This hotel is situated at the end of a most beautiful fjord and can be reached by boat and road. Nearby is the longest road tunnel (over 25kms) and fjord in the world. All very picturesque but miles from anywhere. Only one restaurant and gift shop in the area.
The hotel is a single story building with a grass covered roof and amazing furniture and coverings inside each room. However, the heating system can be overpowering if a resident requests a rise in temperature. the temperature was at least 90C on the first of two nights I stayed there because a tourist insisted on a warmer room and there are only central controls. This means everyone has to suffer the extra heat!
The dinner food was mediocre and the menu very limited - I had not had reindeer burgers before, not do I wish to repeat the experience! The breakfast was much more acceptable.
If you have a choice to stay in Flam or Gudwangen in this area, I would certainly recommend the former - just visit Gudwangen.

The Gudvangen Fjordtell as a structure is thoroughly well described in another review here, so I will refrain from repetition.

However, what bears repeating is that the town of Gudvangen is very remote feeling. It takes only minutes by car to get to restaurants, shopping, and entertainment, but when you are in Gudvangen, it's all about communing with nature. The Fjordtell is the one and only option for lodging, dining, and shopping (with the exception of the gas station's mini-mart across the river). It's quiet and peaceful here, and it's a perfect place to commune with the surroundings and take in the awesome wonder of it all.

What bears introducing to the previous two postings is:

The grass-roof rooms have music piped in through a universal sound system, and it's a beautiful addition to the atmosphere. Think of Enya floating across the water as low clouds drift silently between mountain peaks. Heavenly.

We loved the skylight in the room that afforded us a beautiful view of the mountain tops and a gorgeous waterfall. Until we found that there was no curtain or blind system for the giant ceiling window, which created some challenging sleeping conditions in a place where it doesn't get dark at night.

We ordered a FjordPass online, which gave us a discount at the hotel and paid for itself many times over. Reservations through Fjord-pass were easy, but be sure to print and carry your reservation confirmation and the pass itself, and show it at both check-in and check-out, or you may be glossed over and charged full price.

The dining at the hotel is a gamble. The buffet breakfast that's included with the room was good with bread, cheese, deli-style meat, cereal, fruit, and make-your-own waffles that were particularly tasty. Dinner, on the other hand, was nothing we recommend. We ate here four nights, for lack of any other options, and of 8 meals tried, only 2 surpassed the unkind definition of "cafeteria food". And the dinner prices were painfully high, even in light of the generally astronomical price of food in Norway. In neighboring towns we ate twice as good for half the price. As is often true, the very things that make a place perfect (peaceful isolation) are also what make it difficult (no other options).

Three photos of our room (#4) are attached to this review.

Really, you've nothing to do there if you like night life or so. Otherwise, it's definitely a place to visit. Feel yourself a hobbit living in a room with a grass roof. We've had a room with waterfall view - absolutely marvelous. If you want to slow down life pace for a while this is the best place to do that.

I went to Gudvangen in august 2003. I went on my own. The idea was to do some walking and use the hotel as a base. The hotel itself is down along a road through part of the village. The other part is on the other side of the main road and river which feeds into the fjord. The hotel is arranged into three seperate buildings, with another building housing self-catering type rooms. One building is a gift shop which is a bit pricey. building two is the main reception, restaurant, bar, and another gift shop. The third building is the rooms. This is built in a hexagon shape and has twelve rooms, all identical. All the furniture is made out of pine and is very comfy. You need to know rock climbing to get in and out of the bed though as there are four sides to it and high ones at that. but it's not a double bed, but two singles pushed together. There's plenty of room and you get a skylight in the roof. The room i had faced the river, the rest of the village, petrol station (which has a small supermarket) and mountains with several narrow waterfalls going down them. there is no tv, radio or english langauge newspapers. You are more or less cut off from everything. the restaurant sells a limited menu but you won't starve. The breakfast is lovely and you make your own waffles. You can catch a ferry from there to go to flam to go on the train that goes up the mountain. It's all timed so that when you come back down again, the ferry is waiting to take you back to gudvangen. there are several walks you can do and there's activities as well. you can, if you're lucky, see seals swimming in the water in the early evenings. so, if you're after peace, quiet, no partying, no nightlife, no entertainment of any sort, then this is the place for you. if not, you'll be bored stiiff after day one. i went for four days and i loved it. the staff were friendly and made you feel welcome. so go there if you want to recharge your batteries or use it for one night while hiking.