Where the family can stay
Stays in Norway,
chosen and explained
We do not list every hotel in Norway. We select stays that may work particularly well for private family journeys — and explain why, in enough detail that you can disagree with us.
How we choose
We start from the family rather than from the hotel. How many of you are travelling, how many generations, how much moving the group can take in a week, and who in the party decides whether a day was good.
Then we read what each place publishes about itself — its own room pages, not a booking site. Where a hotel does not state something, neither do we. A suite is not assumed to have two bedrooms, and a kitchen is not assumed to be one a guest may use.
What survives that is a short list, and a set of questions we would put to the hotel on your behalf before anything is held. Those questions are printed on every page here, because they are the part that actually decides whether a stay works.
Private stays for large families
Whole houses, villas and units with several separate bedrooms, where a large family can be together without booking a corridor of hotel rooms.
Image: the region, not the hotel.
Sommarøy, near Tromsø
Sommarøy Arctic Hotel
An island base near Tromsø, with kitchens and separate bedrooms
Nusfjord, Lofoten
Nusfjord Village & Resort
A working fishing village in Lofoten, with a house at the top of it
Historic hotels by the fjords
Houses that have stood at the water’s edge for well over a century, and still work as a base for several generations at once.
Image: the region, not the hotel.
Balestrand, the Sognefjord
Kviknes Hotel
A hotel that has taken summer guests on the Sognefjord since 1877
Comfortable city bases
Short distances between the airport, the room and the water — for the days at either end of a journey, when the logistics should be simple.
Image: the region, not the hotel.
Stavanger
Radisson Blu Atlantic Hotel, Stavanger
A practical base in Stavanger, close to the harbour
Remote Arctic stays
Islands and fishing villages far north, where the point is to stay in one place for a week and let the light do the rest.
Image: the region, not the hotel.
Sommarøy, near Tromsø
Sommarøy Arctic Hotel
An island base near Tromsø, with kitchens and separate bedrooms
Nusfjord, Lofoten
Nusfjord Village & Resort
A working fishing village in Lofoten, with a house at the top of it
Where the family can stay
Booking it yourself, or letting us coordinate
If you book it yourself
Every stay here links to the hotel’s own website, and you are welcome to book directly. What that will not give you is someone in Norway who has already put the questions on these pages to the hotel, in writing, before your family arrives.
If Anurway coordinates
We speak to the hotel, confirm what your family actually needs, work out how the rooms should be distributed, and connect transport, hosts and day programmes around the stay. The hotel remains entirely the hotel’s own — what we add is everything in between.
A note on what is written here
- Hotels change their rooms, their seasons and what they offer. Everything on these pages was read from the hotels’ own websites on 4 August 2026, and the sources are listed at the foot of each page.
- Being written about here does not mean a hotel works with Anurway. None of these stays is a partner of ours.
- Specific needs — adjoining rooms, meals, access, prayer, transport — are confirmed with the hotel before anything is booked. Nothing on these pages should be read as already arranged.
- Where a hotel does not publish something, we leave it out rather than fill the gap. That is why some pages say less than others.