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Summer weekends are ideal: the days are long, the weather is perfect, and hotel prices are at their annual low.
Sheep’s-wool slippers ($109) and Sami reindeer hide bracelets (from $47) from the Society for Swedish Handicrafts shop (44 Sveavägen; 46-8/232-115).
The lavish smörgåsbord ($38)—the ultimate Swedish breakfast buffet—at the Grand Hôtel (8 S. Blasieholmshamnen; 46-8/679-3500; grandhotel.se).
The most economical way to stay in the city: rent an apartment from a local who has decamped for his beach cottage; Stockholmtown.com has listings under “bed and breakfast.”
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