Orkanger · Manor
Bårdshaug Herregård
Built in 1902 in a style that blends Norse, international and Louis XVI influences, Bårdshaug Herregård sits in Orkanger, thirty minutes southwest of Trondheim.
- Up to 120 guests
- 90 rooms
The story
Since 1690 — Norway's oldest family hotel
In Solvorn — a village of painted houses and garden paths above the Sognefjord — Walaker Hotel has been offering beds and meals since 1690. It is not the oldest building on the property, but it is the oldest family-run hotel in Norway by some accounts, and the continuity shows in the way the place carries itself: nothing hurried, nothing fussy, a strong sense that the point of being here is the fjord and the surrounding mountains, and that everything else is in service of that. The 26 rooms are spread across several buildings including the original Villa Walaker, the Garden Wing and the historic Tingstova, each decorated with a blend of contemporary comfort and period character.
The restaurant holds a Michelin Bib Gourmand for its seasonal cooking built on local produce, and a champagne cellar adds a degree of ceremony to evenings that already benefit from one of the finest fjord outlooks in Norway. For wedding ceremonies, the hotel offers the extraordinary option of taking the ferry across to Urnes Stave Church — Norway's oldest surviving stave church, dating from the 1130s and a UNESCO World Heritage site — before returning to Solvorn for a dinner that the setting makes effortless.
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