Clarion Hotel Sign

I am currently writing this review while still staying at this hotel!
First, the pros:
1) Convenient location, a two-​minute walk from the Arlanda Express and the rest of the Central Station.
2) Clean and modern design — the hotel lobby is especially well-​stocked with popular Danish designer pieces.
3) Great breakfast buffet and overall good adjoining restaurant (American Table). The best breakfast buffet I’ve been to yet — they have everything from eggs to smoked salmon to herring to rugbrod. They have an omelette station and a ‘raw bar’ (if you want to add raw organic hemp to your yogurt, etc). I’m not sure if such an extensive breakfast buffet is common in Stockholm, but I’m digging it.
4) Interesting/​gimmicky design elsewhere. Each floor is apparently designed with different themes. There are also different elevators labelled with various genres of music. One elevator has a spin table. Kind cool/​eccentric.
Next, the cons:
1) Terrible wi-​fi in the rooms. The only place where there is good (free) wi-​fi is in the lobby. This was the biggest con for me.
2) You have to pay to use the pool.
3) The ‘regular’ rooms are very compact, and there are no safes in the rooms themselves.
4) The pillows are also terrible. They are soft to the touch, but strangely big and firm at the same time, which makes for very awkward neck placement. My husband ended up sleeping with no pillows at all. However, we’re lucky that we’re in general such easy sleepers.
In general, I would use this hotel if I ever visited Stockholm again, despite the terrible wi-​fi connection. In such an expensive city, I was truly hoping to not have to pay extra for a consistent connection.

I stayed here for two days around Eurovision week.
Firstly, this was the cheapest hotel my PA could find, Radisson Blu was over £100 more expensive for a similar room.
The designers had obviously «been on the cheese» the night before presenting their vision of a hotel to the board of the hotel group.
*Don’t take this as a negative because it’s not. *
Too often a hotel is the same corporate, stuffy environment for middle-​aged, overweight men to sit (in their underpants) watching local TV while sneaking a cheeky bottle of supermarket wine before drifting into a comatose sleep worrying about their blood pressure and end of quarter figures.
Thankfully, Clarion Sign is not that kind of a place. It’s vibrant and fun, the rooms are quiet, well appointed and comfortable. There’s an extensive gym complete with rows of people who spend far too much time in the gym, but that’s not a problem — hey, it’s Sweden, everyone’s equal in their eyes.
I arrived at some inhuman time of the morning and was greeted by a very polite, friendly and helpful night porter who couldn’t do enough to assist.
The next surprise was the lift (elevator) to my floor. Each of them has a theme, mine was disco and true to their word, a pair of Numark decks with Deckadance installed on a hidden Mac greeted me. There was also a mirror ball and lighting. As a DJ (in my other life), I decided to have a play… cheeky. The range of tracks is a bit cheesy pop so don’t expect any Adam Bayer or Green Velvet.
Here’s proof:
The room is just about right, my only criticisms are the WiFi is really poor. Very slow and unreliable. You can buy a Telia voucher, but I wouldn’t bother, they share the same infrastructure and (quite frankly) didn’t provide capacity for this size of hotel.
As usual in so many European hotels, there’s no *****ng kettle — which is an outrage, but you can put that down to my over-​developed sense of angst at not having a cup of tea when I wake.
Bathroom is very good and well appointed.
Breakfast was splendid, plenty of choice, very fresh and lots of space to eat undisturbed.
All in all, great hotel, cheeky attitude and very well run.
If Clarion only had a decent loyalty programme…

Nice, clean and modern hotel, steps away from the Central Railroad Station (and the Arlanda Express), a short walk from Gamla Stan and pretty much anything downtown Stockholm. Nicely appointed rooms, comfortable beds, an excellent spa and a very good breakfast buffet. Then why only three stars? The elevators play incessant loud music, there are no washcloths to be had, standard rooms do not have a safe (you have to use one of the itty-​bitty ones in their luggage storage area and it’s a pain to get one of the two people from the reception to open the room for you, they’re always busy or overwhelmed with arriving or departing guests), the concierge seems to know less than the tourists asking the questions, and the black TP in the lobby bathroom is really creepy. For a hotel that’s only about 5 – 6 years old, everything is a bit too shopworn and thin at the edges. Oh yes, and you have to pay to use the pool!

Stayed here for five days on a business trip. The hotel is clean, stylish and has a nice location. The restaurant and bar are very popular and almost always filled during nighttime (book table). The gym is ok. Nothing special but it does the trick (would like a pull up bar though and some more Crossfit inspired stuff). The breakfast buffet was nice with some organic food. Ate at the restaurant one night and the food was good and service good as well.

Not impressed. Staff seems overwhelmed with the number of guests. Concierge can’t seem to secure dinner reservations other than in the hotel. Too bad I thought stockholm was a sophisticated city.

Ein tolles Hotel, was dem 4 Sterne Standard voll gerecht wird.
Ich war beruflich in Schweden und wurde von Kunden in diesem tollen Hotel untergebracht. Leider konnte ich kaum Hotelangebote nutzen, aber die offensichtlichen Attribute waren super. Das Hotel ist fast direkt am Hauptbahnhof gelegen, von wo man überall in Stockholm oder zum Flughafen in kürzester Zeit hinkommt. Ebenfalls sind neben der guten Hotelgastronomie auch diverse tolle Restaurants und Bars in der unmittelbaren Umgebung. Die Lage ist hier wirklich sensationell.
Leider ist das Hotel den Preisen von Stockholm angepasst, was es für meinen Geschmack sehr teuer gemacht hat. Nichtsdestotrotz kann ich es besten Gewissens weiterempfehlen.

I went just to the restaurant for good, nothing else. Wouldn’t go there again. The food is not bad, but the place is overpriced for what you get. It’s also unnecessary pretentious.

Facing at the park, this stylish hotel has very clear and nice view from room. I stayed at 8^th and 7^th floor. The hotel location is great. You can walk to the central railway station, restaurants, and the department NK etc.
The spa with a bar and a pool locates at the 8^th floor. You have to pay for using the pool additionally. I could rate this hotel as a 4 star, if they allow me to use their pool without extra charge. From Friday, the hotel charges more (about 200 SEK), just using the pool at the spa.