Åndalsnes Hostel

Your experience with this hostel will depend on which part you’re staying in. We saw there were some lovely apartments in the main building with balconies and kitchens. We stayed in a smaller house across from the main one. We found that the check in was very impersonal. “Here’s your key, there’s your place, off you go.” The first issue was that the bedroom was so tiny that we couldn’t open either of our suitcases inside nor could we store them in the bedroom. We had to have them outside the bedroom door in the stairwell where we also would open and close them. Secondly there was no breakfast. Thirdly, while we were up one flight of stairs, the bathrooms were two levels below us in the basement which was really cumbersome. At least the bathrooms were clean. The downstairs kitchen was pretty poorly equipped and crowded. Had to eat my breakfast out of a saucepan because the couple of bowls that they had were being used. My recommendation if you want to stay here and seek at least some comfort is to fork out the big bucks and stay in the apartments. Otherwise you’ll just be paying for an overpriced chicken coop.