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The hotel Basecamp
BASECAMP SPITSBERGEN is situated in the heart of Longyearbyen, next to the shops, bank, post office, pubs and so on. We guarantee you the roughest hotel on Svalbard: It is decorated with driftwood and timber from Barentsburg - the Russian settlement on Svalbard - shale slates and seal skins. On entering, you are more likely to feel than you are stepping inside a trapper's cabin than an ordinary hotel... In the summer of 2002 we opened 3 new rooms and a  nice, new reception area. To get materials for this, we went to northern Norway and tore down an old herring pier and used it to make the bar and reception. An old mill from the middle of Norway became a beautiful floor. The entire hotel is constructed of natural materials and most of the work has been done by us who work at Basecamp Spitsbergen.  The standard of the hotel is hign, with comfortable beds and private bathrooms in all 15 rooms. Breakfast is served at long timber tables in the Travellers'  Club. In the nice, new reception area you can sit among books and oddities from the Svalbard nature and sum up you day with a nice drink on the table.  We also have a small sauna section. In the "Cognac-attic", where we, among other things, have a TV set and VCR for common usage, you can look out through glass roof at the fabulous polar light.

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