stockholm city guide

Getting out of Stockholm into the region is easy peasy with our daytrip suggestion guide. We recommend daytrips to the following places in the greater Stockholm area: university town Uppsala, the royal perch of Drottningholm Slott, and the cute archipelago island of Grinda.

EuroCheapo Features Editor Alex apparently loves Stockholm. Here, he spills the dirt on his favorite Stockholm hotels, what he loves about working in Stockholm, his little Stockholm transportation secret, and his infantile taste in Swedish food.

Hotels in Stockholm aren't cheap. We'll let you know precisely how expensive you should expect hotels to be. Better yet, we'll tell you when to benefit from cheap rates. Spoiler: It's (counterintuitively) during the summer and over weekends.

Read EuroCheapo Contributor Miranda Siegel's take on those amazingly cheap Scandinavian "cruiseferries." How cheap? Let's put it this way: that sandwich and coffee you scarfed at a trendy Gamla stan café probably costs more than one of these cruises.

Swedes are so hard to impress. Wouldn't it be nice to charm them to bits with your extensive knowledge of Swedish history and culture? We've got some reading suggestions for you, both novels and on subjects as diverse as ABBA, vikings, and Selma Lagerlöf.