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Juvet Landscape Hotel
Valldal, Norway · Independent · Core Luxury
Widely described as Europe's first landscape hotel, Juvet opened in 2008 at Gudbrandsjuvet gorge near Valldal when local owner Knut Slinning, who had no prior hospitality experience, hired Jensen & Skodvin Architects to raise glass-walled cabins on slender steel rods so no rock was blasted and no room faces another. Alex Garland filmed Ex Machina here in 2014.
- 9 rooms
- Opened 2010
- Neighborhood: Alstad
- Architect: Jensen & Skodvin Architects
About Juvet Landscape Hotel
- Widely described as Europe's first landscape hotel, it was conceived by local owner Knut Slinning, who had no prior hospitality experience before opening it in 2008.
- Architects Jensen and Skodvin raised each glass-walled cabin on slender steel rods so that no rock was blasted and no room looks at another, each framing its own view.
- The hotel's cinematic architecture became a filming location for Alex Garland's 2014 film Ex Machina and HBO's Succession.
- The property is built around a 17th-century farm at Gudbrandsjuvet gorge, with the original mill, barn, and farmhouse restored as part of the hotel.
- It holds a MICHELIN One Key for 2025.
History
Juvet Landscape Hotel, widely described as Europe's first landscape hotel, opened in 2008 on a private estate at Gudbrandsjuvet near Valldal in western Norway, set around a seventeenth-century farm on the bank of the Valldøla river ('Juvet' means canyon). It was conceived by local owner Knut Slinning, who had no prior hospitality experience, and designed by the Oslo firm Jensen & Skodvin Architects.
The design distributes accommodation as detached, glass-walled cabins raised on slender steel rods so that existing rock and vegetation are left almost untouched and no room looks at another, each framing its own view of the dramatic Norwegian scenery. Expanded in phases, the property comprises around nine rooms plus restored farm buildings and a spa. Its cinematic architecture gained fame as a filming location for Alex Garland's Ex Machina and HBO's Succession, and it holds a MICHELIN Key.
The setting
7-minute walk to Gudbrandsjuvet waterfalls.
Restaurants and bars
- Juvet restaurant — Restaurant · Local, seasonal ingredients from farms and producers in the
Experiences
- Bathhouse with steam room, woodfired sauna and hot tub — Bathhouse a few metres from the river bank, behind a large glass wall, with steam room, woodfired sauna and hot tub.
- Hidden coves and huts by the river — Small huts and coves on the property for a morning dip, a picnic or meditation while watching the river.
- Picnics, brunch on mountain tops, outdoor cooking by the river and banquets in the barn — Meals prepared by experienced chefs, from hillside picnics to mountain-peak brunch, riverside cooking and barn banquets.
- Restaurant in the old barn — Terrace restaurant in the old barn facing the river and valley, using local ingredients from area farms and producers.
- Three-course dinner — Three-course dinner served every evening at 19.30, with places limited to hotel guests only.
- Rafting — Rafting available as one of the activities the hotel offers.
Amenities
- Hot tub
- Steam sauna overlooking the river
- Library in the barn house
- Hidden huts and coves on property
- Private gravel pathways
- Full buyout of the whole hotel available on request
- Three-course dinner served every evening at 19:30, for hotel guests only
- Breakfast served from 8:30 to 10:00
- Packed lunch can be prepared; lunch is not served at the hotel
- Guests may fill a thermos flask from the breakfast buffet
Awards
- MICHELIN One Key (2026)
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