Quality Hotel Oppdal

Quality Hotel Oppdal, formerly Opdal Turisthotell, is a hotel in Oppdal, Norway. Part of the Choice Hotels, it was established in 1924 by Norsk Spisevognselskap, a state-owned enterprise which ran railway restaurants. The hotel is next to Oppdal Station on the Dovre Line

The first hotel in Oppdal was Bjerklund Hotell, which opened in 1913. In 1918, Norsk Hotelkompani bought a 8.7 hectares lot at Høgmo for a hotel, but they never got around to building the hotel. By 1919, Spisevognselskapet was considering building a tourist hotel somewhere along the Dovre Line, and Hjerkinn and Fokstua were mentioned in the newspapers as probable locations. Oppdal Station opened on 20 September 1921 when the Dovre Line was opened through town. The same day, Norsk Spisevognselskap started operations of a station restaurant in the station building. The facilities were too small, but it would be too costly to expand the station building to make a larger restaurant. It was therefore decided to establish a combined restaurant and tourist hotel next to the station. Plans were made by Architect Gudmund Hoel and District Manager von Krogh. The plans were approved by the company's board on 20 September 1922, and passed by the general meeting on 27 October. The board was given authority to loan-finance the investment.

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