Quality Hotel Oppdal

Part of the Choice Hotels, it was established in 1924 by Norsk Spisevognselskap, a state-owned enterprise which ran railway restaurants.

[1] 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.

[4] The original plans called for a three-story building of 510 square meters (5,500 sq ft) and 40 beds.

[6] The hotel featured a dining hall veranda, seven common bathrooms for guests and one for personnel.

Opdal Turisthotell was a key, as it had an external and professional owner which operated both restaurants and hotels elsewhere.

Anders Beer Wilse—one of Norway's leading photographers—took advertisement pictures of the hotel and a commercial was made in French.

Spisevognselskapet then took the issue up with NSB, in an attempt to lobby a change of regulations to allow denial of lack of liquor licenses to be appealed to the government.

[1] After the war, the hotel was renovated, including all-new interior and furniture for the restaurant and saloons.

In 1947, the tourist committee started working on the plans, which resulted in Norsk Spisevognselskap being a major owner of the lift which opened at Hovden in 1952.

[8] In 1957, Architect Hugi Kohmann presented a model for three additions, two large two-story buildings and one eight-story.

Although supported by the hotel management, the board of Spisevognselskapet were split, and in the end only one of the two-story extensions were built and completed in 1962.