Luxury bespoke hotel holidays to Top of Helgeland, Stott.
Facts in brief
Location Stott
Closest airport Bodo Airport
Distance from airport About 1 hour via Express Boat
Hotel facilities and services
Restaurant, Outdoor Activities
Chargeable watersports
Fishing Trips, Sea-Rafting, Kayaking
Out and about nearby
The hotel is in prime position to explore Helgeland, the Salten area, and the Lofoten Islands. Not only that, guests can have fun kayaking, immerse themselves in the beauty of the Northern Lights, take part in guided walks and tours, go on fishing trips, and join the hotel on a trip to Svartisen glacier. Moreover, there are rib excursions available at different times of the year to places including Karlsholmen lighthouse, Hestmannen, Rodoylova, and Myken, plus sea-rafting trips to Bolga and Sorfugloy.
Sports nearby
Kayaking, Fishing, Walking, Sea-Rafting, Hiking
Absolutely loved it. Bespoke sense of the trip is very good. Very pleasant and efficient service.Mrs H, Sep 2023
Holiday price guide Sample prices are per person based on two people sharing a double room for 5 nights for a holiday by air
From about
Holiday Code EXH46811
The prices displayed here are a guide only. Each holiday price will be tailor-made at the time of booking to reflect all actual costs including up-to-date special offers.
Call us on 01392 441245
Luxury bespoke hotel holidays to Top of Helgeland, Stott.
Top of Helgeland was once the Stott Old Trading Post, dating to the 19th century, and today focuses on connecting to guests through a hospitality wonderfully personal and authentic in nature. Its rooms, with their down duvets and old fashioned furniture, are in the restored buildings of the post. There is The Bakery, with its dreamy, elegant décor in cream and white, Rorbua, which is good for friends and families and was where fishermen used to eat, sleep, and prepare their gear, and Stabburet, the old storehouse over two floors, which is a lovely place to stay for a couple or a family of four. Guests can indulge in gastronomic delights at the restaurant, which sources the best ingredients from the local area and automatically reserves a table for the hotel’s guests. Indeed, the Restaurant Gammelbutikken, which used to be the Old Store until 1959, serves seafood dishes prepared using the catch of the day from the surrounding waters – think fish, fresh from the gorgeous Vestfjord. It is also the only restaurant in Norway which dries its own stockfish. On weekdays, they serve a three-course menu, different everyday to adapt to the best ingredients each day, and they serve their grand five-course menu on Saturdays. Wines are also thoughtfully selected to work in tandem with the seafood dishes prepared. Moreover, the hotel is, in itself, a beautifully rustic and dazzlingly high-quality base from which to explore Helgeland, the Salten area, and the Lofoten Islands.
Room descriptions
Rooms can be found between The Bakery, Rorbua, and Stabburet.
Absolutely loved it. Bespoke sense of the trip is very good. Very pleasant and efficient service.Mrs H, Sep 2023
Holiday price guide Sample prices are per person based on two people sharing a double room for 5 nights for a holiday by air
From about
Holiday Code EXH46811
The prices displayed here are a guide only. Each holiday price will be tailor-made at the time of booking to reflect all actual costs including up-to-date special offers.
Call us on 01392 441245
Luxury bespoke hotel holidays to Top of Helgeland, Stott.
The journey and how you get there
For a journey to Top of Helgeland, we include a scheduled flight with Norwegian Air or SAS to Bodo (via Oslo), then an Express Boat to Stott.
Absolutely loved it. Bespoke sense of the trip is very good. Very pleasant and efficient service.Mrs H, Sep 2023
Holiday price guide Sample prices are per person based on two people sharing a double room for 5 nights for a holiday by air
From about
Holiday Code EXH46811
The prices displayed here are a guide only. Each holiday price will be tailor-made at the time of booking to reflect all actual costs including up-to-date special offers.
Call us on 01392 441245
Luxury bespoke hotel holidays to Top of Helgeland, Stott.
