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Frommer's Highly Recommended

This accommodation is better equipped than the Gabelhus, but you'll pay more for the privilege of lodging here. The intimate, charming hotel, the smallest in the Rica chain, has the air of an artsy boutique hotel. Its designers shoehorned it into the framework of a late-19th-century Flemish-revival brick structure in Oslo's well-heeled West End. Each of the bedrooms is different in its layout, corresponding to the already-existing towers and gables of the older structure. Room nos. 206, 214, 406, and 414 are among the most sought-after because of their Victorian-era curved walls and bay windows. Other than that, the decor is conservative and predictably upscale -- and a bit bland, usually in tones of pale blue. Each unit comes with a small bathroom with shower. Within the hotel is one of the finest restaurants in the West End, the Magma Bar & Restaurant, offering an exquisite cuisine based on the finest market-fresh ingredients of the season.

Copyright: Excerpted from Frommer's Norway, 4th Edition, (c) 2008, Wiley Publishing, Inc.

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