Dalen Hotel

Dalen Hotel is known as “the hotel from the fairytales”. It was opened in 1894 in a grand romantic style with dragon heads, towers and spiers, balconys and cornices.

Combining a visit to the Dalen Hotel® with sailing the Telemark Canal with MS Henrik Ibsen® og MS Victoria is a unique historical journey back in time with modern comfort and service.

Our Hotel season is from the 27th of april until the 8th of October 2023.

Welcome to one of Norways oldest wooden hotels along the Telemark Canal.

The hotel is only open for guests with reservations for our services, including accomodation, dining and our common areas.

Our Signature packages:

Experience Dalen Hotel

Experience Dalen Hotel. A journey back in time

Romantic package

Romantic package at Dalen Hotel

Culinary package “Taste of Telemark”.

Champagne and chocolate, afternoon tea and a five course dinner paired with carefully selected wines.

Canal cruise from Ulefoss locks

cruise from Ulefoss locks to Dalen Hotel

Les mer

Afternoon Tea & À la carte lunch

Do you want to enjoy afternoon tea or our a la carte lunch this summer?

For guests without accommodation, we offer booking of afternoon tea and a la carte lunch throughout the summer. Groups of 8 or more guests are asked to contact the hotel directly to make their reservation.

Book here

Do you want to eat in restaurant Bandak without staying overnight?

For guests without accommodation, we now release a small selection of tables every evening where you can enjoy our 4- or 6-course menu. Exciting wine packages are also offered as an option.
(Overnight guests; book a table together with a room or contact us directly at [email protected] // +47 350 79 000)

Book your table

Soria Moria Sauna

Soria Moria Sauna is situated at the end of Dalen Hotels property. Designed by "Feste Landskap/Arkitektur", surrounded by epic natura and a marvellous view of Bandak, this is a great attraction. The sauna receives a large amount of international attention, has won several award and is imensly popular. Be sure to book it ahead of time.

NB, the Sauna is owned and operated by Tokke Municipality, unfortunatly we can not guarantee that the sauna is available during your stay.

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M/S Henrik Ibsen

"King of the Telemark Canal" is Dalen Hotel's own canal ship and our pride. M/S Henrik Ibsen is a historic canal ship from 1907 and runs a daily shuttle service from Dalen - Skien throughout the canal season. The ship has all rights and serves breakfast, lunch and dinner on its journey through the locks. Several canal packages, day packages and canal trips are offered which can be booked on the ship's website.

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M/S Henrik Ibsen

"King of the Telemark Canal" is Dalen Hotel's own canal ship and our pride.

Our Popular Hotel packages

A selection of our more popular packages.

Romantic package

Romantic package at Dalen Hotel

Canal cruise from Ulefoss locks

cruise from Ulefoss locks to Dalen Hotel

Les mer

Canal cruise from Lunde to Dalen

Les mer

Hiking package - In the footsteps of the girls from Rui

Our veteran car fleet

The Arboretum

The ducks of Dalen Hotel

Every year Dalen Hotel adopts a flock of ducks from Holte Farm.

They live in the duck residence in our majestic garden and they walk freely around the propery during daytime. The ducks are a popular attraction as they can be observed galavanting around the gardens or enjoying their private lake.

The ducks arrive shortly after the season premiere and when autumn comes they move to a local farm where they continue their duck life. The species is a peking duck (Latin: Anas platyrhynchos domestica) which is a non-flying species like the penguin or ostriches

We remind all guests that leashes for dogs are mandatory on the hotel grounds to safeguard our ducks