About Norway
Norway is a fascinating destination for a luxury, tailor-made holiday. The land and the culture of Norway lend themselves to a diverse and rich array of holiday experiences and a choice of mode of transport. At first glance, Norway offers magnificent, dramatic, severe and wild natural surroundings in its glaciers, Arctic snow and ice, majestic fjords, crashing waterfalls and mystical natural phenomena such as the Aurora Borealis and Fata Morgana. However, Norway also offers cultural ties, a shared history dating from the days of the Vikings, a cosiness in its orchards and pastures, brightly-painted wooden houses, folk tales and mythology, world-class art, literature and music in the works of Munch, Ibsen and Grieg, to name but three, and international philanthropy as exemplified by the Nobel prize. Many towns have superb museums, ancient wooden stave churches are well-preserved, the heritage of the Vikings is visible not just in major centres such as Oslo but all around, and seemingly small places are rich with music and drama festivals. Whilst the length of Norway with is 2518 km poses a challenge to the visitor, this also means that it makes sense to use a variety of transport modes to travel around; scenic trains, sleeper trains, boat rides, coastal cruises and car-hire can all be incorporated. The landscape lends itself well to hiking and cycling and there are many national parks that offer a variety of conditions depending on your ability. Norway’s cities are vibrant and manage to blend modernity with tradition. The iconic Oslo Opera House sits a short distance from the Akershus fortress, the Old Town Hall dating from 1641 is a stroll away from the Akrobaten pedestrian bridge, a near-futuristic construction of steel and glass.
Highlights of Norway
The numerous fjords: Eidfjord – branch of the Hardangerfjord, Geirangerfjord – precipitous, one of Norway’s signature images, Hardangerfjord – rolling hills and pretty villages, Jossingfjord – vertiginous fjord in the flatlands of the south, Lysefjord – plunging cliffs, cruises and look out points, Naeroyfjord – narrow and very pretty, Sognefjord – Norway’s longest and one of the most beautiful, Trollfjord – very steep fjord on Lofoten, Vestfjord – sheltered bays and pretty villages separating Lofoten from the mainland. The Hurtigruten ferry that covers over 2500 km from Bergen to Kirkenes with over 30 stops. The Midnight Sun and the Northern Lights. Stave churches, beautifully preserved in wood, dating from Viking times, for example at Borgund, Lom, Ringebu and Urnes. Viking ships and artefacts, burial mounds and trinkets in museums throughout the country. The red, wooden houses perched stilts over the sea on the Lofoten Islands. The modern architecture of Oslo. Picking wild blueberries, sampling aquavit made from potatoes and caraway, and tasting reindeer steak with cranberries. The charm of Oslofjorden with its pretty, arty village and towns, harbours with sailing boats, islands offshore and beaches. Hike over the Jotunheimen and relish the natural landscape of this stunning National Park.
Cultural highlights of Norway
The architecture of stave churches dating from the Viking era and Viking treasure in museums around the country. The literature of Henrik Ibsen and Knut Hamsun. Folk tales and mythology. The music of Edvard Grieg and the art of Edvard Munch. Contemporary jazz and folk music.
Gastronomy of Norway
Norway’s gastronomy is a clear reflection of its land and sea. From the land come reindeer, venison, lamb, cured meats and potatoes of all types: boiled, roasted and fried. From the freshwater lakes and streams come salmon served grilled and smoked, and freshwater fish. Sea fish is a vast array of cod, haddock, shrimps, mackerel, fish soup, fish balls, salt cod. From the orchards particularly around the Hardangerfjord come apples, cherries and plums as well as berries of all sorts including blueberries, cranberries, bilberries and, a great delicacy, cloudberries. Cheeses include Jarlsberg and brown cheese. Coffee is almost certainly the national drink, followed by beer, of which there are all sorts of craft beers brewed locally, and Aquavit is the national spirit made from potatoes and caraway.
Facts in brief
Capital OsloAirport Oslo Gardermoen
Size 323,878 sq km
Population 4.4 million
