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.

A green mountain reflected in still Norwegian water

Image: the region, not the hotel.

Oslo

Villa Inkognito

A whole villa in Oslo, for a family that would rather not share one

The Norangsfjord, Sunnmøre

Hotel Union Øye

A small historic hotel deep in the Norangsfjord

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.

A narrow fjord between green mountains, with a waterfall running to the water

Image: the region, not the hotel.

Lofthus, Hardanger

Hotel Ullensvang

One base in Hardanger, for a family that does not want to move

Balestrand, the Sognefjord

Kviknes Hotel

A hotel that has taken summer guests on the Sognefjord since 1877

The Norangsfjord, Sunnmøre

Hotel Union Øye

A small historic hotel deep in the Norangsfjord

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.

The coloured wooden wharf at Bryggen in Bergen

Image: the region, not the hotel.

Lysebu buildings and courtyard in summer

Oslo

Lysebu

A quiet way into Norway, at the edge of the forest

Oslo

Villa Inkognito

A whole villa in Oslo, for a family that would rather not share one

Bergen

Opus XVI

A small, cultivated house in the middle of Bergen

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.

A village, islands and mountains by the sea in Lofoten

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.