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Juvet Landscape Hotel

Hotel

From $430 Rates shown are approximate and for guidance only, based on recent starting prices.

Minimum stay
1
Location
Valldal, Møre og Romsdal, Norway
Type
Hotel

Amenities

  • Restaurant
  • Spa
  • Wi-Fi

Experiences

  • Boat Trips
  • Cycling
  • Hiking
  • Skiing
  • Wildlife

Why we love

  • Glass-walled cabins
  • Film location
  • River gorge

“Nine glass rooms in a Norwegian valley, where the landscape is the only decoration.”

Juvet was the first landscape hotel in Europe, built in Valldal on Norway's west coast, about 90 minutes inland from Ålesund. Its rooms are small wooden cubes raised on stilts among the trees, each with full-height glass walls facing the valley, the forest or the gorge of the Valldøla river below. The interiors are kept dark on purpose, so nothing competes with the view. Guests can also stay in the old farmhouse, mill house and barn, and dinner is served together in the barn each evening at 7:30, made with local ingredients. The bath house frames a bend in the river, and the hotel sits on the scenic route between the Geirangerfjord and Trollstigen. Film fans may recognise it from Ex Machina.

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