Quality Hotel™ Expo

We came here for a weekend getaway. Just to be tourist in own city, but also just to get another place to lay our heads. So, the location and such was nice for us. The easy access to buses and such was a plus. However, when you come from the bus you see the Engineerium and Aker Solutions all over the building, but just a small logo on the left, which is the hotels own. What is good is that the entry of Aker Solutions and the hotel can be used by both. So, if you don't come from the main entry. You'll still get in. Because of the weekend... the cafe here was closed and since it was July the Engineerium was closed as well. Just like the many resturants and activities in the area. That isn't the fault of the hotel, but the high tide of summer guests and the local attractions are closed like the Airport tower and arts collective for that instance. Well, I digress... well, the reception was tidy and met us nicely. We came early to check-in. So we played the game hidden long in the lounge. As we played shufflebord while awaiting the time for the room to be ready. That was fine enough... we were the ones who was early. So, thats on us. We came to the room and it had 4 windows. Big view even from the second floor. We could see the majestic building across and see the ocean fom a far. That was nice. The rest of room left a lot to be gained. If you moved the TV to be cozy. The one sleeping closest to the TV had to do the limbo to get under it. Which is fine enough in the day-time, but when your sleepy and going to pee. Well... not so dandy. You can hit yourself on the TV. The mini-bar wasn't a mini-bar. The fridge wasn't even working properly. We did tell about it and they couldn't do anything about it. That was in the Friday evening when we found that out. We tried to have the card in the electric overnight and such. However, the fridge never got cold and our drinks was lukewarm our whole stay. The coffee in the front-desk was nice and was a nice treat during the stay. The coffee machine in the room was easy to understand and I enjoyed a cup myself. Just felt like I left out my wife, since there was no water-cooker for her tea. The breakfast on the Saturday was much better than the one on Sunday. I really don't know why... but the Saturday one was organized and seemed like had more personell. Since, there was more knicknaks and the food was less oily. The breakfast was the run-of-the-mill European continental breakfast with choices of eggs, cereals, bacon and such. They didn't stand out or did anything revolutionary. The breakfast was fine, but nothing to say... it was unique or anything. This is a sort of breakfast, you can get any hotel in Scandinavia or in Norway for that matter. The only difference from Saturday to Sunday was the oilness of the hot-food. It was more rushed and less "love" into it. Secondly, there was less options and not so much yogurts. That was very obvious and a downer on our second day of staying here. This hotel has a massive potential. They have a few adjustments and it would have been totally pleasent. Just like the shower raining over the toilet-bowl wasn't a nice addition to our stay. Since, we need that later and the heater don't take away the "rain" that quickly. Secondly, in a summer heat and with no air-con. Well, the room became a sauna. Even when the windows was open. The temprature you put down wasn't felt and I don't know if that system even worked for that matter. There was no reaction to the changes. You could technically put it down to -3 but nothing was felt. There was no sound and no proof of its existence. It just was on the toilet-door wall. We tried also to use the phone and dial the number to the reception on the Friday evening. When we found out that the mini-bar/fridge wasn't alive. Well, we just got the busy-tone and I had to go down personally. So, don't know the drill here, because I typed the numbers on the phone, but to no help. Also, the fancy-booklet is cool to show off the profile of the hotel chain. However, it didn't help the experience of a hotel guest. It shows the ideals and the wishes of company, which is fine enough. Nevertheless, the guest get's no help to figure out the room or the technicalities of the place. If there are nooks or cranies to consider. Which always nice for a guest... Well... this was a long one. In a brief remark: there is lots of potential, but not so much offered at this very moment.

Lovely lobby, impressive breakfast room/dining. However, room not cleaned, despite us having put the 'please clean my room' - card on the door before leaving for the day. Perhaps we should not have been surprised as we had seen the young cleaning lady twice in the corridor that morning, twice scrolling through news feeds and messages on her phone, not even looking up when a guest passes by. Towels were provided in the evening when we asked the receptionist, who was kind/helpful throughout the stay. So very nice hotel, but let down by the cleaning lady of that day and her lack of (customer) service. Such a shame really, because otherwise very good.

Arrived 10 minutes before the restaurant closed at nine and was not welcomed in. There was supposed to exist a lounge with a ”wide variety of snacks, light meals etc”. As far as I could tell though, that basically consisted of (wildly overpriced) potato chips, chocolate bars and crackers. I wouldnt call that a meal. So I was left to wait without food until breakfast. If a large hotel is located far from any restaurants or convenience stores, some food options should be available for late arrivals, in my opinion at least.

I just checked out after two days at Expo, Fornebu. The hotel is pretty new, obviously targeted at conferences and modern in design. Very friendly front desk staff and a decent enough breakfast, despite covid restrictions. The standard room on the 4th floor was perfectly alright with a comfy bed. Overall clean and airy. Some irritating noise from other guests in the middle of the night (Eurovision-contestants were staying here the same night as me) but I can hardly blame the hotel for this. Overall a good place to stay if you're in Fornebu or Oslo for business.

Nice and clean hotel with good space. Near beaches and Oslo. Route for nice walks outside. View over the Oslo fjord. Nice and friendly Athmosphere. Icecream machine:-) Garage in the basement with reduser price. The bus stop is near.