Sweden

Stockholm view © dan ilves

Sweden

Explore its islands, and museums.

Children in Sweden © dan ilves

Sweden

Discover why this is one of the happiest places to live.

Sweden

Head north to an ice hotel and the Northern Lights.

Royal Palace, Stockholm © dan ilves

Sweden

Sweden’s high level of social equality and political participation and tech-savvy makes it a desirable place to live. High taxes provide brilliant health care, free university and a wide range of social programs, along with a minimum of five weeks annual paid vacation! Beyond its lifestyle, a Sweden vacation is loaded with new adventures. Lev livet!

Introduction

There are plenty of museums to explore in Sweden, probably more than you’d even consider. Swedish brands like Volvo, Saab and Ikea all have their own museum; there’s a James Bond Museum and an ABBA Museum, and plenty of art and science museums. There’s also a number of parks and amusements for kids to enjoy, making Sweden a wonderful place for a family vacation. Stockholm is on a series of 14 islands connected by some 50 bridges and surrounded by thousands more islands. It’s a cosmopolitan city with a distinct Scandinavian feel combined with modern day architecture and plenty of parks and engaging museums. It’s a gateway for Baltic Cruises and a worthwhile to spend some extra time in.

Swedish Cuisine

Get into the groove and enjoy a fika, a coffee break with a nice pastry, particularly a kanelbulle, a type of cinnamon bun. Sweden has done well with branding dishes: certainly, there’s Swedish pancakes with lingonberries, and then there’s raggmunk, which is a Swedish potato pancake fried in butter and served with fried pork or lingonberries. Of course, there’s Swedish meatballs (also with lingonberries) and especially gravlax, dill-cured salmon with mustard sauce.

Unique Experiences
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Experience The Island of Faro

Fårö, an island in the Baltic Sea, has a different landscape compared to the rest of Sweden, with finer sand and a more barren landscape. And...

#Faro #Nordic Countries #Scandinavia #Sweden

Experience Stone City of Sundsvall

In 1888, huge parts of Sundsvall, Sweden burned in a fire. While this was the fourth fire that Sundsvall suffered, the area rebuilt with stone to...

#Architecture #Nordic Countries #Scandinavia #Sundsvall

Experience Delsjön Mountain Biking

Near Gothenburg, you'll find Delsjön. It's a great opportunity to mix city and nature on a Swedish vacation, and doing so by bicycle is simply perfect....

#Gothenburg #Mountain Biking #Nordic Countries #Scandinavia

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Experience Baltic Cruises

Scandinavia's capitals are all located on the coast. A Baltic cruise vacation allows you to conveniently and comfortably visit great Scandinavian capitals plus other ports --...

#Copenhagen #Denmark #Estonia #Finland

Hotels in Sweden

Make your trip to Sweden all the more seamless when you have us make your hotel arrangements, and enjoy bonus amenities at the best Stockholm hotels, like:

At Six

An old bank. A singular vision. A transformation into a new type of hotel.

Nobis Hotel Stockholm

A prime spot at Norrmalmstorg square, a central and attractive location in downtown Stockholm.

Grand Hôtel Stockholm

The best waterfront location, overlooking the Royal Palace and Gamla Stan.

Did you know?

In Sweden, 52% of the energy is renewable and 99% of Sweden’s waste is recycled.

Sweden is approximately the same size as California and has 30 national parks. Two thirds of the country are forests.

Swedes are known to be charitable, and Sweden is the only country where donations make up more than 1% of total GDP.

Sweden Travel Journals

Sep 18, 2019

Linda Kahn-Ferrell

Azamara Baltic Cruise: Stockholm to Copenhagen

According to a DNA test, I am 100 percent from Russian decent. Being fascinated for decades about the Baltic region...

#Azamara Cruises #Baltic Cruise #Denmark #Sweden

Apr 30, 2019

TravelStore

Happy National Travel Advisor Day!

Wednesday, May 1, is National Travel Advisor Day. Without you, we’d be a train without a conductor. A bus without...

#Canada #India #South Korea #Sweden #Thailand #Travel Advisors #USA

Jul 03, 2016

Dan Ilves

Nordic Cuisine at Frantzen in Stockholm

More so than ever before, cuisine has become a key ingredient in planning our vacations. We visit Italy not just...

#Stockholm #Sweden

Jul 01, 2016

Dan Ilves

Scandinavian River Cruise: Sweden’s Gota Canal

One of the least known canal/river cruises in Scandinavia is Sweden’s Gota Canal, a three-night, four-day Sweden river cruise between...

#Gota Canal #Sweden

Jun 30, 2016

Dan Ilves

Revisiting Stockholm on SAS

We had economy class (SAS GO) tickets on a non-stop flight LA to Stockholm. At the airport they offer upgrades...

#Art #Culture #SAS #Stockholm #Sweden

Apr 25, 2016

Hilton Smith

Welcoming and Friendly Stockholm, Closer than Ever

Savvy travelers are always looking for new opportunities to explore. The March inauguration of the first ever daily non-stop LAX...

#Architecture #Art #Culture #SAS #Stockholm #Sweden

More about travel to Sweden

Stockholm has many worthwhile activites. The cobbled streets of Gamla Stan (Old Town) are touristy but fun to explore. The Vasa Museum is fascinating, a 17th-century 64-gun warship that sunk in the harbor upon its inauguration, Skansen is an outdoor park recreating life in Old Sweden, the first such kind of museum, Millesgaden and the City Hall is worth a visit. Fotografiska is a fabulous photography museum.
Stockholm’s is an archipelago of some 3,000 islands. Get out of the city and hop a boat to explore some of the beautiful islands that are popular summer getaways for Swedes.

There is much to see outside of Stockholm, too. Gotland’s raukar are monolithic stones are a popular natural wonder to visit. Ales’ Stones are monolithic rows of stones in Scania, southern Sweden, close to Ystad and Åbo, where Absolut Vodka was born.

While Stockholm is also Sweden’s most famous eco-friendly city, Gothenburg,Greta Thunberg’s Nordic homeland, runs a close second as a top sustainable destination. Nearly 95% of all hotels are certified as environmentally friendly. 97% of public transport runs on renewable energy. The harbor uses most of its energy from wind turbines. Garbage that is not possible to recycle is burned and the heat distributed in the city”.

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