Langholmen Hotel in Stockholm

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The most appealing and interesting attraction that the Langholmen Hotel offers its guests is the fact that this hotel in Stockholm City, Sweden was once a prison facility. Yes, a corrective facility for criminal offenders complete with jail cells, high concrete walls and an exercise yard was transformed into a hotel accommodation facility we now know as the Langholmen Hotel, Stockholm.

The Langholmen Hotel of Stockholm can fall under one of three categories depending on the person categorizing it. To the faint of heart, the history and even the cell slash hotel rooms of Langholmen can be an intimidating thing to try and experience. To the adventurous, the dauntless and to those who are just simply curious, the Langholmen Hotel is a most interesting and intriguing hotel that offers the experience that not a lot of hotels in the entire planet can give you.

During the 19th century, the building we now call the Langholmen Hotel was still known as the old Crown Prison. For a corrective institution for criminals and miscreants, the old Crown Prison actually had a very attractive gallery and an pleasing over-all architecture and layout which not most prisons can brag about. On the year 1975 however, the very last prison locked up at the old Crown Prison was released and the place was soon under a transformation.

From keeping unwilling prisoners within its guarded walls to attracting free citizens into staying inside its cells, the Langholmen Hotel had a rather eccentric notion of interior make-overs. Allthough the oddities and curiosities of the old Crown Prison was left behind, the Langholmen hotel however, breathes a freshness and comfort that its former inhabitants probably did not think the place could provide.

After the renovation, the hotel now has satellite cable television, fast wireless Internet access, hot water showers, in-room telephones and other hotel amenities. If you are on your own or with your partner, you can check-in at one of the 89 single cells/hotel rooms at the Langholmen. There are also 13 double rooms / cells and even 10 special rooms and facilities for disable prisoners, er, I mean hotel guests.

The Guests of the Langholmen are also not served gruel, soup and stale bread but they are rather treated to sumptuous international cuisines served at the 24 hour hotel cafeteria. You are also not forced to smash rocks and do rounds at the exercise yard, but guests are free to tour around this historic spot and discover interesting facts that the Langholmen holds. Guests can also check-out whenever they wish so long as they have already settle their accounts and had their fill of the comfortable and interesting hotel which is the Langholmen Hotel, Stockholm City.