Swedish Hotels: What to Expect (Including That Breakfast)
What to expect at a Swedish hotel: breakfast buffets, card-only desks and holds, the passport registration card, 12% VAT included and no tourist tax.
Accommodation
Hotels
Cabins cottages
Renting a Stuga: Sweden's Summer Cabins
No cooling-off right applies to a Swedish cabin booking. How to check an owner, pay in stages, cancel, and complain when the stuga isn't as described.
What to Expect in a Swedish Holiday Cabin
A Swedish stuga is a house, not a hotel. Bring your own bed linen, clean it yourself, and check the water and the toilet before you book.
Where to Book a Swedish Cabin: Agencies, Platforms and Private Owners
Agency, platform, campsite or private owner: which way to book a Swedish cabin, what rights each gives, when to book July and how to avoid rental fraud.
Camping
Camping in Sweden: The Complete Guide
Free wild camping for tents, campsites with a free Camping ID, and ställplatser for motorhomes: how each works in Sweden, plus fire bans and bugs.
Wild Camping in Sweden: The Rules Under Allemansratten
Sweden lets you camp wild free for a night or two almost anywhere. What allemansrätten actually allows, where it doesn't apply, and the fire rules.
Campfires and Fire Bans: Know the Rules Before You Light Up
Fires are allowed under allemansrätten — with liability. What an eldningsförbud stops, what stays legal (your camping stove), and how to check your county.
Stallplats: How Sweden's Motorhome Stopovers Work
What a Swedish ställplats is, what it offers, how to pay without Swish, how it differs from a campsite, and the etiquette: no awning, 4 m apart. (145)
Swedish Campsites: Chains, Prices and the Camping Key
Sweden dropped the compulsory camping card in 2019 — a free Camping ID covers check-in. When the paid card pays off, cabins, and the May–September season.
Sleeping in Your Car in Sweden: Legal or Not?
No law forbids sleeping in a legally parked vehicle — but allemansrätten doesn't cover cars. The 24-hour rule, local bans, and where it's reliably fine.
Camping Stoves During Fire Bans
Gas and spirit stoves stay legal under both Swedish fire-ban tiers if placed safely. Wood stoves don't. The rule, the condition, and two traps.
Camping With Kids in Sweden
Free Camping ID, a few tents for a night or two, arm's reach at the lake, July frost in the north, repellent age limits and what to do after an adder bite.
Unique stays
Icehotel in Jukkasjarvi: A Complete Guide
A night in Jukkasjärvi's Icehotel: −5 °C rooms, what to wear, winter hotel vs Icehotel 365, day tickets and the winter cancellation rule.
Treehotel and Sweden's Most Unusual Places to Stay
Treehouses, lighthouse hostels, glass and off-grid cabins in Sweden: how to get there without a car, what's included, accessibility, and what has closed.