Seminars and company events
Elite Hotel Carolina Tower can host a conference of up to 130 people, with eight further rooms for workshops and board meetings and 221 bedrooms upstairs. The hotel stands in Hagastaden, the district on the border of Stockholm and Solna, next to Karolinska Institutet and Karolinska University Hospital.
Nine meeting rooms sit under one roof, most of them side by side on the first floor, which keeps a plenary and its breakout groups close together. Röntgen is the largest at 122 square meters, with 130 seats in cinema layout and 60 in classroom; it can be split in two and is fitted for people with hearing loss. On the upper floors, The Club and The View offer boardroom settings with views over the city. Smaller meetings can be booked online with live prices, while larger or multi-room events go through the hotel's meeting advisors. Elite works with the speakers agency Talarforum, which gives access to more than 8,000 lecturers and experts.
Weddings and receptions
The official site does not offer weddings. For a company reception, The Club on the top floor takes a standing mingle of up to 60 guests.
Rooms and capacities
Röntgen: 122 m², 130 cinema, 60 classroom, 30 U-shape, 60 in islands. Curie: 80 m², 50 cinema, 30 classroom, 20 boardroom, up to 80. Fleming: 62 m², 60 cinema, 32 classroom, 36 in islands. Pasteur and Pavlov: 42 m² each, 30 cinema. Widerström: 40 m², 30 cinema, 17 classroom. Semmelweis: 22 m², boardroom for 10. The Club: 98 m², boardroom for 20 or a mingle for 60. The View: 26 m² on the 16th floor, boardroom for 12 with a 65-inch screen. Most rooms receive daylight through panoramic windows and several can be darkened. Projectors and Bose speakers are fitted in most of them.
Accommodation
The hotel has 221 rooms on floors up to the 15th, where the suite is located. Guests have a gym with a sauna and a relaxation area with views in every direction, which helps on multi-day programs.
Catering
Haga Bottega, on the entrance floor, serves Italian and Mediterranean cooking based on local and organic produce, with menus that change four times a year. It handles coffee breaks, lunches and dinners for meetings, and breakfast for hotel guests. An outdoor terrace is used in the warmer months.
History and setting
Carolina Tower is part of Hagastaden, a new district built over former rail yards between central Stockholm and Solna. The life sciences cluster around Karolinska makes it a practical base for medical congresses, pharmaceutical meetings and research seminars, with hospitals and laboratories within walking distance. The rooms take the names of scientists, from Curie and Pasteur to Röntgen and Semmelweis, a direct reference to the neighborhood.
Getting there
Stockholm Odenplan, served by commuter trains and the metro, is a short walk south, and Stockholm Central Station is about 2 km away. Stockholm Arlanda Airport lies about 35 km north and is linked to Central Station by the Arlanda Express.
