ADMIRAL HOTEL
Bergen, Norway
C SUNDTSGT 9, BERGEN, HORDALAND 5001, NORWAY.
This dockside warehouse from 1906, right on
the water across Vågen from Bryggen, was converted into a hotel in 1987. The
building is geometric Art Nouveau, and although the small rooms are ordinary,
the larger rooms overlooking the harbor have some of the best nighttime views in
town. The harborside restaurant, Emily, has a small but good buffet table. AE,
DC, MC, V. 152 rooms, 3 suites. Restaurant/Food, Bar.
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Hotel Admiral
Room 322
"November," wrote Emily Dickinson, "has always seemed to me the Norway of
the year." But colorful Bergen gives more an image of spring. Ships enliven the view
from the Hotel Admiral and invigorate the life around it. The houses across the water
conjure up images of the twelfth century, when the city was a major center for Hanseatic
League traders. Bearing ideas as well as goods, the ships transported Bergen out of its
cultural isolation. (The composer Edvard Grieg was born here; more tellingly, he stayed.)
But for the traveler, the most important function of the ships has been transportation to
the great fjords.
From here you can catch a vessel bound for the Russian border and beyond. But most settle
for a day's glide on the Sogne Fjord, past the glaciers, farms, and church-scattered
hillsides of the Fjordane region. You can be back at the hotel in time for the setting of
the summer sun. By that point you may well be wondering about Emily Dickinson's judgment
— but then, she was never much of a traveler.
— CONDE NAST TRAVELER, April 1993
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