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Staying in Kungsholmen
Kungsholmen is the island west of the centre, and most visitors see exactly one building on it: the City Hall where the Nobel banquet is held. Behind it the island is residential - Hantverkargatan and Fleminggatan running west to Fridhemsplan, the Rålambshov park on the water, and the bathing spots at Smedsudden and Hornsbergs strand that Stockholmers actually swim from in July.
It is a pleasant place to live for a week and an awkward one to book for three nights. Wikivoyage's own advice is to sleep in Norrmalm or Vasastan instead, and it is right: the island has a handful of hotels, several of which sell small windowless rooms, plus two hostels. What is here is cheap by inner-city standards, on the blue and green lines, and quiet.
The distances are the catch. City Hall to Stortorget is a pleasant twelve minutes, but the part of the island with the bars and the affordable rooms is Fridhemsplan, and that is a good half hour on foot from Gamla stan. Fridhemsplan is also the one corner with weekend drunk-brawl form, and Hornsbergs strand gets crowded and messy on hot evenings.
What works
- Bar and restaurant prices below the rest of the inner city
- Blue and green lines both cross the island at Fridhemsplan
- Swimming at Smedsudden and Hornsbergs strand, and a waterfront path most of the way round
- The City Hall and its tower are inside the district, twelve minutes from Gamla stan
What does not
- Very few hotels, and the cheap rooms in them are small and windowless
- Half an hour on foot to Gamla stan from Fridhemsplan, where the life is
- Apart from the City Hall there is nothing here a visitor came to see
- Fridhemsplan gets rowdy at weekends and Hornsbergs strand does on summer nights
The accommodation options in Kungsholmen are limited, so you can consider staying in neighbouring Norrmalm or Vasastan where there are more thereof.Bars in Kungsholmen are concentrated around Fridhemsplan, and along Fleminggatan and Hantverkargatan. Prices are usually lower than the rest of the inner city.While tourist attractions are few, the island has great waterfront parks and beaches, and plenty of cosy cafés and shops.