About us

Who we are

We are a couple with three kids, living in Oslo. We’ve worked many years as journalists and editors in the Norwegian media industry – including travel journalism, with trips to different continents. Travelling has always been our happy hobby, so we go to far more places than we could ever write about. Scandinavian Stays is a place for us to share only the very best: the stays we can’t stop talking about when we get home.

How we choose hotels

We only write about hotels with something that stops you in your tracks: a sauna with breathtaking views of the open sea, a midnight swim from a long wooden pier, a breakfast you still think about months later. If we can’t point to that one moment, the hotel doesn’t make it onto these pages.

No paid reviews

Travel is what we love most, and it is where our holidays, weekends and spare time go. Some of the hotels on this site we have stayed at on our own holidays. Others we have stayed at through research for travel articles (in that case, we cover the costs ourselves), or it has been through a job that is unrelated to this site and journalism.

No hotel pays for coverage here, and none has any say in what we write.

Editorial policy

We include what could be better, not just what we loved. We don’t sell places in our guides. We update reviews when hotels change in important ways. If we ever work with a hotel commercially, it will be clearly marked, but it will never affect what we write.

Our own experiences and photos

Every experience we describe is our own: we have stayed at every hotel on this site ourselves. All photos and videos are our own unless credited.

How we use AI

We use AI tools to help with research, drafts and editing. But every stay, every moment, every opinion and every photo is our own.