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Reviews of Scandic The Reef

4 out of 5
Scandic The Reef
Tordenskjoldsgade 14, Frederikshavn

Reviews

8.4

Very good

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Rating 8 - Good. 446 out of 1001 reviews" "
Rating 6 - Okay. 132 out of 1001 reviews" "
Rating 4 - Poor. 35 out of 1001 reviews" "
Rating 2 - Terrible. 16 out of 1001 reviews" "

8.2/10

Cleanliness

8.2/10

Staff & service

7.6/10

Amenities

8.0/10

Property conditions & facilities

8.2/10

Eco-friendliness

Reviews

10/10 Excellent

Lasse

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Everything was as expected
Stayed 4 nights in Mar 2024

10/10 Excellent

KIRILL

Travelled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 2 nights in Nov 2023

8/10 Good

Peter

Liked: Property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service
Stayed 4 nights in Jun 2023
Response from RDT on Jul 14, 2023
Thank you Peter

2/10 Terrible

Verified traveller

Business traveller
Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
WORST HOTEL STAY EVER!
I had a very horrible experience with this hotel. Everything was overpriced. It claims to be 4 stars but the rooms were dirty, the food was stale, there was no room service the whole time I stayed several days. The front desk staff lady I don't know her name but she was Danish in her Mid 30-40's she was extremely rude to me she wanted me to wait around 2 hours in the lobby instead of the room on a flloor not a single staff was cleaning because they could not locate my laundry I had given then 2 days prior. With heavy luggage after spending a fortune on their dirty, unsanitary hotel. I tolerated all that including waiting in long lines with huge family crowding to go to the swimming pool. They were loud people coughing everywhere I saw no Covid precautions in place at all. Everything was old and outdated. The front desk staff lady was so rude to me I asked to speak to a manager and she gave me a "Stepherd Wives" grim ignoring me told me to go over there like a little boy. I keep repeating my request until a guest behind me a man rudely interupted me and this lady incited this whole thing by stonewalling me and rudely disregarding me. My laundry should have been ready at 11 am at check out they had it for 2 days. They charge 800DKK to do simple 3 outfits. I tolerated all of it after spending $170 a night to basically stay in a dump then the manager calls me up and basically abuses me during a dinner hour totally and completely unprofessional. Lotte Anderson a nightmare! -WORST!
Stayed 1 night in Jan 2023
Response from Marianne Bredevang- General Manager on Jan 19, 2023
At the outset, I must say that I am sincerely sorry to read your review of our hotel. Despite this anonymous review, we have no doubts at all about who you are, which is why my reply to you will also refer to the conversation we had after you checked out in connection with your visit here. I am therefore very surprised that during our 1 hour long conversation you did not mention these many points which are highlighted here in your review.Initially, you point out the lack of room service. At Scandic, we work very hard with sustainability, which is why we have launched an initiative where we leave it up to guests whether they want their room cleaned. This means that we do not automatically clean rooms when we have guests staying for several days in a row, but give them the choice. The initiative means that we save 10 million liters of water every year and at the same time reduce our power consumption considerably. We think this is the most environmentally correct choice, but the choice is also yours, and should you want cleaning during your stay, you just have to notify reception the night before. So if you have not notified us of this, it is correct that we have not cleaned your room. We clean the hotel every single day, so you can always have your room cleaned.Furthermore, it surprises me that you think our food should be spoiled, since during our conversation you praised the waiter to the skies, and on top of that you told us that it had been so good and that you had also tipped our employee.Here at the hotel, we have check-out from our rooms at 11.00 - and I must - as when we spoke deeply regret that you had not been offered to stay in your room after check out until your laundry came from the dry cleaners. Furthermore, you believed that our employee had been rude to you. This was one of the reasons why we chose to compensate you with a gift card.We are here at the hotel to create great hotel experiences for the many people, and we have a fantastic water park, which is why we also have many families with children staying at the hotel during weekends and holiday periods. It is correct that we had many children here during your first stay in week 1, but the reverse was not the case during your last stay in week 2, when we only had 9 children on the first night - and 12 children on the second night of the whole the hotel.COVID19 – here in Denmark we have no restrictions at the moment. But despite this, here at the hotel we have chosen to have hand sanitizer available to our guests in both the lobby, reception, bars and restaurants, just as we also have gloves in the breakfast restaurant, and where there is also signage recommending that our guests use them, and spritz off.We have a laundry service - and if you want the clothes returned on the same day as the laundry receives them, you must tick a box on the laundry receipt and this will also incur an express fee. You had obviously not done this, which is why we don't get the laundry back unt

10/10 Excellent

Preben Buch

Stayed 1 night in Dec 2022

8/10 Good

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, room comfort
Parking convenient - restaurants nearby
Right in the heart of town, parking was very convenient just across from the hotel. They gave you a note to place on your dash board. Overall good stay w many restaurants nearby. Room will be good to have a fridge and could do with a bath mat even though the design of the shower door is very good
Stayed 2 nights in May 2022

