I spent a week in the Scandic Malmen with my husband and eight-year old daughter. The family room was well-designed; our daughter had her own separate room adjoining the main bedroom. The first room we were given, however - 617 - was vile. Chipped paint, chunks taken out of the walls at the corners, stained curtains - just awful. I immediately went down to reception and requested another room. We were given another room without question; I think the woman at the desk knew about the state of the first room. The second room - 628 - was perfectly adequate: freshly painted with new furniture. I was still disappointed, however, as the room looked nothing like the cool photos on the website.

There are three lifts that are all quite small, so we did have to wait several times for extended periods to get down to the lobby. On one occasion, my husband had to walk up six flights of stairs as a large group of visitors who did not speak Swedish or English were confused by the keycard system to use the lift and had all three lifts jammed for 20 minutes. The staff did nothing to resolve the situation, which was typical of their attitude in my view.

The location is great - the heart of Sodermalm and above a t-bana station. It is noisy, however, so if you're a light sleeper, be warned. The cooling system was not adequate to keep the room cool at night and the street noise was loud if the window was open.

Good points included the excellent breakfast - fresh and plentiful. My daughter loved the funky decor in the lobby. The beds were very comfortable and the shower was fine.

Overall, I would say that this hotel was a bit of a disappointment and would recommend others to shop around for a nicer property.

On the web pages the hotel looks good. But in reality, the (standard) room looked nothing like the pictures - at least my room was a reminiscence of an eighties motel room - very basic furniture, no mini bar, no safe, air conditioning was there, but did not do anything. Most likely the room was renovated last in the eighties (possibly early nineties). The one plus was that there was and integrated iron/board in the room.

The location of the hotel was very good - right in the middle of Södermalm, close to restaurants and night spots, and over a metro station. My room was on the 6th floor, facing the street, and I could still hear the noice from the street and the restaurants from the opposite side of the street. My room was also directly opposite the bells on the wall of the building opposite to the hotel, so in the morning I got woken ip by bells.

They have the Scandic standard breakfast, with very good variety. The breakfast room is very crowded tho. Both mornings I ended up eating the breakfast at the bar, because there were no free tables. They serve breakfast from 7 to 12 during the summer, probably the restaurant could have been a bit less crowded earlier of later (I had my breakfasts at 9.30 and 11)

In principle the hotel was clean, but the bin in the room was totally disgusting. Scandic Malmen aims to be green, which as such is good (they claim that the hotel totally runs on water power), but if you have a separate bin compartment for organic waste, I would expect you to wash the bins. The one in the room was coated with something grayish, probably mold.

For me this was the lowest end Scandic I've visited. The location and reception staff were good, but the hotel room was an almost total let down.

This place was pretty bland. The room was small and unattractive. Bathroom had no counter space at all. There was an annoying noise similar to a pipe creaking (or something) which began early morning(3am) and lasted till about 10am each night. Sounded like water dripping onto a metal sheet every 30 seconds.
Internet with a printer in lobby was nice surprise.
Overall, I think I could have done much better and wouldn't recommend unless travelling by myself and I got a bargain on a room