Frogner House - Bogstadveien

This review is for a long term stay at apartment 2310, Underhaugsveien 15. If you are staying a week or less , this review might not apply to your decision whether to stay or not. As we are renovating a House in Oslo, we needed a temporary accommodation for 3-4 months. 2 Adults and 2 teenagers. Rental period Approx 22 July till end of Oct. We stayed in the apartment about a week before discontinued our lease, and found a different place on Airbnb. These are my observations. Frogner House advertises this apartment as a long term rental options. This is not the case in my opinion. • There is only one very small workstation in the apartment and not suitable for anyone to work from the place or for the kids to do any type of homework. • The apartment is really barren. It is dark with not much lighting and there is not one single picture on the walls. You definitely get the feeling that everything is done on the cheap. • There is a washer machine but no dryer. I called the admin department and was told that there was drying rack we could use. This is simply not good enough. With 2 adults and 2 teenagers there would be washing hanging in the apartment constantly. • The kitchen was very sparingly equipped. Two knives and a couple of utensils. You only need to spent a little money at ikea to make it much better than it currently is. This point I found really disappointing. With the provided utensils we have to live on pasta for 3 months,, or buy/bring our own. Another thing,, which is really just a detail, but quite a telling detail. There is not instruction or manual for example around garbage and disposal of glass bottles, jars and metal boxed (All of these item are recycled at different recycle stations and do not go in the general rubbish). I work in the Oil and gas industry where I have to do site visits and audit what we do to ensure procedures are followed. Do the Frogner House management do site visits and audit their places. It does not seem so to me. I also gave all this feedback to the Frogner house management without hearing a work back from them. Disappointing. Would I stay there again? Certainly not for a longer term stay. If the stay is less than a week I would consider it,, but then again, I would rather do a hotel or Airbnb.

The apartment was very spacious with a fully equipped kitchen and in house laundry. The apartment was nice and bright and ranked high on privacy which was very important for me.