Hotel Rondablikk — Hotel in Nord-Fron

This hotel is located near the Rondablikk National Park, which is way out of the city centre and in the nature, with several cottage houses, plantations, horse stables, plantations, mountains, river lakes are located. If you are a nature lover, you will probably like the place, if not, you should consider elsewhere especially if you are a shoppaholic!||||This is the 4th hotel and possibly the "worst" hotel we have stayed in our recent Scandinavia tour. To us, it does resemble a holiday chalet and not a hotel and it looked dated despite of recent renovation in the 2-storey building. The lobby was small and was decorated with many animal displays (like the polar and brown bears as shown) and specimens all over. Check in was slow and instead of using the card-activated room, our room key was the "old and traditional" type, a heavy ring bunch of key. And there was no lift here.||||Our room was 212 and it was small but fairly speaking quite ok. The bed was small (wonder how a bigger size person will be able to sleep) and toilet was small too. There was no TV, kettle, fridge and phone (so don't expect any morning call!). But the window view is nice, looking into the nature, with lots of greenery, mountains, clouds and lakes, just like a nature painting!||||Although there is Wifi and is free, you will not be able to get connection in the room, so you will need to be at the lobby or cafe to be able to stay connected. So in the evening, many people opened their room doors and stood at the corridor passage way trying their luck and hoping to get some connection but were generally disappointed! ||||Since there were no TV or internet connection, activities in the room were limited except sleeping! Generally, there was no entertainment and you can forget about your FB, Instalgram or social media!||||We had both dinner and breakfast at the cafe on the same level. The cafe was quite nice though, with lots of wooden crafts and decors. Both the meals were buffet styled and the spread was not fantastic but were generally ok, especially the salmon and fish items (dinner) but the breakfast spread was quite limited.||||There was a big common/activity area at the lower floor with a big TV screen, sofa seats, a piano, game and activities room (including a table tennis table) for guests to enjoy! Perhaps the kids would love it.||||Staff's service was generally ok as they were quite friendly and helpful.||||We had a good walk after dinner outside along the country road to have a good view of the scenery. It was tranquil and scenic and despite of the rain and extremely cold feeling, we walked quite far and long since it was still bright at 9pm! The air was fresh and cooling and always great to be at our mother's nature arms!||||It was OK for staying here one night but if you are staying longer, you may get bored as there is nothing much to do here except sightseeing the nature.||||We would give it a between 2.5-3 star though we feel it is still not too strong on a solid 3-rating (but since we are unable to give a 0.5 rating, we...

If there was an option to put zero stars for this review, I would. Unfortunately the biggest disappointment ever, and I've traveled alot. Booked a family room. Out dated, but that's completely ok. But the kitchen was missing majority of the items needed to actually cook food, even just a simple breakfast. The public areas like restrooms and pool area, they were not cleaned. It was disgusting. During the stay from friday-sunday it was not cleaned, toilet paper and soap dispensers still empty and stuff on the floor that hadn't been removed made it evident that they didn't even attempt to clean. Young staff was ok, but they were not very attentive and I saw them alot on their phones. Woman in the front desk is extremely rude. Her dog running around in the food hall, which she claims is not a problem nor against restaurant regulations. I saw one of the workers exit the kitchen with the dog leash in his hands which makes me worried about the food safety in that kitchen. And the food - don't even get me started. Buffet with re heated food (Im assuming), that didn't taste good at all. We were 8 adults and none of us were able to eat anything, basically. When trying to talk to the woman in the front desk when checking out, she had an excuse for everything and didn't seem to care too much but ended up, surprisingly enough, cancelling the whole bill. Really sad, because the location is top notch and the possibilites theres are endless. Hope they are able to turn it around. Until then, I won't be coming back - nor should...

Das Hotel Rondablikk liegt einfach traumhaft: In alle Richtungen schaut man in den wunderschönen Rondane-Nationalpark. Das Hotel ist groß und verfügt über mehrere Zimmer. |Unsere Zimmer (Hauptgebäude Erdgeschoss) waren wie Jugendherbergszimmer eingerichtet: Billiges Baumaterial oberflächlich und z.T. kopflos wirkend verbaut - z.B. war im Bad ein winzig kleines Waschbecken sehr tief angebracht, etwa wie in einer KiTa. Es wirkte, als habe man den Spiegel zuerst angeklebt und dann festgestellt, dass ein Waschbecken fehlte. Im geräumigen Zimmer gab es ein sehr leichtes, etwas klappriges Bett, einen Stuhl, eine kleine Garderobe mit 4 Bügeln und einen kleinen Hocker. An der Wand hing ein Gemälde, das von 3 Leuchten angestrahlt wurde, von denen 2 kaputt waren. Eine gute Ablagemöglichkeit gab es nicht. Wir waren wandern und hatten dadurch Wechsel- und Regenkleidung und der Platz reichte einfach nicht. Superschön war, dass es eine Terrasse gab. Die Tür dorthin klemmt etwas, da das Holz verzogen war und sich wohl niemand vom Hotel kümmerte. Auch der Öffnungsmechanismus des Fensters war oben schon kaputt. (Man konnte ihn als zusätzlichen Haken benutzen.) Einen Zimmerservice gibt es hier nicht. |Im Bad war das Waschen schwierig (Waschbecken kurz über Kniehöhe) und die Dusche lief nicht richtig ab. Ich habe den Fehler gemacht und die Abflussabdeckung abgenommen. Sie war voller fremder Haare. Ich habe daraufhin im Hotelbad geduscht, da lief das Wasser ab. |Das Hotelbad ist ebenfalls in die Jahre gekommen, überall Stockflecken an Decken und Wänden. Der Pool selbst ist wirklich gut und groß genug, ca. 12,5 m lang, man kann durchaus Bahnen schwimmen. Er hatte an der wärmeren Seite 26 °C. |Der Teppich auf dem Flur roch ganz schön muffig und durch Zufall entdeckten wir den sehr traurigen Fitness-Raum des Hotels. Hier lagen alte Schuhe und ein Rucksack herum und der Raum wirkte abschreckend. Zum Glück kann man in der Umgebung aber ganz wundervoll wandern gehen. Das Hotel liegt in einer Ferienhaussiedlung mit einem Tante-Emma-Laden mit angrenzendem Café (Filterkaffee und 2-4 Sorten ganz leckerem Kuchen/Teilchen). Direkt neben dem Hotel findet man auch ein Peer-Gynt-Denkmal. |Im Hotel gibt es unfassbar viele ausgestopfte Tiere. Wer sich dafür interessiert, wird hier seine helle Freude haben. Damit sich die Kleinen daran gewöhnen, gibt es im Kinderspielzimmer 7 überlebensgroße Plüsch-Tierköpfe. Nachdem ich sie alle zusammengelegt und fotografiert hatte, waren sie am nächsten Tag weggeräumt. ||Zum Frühstück gab es zuerst Toast. Am 3. Tag kam eine koreanische Reisegruppe an, die wohl auch mehr bezahlten (Sie bekamen z.B. Servietten und einen gedeckten Tisch zum Abendessen). Dadurch gab es sogar Mohnbrötchen. Die Aufstrich- und Aufschnittauswahl war groß und vielfältig, Eier, Müsli, Kaffee... alles fein. Das Abendessen (als Buffet) schmeckte sehr gut und die Auswahl war groß. |Das Personal war...