What does half board mean — and what is included at Home Hotel?
Curious about what half board actually means when booking a hotel? The term may sound a little dated. Let us dust it off for you. Here is what is included, and how breakfast, fika and dinner are woven into every stay at Home Hotel.
What does half board mean in a hotel?
Half board is a type of hotel stay where two meals are included in the room rate, typically breakfast and dinner. It sits between a room-only stay and full board, giving you more than a place to sleep.
Half board strikes a balance between convenience and flexibility without tying every meal to the hotel.
What is included in half board at Home Hotel?
At Home Hotel, the arrangement goes a step further than the classic definition of half board. Every stay at every one of our 50+ hotels in Sweden, Norway and Finland includes breakfast, afternoon fika and dinner, woven into the rate as a natural part of the experience.
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Included in every stay
Breakfast
Freshly baked bread, cold cuts, eggs, bacon, yogurt, fruit and proper coffee — a real start to the day.
Fika
Freshly brewed coffee or tea with homemade baked goods — the Nordic pause that turns a good stay into a great one.
Dinner
A seasonal dinner with salads, warm soup, homemade bread, a daily main course and always a vegetarian option.
More than half board
Why dinner and fika make the difference
Most hotels include breakfast, but fewer include dinner — and it is easy to understand why, because a proper evening meal served every night is a promise that takes real effort to keep.
At Home Hotel, it is a promise made anyway: a warm, homecooked dinner waiting at the end of the day, with Nordic-inspired dishes and the kind of care that makes a meal feel like more than just fuel.
Between breakfast and dinner comes fika — a Nordic tradition of coffee and something freshly baked, a pause that belongs to no particular agenda, just a moment to slow down and breathe.
Together, they are rather more than half board.
Half board hotels in the Nordics
From Stockholm and Varberg to cities across Norway and in Helsinki, Home Hotel is present in more than 50 locations across the Nordic countries — each one a piece of living history, carefully restored and genuinely comfortable.
Breakfast, fika and dinner are included in every stay.
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