Son Spa

We stayed in July 2020 as hotel industry is trying to recover after covid19. In that case it means: you have only limited access to the spa-area, 90 min and you need to book in advance. It turned out no one has controll over how much time you actually spend in spa. Infrared sauna is not available (now due to covid19, when I visited last time it was out of order). You have to book breakfast. Fair enough, otherwise people would eat exactly at the same time. But: if I book and show up - why do you serve me a totally cold food? Cheese slices sticked to each other, as they were prepared in advance and refrigerated. A buffet is a covid no-no, but hard to believe I was hungry leaving the breakfast restaurant. It didn't make me book an early lunch, no. I checked out. Room: noisy ventilation. Bathroom: where design wins over pragmatism and water from shower is running on the floor, because it's only a shower-corner.

The spa hotel itself is quite nice. The location is great and the rooms are newly renovated. The first floor of the spa is free for guests, and for a 500 NOK surcharge you can visit the "magic circle" at the second floor, which I found relaxing and worth both the time and money. However, I am not a great fan of creams and lotions and whatnot, and there was quite the focus on these in the "magic circle", although this is probaby not an issue for most people who enjoy this facet of the experience. However, the restaurant is a mixed bag, to put it lightly. The dishes range from good (the shellfish platter is excellent and highly recommended) to downright abysmal (a flounder-based dish with overcooked fish, almost no seasoning, served with tasteless tomatoes, boiled peas and stingy amounts of cold vinagrette.) Furthermore, the menu items are boring and very limited. There is only one starter, which is basically a sandwhich. One evening, after finishing the (excellent) shellfish platter in our room with room service, we placed the dishes outside our room and called the reception for it to be collected. They said they would, but the next morning it was still outside, starting to smell. We asked the reception again in person, and they promised to pick it up. Two hours later, it had not been picked up, and the old shellfish startet to reek in the whole hallway. After the third contact, they finally removed the old dishes. I would still recommend Son Spa, and they are very close to a 4/5, but they need to improve on a few things.

We stayed here for a weekend away from Oslo, both me and my partner work in the restaurant industry at high end restaurants. Start with the bad, we got to the hotel an hour later than the check in time and was told our room was not ready and was told we could wait in the bar area, we thought we could get a drink but no staff was working at the bar and we had to wait 20 min until a staff member arrived and we could get two small gin and tonics for 350 kr, on checking in found the staff to be short and we didn’t get any information on what we could do or the surrounding area. The spa had no information on what we could do and when we arrived at our allotted time we found there was no staff to explain how it worked. Breakfast staff were very rude and short and the breakfast was just awful toast was burnt and cold and yogurt was warm, food was terrible..we asked for sugar for the table but it never arrived The good, View was nice and location was very nice, the local village is beautiful. Spa area had good size pools and nice view The bar staff in the evening on a Sunday were very friendly and the drinks were made perfectly. We wanted to write that even though the breakfast was terrible and staff almost rude there was one gentlemen working on Monday morning breakfast that worked very hard and was friendly and seemed to be doing the job of ten people. Overall very disappointing experience will not be returning. I understand after corona virus it must be hard to reopen a hotel but should defiantly not charge the price for such an experience.

We stayed for 2 nights couples get away, and had a suite. The good: Spa area was nice, large pools, room was nice and clean, bed was comfy. Lovely location. The bad: Beds at Spa area not cleaned often enough after previous guests, there were hairs and dirt on them. Limited spa options. The service was not consistent. Some of the waitresses were very professional, others were impatient and didn't provide upon our request. The restaurant area was dark and didn't have an exclusive feel or atmosphere to match the high-end price of the hotel. The ugly: Breakfast was uninspiring, looked and tasted like the meals were just mass-produced and was poor quality. Coffee tasted burnt and cheap, could not drink it. Lunch offer was extremely pricy for the provided quality of food. The burger for instance was overloaded, and soaked in coleslaw, with soggy cold fries. Had chicken which was dry and again soggy fries. Dinner was fairly average standard and was really really really not up to the standard expected for the high-end price. Overall customer experience: Felt somewhat ripped off. Paid 5 star price for economy class. Will probably not visit again. Would choose other hotel/alternatives for the same or less rates.

Beautiful place, amazing food, kind staff, very good service, clean rooms, excellent view from our front suite with ocean view. Highly recommended for everyone who wants a memorable stay, with total relaxation. We recommend a break out in the outdoor jacuzzi