Name: Clarion Collection Hotel Grand, Gjovik
Address: Jernbanegaten 5, Gjovik, Gjovik, Gjovik, 2821, Norway
Rating: 7

Shopping on site

24-hour reception

Elevator/lift

Currency exchange

Smoke-free property

Ticket assistance

Gift shop

General

Non-smoking rooms

Rooms

Accessibility features

Accessibility

Safe-deposit box

Services and amenities

Breakfast

Restaurant

Snack bar

Breakfast/lunch to go

Meals

Free Wi-Fi

Internet

English

Languages Spoken

Tour assistance

Tourist services

Parking

Parking nearby

Fax and copy machine

Meeting and presentation facilities

Conference Hall

Business

First Aid Kit

Beauty and wellness

Pets allowed (under 5 kg) (surcharge)

Pets

Extra decontamination measures

Personal protection equipment for guests

Contactless check-in and/or check-out

Individually packaged food

Additional measures against COVID-19

Health and Safety Measures

Location

At the hotel

Clarion Collection Hotel Grand, Gjovik

Gjovik

child-bed

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limited-time

lounge

treatment

no-window

bay-view

bosphorus-view

canal-view

city-view

courtyard-view

garden-view

golf-view

harbour-view

inland-view

lake-view

land-view

mountain-view

ocean-front

ocean-view

oceanside

panoramic-view

park-view

partial-ocean-view

partial-sea-view

partial-view

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river-view

sea-front

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annex

basement

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not-guaranteed

wired-internet-access

smoking

sauna

duplex

safe

mini-bar

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breakfast-for-2

pets-allowed

wi-fi

kitchen

Clarion is a very good hotel, with friendly staff and good food. A good variety of food for breakfast, waffles for dessert and some evening meals included in the price. Thanks to Clarion's location in the centre of Gjovik, it is a perfect place for both visiting the town and some shopping.

The place to stay.

GPS guidance brought us easily to this city center hotel with ample parking next door. A warm welcome at the reception, where focus was on parking assistance and city guiding, map, etc.
Our room on the second floor came with a noise warning – nightclub on the ground floor below, an offer of ear plugs, but no worries on a Wednesday, our night at the hotel.
We noticed quite a dusty headboard and assumed equal amounts of dust under the (otherwise comfortable) bed. The bathroom was, as so often in old hotels, smaaaall.
Food was included, an afternoon snack, supper, and breakfast. We had time only for the breakfast and would have liked the option of paying for what we consumed. The breakfast was so-so, had probably been sitting out since 7 a.m. and showed signs of fatigue …

Charming Hotel in City Center

We arrived late in the Hotel, past Dinner time.
The receptionist was great, she informed us regarding parking options and that the Hotel has a deal with the parking lot opposite the house.

The Rooms is comfy, we came as a family of 3, and had been given an extra bed. Very nice and comfy
The Bathroom was beautiful, but showering turned into swimming. The drainage in the floor is to small and therefore the whole bathroom gets flooded.
Maybe some adjustment to be done there.

Breakfast was good. Nothing special, but a good Breakfast.

Dinner was disappointing. it was included in our room rate, and we didn't had the possibility to take it without, as we booked late as well.
The Food was badly cooked and not nice.
Luckily the Hotel has a restaurant "EGON" right inside and next to it, so that the bad experience was possible to reverse. Of course at extra cost, but worth it.

Check out was not complicated.

Many very good things in this Hotel, only 2 let-downs. The flooding and the Dinner.
But my family and me have agreed to be back to the Hotel when we are back in the area, as we feel everyone deserves a second chance.

Beautiful Hotel in the center of town

We had a pleasant stay in this hotel. We like the atmosphere of older hotels. This had atmosphere and was remodeled, but it was not spectacular. The breakfast buffet was at a similar level, not bad, but not really spectacular.

Not Bad but Not Great Either

Evening meal was really nice, it was warm, home-made. In my impression, the evening meal quality was as same as other restaurants! It's included, really wonderful!but I felt disappointing that there are no refrigerator and hot-water pot in the room... 

Evening meal was nice

This is very old building that could be charming, but it's not really. At the begining when I arrived the very first thing I noticed,  there was no wifi connection in my room. I went down to reception and there it worked perfectly so I didn't ask about it, but I asked about "evening meal" promised in the confirmation email that I was waiting the whole journey for. What was my big surprise when the reception lady said it's already closed. Ok, I get it, it closes at some time, but why this information was not included in the email, so I could prepare myself for that. Hungry and disappointed I came back to my wifi free room and decided to go to sleep. Another surprise, no power socket near to the bed that I could access, so no cell phone charging during the night next to me. I needed to charge it across the room. Another thing that didn't go well is the water regulation, it was way to hot temperature and no possibility to fix it. The last thing, after my morning shower, I hang all of the towels in the right place so there was no need to wash them, but they did it anyway. So what the point of posting note "please save planet with us" if you still wash towels that are hang in the right place.But, there are also some very nice things. First of all, coffee machine with capsuls in the room, lovely idea! There is also very good quality of hair conditioning. And it is very nice and convenient that the hotel is connected to Egon restaurant.

Things to fix

My bathroom didnt have any handsoap (?) and I had to ask two times before anyone took action. The room was cold and neither me or the staff knew how to turn up the heat, so I was offered to change rooms. Got a slightly older room that was freezing cold. Eventually I figured out myself how to to turn it on. I had to ask for more pillows, since my 120 bed only had one thin one. Staff was overall friendly, but these small, irritating issues really affected my experience

The devil's in the details

Living at this hotel was like living on a Facebook page.
There were ads everywhere, and some were way out of date and even brand names on the water glasses.
The hotel restaurant is not a place to eat if you have allergies, and on the other side, there is another restaurant connected to the hotel that is called Egon, and it´s not recommended since they have so many items on the menu it reminds you of a phonebook, and with so many things you know for sure that the food it is not made fresh so listen for the microwave beeping in the background.

Rooms are dirty, and they only clean if you ask them, and even if we did, they did not get it done within two days after they were asked to clean the room.
In my room, things were broken and just put on the floor and not repaired and put up again, bathroom overflooded when you shower.
Workmate's room was so dirty he had to take antihistamine tablets to sleep because of allergies.
Another workmate had a dead bird in the window, so they don't check the quality of the rooms that often, and you have a feeling that the hotel is short-staffed.

I say this that the staff was friendly and did the best they could, but you get a feeling that the owners or head of the hotel don't care and is greedy since they sold out the whole place with ads, and there is always something to buy and can do nothing else but feel sorry for the people that have to work there.

Would I recommend this hotel or any other in this chain? Absolutely NOT, and now we have tried this chain of hotels in Norway and Sweden, and you better of renting a caravan.

Clarion Collection Hotel Grand, Gjovik

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