Radisson Blu Hotel Oslo Alna

Rooms were impeccably clean, but the heat was on and it felt like being toasted alive. Front desk was polite and helpful. This hotel is in the middle of nowhere and Ubers are $30+ dollars one way. The metro station looks close on paper, but it is straight up a series of hills. The price works, and it was nice to have a nice bathroom and good WiFi.

The single worst hotel access I've ever experienced, bordering unsafe. Upon entering the car park with a car for the first time, the car park shutter door closes, and you park. You follow the sign to reception only to find a door locked. No doorbell, no intercom. Instead, a QR code to scan to call the reception on a video call system to request access. How does this work for foreign guests with no data roaming? How does it work for foreign visitors with no data roaming and just arriving and not on the WiFi? How does it work if you have no data signal? How does it work if your battery on your phone dies? How does it work if you go to the garage from the hotel, forget your phone, and can't return back into the hotel to get it? I arrived one time and found a distressed, elderly Norwegian lady unable to operate the system, trapped in the basement car park, who had been there quite some time. The system failed twice for me. The hotel seemed uninterested in the safety concerns. The hotel staff offered no explanation for why the system was in place to access the hotel from the car park, but not to access through the front door. Unsafe, counterintuitive, and disruptive. The only redeeming feature was the good food at the hotel bar/ restaurant. But no room service existed, so you had to order, wait, then carry food and drink to your room yourself while also trying to operate the lift with key access. Unimpressed

We had an absolute wonderful experience in the radisson blu in Rostock/ Germany one of the best hotels we have been so far. So we also made the decision to choose radisson blu in Oslo as well and we are absolutely shocked. Compared to Rostock this seems to be an absolute ( sorry ) hole. Rooms not clean, hair on towels and in bathroom, no minibar, no bathtub, there is „complementary water“ which is a dirty, full of fingerprints glass bottle that we are supposed to fill at the sink- this made us laugh- but this is unacceptable. If this was our first radisson blu experience, we would never ever choose radisson again, never. The bathroom seems to be a hospital bathroom, not even a proper shower, feels like a hostel. The bed meant for two is way too small, my partner had to move to the couchbed, next to the bed is only one nightstand and one plug to charge things, no closet, AC not working- absolutely worst experience ever. Absolut not to recommend if you travel as family we are traveling with a baby and the room has simply nothing, no proper closet, broken tables. This seems like hostel but not like a radisson blu quality. Absolute disgrace to the brand name.