Grand Hotel Oslo hosts board meetings, seminars, banquets, receptions and weddings in a historic hotel on Karl Johans gate, the main avenue of central Oslo. The hotel groups its event offer under the name Grand Gatherings and shapes each event around the organiser's brief: rooms, food and drink, activities. Requests go to the events team.
Seminars and company events
The conference department holds the meeting rooms. Gerhardsen is the largest of them. Hambro suits medium and larger groups. Julius Fritzner takes up to 59 people. Smaller rooms cover working sessions and client meetings: Michelsen has a long table for 14 and large windows, Konow seats up to 10 and has a sofa corner, Sverdrup seats up to 8 and Stang up to 5. For a full-day seminar, a plenary in one of the larger rooms and breakouts in the small ones can sit on the same floor.
Weddings and receptions
Two banquet halls take the larger celebrations. Rococo has a painted ceiling, Italian silk fabric on the walls and Venetian chandeliers, and the hotel counts it among the finest banquet halls in Norway. Speilen is a second banquet hall, with chandeliers and period details. The Salongene are smaller salons, each with its own character, used for smaller dinners and receptions. The Chambre Séparée rooms next to the Palmen restaurant give a private setting for a dinner that stays close to the restaurant. For couples, the hotel also sells a wedding night package in its suites, with sparkling wine, flowers, breakfast in the suite and late checkout.
Rooms and capacities
The official site gives seat counts for the smaller meeting rooms only: 59, 14, 10, 8 and 5. Capacities for Rococo, Speilen, Gerhardsen, Hambro and the Salongene are not published on the pages we read. Ask the events team for the banquet, theatre and reception figures that apply to your date.
Accommodation
The hotel has 284 bedrooms, among them 54 suites. A group can sleep in the same building as the meeting, which matters for a two-day seminar or a wedding with out-of-town guests.
Catering
The hotel runs three food and drink venues: the Palmen restaurant, the Othilia lobby bar and the Eight rooftop bar. Palmen serves lunch and dinner menus and an afternoon tea at weekends. The events team arranges food and drink for each event.
History and setting
The building dates from 1874 and is protected as cultural heritage in Norway. It stands at number 31 on Karl Johans gate, with shops and the city's main sights within walking distance.
Getting there
The hotel is on a pedestrian-friendly stretch of Karl Johans gate in central Oslo. Oslo Airport Gardermoen is the main airport for the city. Guests arriving by train reach the center at Oslo Central Station.
