The BizApartment (Gärdet) apartment hotel is close to ferry terminal Frihamnen, in the north-east of the Stockholm inner city. The street address is Sehlstedsgatan 4, phone (+46) (0)8 578 55 300, e-mail: reservations /+/ bizapartment.se.
For further information about BizApartment, see their homepage at www.bizapartmenthotel.se/gardet-en/
Going by bus to Stockholm takes about one hour. Tickets for the Airport bus (the company is called Flygbussarna, see www.flygbussarna.se/?lang=EN) can be bought on the bus with any major credit card. Note that cash is not accepted!
Take the Airport Bus from Arlanda to the end destination Stockholm City or Cityterminalen, which is just next to the Stockholm Central Station. Exit the Cityterminalen bus terminal lobby at the Kungsgatan exit (to your left when you enter the hall from the airport buses). Continue until you come to Kungsgatan, where you will take bus no.1 (see below).
The Arlanda Express train (see www.arlandaexpress.com) takes only 20 minutes but costs twice the bus fare. Go from Arlanda to Stockholm Central. From the end of the platform, follow signs with Cityterminalen, the bus terminal. Continue through the bus terminal lobby and go to the Kungsgatan exit (to your left when you enter the hall from the airport buses). Continue until you come to Kungsgatan, where you will take bus no.1 (see below).
On Kungsgatan, take a (usually) blue bus no.1 in the direction "Frihamnen" (bus stops are on the side of the street closest to the Cityterminalen bus terminal). You have to get a ticket before you enter the bus; in an emergency, bus tickets can be bought using text messages on your mobile (ask the driver for help).
Get off at bus stop Sehlstedsgatan. It's just two stops from the end station, so it is only a 500 m extra walk if you forget to get off in time. From the bus stop, walk 50 m between the buildings to the entrance of BizApartment Hotel. The front desk is open 24 hours a day.
The subway stations closest to BizApartment, stations Karlaplan and Gärdet, are both on the red line, on the branch with end station Ropsten. On days with good weather, you can walk the 6-800 m to BizApartment over the open field Gärdet (literally "the field" in Swedish).
Otherwise bus no.1 has bus stops close to the exits of both subway stations. Buses come every 5-6 minutes during working hours on weekdays, every 7-8 minutes during the day on weekends. The last bus arrives at BizApartments around 1 AM on weekdays and Sundays, and at midnight on Saturdays.
On weekdays, roughly between 6 AM and 7 PM, bus no.72 passes the Karlaplan subway station and goes to the same bus stop on Sehlstedtsgatan as bus no.1. This is the last-but-one stop on the line for bus 72, the end stop being Östhammarsgatan just around the corner from BizApartment.
Except on Sundays, bus no.76, coming from the Old Town and going to Ropsten subway station, has a stop at Lindarängsvägen, on the other side of the block where BizApartment is. This line runs between 6 AM and 10 PM on weekdays, and 9 AM and 5.30 PM on Saturdays.
During the night, bus no.91 goes to the Cityterminal and the Centeral Station from the bus stop Sehlstedtsgatan outside Biz Apartment.
Taking a taxi from Arlanda to anywhere in central Stockholm will cost approximately 450-500 SEK. Make sure to ask for the fixed Arlanda-Stockholm price! Taxis accept all major credit cards. The address of the BizApartment apartment hotel is Sehlstedtsgatan 4.
Some taxi companies are: Stockholm Transfer (+46) (0)20-350000, Taxi Stockholm: (+46) (0)8-150000, Taxi 020: (+46) (0)20-202020, and TaxiKurir: (+46) (0)8-300000.
Option 1: Go to the bus stop Sehlstedtsgatan just outside BizApartment and take bus no.1 in the direction Essingetorget to either stop Nybrogatan or Humlegården, and from the same bus stop take bus no.44, direction Ruddammen, to the end stop.
Option 2: Take bus no.1 from BizApartments to bus stop Värtavägen. From the same stop, take bus no.4 to bus stop Valhallavägen, immediately after the bus turns left into Odengatan. Then cross the street and take bus no.43 to the end stop Ruddammen.
Option 3: Take bus no.1 from BizApartments to bus stop Gärdet (or just walk 10 minutes across the grassy field). Next to the bus stop is an entrance to the subway station Gärdet, indicated by a sign with a blue "T" on white background. Take any train in the direction T-Centralen and get off at station Östermalmstorg (two stops). Walk across the platform and take a train going in the direction Mörby Centrum. Get off at station Tekniska högskolan (two stops) and take the exit Körsbärsvägen, and then the right-hand staircase outside the ticket booths. You are now on Valhallavägen, and the bus stops of buses no.43 and 44 are just 100 m straight ahead along the pavement. Take either bus to the end stop Ruddammen.
Option 4: During office hours on weekdays, you can take bus no.72 from just outside BizApartment in the direction Karlbergs station. After rounding the field Gärdet, the bus will follow the main street Valhallavägen for quite some time. You can either get off at bus stop Valhallavägen, immediately after the bus turns left into Odengatan; then cross the street and take bus no.43 to the end stop Ruddammen. Or you can get off a bit earlier at bus stop Östra station, and then from the same bus stop take bus no.44 to the end stop Ruddammen.
Instead of taking buses 43 or 44 from the subway station or bus stop Valhallavägen, you can walk to Nordita in about 10-15 min (see the directions on the map). From the bus stop Valhallavägen, go back 20m to Valhallavägen, cross Odengatan and then Valhallavägen, to a small park on the opposite corner of the street crossing. From the subway station Tekniska högskolan, exit Körsbärsvägen, take the right-hand staircase after the ticket booths, walk 50 m and cross the street Körsbärsvägen to get to the small park. In either case, now follow Valhallavägen around the park and continue slightly downhill until you reach a hot-dog stand Tullfritt, at the bottom of a steep street Roslagstullsbacken. Nordita is at the top of that street, across the roundabout.
Taking a taxi will cost approximately 150 SEK. Taking a taxi anywhere within central Stockholm will cost approximately 150 SEK. Taxis accept all major credit cards. The address of Nordita is Roslagstullsbacken 23.
Some taxi companies are: Stockholm Transfer (+46) (0)20-350000, Taxi Stockholm: (+46) (0)8-150000, Taxi 020: (+46) (0)20-202020, and TaxiKurir: (+46) (0)8-300000.
Some airlines fly to Skavsta airport by Linköping, southwest of Stockholm. Take the Flygbussarna airport bus to the City Terminal, and follow instructions above as for bus travel from Arlanda airport (the Skavsta airport buses do not pass S:t Eriksplan).
Nordita is situated in two buildings on the AlbaNova campus. The Nordita Main building, Roslagstullsbacken 23, is a small yellow building, just to the right of the entrance to the white main building of AlbaNova, and the Nordita West building, Roslagstullsbacken 17, is to the left. If you have received no further instructions you should go to the Nordita Main building, press the door bell and ask for Elizabeth Yang or Anne Jifält.
Here you can read more about traveling in Stockholm:
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20 May 2013
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