Grand Olav is a very nice and cosy hotel. I always look forward to stay there. It's really "homey". All the rooms are different, and there are books in the room an you can also borrow dvd's for free in the reception.The staff is always very serviceminded and happy.Everday from 3 pm you can make your own waffels with jam in the diningroom. There is also coffe and tea free of charge all day.From 6-9 pm you can have a light evening meal, also that included in the price. It is alway one hot dish and usually salad, bread, ham, cheese, fruit etc. Great option if you are too tired to go out for dinner. The location of the hotel is great. It's just a few minutes from Solsiden where you can find restaurants and shoppingmall. And also just a few steps from the city center where you can find many nice cafee's, good restaurants and shops.

This is not a good hotel. This is not a dirty hotel or a horrible place, but seems to be more of a very poorly-managed hotel that is worth only about 1/5 of what they charge. Now, to qualify this statement so that you can get a clear understanding, I really thought Norway was a bust as a destination... to know more, visit my review of the country. If you must go and support this country, try to find a cabin to stay in -- so much nicer than the hotels, with better value.

Specifically about this hotel, we paid $350 for one night in a tiny room with a/c that was like someone with ice in her mouth blowing a little cool air and expecting it to cool a hotel room. Now, I only liked one of the 5 hotels where we stayed (and I liked the fishermen's cabins and camping cabins where we stayed) in Norway -- hotels are just not worth the cost -- so I don't know how this one ranks with others in Trondheim, but it was certainly not worth anything more than about $70-100 per night. The room was hot and little with paper-towel-thin towels and a bottle of soap hanging on the wall that was supposed to be for hair and body. This seems standard practice for Norwegian hotels. There is a saving grace to this place, which makes it maybe more worth $100 -- that is that they serve a light dinner, as well as breakfast, included in the price. Food is incredibly expensive in Norway, and since we were reduced to eating potato chips and drinking water most of our time there, the dinner made this hotel somewhat palatable, but not for the ridiculous price. And from the minute we arrived at 4:30 pm until we left the following morning, there were about 20-30 laundry carts hanging around in the hall outside of our room.

My suggestion: Stay away from this country. I live in Colorado and have 300-320 days of sunshine a year, but we were in Norway for ten days and had ten days of rain. We have plenty of money to live on in the US but felt like we were throwing it on a fire in Norway. Food on menus (places we never ate since we lived on potato chips and bad pizza) included expensive, expensive entrees of whale, stewed peas, turnips and beets. The people are just okay -- not very compassionate or interested in others. Go instead to Thailand in dry season for incredible beauty and value and loads of sunshine and great food and people (the land of smiles) or come to Colorado and see much of Norway here without the rain, expense, lousy food and hotels. If you must visit this lousy country, I really can't say if this hotel is better or worse than others in Trondheim.

Very nice, clean, quiet hotel in the heart of Trondheim. Smiling and helpful staff all over! Extremely comfortable beds! Loved the buffet between 6 and 9 pm and the possibility to lay down in bed and watch a DVD from the hotels free-rental

We stayed 2 nights, my husband booked a standard room which are all twins but asked if possible to have a double and they upgraded us. The room looked out into the shopping centre, I imagined this would be odd and a little dark but in fact it was lovely, the centre was completely empty all of the time, it was all glass on the other side of the shopping centre so the room was very light and airy. You could see out and across to the SAS hotel which I think is also all glass (but more expensive). The room was medium sized not huge but not small either, bathroom was a good size too with bath and good overhead shower.

Very nice touch if you have children, there was a cuddly toy and book on one of the chairs in the room, I also noticed a children's breakfast area in the morning, I think the hotel has some kind of special suitable for kids rating? but there certainly weren't lots of the little people so don't worry if you're after quiet!

The evening buffet was very nice, we stayed in lots of Clarion collections on our Scandinavian adventure, the evening buffets are great for money saving! This one was particularly good, their was also a lot of choice for breakfast.

The parking is under the hotel, buy a ticket for your stay from the machine.

The location is very good, Trondheim is relatively small and it was easy to walk around and see things in a day, the tourist office was great, this was our first stop in Norway and we picked up very helpful brochures for the rest of our journey - the fjords brochure was fantastic and they helped us make the most of our trip, they also had some of the nicest touristy presents here.