8/10 Good

Lin

Stayed 1 night in Apr 2022

10/10 Excellent

Lin

Stayed 1 night in Aug 2021

10/10 Excellent

Tina Byriel Brøndum

Travelled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Great stay
Great hotel, great waterpark, great staff !
Stayed 5 nights in Jul 2021

8/10 Good

Mette

Travelled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service
Stayed 2 nights in Jun 2021

8/10 Good

Daniele

Business traveller
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 9 nights in Jun 2021

8/10 Good

Joseph

Travelled with family, Travelled with group
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
crowded in weekends
Stayed 2 nights in May 2021

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 1 night in Aug 2020

8/10 Good

Mads André

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Clean and fine hotel. A bit expensive.
Stayed 2 nights in Jul 2020

8/10 Good

Ana

Travelled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Perfect stop
It was a nice spot to stop by on our way to Skagen - perfect For a family trip Or for a couple trip :)
Stayed 1 night in Aug 2020

8/10 Good

Verified traveller

Travelled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Perfect for families
Positively surprised by the standard and facilities. Perfect for families!
Stayed 1 night in Aug 2020

10/10 Excellent

Morten

Travelled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Geat stay.very kids friendly!
Great stay over the weekend. Rooms are nice, however difficult to have the window open at night as the seagulls are loud. But adds to the “reef” experience. Pool was better than expected and kids loved it. I have had better breakfast at other Scandics, but might be because of corona that standard were a bit low.
Stayed 2 nights in Jul 2020

4/10 Poor

Verified traveller

Travelled with group
Liked: Staff & service
Disliked: Amenities, property conditions & facilities
This is a hotel for families and screaming kids. No minibar. Limited menu that closes at 21. We had to order delivery pizza and the place recommend was some of the worst pizza I've had. The family room was tiny, cramped and not the double sofa bed we were promised.
Stayed 1 night in Jun 2020

10/10 Excellent

Lee

Travelled with family
Liked: Staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Amazing staff and really fun for kids below 12
The staff are fantastic. They are really responsive and supportive. The pool spa is great and has tons of fun for kids and sauna and jacuzzi's for parents. When it gets busy there are some small incidents like other guests being really disrespectful and throwing chewing tobacco "snus pouches" in the pool, but the staff are quick to remedy these unfortunate incidents.
Stayed 2 nights in Feb 2020

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveller

Travelled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 2 nights in Dec 2019

8/10 Good

Henrik, San Diego

Travelled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
This is a family resort mainly for families. The restaurants, ... are extremely busy with families. The service is pretty good, but it is noisy, busy and a bit crazy during the morning breakfast, but otherwise good. The facility has multiple bars, a good internet and the water world is amazing.
Stayed 5 nights in Dec 2019

8/10 Good

Niels E

Travelled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 1 night in Dec 2019

10/10 Excellent

Morten

Travelled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Above and beyond - we simply loved it!
Scandic the Reef was booked as a family trip because of the water park and I have to say it did not disappoint! Our little New Years’ trip was above what any of us expected! The water park was so amazing and the comfort of our beds and room over all has send us on a mission to get a bed just like the one we slept in, it was that good. The breakfast was above and beyond as well, make your own waffles, omelettes, juice, and choose anything your heart desires from the large buffet. Our only regret is that we didn’t book another night :).
Stayed 1 night in Dec 2019

8/10 Good

Verified traveller

Travelled with family
Liked: Staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 2 nights in Oct 2019

10/10 Excellent

Lena

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 1 night in Jul 2019

8/10 Good

Petrus

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Perfect for families
Stayed 3 nights in Jul 2019

6/10 Okay

Verified traveller

Stayed 1 night in Jul 2019

10/10 Excellent

sandra

Liked: Staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Birthday at Scandic Reef
The hotel was lovely. friendly staff and good choice at breakfast. The main complaint was that we didnt know that the hotel was being refurbished on the floor above us. we were woken up at 7am with drilling and hammering which carried on all day. we had paid extra for a superior room and needed ear plugs.
Stayed 1 night in May 2019

8/10 Good

Jan

Liked: Staff & service, room comfort
Disliked: Cleanliness
Stayed 3 nights in Feb 2019

8/10 Good

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, room comfort
Stayed 1 night in Sep 2018

8/10 Good

John

Great place for kids
Classic scandic hotel with a twist, family room with bunker beds for the kids, breakfast included +access to the pool area. Fantastic service from all staff we meet
Stayed 1 night in Sep 2018

6/10 Okay

Jesper

Improvement needed
Hotel worked well. It was confusing that we had to rent towels for the aqua park. Breakfast is subpar considering the price.
Stayed 1 night in Aug 2018

