First room: 3 beds, bathroom able to qualify as that. Dust, footprints on the shower. Don't go to 3rd floor.
Second room: better. we took it to avoid a worse solution. Lots of details we had to look away...
Breakfast quite decent.
During the stay: cleaning could be better. confusing check out: Rates were way up but the receptionist trusted us and corrected to the fixed rate. He was a bit lost but ended up being a good element. You can reach the city. Transports are good but the location is not so good and informations at the hotel were few and confusing
If you have nowere else to go or the options are tooooo expensive, because Stokholm is overbooked, sure, you get to have fun in the beautiful city. Otherwise.

Although I went to Stockholm as a doctor for a cardiology congress my expectations are not very high and I'm used to stay in hostels and things alike. The price and the location attracted me in this hotel at first.

As for the location, it seems close to both the Stockholmsmässen (congress site) and the city center, but in practice it takes you about 45 minutes to get to the congress site because you have to change trains twice. Also, you have to cross an urban highway and you can only do that through two tunnels which are very desolate at night and give a most unpleasant feeling to walk through. It's not far from the subway (5-10 minutes), but the hotel itself is located in an industrial area at the other side of the urban highway. I didn't really care about this since I only needed a place to sleep and my room didn't have a window either.

This brings me to the room itself. It's probably my bad that I didn't know what 'cabin room' means, but now I know that this means you have no private bathroom. On the other hand, this wasn't mentioned on the website either (something like 'shared bathroom' or anything wasn't on, so I naively thought there would be a bathroom). The shared bathroom is ok, although like the hotel in general everything looks old and worn and you shouldn't mind any dust, because there is plenty of it everywhere.

The room lacking a window the ventilation was below any standard and the room therefore smelled and can't be any good for your health. The beds were ok, sheets were never changed though while I was staying for 5 nights. They only brought new towels every day and surprisingly this can be as late as 5 pm. Also, apparently they don't keep a list of the rooms that are checking out, because I was woken up by the maids on my checkout day at 9.30 am. They didn't even need to be there, so that was pretty disturbing.

I only read the reviews more closely when I'd already booked and I was a little bit troubled by what others had written on the staff (like credit card abuse and being most unfriendly and threatening). Fortunately, I had paid in advance and I didn't meet with any problems in this regard, but the guy in front of me met with incredible rudeness which I witnessed. He came to check in for a reserved room and the staff told him that the person staying in that room was allowed by them to stay in there for a couple of hours longer (while that room had been reserved for someone else!). He just told him to come back at 7 pm! Understably, the guy protested and then he met with growing rudeness with the staff member suggesting that the client was giving him problems and that it was his fault that he was forced to create new problems and also that he was going to pay for any problems that he was 'causing' by giving him a temporary other room. Come on, doesn't this staff understand that they created problems themselves that are not acceptable and that they should figure it out. Instead of apologising to the client they gave him a very bad time. Although I didn't experience problems myself, this was definitely what the other reviews were about and this kind of unacceptable behavior is much worse than not-so-clean rooms without proper ventilation and definitely a reason to consider not booking at this hotel under any circumstance. You don't know what kind of trouble the staff will cause you..

All in all, this "hotel" which was more like a glorified hostel, does the job when it comes to sleeping and providing a functioning toilet/shower and breakfast, but if you have other options, I would most certainly discourage from booking here!

This is truly an over glorified hostel. The room was fitted with 2 single beds and a bunk bed which was broken. The power sockets were hanging out the wall. The room was never cleaned, and for been a “hotel” it offered now soaps etc. The location was awful, based in an industrial site. The only way to the metro was to pass under two tunnels running under a highway, not safe at night times! Breakfast was mediocre! Worst hotel / hostel we ever stayed. The only reason why we took it, as there was a cardiac conference where everything else was booked up, if I was you, best to pay a little more and stay as far away from this place possible. It is truly a dump, not a three star hotel, more like the lowest of low end of hostels! Positive side, we didn’t see any rats nor cockroaches, even they have taste not to go there!

My family and I have recently returned from a city break in Stockholm, Sweden on 20th July 2010. Unfortunately the Hotel Vastberga accommodation was very dissatisfactory. It was very expensive and is advertised as a 3 star hotel, but is well below the standard that I would expect. A lot of the hotel guests were living there permanently and funded by Swedish State Social Security. The hotel seemed to be more like a hostel for the homeless than a hotel. There was a lot of night time activity with people walking up and down the corridors in the middle of the night making a lot of noise on the hard floors. One hotel 'resident' took his dog for walks around the corridors in the middle of the night. My family felt very unsafe in the building. The hotel was in the middle of an industrial estate and seemed to be a very badly converted office building. I would urge anyone who is considering this over-priced hotel to look elsewhere.