The hotel consists of nine properties which were erected in 1769 as the city's Southern Custom Station. The station was facilitated with a custom chamber and private property for a customs officer named Bruzin. Gränna's city boundary was located just outside the manor alont the creek in  "Southern Park". Passing merchants who wanted to sell their goods in Gränna first had to pay a customs fee in order to gain access to the village's commerce. Today, the customs chamber functions as the hotel's dining room.

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In 1857, almost a century after the houses were built, Amalia, the mother of the famous red and white candy cane and hence the number one reason of our hotel's name moved into the property.  We will tell you more about her life story further down. 

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Another half a century later in 2001, Marianne and Bengt acquired the property. With 40 years of experience of the hotel industry where they have founded, developed and sold businesses, they realised the property's lodging potential. They found the historical significance, not just the property itself, but also the people that lived here were fascinating and wanted to share. The result became a smaller intimate hotel with main focus on B&B.

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The nine houses were all culturally protected and listed as Swedish cultural heritage as they were of special architectural and historic interest. Only three out of nine were habitable and also in relatively poor condition. Other houses served as wood sheds and storage spaces. Bengt and Marianne therefore devoted almost two years, in close cooperation with the County Museum, to carefully restore the houses to their former glory. Hotel Amalias Hus or "House" had adopted its first shape and with its six double rooms it received its first guests in August 2003.

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In 2011, the couple's daughter Caroline and her husband Per took over the business and together they started a process of developing the hotel. Until then it had been a hotel where occupancy and visitor volumes were strongly linked and dependent on the tourist season in Gränna. The goal was to become a year-round hotel that was independent of the summer months and where guests came to Gränna to primarily visit Hotel Amalias Hus as main destination.

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To succeed, the couple identified parts of the hotel and business that required development: to significantly increase the quality of its hotel rooms in terms of convenience and modern comfort features, to develop the kitchen and dining room and to become a serious player on the regional and national conference market arena. 

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Hotel Amalias Hus is today a four-star boutique hotel with 20 rooms and suites. It has been awarded multiple titles by prestigious international tourism organisations and is ranked as one of the top 50 hotels in Sweden by the well-known culinary White Guide. In the beginning of 2019 the hotel was awarded the title for Historic Luxury Boutique Hotel of Sweden by International Luxury Travel Guide and was 2018 ranked as one of the top five boutique hotels in Sweden on Tripadvisor. 

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Caroline and Per's goal has and continues to be "the hotel that they, themselves, would like to stay at and return to" and to be the natural meeting place both for leisure and business occasions.