Sweden’s first floating hotel
Salt & Sill’s history goes back just over 10 years, with the
present owners. Susanna och Patrick Hermansson are, through the company Salt &
Co, the third set of owners for this now famous restaurant on Klädesholmen, the
Herring Island. Their passion for food and people became the starting point for
this internationally acclaimed restaurant, and now also for Sweden’s first
floating hotel.
In October 2008, Sweden’s first floating hotel opened alongside the famous
restaurant "Salt & Sill". The hotel will be a meeting and conference venue with
46 beds, and will be open all year round. At the hotel, guests can work and
socialise in an inspiring environment, enjoy good food and drink, and then fall
asleep to the sound of lapping waves. Despite the serene setting, there is
plenty of opportunity for exciting and fun activities, with focus on the sea or
food & drink. The staff members are professional and service-minded and do their
outmost to look after – not the customer – but the individual person. Salt &
Sill is a hotel and meeting place with a cosy, personal atmosphere, and a style
characterised by modern Scandinavian simplicity.
Salt & Sill has always been
passionate about the environment. With food, it’s about using local raw
materials as far as possible. During the building of the floating hotel,
protecting the environment has obviously been at the top of the agenda. The
establishment should have a positive impact on outdoor pursuits and recreation,
and should have little or no effect on the living environment, safety or
communications on the island. Neither should it cause any significant noise
pollution, nor pollution of air, land or water. The excavating rock left over
from the building work will be used to build a new lobster reef outside the
hotel, which will benefit both fish and shellfish. The marine life underneath
the floating pontoons is expected to increase, and will include a mussel
purification plant. Naturally, the hotel will be heated using the surrounding
water.
 
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