Best Eco-Friendly Hotels in Norway

The most architecturally celebrated eco-hotel in Europe — 8 separate glass-and-timber pavilions set independently in the birch forest and the Valldal River valley, each pavilion facing a different section of the river and mountains from full-height glass walls. The hotel uses geothermal heating, grey-water recycling, and local materials throughout. The overnight natural sound experience — river, wind, owls — and the northern lights in winter give Juvet a sensory eco completeness.

• 8 glass pavilions forest
• Ex Machina filming location
• northern lights winter

Technically a restaurant with 18 overnight suites — Under is the world's first undersea restaurant (5 metres below the sea surface off Norway's southernmost coast), and the overnight suites give guests an unprecedented eco-marine experience: sleeping above the North Sea while watching cod and halibut swim past the window. The restaurant's menu is 100% sustainably sourced from local fjord fisheries.

• world's first undersea restaurant
• 5m below North Sea
• 100% local fjord menu

On the Oslofjord south of the capital — solar panels, heat pump heating, and a kitchen garden on the fjord's shoreline give Støtvig an eco programme embedded within Norway's most accessible fjord landscape. The hotel's commitment to local seafood (direct supply from the fjord's fishermen), the fjord kayaking programme, and the sustainable forest management of the hotel's surrounding woodland give it an eco depth beyond certification alone.

• Oslofjord solar hotel
• direct fjord seafood supply
• kayaking sustainable forest

At the end of the Flåm Railway — the world's steepest railway branch line, rising 863m in 20km through Norway's most spectacular fjord landscape — the Fretheim Hotel's 19th-century timber main building and its fjord-garden position give a classic Norwegian eco-heritage experience. The hotel's zero single-use plastic policy and the direct access to the Aurlandsfjord's UNESCO-inscribed landscape give it dual eco-heritage credentials.

• Flåm Railway heritage
• Aurlandsfjord UNESCO zero plastic
• 19th century timber hotel

A remote private island in Arctic Norway — accessible only by boat from Steigen, north of the Arctic Circle — Manshausen's 4 overwater cabin suites (constructed on stilts above the sea) run entirely on renewable energy, harvest rainwater, and source all food from the sea and the surrounding farms. The northern lights, the midnight sun, and the Arctic silence give eco guests an experience of Norwegian wilderness at its most extreme.

• Arctic Norway private island
• 4 overwater cabins renewable
• northern lights midnight sun