Set on Stockholm's historic waterfront in Gamla Stan, Hotel Reisen occupies a 17th-century building with preserved stonework, vaulted spaces and views across the city's harbour. The hotel blends Scandinavian restraint with the character of its old merchant house setting, placing guests close to the Royal Palace, museums and the lanes of the old town. Rooms and suites vary in layout, giving the property a collected rather than standardised feel. That varied layout carries through to the vaulted ground-floor spaces, so the collected, merchant-house character found in the rooms continues down into the hotel's original stonework.