# Is Ullern a Good Area to Stay in Oslo? Map & Verdict

Verdict: Avoid. Cheap for a reason. Read the cons first.

Interactive map: https://stayzones.com/where-to-stay-in-oslo/ullern
Every Oslo district: https://stayzones.com/where-to-stay-in-oslo.md

Skøyen's office towers and the villa hills above them. Four minutes from the airport train and 55 minutes on foot from anything you came to see.

Facts: 55 min walk to Karl Johans gate; 30 min to the airport; 15 min to the beach; price €€€; best for business trips, quiet; lines 2, 13.

Ullern is the coastal strip west of Frogner: Skøyen at the bottom, then Bestum, Montebello and the Ullernåsen ridge climbing away from the fjord, out to the Lysaker river and the Bærum boundary. Skøyen is one of Oslo's biggest office districts and has the business hotels to match, which is the only reason a visitor ever ends up here.

On a map it looks like a bargain: it is west, it is on the water, it is two stops past Frogner. In practice the borough is a commute. Karl Johans gate is roughly five kilometres away, the streets between the stations are detached houses and company car parks, and after six in the evening Skøyen empties completely - there is no restaurant strip and no reason to walk anywhere.

There is one honest case for it, and it is narrow. Skøyen station is on the Drammen line, so the airport express and every western local train stop there, and a room here can be a third off a Frogner rate. If you are in Oslo to work at Lysaker or Skøyen, book it. If you are here for the city, you are paying in transfers for a district with nothing at street level.

What works:
- Skøyen station puts the airport express and the western trains at the door
- Rooms run well below Frogner and Sentrum for the same star rating
- Quiet, green and safe at any hour - it is mostly detached houses
- Fjord path along Bestumkilen and the Bygdøy beaches are a short walk east

What does not:
- About 55 minutes on foot to the centre - realistically you never walk in
- Skøyen is an office district and shuts completely after about 18:00
- Nothing to see or do inside the borough at all
- The residential half is villas on a hillside, with no shops between them

Hotels in Ullern: https://www.stay22.com/allez/booking?aid=stayzones&link=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.booking.com%2Fsearchresults.html%3Fss%3DSk%25C3%25B8yen%252C%2520Oslo%26latitude%3D59.92826444639176%26longitude%3D10.65746764226804%26nflt%3Ddistance%253D1755%26group_adults%3D2%26no_rooms%3D1

## Other districts in Oslo

- [Sentrum](https://stayzones.com/where-to-stay-in-oslo/sentrum): Recommended. The whole of Karl Johans gate, the Palace, the fortress and the Central Station in one small borough. About a thousand people live here, and you will feel it after 22:00.
- [St. Hanshaugen](https://stayzones.com/where-to-stay-in-oslo/st-hanshaugen): Recommended. Central Oslo with people living in it. Twelve minutes downhill to Karl Johans gate, and the shops on your street are open when you come back.
- [Frogner](https://stayzones.com/where-to-stay-in-oslo/frogner): Recommended. The wealthy west: Vigeland park, Majorstuen, Aker Brygge and the Bygdøy museums. Wide, quiet streets and the most expensive food in Norway.
- [Grünerløkka](https://stayzones.com/where-to-stay-in-oslo/grunerlokka): Recommended. Oslo's drinking and eating district, in a grid of 1890s tenements twenty minutes north of the centre. Cheaper than the west, and loud until 03:00 at weekends.
- [Gamle Oslo](https://stayzones.com/where-to-stay-in-oslo/gamle-oslo): Mixed. The cheapest central beds in Oslo, and the one district Norwegian police name. The Opera, the Munch and Grønland's food streets are all in it, and so is the drug market.
- [Sagene](https://stayzones.com/where-to-stay-in-oslo/sagene): Mixed. Torshov and Bjølsen, one ring road north of Grünerløkka. The same 1890s tenements for less money, and half an hour on foot from Karl Johans gate.
- [Nordre Aker](https://stayzones.com/where-to-stay-in-oslo/nordre-aker): Avoid. Ullevål, Nydalen and the student halls up towards Sognsvann. Cheap beds on the metro, a football stadium, and no city around them.
- [Vestre Aker](https://stayzones.com/where-to-stay-in-oslo/vestre-aker): Avoid. Holmenkollen, Vinderen and the forest above them. Two famous hotels with a view of Oslo, 20 to 30 minutes on one metro line from anything you can do in it.