The Swedish castle hotel route is absolutely fantastic and we have 32 castle hotels for you to enjoy and stay at with lots of history. Here's the route that you can follow and spend an entire holiday in castles around half of Sweden.
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Svenska slottshotellsvägen
Svenska Slottshotellsvägen is very luxurious but also exciting and there are a lot of castles with ghosts too which makes it extra interesting. Svenska Slottshotellvägen is a FREEDOMtravel Theme Road that runs from Garpenberg above Hedemora, with a u-turn to Malmö and turns up again to the south of Stockholm. You can follow it from any direction, or pick your favourite part (your favourite spots) in the middle. This is an idea to make it easier for you to go on a little adventure. Happy travelling!
Short facts about Svenska Slottshotellsvägen
- Length: 2215 km
- Start: Garpenborg Castle
- Stop: Häringe Castle
1. the Garpenberg Castle Hotel
In beautiful nature and deep forests you will find Garpenberg Castle. A stately building in French castle architecture from 1801. Here you can enjoy an atmosphere and environment reminiscent of the glamorous social life of the 18th and 19th centuries. Weddings, conferences or a private stop with good food, perhaps a five-course meal with wine from the cellar and accommodation in one wing...
2. Salsta Castle on Svenska Slottshotellsvägen.
Stay in the castle pavilion, take a guided tour, join a ghost walk, have lunch or dinner with a murder mystery, because a lot of strange things have happened and are happening at Salsta Castle. Do you dare?
3. Rånäs Castle Hotel
Enjoy the castle feel with extra of everything from the 19th century Italian-inspired castle. Beautiful dinners, spa, lake sauna, whirlpools and live like kings or queens.
4. Johannesberg Castle Hotel
Spa, gym, relaxation, beautiful clothes, fantastic food with wine packages, wine cellar, lovely atmosphere, everything that makes you let go of everyday life and just enjoy the good things in life. Play golf or boule or club games, go for long walks in beautiful nature.
TIPS: Wik Castle
Wik Castle is located in Uppsala "Within the walls of Wik there is much to experience. You can go here to enjoy a walk in one of the county's most species-rich nature or visit Wik's castle, which dates back to the 13th century. Some people spend a whole day on the beach and enjoy a gofika or an ice cream from the café. Others go here for a conference, have a kickoff with their work friends and enjoy a fantastic dinner and toast the sunset before falling asleep in one of the hotels. We welcome everyone as our guests at Wik!"
5. Norwegian castle hotel
Sweden's smallest wooden castle in the Carolinian style. The castle can be booked with coffee, relaxation area, dinner, double room and castle breakfast, or rent the entire castle. The castle was visited by Charles XI and Steve Jobs before the first iPhone was released.
6. Rosersberg Castle Hotel
One of the 11 royal castles where you can experience as much as possible. The English Park is huge and very beautiful, the rooms in the castle are incredible in this 17th century castle. Have a glass of bubbly at the bar, book a five-course dinner and don't forget a private tour of the castle.
7. Näsby castle on Svenska Slottshotellsvägen
Make a reservation and follow in the footsteps of Anders Zorn, Bruno Liljefors, Elsa Beskow, Carl Larsson and all the other party people over the years, because Näsby Slott is known as the party palace. Book a three-course meal in the royal spirit, dress up, play croquet or bubble in the bar. The evening and night are yours! Don't forget that the castle is haunted, as it should be.
8. Ulfsunda Castle Hotel
Enjoy the apple garden to start with a glass of bubbly or take a relaxing spa in one of the wings. Order a charcuterie plate with a good glass of wine, or just a coffee treat. Take the table for the evening and treat yourself to amazing food because there's plenty to choose from.
9. Åkeshov Castle Hotel
With us it is just as green outside on the castle terrace as inside our restaurant Råkoko. Åkeshov Castle from the 1650s in Bromma places great focus on the green food that tastes better in a castle environment. Take a lovely day in a lovely environment and enjoy the finer things in life.
10. Hesselby Castle Hotel
Welcome to Sweden's music castle in a place full of life. Gastronomic dinner and well-chilled drinks and karaoke bar in the castle garden, Music lounge in the Orangery, pottery in the basement, Sensuella Isabella's bar and music quiz, Play billiards. Once you've done all this, it's time for the castle menu and good drinks for the perfect evening.
