Expert reviews
“This functional city chain champions its trademark brand: no-frills, essentials-only rooms at bargain prices (well, at least for Norway). Don’t expect prison-block chic – it’s surprisingly smart, with plain all-white rooms, Scandi-style furniture, free wi-fi and a great downtown location.”
What guests liked
- Central location
- Free Wifi
- Comfortable beds
All you need to know
Citybox Oslo provides an economical hotel experience that’s unique in its approach. There’s no traditional reception area, allowing guests to manage their booking, payment, check-in and check-out independently.
This lower staffing rate translates into cost savings for the guests! Despite this, a Citybox host is always on site, ready to assist with any requirement during your visit.
Citybox offers a variety of rooms including singles, doubles, twins, family rooms and junior suites. These rooms are modern and airy with floor-to-ceiling windows, WiFi access, private washrooms, superior mattresses, and workstations. Some rooms even offer additional beds or bunk beds.
Although guest rooms don’t have TVs, there is one situated in the ground floor lounge. This vibrant lounge with contemporary furniture is an excellent place to relax or socialise with other hotel residents. There’s also a neighboring cafe serving coffee, breakfast and lunch.
What sets Citybox Oslo apart is its prime location surrounded by several local stores. Plus, it’s merely a 13-minute stroll from the National Museum of Art.
Hotel deals & lowest price guarantee
We collaborate with Booking.com and Agoda. These two reservation platforms assure you the lowest possible rate, ensuring you always get the finest bargain for this hotel. If you’ve found a more favorable rate elsewhere, simply reach out to the booking platform and they’ll reimburse you the difference right away. You have the option to compare prices until the day preceding your check-in.
Location
Recent guest reviews
12 June 2025
Fabulous
Good Location near to Train Stations + Tram etc.
12 June 2025
Very good
Great location, easy walk from the train station. Staff are very friendly and very helpful. The restaurant underneath is a massive plus!!!
The rooms at the front of the building are pretty loud due to the trams. Especially when one of the windows wouldn't close properly. The shared fridge should be checked daily, it was full of smelly food which ppl have obviously left behind
12 June 2025
Very good
Convenient location. Easy check in process. Communal sitting area with a small kitchen.
n/a
11 June 2025
Very good
Location
Bathtub
11 June 2025
Very good
Beds comfortable, felt safe, location was incredible!
Shower drain not working - flooded bathroom
11 June 2025
Overall experience is good. The only thing they should provide electric catles in room
Location is excellent and staff is very supportive
Electric catle was not provided in room and the one is kitchen is smelly due to massive use and need to be replaced Sleeper shoul be provided in wash rooms
11 June 2025
Fabulous
Perfect location near the center and central station, comfortable room and good vallue for money.
10 June 2025
Good if you want to explore Oslo, feel safe and don’t necessarily need a lot space and commodities.
Great location. Close to restaurants, sightseeing and main train station. Quiet room as well which was good. Check in and out the easiest and most straight fwd I have had.
Rooms are small but clean.
10 June 2025
Good actions when help needed
Simplicity
Allnokk
10 June 2025
Really great location for a night stay
Location cleanliness great kitchen
Some slight Street noise until early hours
10 June 2025
Very good
Location
9 June 2025
Very good
Clean tidy , good location
Room was too hot with the duvet - couldn’t sleep
8 June 2025
Pleasant
The location, the self service
The price for a night with bar minimum in the room, small shower had to ask for extra towels
8 June 2025
Very good
Great location
Minimal provisions - no cleaning unless specifically requested, no glasses in the room, no luggage rack
8 June 2025
Excellent value for money accomodation.
Excellent value for money accomodation.
The room was tiny.
7 June 2025
Fabulous
The simplicity but stylish decor. Great staff and location.
Chewing gum stuck on the wall.
7 June 2025
Very good
We liked everything
The window was broken so we couldn’t close it properly and the trams passed by every 10 seconds but at night it was fine
7 June 2025
Good location. Not inexpensive. Very tight quarters
Good location.
Super and I mean super small rooms.
7 June 2025
Very good
Ambiance n location
6 June 2025
Great location but not great for families.
Beds comfy and perfect location
Pillows weren’t great and curtains let a lot of light in which wasn’t ideal with a baby (recommend taking a blackout blind with you). We were on a high floor but noise of trams sometimes kept us awake. Had a white noise machine with us for baby again. Staff were helpful and nice but didn’t feel very approachable.
6 June 2025
Good for short stay
We had a quiet room. Clean. Comfortable. Would stay here again as it is centrally located & compared to other accommodation much lower in price.
Communal fridge. No fridge in room. But on departure went to collect our bag of food. Was gone. Had followed instructions re putting departure date. Room no. Office girl agreed it was stolen. Though there is a note indicating such. And City Box not responsible. Which is fair enough.
5 June 2025
Very good
While this is a no frills kind of place, everything worked, from automatic check in to luggage storage, communal kitchen etc. The staff on site was really helpful and always at hand, so while a 'no contact' stay would be possible, humans definitely make the place what it is. Very close to central station, so very practical.
The property is right on the tram route and they run late and start early, so ear plugs advised for light sleepers.
5 June 2025
Bright clean room in ideal location.
Perfect location, one block from train station, few minutes walk from Opera House, pretty much all sights within walking distance. Bright modern decor, immaculately clean. You can borrow a kettle for your room. You can store luggage before checkin and after checkout.
My single room was tiny with VERY tiny bed. The so-called "kitchen" is only one kettle, one toaster, one microwave and one fridge for the whole hotel and no utensils except paper cups and plates.
