Activities

Many laughter and a little relaxed atmosphere give the conference and stay that little extra. A successful activity strengthens the team and creates a memorable conference, who knows when the best ideas come. It is not rare in a combination of activity, work and relaxation that something new can occur.

Outdoors or indoors? Easy or more demanding?
At Sigtuna Stadshotell and in Sigtuna there are a wealth of activities.

Guided tours in Sigtuna Town

Historical guided tour in Sweden’s first Town. Guides are available in five different languages. Sigtuna town has it all – history, beauty and exciting tales to tell.
Let one of our guides bring you on a historical journey to the medieval runic stones, ruins of 12th century churches and the making of the first Swedish coin.
Lets move hundreds years back in time and meets the first hotel lady; Ellen Paalzow
who will tell us the story of the newly builted hotel, King Gustav V stayed at during a maneuver, Uppsala student graduations and life in Sigtuna in the early 1900s.
Ellen takes us on tour of the idyllic Sigtuna and it’s neighborhood and tell us about the city’s millenary history from the 980s, Sigtuna residents’ traditions, celebrations, first steamships in the harbor. Famous attractions such as Town Hall, St. Mary’s Church, church ruins and runestones crossed.

Duration: 1 h

If combined with a visit at the Sigtuna Town Hall, an entrance fee will be added to the price. Group of a maximum of 30 participants.

 

Long distance Skates with instructor

Just outside the hotel doorstep lake Mälaren ice is spreading out for a lovely skating.
A very popular activity for International participants. We rent the skates for you.

Time: 1 1/2 hour
People: 10-60 personer
Price: 3 950 SEK/ group or 495 SEK per person.

 

Rental Boat

Please contact our conference coordinator

 

Rib Boat

on Lake Mälaren right outside the hotel!
A Rib boat tour is an amazing nature experience. This tour is all about speeding along with the fresh sea air in your face, the closeness to the water and experiencing all the nature Lake Mälaren has to offer. The boat tour starts right outside the hotel and you will enjoy a glass of Champagne before returning back.

Personal equipment: To all passengers we include warm overalls, hat, gloves and ski goggles.

Tour duration: approximately 1 hour

 

Rental Canoe / Kayak

Please contact our conference coordinator

 

The Sigtuna hunt with Historic Anecdotes

The Sigtuna Hunt is an exciting and thrilling team contest where the groups will go out to gather clues along the historic lanes to solve a problem.

Participants are divided in groups of 5-8 people. The goal of this activity is that each group will develop a strategy and tactics that take them to all the clues and complete the challenge or solve the problem. If they acheive this goal, each team will receive points for each problem solved correctly. The more difficult the challenge, the more points awarded. The competition has a time restriction and the team that best utilizes their resources and are effective and accurate with each challenge have a good chance of taking home the desirable trophy.

Personal equipment: comfortable clothing adaptive to the weather.

Duration: 2 h