11. Görvälns Slottshotell
Görvälns castle from the 15th century in a fantastic environment with a restaurant, 45 rooms, Arboretum, sculpture park, castle garden and not least a large nature reserve. Here you will also find Gåseborg ancient castle and a lovely swimming area. What a day!
12: Lejondal Castle Hotel
Spires and towers as a beautiful castle should have and with an incredibly beautiful setting. Lejondal Castle from the late 19th century with manor buildings next door. Eat on the glass veranda overlooking Lake Lejondal, or the smaller De Geer dining room with its tiled stove and castle feel. Lejondal Castle's dining room "Sparre" in rustic Art Nouveau style from 1892 and a wine cellar of course. Breathe in history and enjoy a castle dinner.
13. Haga Castle (Enköping)
Haga Slott in Enköping in a 17th century environment, classic kitchen, award-winning wine cellar, SPA area with dry sauna, steam sauna, heated pool, cold bath, experience showers, social areas, and a lovely fireplace. If you make the mistake of not staying, try the brunch to eat like royalty.
14. Sundbyholm Castle
Sundbyholm Castle was originally an old monastery from the 16th century and has been rebuilt several times. In the 1890s, Prince Eugen painted his famous painting "The Old Castle" here, during one of his summers at Sundbyholm Castle. Castle restaurant, patisserie, 109 rooms, canoe trips, spa and sauna. Since there are murder menus, the place is also haunted. Have a nice night!
15. Hedenlunda Castle Hotel
Hedenlunda Castle is beautifully situated in Vadsbro parish, in the centre of Sörmland. Stay royally at the castle and enjoy the tranquillity and a lovely walk in the castle park. Prepare for a cold and hot spa ritual with foot massage, peeling, steam sauna, ice scrub, birch sauna, cinnamon sauna and much more. Time for bubbles and three or five courses to make the day complete.
16. Bjertorp Castle on Svenska Slottshotellsvägen.
In the middle of Varaslätten in Vara municipality you will find Bjertorp Castle, with beautiful rooms and specially designed furniture as a castle should be. Here you can enjoy a castle walk, play shuffle board, sit in front of the fire and just be. Play golf, take a bike ride, paddle, swim or see Lake Hornborga. Visit the microbrewery Qvänum Mat & Malt before changing for a 5-course castle dinner. If you want breakfast in bed, they will fix that too. Enjoy the good things in life!
17) Thorskog Castle Hotel
Award-winning Thorskogs Slott is located in a wonderful English park, between Kungälv and Lilla Edet. Spires and towers, beautiful rooms and lounges, delicious food. Svartedalen's magical primeval forest, bathing lakes and waterfalls, hiking trails, in the castle park there is a 6-hole pitching and putting course, boule court, cube, croquet, wood-fired tubs and sauna and much more. Inside the castle there are billiards and darts. Afternoon Tea, orangery, wine cellar, many castle dining rooms, castle breakfast buffet and there is no end to all the fine, good and beautiful.
18. Tjolöholm Castle
Tjolöholm Castle is a stunningly beautiful building, with sumptuous architecture, an incredible castle garden, Allmoge village, its own castle church and stables. There is no castle restaurant, but unique accommodation is available on site.
19: Örenäs Castle Hotel
Örenäs Slott is a magnificent hotel and conference centre in a unique castle environment. Here you will find most things around a beautiful castle. Reconstruction is underway and will open in the spring of 2024, at which time this page will also be updated.
20. Häckeberga Castle Hotel
Häckeberga Castle is a castle in Genarp parish in Lund municipality near Genarp. The castle is located on one of the seven islets of Lake Häckeberga and was completed in 1875 in the French Renaissance style. You can stay at the castle or in the pavilion by the lake and here you will find a castle lunch, or a 5-course, afternoon tea and if you stay over, you eat an alla carte breakfast to feel good all day. Häckeberga Castle or The Norrmans Castle as it is called.
