Beautifully located in a narrow valley

 

On the trip to the Lysefjord, quite in the beginning of our Norway-time, we passed the village of Dalen. This small place, barely consisting of a couple of dozend houses, is located between rather steep, though not very high mountains and at the end of the Bandak lake.

 

As I had read something about this hotel, we made a quick detour through the village, just to take a look at the hotel and to decide whether it would be worth coming back here at a later point in time.

 

And what should I say, both of us immediately fell in love with it. You would as well in case you value the sort of hotel making you travel back in time to enjoy some past luxury hobbies such as having lots of time passing by uneventfully and not worrying about tomorrow. We could do that, we thought, at least some days.

 

Two years later we booked us in, unaware that it was the first weekend after the winter break when the hotel was closed. But we barely recognized it as the charming staff glanced elegantly over some last items not yet perfectly in place.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

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On the backside towards the terrace there are 4-5 more rooms, in the same classy style, but with ordinary room heights, in one of which dinner and breakfast are served. In summer I suppose guests rather like to sit on the big veranda, overlooking the large, simple but elegant English garden, the fjord and mountains in the distant.