Upper House
Design-led rooms two minutes from Liseberg
About this hotel
Upper House holds the highest rating among every hotel on this list, and its two-minute walk to Liseberg is matched only by Gothia Towers next door, giving a family near-instant access to the park without the on-site Grand Curiosa Hotel's premium. Indoor and outdoor pools give the family a second swim away from Oceana's crowds, and the spa suits an evening reset once the kids are settled, all within a genuinely design-led, boutique property rather than a large chain hotel. Included breakfast covers an early Oceana start. For a family able to justify the higher nightly rate, the combination of a top rating, near-park proximity and its own pools and spa is difficult to match anywhere else on this list.
- 2 min walk to Liseberg
- Indoor and outdoor pools
- Spa
- Breakfast included
Our take
Upper House suits a family who wants the highest-rated stay on this list, a two-minute walk from Liseberg, with its own pools and spa for the evenings. Families on a tighter budget will find better value at one of the more moderately priced hotels further down this list. That is the honest calculation worth making before booking this over one of its near neighbours.
- ✓Book well ahead for Swedish school holidays; the combination of top rating and near-park proximity makes this one of the first to sell out.
- ✓Use the outdoor pool on a warm evening after an Oceana day, rather than only relying on the water park itself.
- ✓Reserve spa access ahead of arrival, since the property's design-led reputation draws guests beyond families visiting Liseberg.
Why we love it
- Highest rating on the entire list
- Two-minute walk to Liseberg
- Indoor and outdoor pools
- Spa for an evening reset
Why guests love itWe splashed out on Upper House for a special trip and the two-minute walk to Liseberg meant we barely noticed the transition between the park and the room. The outdoor pool got used most evenings once the kids had dried off from Oceana, and the spa gave us a proper half hour to ourselves once they were asleep. It made the ordinary parts of the trip, not just the water-park day, feel easy.