Great breakfast buffet Friendly courteous staff. Clean modern rooms (a bit small but not unreasonable) An easy 20 minute walk to Gamla Stan or to Ferries to Djurgarden. many restaurants and cafes along wthe way and shops galore An excellent choice for this visit

Stayed at the Birger Jarl for 4 nights in Mid-July for our anniversary. The hotel website suggesting that it's a "design"-hotel with individually designed rooms by Swedish designers is a bit misleading: there are some, but the majority is rather basic, but ok. Rooms are tiny but comfy, though the bathrooms are VERY small and showing signs of wear. Rooms were generally clean. Stayed at 5th floor, would recommend the higher floors (5&6). Couples be aware: it's two king size beds combined - and they are sliding... Breakfast: great selection of stuff, although the ground floor breakfast room was always very crowded and hectic in the morning; staff had a hard time cleaning all those tables and colleting the masses of empty plates. Tip: Try the separate breakfast room in the basement - much quiter and the same selection. Breakfast is served till 11 at weekends which is nice. Hotel staff ist the plus of the place: always friendly & helpful, making reservations or printing out menus from the internet. Hotel is a bit in an off-ocation but ok, a mere 20 minutes walk to downtown. Lots of tourists (Germans, Italians, Americans, Spanish but also Swedish). Be aware that Stokholm is dead in Mid-July; every local seems to be on vacation and almost all better restaurants and many sops are CLOSED! Nice hangout-place nearby the hotel is MOND?N, a stylish bar which also serves food.

Stayed at the Hotel Birger Jarl in May 2008 and it was a very nice experience. The room was clean, the bed was comfy, the staff was very helpful and the breakfast was fantastic! The hotel is a bit off the beaten path (15 min walk to the train station, Gamla Stan and the rest of the sights in Stockholm) but because of that it was very quiet and peaceful. There's not a lot to do around the hotel but there is a good bar at the end of the street with tons of good european beers and the food was pretty good as well. I would stay there again but would rather be closer to the action.

I booked the Birger Jarl Junior Suite for an early xmas break. The room was very spacious and had everything you could ask for. Though the bathroom perhaps needs updating a little. The staff were all very helpful and gave us directions to everywhere we wanted to go to. On maps of Stockholm the hotel looks as though it is a fair distance from the main sites, but it is only a 10 minute walk to the sea front. The breakfasts were good, although it got a little crowded when they had large groups of people staying in the hotel at the same time. We had a couple of meals in the hotel restaurant at night, both were good quality and perhaps a little cheaper than other restaurants around the area.