Recently I was in Drammen, near Oslo (Norway), for a wedding. We stayed at the Rica Park Hotel since that was the hotel chosen for the wedding guests to stay at. I think we had a special deal since there were so many people from the wedding staying there, but a double room for 2 nights including breakfast was 1400NOK. XE.com tells me that with todays exchange rate, that works out at around £139.

'Rica' are quite a large chain of hotel with hotels all over Norway, and the other Scandinavian countries too.

Check in was quick and easy, since we had pre-booked all we had to do was give our name and we got the key to our room. We arrived quite late at night so it was nice to have such a simple check in since we were quite eager to get to bed. They use key cards and not 'old style' keys, so once we got to the room all we had to do was insert it into the slot and then we could open the door.

The rooms are quite basic and generic but have everything you need to make you feel comfortable. I am guessing all of the rooms in the hotel are the same, since the two ones that we had were identical. There is a desk next to the window, which has a folder on it with some writing paper and some leaflets about the hotel, then on the desk is also a tv. Our tv and remote control were both broken, with the bottom of the tv having completely come off and the remote split in half down the two sides, only just being held together. It is possible to get movies on your tv, and the cost just gets added to your hotel bill, but we didn't make use of this facility (not that we would have been able to anyway..) There is a 'double bed' in the middle of the room. This is actually two twin beds pushed together, a little annoying when they start separating in the middle of the night and you end up falling down the gap. The duvets on the bed are also two single duvets, not one large one, which I think I would have preferred.
There is a comfy chair in the corner of the room and a trouser press. There is a mini bar which stocked beer, wine, juice, chocolate and crisps. This was quite expensive so we didn't use it, but it was nice to look at!

One thing was (and I know its not the hotels fault) that it was so hot last weekend in Oslo, with temperatures at around 28'c, that the room was unbearably hot, and with no air conditioning we had an almost sleepless night. The windows open into the room and not outwards, so the tv and the curtains actually blocked us from opening the window fully and it was like an oven in there (I know it sounds like I am complaining a lot!)

When we got up in the morning, we went down to breakfast, which is served between 7am and 10am. I have to say I was so impressed with breakfast! The choice was amazing. There were hot foods such as bacon and eggs, omelette, fried potatoes, but then also cold options such as cereal, bread and cheese and hams, fruit and yoghurts. This was the highlight of my stay at the hotel! The breakfast was served in the hotel restaurant which was called 'Urterhaven' which means 'Herb Garden'. There was a cute little white fence around the restaurant, which looked really nice. They also serve lunch and dinner too, but we only had breakfast there since it was included in the price.

There is also a bar in the hotel, which is directly to your right as you come into the hotel. We had a beer here and is serves the local beer which is called 'Aass' beer (but it does taste nice!) I'm not sure how much the beers cost here, we did go for a drink there but I didn't pay.

There is car parking on the street outside the hotel for hotel guests, and there was also a car park just across the street.