Sweden Longstay is now Stay Smart
When an assignment takes you to Stockholm for several weeks or months, the accommodation becomes part of the workday, not just a bed to sleep in.
Stockholm is big enough for location to matter significantly. The best area is rarely the one closest to Sergels torg, but rather the one closest to your actual everyday life.
Find out exactly where you will work before choosing accommodation. The difference between a good and a bad location can be an hour a day.
Are you going to meetings in the city, to an office in Kista or Solna, or to a workplace further out in the region? The answer determines more than anything else.
If you drive a car every day, you need to check parking both at home and at the workplace. If you travel by public transport, the distance to the subway or commuter train becomes more important than the address itself.
Centrally located accommodation suits those who have meetings in different places, travel frequently by train, or want to manage a large part of their daily life on foot.
You pay for the location in the form of a smaller area, and parking needs to be planned more carefully than in more car-oriented areas.
If you want to read more about how the neighborhoods differ, we have a separate guide for five smart neighborhoods to live in when moving to Stockholm.
If the workplace is outside the toll zone, it is often both cheaper and more convenient to live closer to it.
Solna and Sundbyberg are close to the city with good connections. Kista is the hub for tech and telecom. Heading south, Huddinge gives you more space for your money, and heading north, you can reach Arlanda quickly from Upplands Väsby.
For an assignment, a short commute is almost always worth more than a nice address.
Subway and commuter trains are frequent and reliable, and many people working temporarily in Stockholm manage completely without a car.
If you need a car anyway, it is worth calculating congestion taxes and parking before you decide, because daily trips into the center cost both time and money.
Calculate the daily commute time between home and work. A few extra minutes turn into many hours over a three-month period.
When you are staying for a long time, the accommodation needs to work after working hours too.
Look at distance to grocery store, exercise, laundry facilities, parking, and somewhere green to walk in. A private kitchen is often the single biggest difference between living somewhere and just staying overnight.
Long Stay is suitable for you who need furnished and temporary accommodation without staying in a hotel during the entire assignment.
It is a common choice for consultants, project managers, fitters, and specialists who know they will leave the city when the assignment is finished, but want a functional everyday life in the meantime.
If an entire team is going to stay in Stockholm, you should map out the number of people, workplace, vehicles, and different move-in dates before booking.
It is often better to gather the staff in one or a few nearby accommodations than to spread the group across a city the size of Stockholm.
Are you or your team going to work in Stockholm? See our accommodations in Stockholm hands send a request with date, number of people and the workplace address.
A search for Stockholm also shows accommodations in neighboring towns, allowing you to weigh travel time against space and price.
Stay Smart helps you match the accommodation to the assignment, not just to the postal code.
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