Chairs the Arena-Guests could sit in). Long story short, we bought Water earlier INSIDE the Arena. Once the show began, we quickly stood up and needed to throw the Water away AGAIN. INSIDE THE ARENA WE JUST BOUGHT IT IN. BECAUSE WE SAT IN A "BAR". WHO THOUGHT OF THAT,...

Great hotel if you are visiting an event at the arena but the hotel struggles to cope with the volume of guests. At breakfast we had to wait 30 minutes which took away the pleasure of a relaxing breakfast. The room and the bathroom were also very small. The congestion around the elevators was very unpleasant at times, and I saw people leave the hotel due to the situation. Staff were not what I would normally expect at a Best Western, very little eye contact or helpfulness. Perhaps they were short of staff, however the cost of a room isn't a small amount and should be sufficient to cover...