Best Western Plus John Bauer Hotel

Nicely furnished room and comfortable bed. Large pictures of the Swede John Bauer´s fairy tale illustrations of trolls, elks and princesses decorate the room and corridors. (The county museum just across the road has an exhibition with his paintings.) A popular "After work" on Friday evening on the first floor offered a reasonably priced salad buffet as alternative to eating in the restaurant downstairs. Breakfast buffet was very good with tasty scrambled eggs made with real eggs, (not egg powder), bacon, etc, and most other breakfast choices of breads, cold meats, cheeses, yoghurts, cereals, fresh fruits, etc. Electric kettle and coffee/tea are provided - much appreciated. This didn´t use to be the case in European hotels, only in British ones, but more and more continental hotels are following this custom, much to the satisfaction of their guests.

With our 2 sallad buffet meals and something to drink, I asked the young bartender (just out of highschool) if I could have just a squirt of (draught) beer for my fully priced bottle of Sprite to make a shandy. He refused, saying I´d need to buy a bottle of beer. I thought that was mean.