5 June 2025
Norway Road Trip
Great stay, Check-in by machine only (no live person) However there check-in machine was straight forward and with great English. Great Wifi, great hot water. Elevator. Nice new clean room. Large full bed. A few blocks from the train station. Walkable to most historic city sites. Very quiet room on the 6 th floor.
Nothing, it was a very nice stay.
4 June 2025
Fabulous
We were only going to be in Oslo for one night, and we’re leaving by train early the next morning we wanted to be close to the train station and chose a place that did not include breakfast as we were leaving too early to be able to have breakfast at the hotel. It was our first time staying at a citybox. Citybox does a great job of providing quite a lot of services and was perfect for our one night day if we had been staying longer, I would’ve preferred to be somewhere that included breakfast, but for this one night it worked out perfectly.
4 June 2025
Very good
This is a convenient hotel with excellent location - just steps away from the Central Station and from all major city attractions. There are adjacent restaurants where you can have breakfast and lunch/dinner. There's smooth and straight forward self-checking. Rooms are fine.
It smelled of cats in my room. I'm a cat owner, so I know the smell when one misses the litter box. Otherwise the rooms was okay, maybe I was a bit unlucky as this is completely pet friendly hotel.
3 June 2025
Very good
The location and how clean the apartment was
Nothing to really co plain about
3 June 2025
Good location & reasonable price. Self check-in are easy.
Good location, just next to central station. Nearby the Mucnh museum & Operaen. A kitchen / pantry with all required facility.
Nothing.
3 June 2025
Fabulous
Clean
There is no water in room
3 June 2025
Comfortable and convenient
Convenient, clean. The downstairs area (coffee, microwave, seating) was great.
3 June 2025
Fabulous
Amazing, central position
2 June 2025
All you need!
Perfect for everything you basically need for a comfortable stay. No added frills but reflected in the cost. Automatic check in and check out simple and efficient. Appreciated late check out time
Not really an issue. But our room faced closely onto several other rooms around a court yard. Necessitated having to close curtains.
2 June 2025
Very good
Good location.
Basic amenities.
2 June 2025
Fabulous
Set in a very smart area of central Oslo,the hotel was clean,with plenty of amenities and friendly staff. There's a restaurant downstairs that sells lots of tasty treats. The area around the hotel is also close to lots of bars and restaurants.
Nothing to complain about.
2 June 2025
Very basic but decent value for money
In a good area, had a kitchen area downstairs where you could eat your own food
There was no air conditioning and the room was very hot meaning it was hard to sleep
2 June 2025
Fabulous
As a budget hotel it exceeded all expectations. Warm, clean and modern. Able to store our luggage bags early and chdck k. Was fast and easy! The location is perfect
2 June 2025
Good, for the Budget Stay
I was only in the one night so its hard to be objective. It was quiet which was something.
2 June 2025
Convenient place with reasonable price to stay in Oslo
Very closed to the tram, the tram is just a few steps from the hotel. Self-check in, very simple and convenient.
Baggage storage room on your own risk.
2 June 2025
Fabulous
CityBox Oslo was a well located clean hotel with helpful, friendly staff. Check-in was really easy - the ability to access the luggage store before/after room check-in/out was really useful. The kitchen facilities - particularly the fridge was very helpful.
Nothing - all good.
2 June 2025
Excellent location
Excellent location.
1 June 2025
Fabulous
Excellent location, very good value for money, clean, all the necessary essentials.
1 June 2025
Aventura em Oslo
Do local e do local para estar
1 June 2025
Pleasant
Nice hotel for a reasonable price, very close to the train station and the city center. The restaurant nearby offers tasty traditional food for a very reasonable price.
Noise from the street 24/7 won't let you sleep, even with closed windows, due to narrow streets and high traffic.
31 May 2025
Very good
Good location, clean, comfortable
Shower!! Single door caused water to spray/splash everywhere in the ensuite! Hose was clogged to with water flowing of target! Annoying
31 May 2025
Oslo stay
Location was great! Good value for money.
Family room was quite small.
31 May 2025
Affordable and comfortable stay
Central location, v comfortable and clean
Window didn’t shut properly so can hear traffic. There was also little personal touch as interactions are all digital
31 May 2025
Fabulous
Good value budget hotel right in the heart of Oslo. Super easy to access from the central train station, and to either walk around the central area (5min to the Opera House) or take a bus or tram to some of the outer neighbourhoods (would recommend Grünerløkka for a younger crowd). Rooms were modern, clean, and simple. As with all Citybox hotels, the self-check in process is the easiest and most user friendly I've seen in Europe.
30 May 2025
Fabulous
The location is great. We checked in and checked out without any problems.
The only downside is that the rooms are not cleaned every day. If you want cleaning, a fee is requested, but I don't know the cost.
30 May 2025
Very good
Good value for the price. Clean and comfortable.
Nothing to complain about.
Hotel facilities
Business facilities
- - Meeting/banquet facilities (additional charge)
- - Business centre
- - Fax/photocopying
Reception services
- - 24-hour front desk
- - Express check-in/check-out
- - Luggage storage
General
- - Non-smoking rooms
- - Facilities for disabled guests
- - Family rooms
- - Lift
- - Heating
- - Non-smoking throughout
- - Vending machine (drinks)
- - Vending machine (snacks)
- - Shared lounge/TV area
Cleaning services
- - Laundry (additional charge)
Activities
- - Games room
- - Table tennis
- - Darts
Kitchen
- - Shared kitchen
Accessibility
- - Wheelchair accessible
Food & Drink
- - Coffee house on site
Miscellaneous
- - Key card access
- - Security alarm
- - Smoke alarms
- - CCTV in common areas
- - Breakfast takeaway containers
- - Delivered food is securely covered
12 June 2025
Great budget accommodation with that little bit more