This is a safe and comfortable apartment conveniently located in the heart of Oslo.
The flat is about a 15 minutes walk from the bus and train station. It is close to restaurants, grocery stores, pharmacies, shopping malls, and even doctors offices (unfortunately we needed one during our stay in Oslo).
The apartment is on the fourth floor of a very safe building requiring a fob for the door of the building and a key to the apartment itself. There is an elevator that makes it very convenient when bringing luggage up and down the stairs.
The living room
has adequate space when the pullout bed is not open. It has a small table for 2 that can be opened to fit 4 people having breakfast, and enough chairs for all. Again, the pullout bed must be closed to make room for the opened table. There are place mats and enough dishes and cups and flatware to eat at the apartment if you choose to do so. We did not cook at the place, but there were small and medium sized pots and pans. The only thing I missed was a small microwave but I realize that it is not very common in this part of Europe.
There is a medium sized refrigerator which is more than adequate for the size of the apartment and bigger than others I have seen in other places where I have stayed in Europe.
The pullout bed seemed comfortable and was kindly opened for us when we got there since it was four of us staying there. Both beds had sheets and a duvet for each person sleeping on the bed. And there was an extra thick blanket in the closet upstairs which we did not need.
The upstairs loft was big enough to have a large double bed (very comfortable) and not much else. There was a ledge behind the bed which held one lamp on each side of the bed, and you can use to place a book, your phone, glasses, a glass of water or anything else you may need close to you while you are in bed. There was an electrical outlet on each side of the bed where we could charge our phones. There is no room to have open suitcases in the loft area, but there is a small but very useful closet next to the bed with plenty of hangers. There is a beam on the ceiling that you must be careful not to bump your head into when you reach the top of the stairs, and must also keep in mind when heading down the stairs, especially if you go downstairs in the middle of the night when it’s dark.
The bathroom is adequate size with good water flow and plenty of hot water. You have to make sure to point the shower head toward the wall since there is a gap at the bottom of the shower door and you can easily get the bathroom floor outside the shower wet. We had to put a towel on the floor outside the shower door to keep the floor from getting wet. There were enough nice quality bath and hand towels for all.
There is a washer but no dryer, so if you do laundry you will need to hang it in the drying rack close to the front door. Clothes dried quickly in mid-May when we stayed there. You may find sheets and towels from the previous guest in the washing machine which they will ask you to put out to dry. We needed to fold them and put them away in order to use the drying rack when we did laundry.
You may find the lights throughout the apartment low in intensity. However, the stand-up lamp next to the pullout bed has a more intense light if you need it.
The apartment has large windows that go all the way up to the high ceiling, giving the place plenty of natural light, which was very nice. They are easily opened to allow for airflow, since there is no air conditioner. We did not need AC as it was not hot when we were there. You can also open only the top of the windows if you want to limit the amount of air and noise flowing through. When we stayed there it was light out from about 4 AM to about 11 PM, so it would have been nice to have dark curtains on the windows to keep the light out at bed time.
The only possible problem with the windows is that there is a tram and people traffic that circulate until late on the street in front of the apartment. If you have the windows open and are a light sleeper then it may bother you, especially in the early morning when the tram begins to operate, which seemed to be around 4 AM. I suspect that you won’t have the noise issue if you keep the windows closed. The people noise dies down around 10 PM and the tram around 11 PM or so.
We had an issue with the keys since we were supposed to scan them when turning them back in and we didn’t. There was also a piece to the keys missing (the part you scan) that we didn’t know was missing until after we left. I suggest that you always take a photo of the keys when you receive them, not only here but in any ABnB where you get keys. Had we done that, it would have really helped us know if we lost the missing part or if it was already missing when we got the keys. Regardless, the host was gracious and polite throughout the key ordeal.
In summary, it was a nice, comfortable, conveniently located place with a responsive and communicative host. If you are not easily bothered by some noise then it’s a great place to stay.