10/10 Excellent

Anton

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 2 nights in Jul 2018

8/10 Good

Eirik

Liked: Cleanliness, room comfort
Stayed 1 night in Jul 2018

8/10 Good

Johan

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Nice stay for a water adventure
The main reason we stayed was for the Water land which we have visited before and the kids loved it but we didn't stay at the hotel that time. Now we stayed in a family room, with two standard beds for adults and two foldable bunk beds. The bunk beds didn't feel very safe for our kids, 2 and 4 yrs old, as they move around quite a lot in the sleep and the fall protection was quite insufficient. We moved the standard beds together and the whole family of four shared that combination. The room size was good and it was clean, it was located close to the elevators leading to the Water land. There are some dining options at the hotel, one is a restaurant which also serves a really good breakfast in the morning. The location of the hotel is in a walking distance from the ferry stop and close to a shopping street which also houses some good alternative dining options, yet it's quite expensive. Overall a nice hotel, especially with the water land in the same building and included in the room fee.
Stayed 1 night in Aug 2017

8/10 Good

Peter

Liked: Cleanliness
Decent rooms but assume spa
The rooms are very ordinary, all the money has been spent on the spa that is actually high class and even worth it for adults as well.
Stayed 1 night in Aug 2017

8/10 Good

Lindsay

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
The Reef!
Great family hotel. Definitely themed for children. Buffet is child friendly with some adult choices as well!
Stayed 1 night in Jul 2017

8/10 Good

Lior

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service
OK for Dads, less for businessmen
Given the water park inside the hotel itself, this hotel is more adapted for families with kids than for the business traveler. A bit worn-out and old-fashioned, could use some refurbishment. Room was OK, but quite basic. Good Wifi. Breakfast was good and plentiful.

8/10 Good

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

6/10 Okay

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service
A wonderful bath experience for children
In general, a well run medium-class hotel that is a bit on the expensive side due to the Reef, an indoor bath adventure land. If you are there for the Reef, it is well worth it, if not there are probably better options. Note that the family rooms comes with two bunk beds that only holds up to 50 kg - if your children are more heavy than that you probably need two rooms for the family.

6/10 Okay

Kjetil

Liked: Staff & service
Disliked: Room comfort

8/10 Good

Daniel, Manchester

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
3 say stop.
Stayed for 3 nightswhile waiting for a ferry. The hotel is designed for families with kids who like to be in a water park. Great for that, but very very busy, difficult to get the lift access because constantly full of people coming/ going to the pool, no tea/coffee facilities in the foom, which there really should be. Apart from that, very nice.

8/10 Good

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, room comfort
Family fun
Enjoyable with small children.

4/10 Poor

Corona

Liked: Staff & service
Disliked: Cleanliness, room comfort
Big disappointment
The room was not clean, and it was in a desperate need of upgrading. I thought the hole hotel has been upgraded but it seems like the rooms was forgotten. The outdoor area with swimming pool, sauna, bar and tub was closed both days of our stay. No info about why. It was also very expensive in the hotel bar. Breakfast was good and it was nice in the swimming pools inside.

6/10 Okay

Verified traveller

Liked: Staff & service
Awsome pool
The pool was the best, good location close to Stena line

8/10 Good

Anita, Norway

Liked: Cleanliness, room comfort
Brilliant for the family
Needed a hotel not too far from Hirtshals (this is 40 minutes away) as we had a ferry to catch next morning. Found this and both the kids and us parents loved it. The key to the brilliance is the Carribean inspired Water World in the center of the hotel. We arrived 8pm, but still managed to get 2 hours in before it closed. Pity the restaurant closed before the pool. But the fortunately there were plenty of opportunity to get something to eat in the area around the hotel. The rooms were OK, and some areas of the hotel could do with a bit of freshening up, but all in all well worth a couple of nights :)

8/10 Good

Verified traveller

Liked: Staff & service, property conditions & facilities

6/10 Okay

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities
Disliked: Room comfort
The staff tried to be helpful
The room was quite small, needed maintaining and rather cramped in comparison to other hotels we have stayed in. When we got to the non smoking room it smelt of stale cigarette smoke . reported this to the front counter and the receptionist indicated they could not do anything about the smell of the smoke except offering us another room after we had unpacked. They were concerned but unable to do anything. We aired the room ourselves and stayed but not happily.

8/10 Good

elvi, San Diego California

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Great Scandinavian Hotel
This was a great hotel for the location and ambience. Great breakfast and good location. Perhaps a bit high on the price but we were happy with it.

8/10 Good

Thomas

Business traveller
Liked: Cleanliness, room comfort
Bra hotell men de borde försöka ha öppet allt
Ok men hade blivit bättre om poolbaren och den vanliga baren varit öppna så man kan ta något snacks och lite att dricka Hörde många barnfamiljer som tyckte det var dåligt och att man var tvungen att gå ut från badet till receptionen för att köpa något
Stayed 1 night in Feb 2024