We had an OK two night stay here. Great location in the middle of town, good staff. But this formerly fine old glamourous hotel is in dire need of a makeover. Dated furnishings, sagging furniture, it's just been too long since a renovation. Nothing specific was wrong and our stay was fine, just not great. Was also a bit unimpressed that their fine restaurant and bar were never open.

Booked this hotel as all other hotels were booked during this period. Was not me first stay in Trondheim and probably not my last, but i will not returning to this hotel. Breakfast is good though, but rooms are old. Bathroom is old, cracks in the washtub, water takes like half an hour to warm up. Slow internet.
Rates for the room very high and increased, probably because of the availability.

Britannia is perfectly located, free wifi in the room and the Spa/pool area is great. This review goes for a luxury room, 319, which have a balcony and facing the street. Ask for a room in this part of the hotel, many rooms are facing a wall.
Old-style hotel, the luxury rooms are big, but all the things you normally find i a 5* room are missing:
- No safe in the room
- Bed is very soft
- Very small closet space and only 7 hangers
- Toiletries are poor
- Poor maidservice
- Small TV with only a few international channels

Breakfast did not hit the 5* mark at all, sloppy is the keyword.

Manna Brasseri at solsiden has great fishdishes, book a table is recommended.

I stayed for 2 nights attending a convention held at the hotel.

I asked for a quiet room away from the lifts and foot traffic after reading on Trip Advisor that some rooms could be noisy. On the top floor I had a large room looking out on the inner courtyard. The room was quiet and large by the standards of many hotels. The room was ok for me for my two night stay.

The hotel was built in the late 1800s and appears to have last undergone a major refurbishment/rebuild in the later 1960s or early 1970s. My bath had a complicated whirlpool type arrangment that I did not have enough time to figure out how it worked. A couple of controls were missing. Despite one or two tired furnishings I slept well and enjoyed the ambience of the hotel. The hotel certainly has more style than most modern establishments.

The food in the hotel was good. It was evident for example at the breakfast buffet that the fruit had been sliced up locally and in consequence it had taste - unlike the homogenised factory supplied standard size chunks of fruit provided in moist chain hotels.

The price for the room and breakfast was not inexpensive but probably comparable to most hotels in expensive Norway.

I would stay at the hotel again.