The MICHELIN Guide now includes over 7,000 hotels across the world – and not a single one is simply a room for the night. These are places that significantly add to your experience as a traveller, each vetted by our hotel experts and judged as excellent across five categories: architecture and interior design; overall personality and character; quality and consistency of service; value between the level of the experience and the price paid; and the hotel's contribution within its particular locality.
Which brings us to the Keys. On 8th October 2025, The MICHELIN Guide Inspectors revealed their latest Global Key distinctions, highlighting what they consider to be the most outstanding hotels in the Nordic Countries for the first time. Just like the MICHELIN Stars for restaurants, the MICHELIN Keys represent our most outstanding hotels. In total, the first MICHELIN Guide hotel selection for the Nordic Countries includes 38 Key hotels, broken down into 4 Two Key hotels and 34 One Key hotels.
On this page, you’ll find all of our Key distinctions, sorted by the number of Keys and their location. Click on any hotel to go straight to its homepage and learn more about its special qualities. Alternatively, head to our Magazine page to explore more in-depth Hotel and Travel articles.
The Two-Key Hotels
Hotel d'Angleterre, Copenhagen, Denmark
Set in the beating heart of Copenhagen, The Hotel d’Angleterre is a historic Danish landmark – and it has always been a love story. In the mid-1700s a French servant fell in love with the daughter of the royal chef, who was renowned for her culinary talents. Combining her exceptional cooking with his expertise in serving the privileged, in 1755 they opened a restaurant by the lakes of Copenhagen. This later moved to Copenhagen’s central square and then to its current address following a fire in 1795. Today, the hotel perfectly balances the stately Victorian architecture of its building with the graceful, understated elegance of contemporary Nordic design.The hotel’s spa, Amazing Space, is a serene oasis with a luxurious indoor swimming pool, a modern fitness centre and an extensive treatment menu. Balthazar, Denmark’s original champagne bar, exudes Parisian elegance, while One-MICHELIN-Starred Marchal offers refined Nordic and French cuisine in a setting that feels like an exclusive members’ club. The hotel’s delightful pink pâtisserie offers up some exquisite creations and, from the balconies, guests can admire views over the city’s central square, the Royal Danish Theatre and the charming Nyhavn canal in the distance.
Storfjord Hotel, Alesund, Norway
If it’s a comfortably cool rural idyll you’re looking for, it doesn’t get much more picturesque than the Storfjorden on the west coast of Norway, where the Storfjord Hotel sits surrounded by thousands of acres of protected woodland.It’s constructed in the traditional lafta style – with whole timbers – and the interiors are ruggedly elegant, furnished with antiques and classic Norwegian furnishings. Of course it’s not only the interiors you’re here to see, but the landscape as well, and each of the bedrooms has a balcony looking out over the fjord and the surrounding mountains.
Summers here are remarkably mild, and winters are pretty much what you’d expect when you think of Norway. If it’s snow sports you’re after you’ve come to the right place, but tours and excursions are available in all seasons.
Walaker Hotel, Solvorn, Norway
Standing by the side of the Sognefjord, in the village of Solvorn, and tucked dramatically between the mountains and the coast the Walaker Hotel is the oldest family-run hotel in Norway and is well into its fourth century in business.Its rooms are divided between four distinct buildings, with the oldest, Tingstova, dating back to the 1630s – and while all of the rooms share a certain cosiness, they’re also influenced by the eras of the buildings that contain them.
As lovely as the hotel may be, the outdoor environment is the obvious focus here, and excursions include kayaking and hiking the waterfalls, glaciers and the waterways of the fjord itself. Breakfast features house-made jam made from fruit grown on site.
Grand Hotel Stockholm, Stockholm, Sweden
The Grand is Stockholm style circa 1874, and it’s location can’t be faulted, in the heart of the city, across from the Royal Palace, with its higher class rooms looking out over the harbour and the Old Town. And though it’s been renovated from time to time, it’s good to see some things never change, like the hotel ballroom, still a meticulous copy of the Hall of Mirrors at Versailles.In the main building, the bedrooms vary in size but all are decorated in the expected manner, with classic furnishings and Italian marble baths. The suites are almost comically decadent – some spanning five rooms including salons and drawing rooms – and the service is impeccable. If you are in the mood for something more contemporary though, book a Deluxe or Executive Suite in the adjoining Burmanska Palatset, which they acquired in 2004.
Breakfast is served in the Cadier Bar, as well as the Grand Veranda, which comes with a view of the city through panoramic windows. For dinner head to the decadent MICHELIN-Starred Seafood Gastro, where impeccable Nordic seafood reigns supreme.
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The One-Key Hotels
Denmark
Copenhagen: Hotel SandersCopenhagen: Nimb
Copenhagen: Nobis Hotel Copenhagen
Copenhagen: 1 Hotel Copenhagen
Copenhagen: Park Lane Copenhagen
Copenhagen: 25hours Hotel Paper Island
Millinge: Falsled Kro
Iceland
Grindavík: The Retreat at Blue Lagoon IcelandHella: Hotel Rangá
Hvolsvöllur: UMI Hotel
Kerlingarfjoll: Highland Base Kerlingarfjöll
Reykjavík: The Reykjavik EDITION
Related Read: The Retreat at Blue Lagoon, Iceland’s One Key Wonderland and Foodie Paradise
Norway
Alesund: Hotel BrosundetKristiansand: Boen Gård
Norangsfjorden: Hotel Union Øye
Nordskot: Manshausen
Oslo: Amerikalinjen
Oslo: Hotel Continental
Oslo: Sommerro
Skulestadmo: Elva Hotel
Stavanger: Eilert Smith Hotel
Trondheim: Britannia Hotel
Valldal: Juvet Landscape Hotel
Sweden
Harads: Arctic BathStockholm: Bank Hotel
Stockholm: Ett Hem
Stockholm: Hotel Frantz
Stockholm: Lydmar Hotel
Stockholm: Nobis Hotel Stockholm
Stockholm: Ruth
Stockholm: Stockholm Stadshotell
Stockholm: Villa Dagmar
Stockholm: Villa Dahlia
Hero Image: The Storfjord Hotel in Alesund, Norway – a wonderfully romantic spot, particularly in winter – is awarded Two-MICHELIN-Keys in the first MICHELIN Key launch for the Nordic Countries (© Storfjord Hotel)
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