Bastard restaurant

Malmö's Turning Torso

Mäster Johan atrium

Mäster Johan suite

Moderna Museet

Rooms and suites in Mäster Johan are pleasant and spacious

Though Malmö is Sweden's third-largest city, it is frequently overlooked by international travellers as an overnight destination and is most often visited as a daytrip from Copenhagen.  Those who do spend a few days in this attractive city will be charmed by its atmospheric city centre, avant-garde art galleries, and the approachability of its friendly inhabitants.  The Old Town's Renaissance-style town hall is one of Sweden's most remarkable buildings and serves as a contrast to newer sights like the orange Modern Museum and the striking Turning Torso, a residential tower designed by Spanish starchitect Santiago Calatrava.  Best of all, overnight visitors are able to enjoy a stay at Mäster Johan, a small, independent hotel where service and style are of paramount importance.

Mäster Johan, located on Mäster Johan Street, is a high-service hotel—an anomaly in a country where a tradition of self-reliance often sees hotels offer little more than a room and a big Swedish breakfast buffet, albeit with warm welcomes and big smiles.  A stay at Mäster Johan, though, is more of a stay in a private manor house than a hotel, a home where the host is eager to ensure guests are well looked after.  As in a home, there are no minibars in any of the 69 rooms; the absence of the constant humming of refrigerators in the night is noticeably pleasant and keeps with the hotel's intent to avoid excessive energy consumption.  The philosophy here is that guests can simply ring the front desk and have what they need brought to them' Mäster Johan prides itself on service; staff are happy to bring you whatever you wish at any time.

Mäster Johan offers a variety of rooms in diverse sizes and configurations, though all offer a home-like atmosphere.  Quietude and serenity are important at this establishment.  Good sound insulation at the windows and doors keeps rooms very private, and window shades have tight seals to keep light out in a place where the sun rises early in summer and sets late in winter. 

A great deal of thought—and expense—has gone into the hotel's design.  Natural stone features prominently throughout the hotel, with the black granite trim around the lift doors and the impressive black granite staircase among the most expensive components of a property that also features granite window sills and blue Brazilian marble countertops in the bathrooms.

Aside from a fine array of foods served at breakfast, Mäster Johan has no restaurant service of its own; the hotel, though is one minute's walk from Lilla Torget, Malmö's amiable little square lined on all sides by restaurants with outdoor seating areas in summer.  The archly named Bastard just next door to the hotel offers an adventurous menu in line with the recent innovations in the culinary arts across Scandinavia, especially Copenhagen, whose Kastrup Airport also serves as Malmö's main international airport and is easily accessible by train across the Øresund Bridge.  

Mäster Johan
Mäster Johansgatan 13
21121 Malmö
tel:  46 40 664 6400
masterjohan.com