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     It's a warm July afternoon when I arrive at hotel Elvira, after a 40 minutes drive from the capital city of Mariehamn I have reached the island of Eckerö. Ellinore Cullenberg who is the owner of this small hotel is sitting outside her re

Hotel Elvira presentation By:Roger Pettersson

2007-03-15 07:00

 It's a warm July afternoon when I arrive at hotel Elvira, after a 40 minutes drive from the capital city of Mariehamn I have reached the island of Eckerö. Ellinore Cullenberg who is the owner of this small hotel is sitting outside her resturant enjoying a cup of coffie in the afternoon sun. She waves to me to come over and invites me to sit down for a talk and taste the excelent coffie blend she is trying out. " You always need to try new things I belive " says Ellinore as she pours the hot coffie into my cup.

I glanse out over the now calm baltic sea and I can see the ferry line from Sweden is steaming in towards Åland, a ferry filled with vissitors and locals that probably spent the day in sweden. "Why is the hotel not named Ellinore ?" I ask her, " Well the name Elvira comes from my grandmother who used to have a small inn many many years ago" she explains.

 

Ellinore invites me to a stroll thru the hotel.One thing that strikes you is how warm and welcoming the interrior is, not luxuary but more rustic and "home made" you really get a homy feeling as you set foot inside the hotel.

 

 

 

 

 

   "Unique rooms makes for a plesant stay"

 

Each room is individually decorated, which mean that no one room is like the other, " this is one of my hobbies"

Ellinore explains that she wanted to bring somthing unique into the hotel and to make the stay a bit different then your average hotel nights. Actually the whole interrior of the hotel is my personal design, I also keep changeing the decore acording to themes and season, "maybe it is a bit like christmas decorating the whole year," Ellinore says with a smile.

 

The rooms are not large hotel suits, more the standard sized rooms, again as you enter one of the rooms if feels more like you are vissiting a friend who let's you use thier guest room for the week. Each room have a bathroom with toilets. Ellinore who lives her self at the hotel is constantly working on all the litte details of her "Home"

" Don't think I will ever be really done, and as soon as somthing is done, I find somthing new to change" Ellinore says as we walk thru the corridors looking at the decorated walls, I nearly trip over a old vaccum cleaner that looks like the maid left. When I look closer at it I understand that it's from the 50's. This is how it is, there is always somthing new little thing to see here.

 

 

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

"Conferance abillities is important.."

The hotel also have a small conferance floor, fully equiped with projector and overhead. since the whole hotel has a wireless network, you can bring your own computer and take advantage of internet as well as the local network. "Here is where I am most at home" says Ellinore, for the past 20 years she's been a lecturer and consultant for many companies around scandinavia, so this envirorment is not somthing new to her.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 "The Alandic nature is the insperation for my designs"

The hotel is just 80 meters from the shoreline, where there is a shalow cove with sandy beaches, "It's lovely to sit outside the hotel and watch the clear blue waters reaching all the way to Sweden" Says Ellinore. I can't help but to agree with her, the closness to the water makes for really interesting strolls along the shoreline and cliffs.

 

If you are interested in this hotel, you can check rates and availabillity here ( Link)

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