Hotell Gästis in Varberg can host seminars, workshops and board meetings for up to 80 people in five named meeting rooms, with a restaurant, a spa and overnight rooms under the same roof. The hotel stands at Borgmästaregatan 1 in the center of Varberg on the Swedish west coast, in an 18th-century house a short walk from the railway station and the sea.
Seminars and company events
Gästis rents its meeting rooms on their own or inside packages. The room-only option suits a short meeting or a base for a group. The half-day package adds a morning or afternoon coffee break, lunch and a meeting room supplied with fruit, water and sweets. The full-day package covers a breakfast buffet or home-baked morning coffee, lunch and afternoon coffee. For a complete 24 hours, a package combines meetings with a three-course dinner, an overnight stay, a breakfast buffet and entry to the hotel's Lenin Baths. The team also builds tailored packages, for example with a whisky tasting, a quiz made for your group or a city walk, and says that nearly anything can be arranged on request.
Rooms and capacities
The largest room is the Hugo Gerlach room, 80 square meters, in the Ehrenpohl house next to the restaurant. It seats 80 in cinema style, 56 at banquet tables, 55 in classroom layout, 50 around tables in islands and 30 in a U shape, and it is accessible. The Strindberg room, 32 square meters on the first floor of the Torell house, holds 17 in boardroom style or 30 in cinema style. The Selma Lagerlöf room, 30 square meters on the ground floor, seats 20 around its long table. The Sigmund Freud room is the smallest, 22 square meters, for around 9 people. The Otto Torell room, 38 square meters on the top floor with a six-meter ceiling and a view over the English Park, seats 21 in boardroom style, 40 in cinema style and 16 in classroom or island layouts. It has no lift. The hotel gives these numbers as recommended maximums and invites larger groups to ask.
Accommodation
Guests can stay in the main hotel or in Villa Piaf, a stone house from the early 1900s with a French theme. The hotel keeps a library of about 15,000 books that guests may read and borrow. The number of bedrooms is not stated on the pages we read, so confirm it when you plan a residential seminar.
Catering
Gästis Kafé Matsalar, the hotel restaurant in the Ehrenpohl house, serves lunch and dinner every day. For groups it composes dinners to order. The lobby bar and the Torell roof terrace give a group two more places to gather after the meeting.
History and setting
The Torell house is where the polar explorer Otto Torell was born and grew up, and the meeting rooms carry the names of writers and thinkers, with furnishings to match. Below the hotel, the Lenin Baths is a spa lined with 75,000 cobalt blue tiles, open to hotel guests and used by the hotel as an activity for conference groups.
Getting there
The hotel is in the middle of Varberg, a short walk from the railway station, the sea and the town's main streets. Parking information is on the hotel's own site.