21st Kronovall Wine Castle
Kronovall Castle is a stunningly beautiful baroque castle in Österlen, Skåne. Today the castle serves as a wine castle, which means a great focus on wines from many parts of the world. What about ghosts in castles? Some visitors have seen shadows in the long corridor on the second floor, and this is believed to be the 16-year-old Isabell who drowned one winter in one of the moats while secretly meeting the forester's son. Castles, good food, wines, secrets and ghosts...
22. Bäckaskog Castle on Svenska Slottshotellsvägen.
Monks lived at Bäckaskog as early as the 13th century, and in the 16th century the monastery was converted into a fortified castle. Today, the castle serves as a hotel and conference centre, and various parties and events are also arranged here. It's really cosy and the park is very nice. Are there ghosts here? Yep!!!!!!!
23 Teleborg Castle Hotel
A fairytale castle in Växjö that is only about 100 years old and was a morning gift to his wife, yes I thank you. It was very cosy to be here but we never slept over and we regret it today, but next time so.
24 Västanå Castle Hotel
Västanå Slott from around 1590 and located about five kilometres south of Gränna with culinary dishes, good wine and well-preserved castle environments. How about hiking, boule, tennis, padel, hunting, golf and tennis. You stay in the centre of the castle, the south wing, the gatehouse or Röttle village. You eat breakfast in the Gustavian parlour and a 3-course castle dinner with wine package if desired...
TIP: Vadstena Abbey Hotel & Spa
A little extra stop on the way to sleep in a beautiful monastery hotel & spa and St Birgitta with her whole story... And all the ghosts! Don't forget that! It will be a detour of 25 extra minutes. Here you will also find Vadstena Castle which is incredibly powerful.
25th Gränsö Castle
Stay in beautiful rooms or new luxury beach suites directly by the sea in our natural paradise at Gränsö Castle in Västervik. Enjoy the spa, delicious dinners in the castle's Orangery, beautiful treatments and walks and swimming along the archipelago cliffs in a nature reserve. Here you will find golf, eleven different pools, a beach house with cold baths because the spa is an important part of being here. Live like a king and queen and enjoy castle food as it should be, with bubbles or other good drinks.
26. Husby castle on Svenska Slottshotellsvägen.
Husby säteri castle is one of the many places that is a ghost castle and our guest writer "Lite mera Rosa" has tried the ghost hotel. Nice and exciting at the same time. Good night's sleep!
27: Mauritzberg Castle & Golf
Mauritzberg Castle & Golf from the 17th century is a fine facility with unique experiences under one roof, and an oasis with a golden edge for those who want to enjoy the good things in life. Come privately or for a conference.
There are plots, restaurants, a golf course, a chapel and a fabulous hotel. Eat at the restaurant Silverklippan at the castle or Ebba Grips bistro and sleep in the castle or some of the wings. If you come with a motorhome, there are parking spaces for you too... Everyone is welcome like a castle!
28. öster malma castle
Öster Malma Castle from the 17th century is a nice little white estate in Nyköping municipality and here there is a lot about hunting and wild animals. Here you will find good food, hunting, Wild Life park, game shop, farm shop, hotel and hostel. Just watch out for the wolf.
29: Södertuna Castle
Södertuna Castle is situated in a scenic location by Lake Frösjön in Södermanland with a spa, restaurant, gourmet, sauna, hot tub and pool. Afternoon tea, collections such as the corkscrew collection, Sweden's largest collection of armagnac (a cognac-like drink) and a collection of old Meissen porcelain, with family arms from the Eckerman families. A 16th century oak tree in the English Park and this is real beauty.
30 Engsholm Castle
An enjoyable castle dating back to the 14th century with a cold bath house and wood-fired sauna in a historic castle environment on Mörkö's beautiful headland. 4 houses with hotel rooms, lounge, beach studio, villa Liljefors, jetty, pool table, bar and much more. Treat yourself to an afternoon tea or focus on several dishes in the baroque dining room, and don't forget the round library at the top and maybe some wine tasting on it. You can't go wrong!
31. Häringe Castle
Häringe Castle, dating back to the 11th century, is located just south of Stockholm and is a castle you visit for wonderful weekend packages, luxurious dinners, afternoon tea, bowling, sauna, tennis, boule, Western riding and archipelago experiences and lazy days in the castle pool. Lastly, the castle garden is a must... Have a great weekend!
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