The Best Hotels Near Essence 2 0, by the Record

An old red-brick power plant on the Västerås lakeside has been stretched into an 18-story, 227-room luxury hotel, and the interiors lean hard into what the team calls "industrial-romantic." There's an upscale steakhouse, a rooftop bar, a lounge with an indoor pool heated by one of the original turbines, and an eight-floor indoor water park with waterslides, which is not a sentence you often write about a design hotel.

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A 17th-century lakeside manor half an hour from Stockholm, Görvälns Slott is a luxury boutique hotel that commits fully to ornamentation without tipping into fussiness. Heated bathroom tiles, Mille Notti beds, and bath products from Swedish Lapland fill rooms done in soft, calming palettes. The restaurant runs an organic, zero-waste kitchen leaning on foraged and local Swedish ingredients. One rule: guests must be 16 or older, which tells you exactly what they're going for.

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