Having a booked hiking trip in the Lofoten Islands, it ended in Bodo so we wanted to spend a night there to enjoy see and enjoy the city before returning to Oslo.
What should have been a simple one night stay unfortunately became tarnished by the hotels pathetic policies that weekend. Now to be fair, they were not the only hotel chain doing this, but it's a scam and money grab none the less...it should be illegal.
What is that you ask?
We were forced to book a room for 2 nights at an extra cost of 2500 NOK (about $350CDN)!!!
If you tried to book a single night there was no availability, but if you chose multiple nights suddenly there was! Our hiking guide was able to find out that there was a music festival and target competition happening, and that the hotels seemed to be ripping off visitors to the city by forcing multiple night stays.
With no other choice, and the hotel not responding to my requests for a single night stay, there was no other option but have to pay their ransom in order to have somewhere to stay.
Once at the hotel, the front desk staff were less than helpful, and obviously did not give a crap about the issue.
So with that said, you can understand that I'll never stay with Quality Hotels again, anywhere. And make sure that every single person I know knows that they rip their customers off.