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 History The first hotel in Oppdal was Bjerklund Hotell, which opened in 1913. In 1918, Norsk Hotelkompani bought a 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. The company purchased a lot next to the station for NOK 15,000. Olaf Skaslien was project manager. The restaurant was taken into use on 22 June 1923 and the hotel opened on 28 June 1924. The original plans called for a three-story building of and 40 beds. However, the plans were expanded twice, to and 60 beds. All rooms had both warm and cold water, and some were equipped with an en-suite bathroom. The hotel featured a dining hall veranda, seven common bathrooms for guests and one for personnel. In the immediate vicinity there was built croquet and tennis fields and a bobsled and curling course. The hotel cost 1.22 million Norwegian krone, of which the building itself cost NOK 0.88 million. The arrival both of the railway and the hotel was instrumental in the tourism boom which would follow in Oppdal. Opdal Turisthotell was a key, as it had an external and professional owner which operated both restaurants and hotels elsewhere. This gave a professionalism and service quality which local interests would have been able to accomplish at the time. For several decades it was the only