MARILA
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18Rooms and suites
61°NOn the Sognefjord arm
40 minFrom the glacier front
120Fruit trees below the house

Fjærland, Sognefjord

We keep station above the water and read the weather.

Marila is a steel-framed house of birch and glass, set on the shelf above the orchard where the fjord narrows toward the glacier. From the panorama floor you watch the light change through the day the way one watches migrating birds, patiently, season by season. Storm-slate mornings warm to ochre by evening.

Our guests come for the roped walk to the glacier edge, crampons and ropes provided, and stay for the slow rhythm of the house: the brown-cheese and flatbread elevenses tray carried out at eleven, the long evenings on the terraces. Stays are arranged as seasonal packages; we send our rates on enquiry.

Glacier walk
Panorama floor
Elevenses tray
Glacier-edge walk
Orchard
Kitchen & larder

Rooms and suites

Named for coastal winds and sea-states.

Eighteen rooms across the house, each turned to the light. Rates come as seasonal packages, offered on enquiry.

Corner suite with oiled birch, wool throws and tall windows filled with the orchard fjord

Landbreeze Suite

A corner room where the evening air slides down off the glacier and the orchard fjord fills the tall windows. Oiled birch, wool throws, and a reading bench angled to the turning light.

42 m²2 guestsKingOrchard view

Seasonal package · rates on enquiry

Reserve
Top-floor suite with a deep soaking tub set below the wide panorama glass over the Sognefjord arm

The Slack Water Suite

Named for the still minute between tides, this top-floor suite holds the widest view of the Sognefjord arm. A deep soaking tub sits below the panorama glass.

58 m²2 guestsKingPanorama glass

Seasonal package · rates on enquiry

Reserve
Warm double under the eaves with lichen-toned linen and a private terrace catching the long southern evening

Sirocco Loft

A warm double under the eaves with a private terrace catching the long southern evening. Steel-frame windows, lichen-toned linen, the smell of the orchard below.

34 m²2 guestsQueenTerrace

Seasonal package · rates on enquiry

Reserve
Timber dining room set for breakfast, panorama windows to the water

The kitchen

The orchard, the valley farms, the glacier's cold.

One long timber room turned to the water. We cook what the fjord and the valley give us across the seasons, no more, no less.

  • Elevenses tray · from eleven o'clockBrown cheese and flatbread carried out to the panorama floor, with tea and coffee, while the morning light shifts on the water.
  • Breakfast · 7:30–10:00Cured and smoked fjord catch, farm eggs, orchard preserves, dense rye and warm flatbread.
  • Supper · from sevenA short set menu drawn from the day's catch and the valley farms, served as the blue hour settles over the arm.
  • The reading-room counter · all daySingle-farm coffee brewed to order, or tea from the house tins, in the reading corner.
The steel-and-birch panorama house standing on the shelf above the orchard fjord at Fjærland

On the shelf above the water

Steel frame, birch inside, weather all around.

The house was raised on the old orchard terrace so every floor looks down the arm toward the glacier. Powder-coated steel takes the storms; birch and wool hold the warmth inside. Rope up with our guide for the walk to the glacier edge, crampons provided, then come back to the terrace as the light turns.

In the guest book

What our guests write.

"We roped up for the glacier walk in the morning and were back for the elevenses tray by noon. The whole house feels like it is watching the weather with you."

Ingrid, Bergen

"The Slack Water Suite at blue hour, the tub below the glass, the arm going still. We have not stopped talking about the light."

Tomas, Oslo

"Glacier-edge walk in the morning, then the brown-cheese and flatbread elevenses tray. Slow days done exactly right."

Marit, Ålesund

Enquire

Write to us and we will send a seasonal package.

Tell us your dates and party, and what you would like from your stay. Our team responds within one business day.