The Luxury Hotel in Stavanger
Hand-picked in Stavanger: the 5-star hotel Eilert Smith Hotel. Book through suitespot and breakfast for two, a room upgrade subject to availability, hotel credit and VIP service come with it – worth over €500 together.
Your guide to the best luxury hotel in Stavanger
Eilert Smith Hotel Stavanger · SentrumFor this guide we reviewed the best hotels in Stavanger and picked one: a single luxury hotel in the centre – whose largest category is no longer a room but a residence.At no extra cost: booking through suitespot costs the same as booking direct with the hotel – the benefits come on top, free of charge.
One luxury hotel in Stavanger – and who it suits
Our choice for Stavanger is the Eilert Smith Hotel Stavanger in the Stavanger Sentrum. It sits at 4.5 out of 5 in our ranking, and a night starts at 354 euros.
Personal luxury travel adviceOur travel advisors personally accompany your booking – 365 days a year, from the first offer to late check-out. Reach the suitespot VIP service via email or WhatsApp.Phone: +49 30 81452346 · hotel@suitespot.comThe hotel carries five categories. The fifth is why this destination does a calculation of its own.
Our travel advisors’ insider tip
This hotel’s ladder has four rungs – and what follows is not a fifth, it is something else.
The first four categories climb in tidy steps of ten: 20, 30, 40 and 50 square metres. That is a ladder as you know it, and you can place yourself in it by budget.
The fifth entry measures 250 square metres. That is five times the category below it, and it is not a room or a suite either but a residence. Between the smallest and the largest category that makes a ratio of 12.5 to 1 – an unusually wide spread.
What that means in practice:
• Do not ask for the next category up. Between 50 and 250 square metres there is nothing. There is no “one step more” here, only a change of order of magnitude.
• Decide first whether you are travelling as a couple or as a group. For two, the ladder from 20 to 50 is the whole decision. From three or four people, the residence is not luxury but the only format that fits.
• And count the minimum stay in: two nights. For a city that serves as the base for the Lysefjord, that is the lower bound of sensible anyway.
Our advice: tell our travel advisors the number of people first, then the budget. On this list party size decides the category type, and only then does budget decide the square metres.
Where to stay in Stavanger: in the Sentrum, by the harbour basin
The Eilert Smith Hotel stands in the Stavanger Sentrum, on the inner harbour basin. This is where the city is at its densest: the harbour is at the door, the pedestrian streets behind it, and everything else is on foot.
Our recommendation is therefore for anyone taking Stavanger as a base who would rather not spend time getting places.
What is within reach: Gamle Stavanger, the white timber town on the western slope of the harbour, where you walk on cobbles between hollyhocks; the cathedral of 1125, the oldest in Norway, never burnt down and never rebuilt; and the oil museum on the harbour peninsula, which explains why this city has looked different from the rest of the coast since 1969.
For orientation: Sola airport is about twenty minutes by car. The boats into the Lysefjord leave from the harbour, a few minutes from the hotel; for Preikestolen, the sheer rock pulpit 604 metres above the water, allow a good hour to get there and four hours of walking there and back.
Five categories: the best hotel in Stavanger from the inside
The Eilert Smith Hotel carries five categories, two of them suites.
From the bottom up: a Superior Room at 20, a Deluxe Room at 30, a Suite at 40 and a Superior Suite at 50 square metres. Four steps, each ten square metres above the last.
And then the Eilerts Residence at 250 square metres. It is not the next step, it is a different format – a residence rather than a room or a suite. Between it and the Superior Suite lie 200 square metres and nothing in between.
On the outlook: the Superior Room, the smallest category, looks at the city. So we claim nothing further and say: ask our travel advisors about the outlook before you commit.
What applies to every category alike: breakfast for two people and the upgrade on arrival subject to availability.
What a night at the luxury hotel in Stavanger costs
A night at the luxury hotel in Stavanger starts at 354 euros.
A stay begins at two nights. Included are: breakfast for two people, a 50 US dollar hotel credit, an upgrade on arrival subject to availability, and early check-in and late check-out subject to availability.
When it is brightest: from May to July. In June the light lingers well past midnight, and the fjord boats run frequently.
When the walking is best: from June to September. The path up Preikestolen is clear of snow and ice, and the huts along the way are open.
When it is most striking: in October and November. The fjord lies still and dark between its walls, there is hardly anyone on the water, and the city belongs to itself again.
When to enquire early: for the weeks around midsummer and for the days of ONS, the energy fair that fills Stavanger every second year in late summer. At a hotel with five categories, lead time decides.
How long to stay: two to three nights for the city and the Lysefjord – or five if you add Preikestolen and the coast road south.
And whatever the date: you get the suitespot benefits in the quietest week of the year just as you do in the busiest.
Lysefjord, hotel credit and exclusive services in a 5-star hotel
Stavanger is a harbour city that has twice been something else: first fish, then oil. You can see both in it, and both are within walking distance.
Personal luxury travel adviceOur travel advisors personally accompany your booking – 365 days a year, from the first offer to late check-out. Reach the suitespot VIP service via email or WhatsApp.Phone: +49 30 81452346 · hotel@suitespot.comThree things belong to it. First the Lysefjord: 42 kilometres long, in places not 500 metres wide, with walls that rise sheer out of the water. The boats leave from the harbour and you are back in the afternoon. Second Gamle Stavanger: not an open-air museum but one lived-in lane after another, painted white, with flowers at the doors. Third the cathedral of 1125 – it has stood on the same spot for nine hundred years and is the only Norwegian cathedral that can say so.
For everything else there is the hotel credit: 50 US dollars, with no rate condition and no further strings.
What our travel advisors arrange most often: the fjord trip at a fixed departure time – in summer the afternoon boats fill first – and the transfer to the start of the Preikestolen path, because the scheduled service there is seasonal and the early departures are the emptier ones.
The benefits of this hotel apply independently of any programme membership: the credit and the breakfast come with no small print, and there is nothing to sign up for.
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Frequently asked questions about luxury hotels in Stavanger
How many luxury hotels in Stavanger does suitespot have?
We reviewed the best hotels in Stavanger and picked one: the Eilert Smith Hotel Stavanger in the Stavanger Sentrum.
What does a luxury hotel in Stavanger cost per night?
A night starts at 354 euros.
Which is the best hotel in Stavanger?
The Eilert Smith Hotel Stavanger. It sits at 4.5 out of 5 in our ranking and carries five categories from 20 to 250 square metres.
How large are the rooms at the luxury hotel in Stavanger?
Four categories climb in steps of ten: 20, 30, 40 and 50 square metres. The fifth, the Eilerts Residence, measures 250 – with nothing in between, and it is listed as a residence rather than a room or a suite.
Is there a minimum stay in Stavanger?
Yes, two nights. For a city that serves as the base for the Lysefjord, that is the lower bound of sensible anyway.
Where is the best place to stay in Stavanger?
In the Sentrum, on the inner harbour basin. From there Gamle Stavanger, the cathedral and the fjord boat quays are all within walking distance.
How much is the hotel credit in Stavanger?
50 US dollars, with no rate condition and no further strings. The benefits apply independently of any programme membership.
When is the best time to visit Stavanger?
It is brightest from May to July, and the walking is best from June to September. In October and November the fjord lies still and dark – the most striking time of year.
Can I earn hotel loyalty points in Stavanger?
That depends on your membership: whether a stay here earns points or status nights in your programme, your travel advisor will confirm before you book. The suitespot benefits apply in any case.
