I stayed 2 nights here, and would definitely stay here again for business trips. For a leisure trip, I would probably want to stay closer to downtown Stavanger. However, if you are on a budget, this is really a great value, and there are buses that will take you into town.

Check-in was a little slow, but if you have a Smarhotel reference number, it seems like you can check yourself in at a kiosk.

The rooms are small, but clean and modern. The bed was very comfortable. I am glad that the duvet was warm, because the room was a little on the chilly side, and there seemed to be no thermostat to control the heater in the room. If you get a double bed, you will be sacrificing the desk, so that is something to consider if you need some workspace in the room. I liked that they provided free Wi-Fi connection.

Breakfast was fine for me. They provide the usual Scandinavian fare of bread, cheeses and meats. They also had yogurt and cereal. If you are looking for an extravagant breakfast with made to order food, this is not the place.

The location is convenient for many business travellers, and is near a shopping mall "Kvadrat" with several dining options, which is where I would eat dinner instead of at the hotel.

The Smart Hotel is conveniently located close to the Forus area. Rooms are veeery small, but nice, modern and clean. Food is limited to an OK breakfast, soup of the day and microwave meals. Smart cars are rented out at Ok prices. All in all - if what you want is a good night's sleep, but not more than that - the the Smart hotel is perfect. They have a fancy new website, but unfortunately it is totally useless compared with the old .

Room extremely small, uncomfortable, without many services, poor canteen. For the same money you can book a great B&B in town.
The lady in the frontdesk behaves like some sort of robot. She could not be more helpless and careless.
If you wanna have food, the only choice you get is a bunch of prepacked microwave meals.

I booked this hotel because it was within walking distance of work and I wanted to avoid very expensive taxi fares in and out of Stavanger. The location is within a retail / industrial area with ample parking and a dedicated (pricey) taxi service. The lobby is airy and bright but the reception isn't signposted and looks like a supermarket till point. There is a spacious self-service, self-pay cafe area. The room was uncomfortably small. I am glad I booked a double because I would have hated to see what size a single room would have been; two very small single beds pushed together with equally small duvets and no space on one side for a bedside table. The bed took up the most of the room space, itreally was claustrphobic.
The website boasts soundproofing; I could hear the man in the next room snoring as loudly as though he were under my bed. The website boasts blackout blinds, again this is a misconception. To access the blinds means you have to clamber up onto the bed, because the window is out of reach otherwise.
The ensuite was very small also, a shower, wc and sink. Everything was covered in a fine layer of dust all the time, even my laptop was dusty in the morning.
The TV has a few channels but if you want to watch anything other then BBC world news in English there is a supplement.
The cafe has a limited choice of breads and a soup to choose from, or there is a pizzeria nearby and if you order delivery the hotel will pay the cost and add it to your roombill - and the pizzeria will deliver to yourt room, not just to reception.
My overall opinion of this hotel is that the rooms were too small to be feasible and there was a general sense of 'youth hostel' about it, despite the cost. I wouldn't stay here again but if you're travelling on a budget and need to be in the rather dull Forus area of Stavanger, I suppose this would suffice.