We stayed in a suite on the 8th floor, to get a walk-in shower; the room was spacious and comfortable
Although it faced onto the adjacent motorway it was quiet being high up. The other side would be quiet on every floor.
The breakfast was excellent, served in a spacious ground floor room with well separated tables.
Access is not straight forward unless you come by car. If you arrive by bus from the airport or by metro you only have an eight to ten minute walk - but it is over a footbridge which climbs high over the motorway with quite steep gradients on either side. The metro ran every ten to 15 minutes and took about 12 minutes to get to the centre.
Another surprise was a large dinner party in the ground floor one night followed by a party till 3am in the bar on the ninth floor. This disturbed several people in the group we were with, and one chnaged her room in the middle of the night to a lower floor. Strangely although we were on the floor below the bar we heard nothing.
We were impacted though because the bar has an adjacent restaurant which closed early. The hotel had warned our group leader but she had not passed this on to us. Happily the staff rustled up some food for us from the downstairs kitchen which was much appreciated.
We did eat a couple of times in the restaurant and the food was adequate. The staff there seemed a bit shorthanded; one night our order took an hour to arrive.
On balance we had a good if eventful stay. Oslo is fantastic!
