After a busy day of sightseeing and transport, we arrive at this hotel near the town of Hofn.

As a reminder, here is the itinerary followed:

Booking

I booked this property about three months before my arrival.

Availability on the Expedia website around the town of Hofn is rather limited, which is why I had to make a reservation at this Bed & Breakfast hotel.

Maybe it’s Bed & Breakfast, but the price isn’t sweet at all, as it cost me just over ISK 27,000 (around €200). At this price, you’d expect quality services, but we know that in Scandinavia, hotel prices are rather high.

So limited expectations for a high price – that’s the Icelandic motto.

Arrival

We arrive at the hotel at the end of the day, after an intense day of exploring and driving through southern Iceland.

We have to wait a few minutes to do our check-in, as a couple are already doing theirs.

We check-in quickly, payment is taken on arrival and not before, unlike the hotel the previous evening, and we are told how to get to our room. The restaurant closes at 8pm, so we decide to dine right away and head to our room afterwards.

Room

The room is located in a building away from reception, and you have to drive from the reception to this building.

All the rooms are located in three different but adjoining buildings, which nevertheless resemble a kind of bungalow or summer camp, which is not necessarily very appealing at first glance.

In each of the buildings, there’s a sort of lounge/reception area offering unlimited coffee and tea; we’ll be using it very briefly in the evening, as the machine isn’t very clean.

The room itself is fairly modest in size, but offers a very pleasant view of the sea.

The entrance leads to the bathroom, which is rather spartan. It looks more like a hospital bathroom than a four-star hotel bathroom.

The room itself is pretty well decorated, in pastel tones that I wouldn’t especially like in my own home, but the whole thing is still pretty modern and the furniture of pretty good quality.

It’s a shame that the bed isn’t really a double, but two twin beds stuck together, which isn’t ideal for a couple.

In any case, Scandinavian bedding, which is made up of two separate comforters, doesn’t encourage any fundamental rapprochement…

The room is also equipped with a TV which, strangely enough, only has British channels, which doesn’t really take me away from home.

So the whole thing is of very average quality, which you can discover in the following video:

Hotel facilities

Apart from its natural surroundings, the hotel doesn’t really have any special facilities: no gym, no spa, but we’ll be taking advantage of the natural elements with a digestive stroll after settling into our room.

Food options

The hotel offers a full catering service: breakfast, lunch and dinner. We’ll enjoy it for dinner when we arrive at the hotel and for breakfast the next morning.

Dinner service

So after check-in, we moved on to dinner at the hotel.

The food looked rather appetizing as we queued for check-in, so we decided, given the hotel’s location, to dine there.

So after check-in, we go straight to the table and are presented with the menu.

The service is very pleasant and friendly, but the menu is of average quality with very high prices, as usual in Iceland.

My wife chooses to have a starter, the lamb-based soup, and I’ll have just one main course.

I’d go for the Arctic char, which is like salmon, simply grilled and served with boiled potatoes.

For dessert, my wife chose the cheesecake, which was average, and I chose the Skyr, which was just perfect.

The bill is around £61 (9000 ISK) – very expensive, but that’s the way things are in this country.

Breakfast service

Before resuming our journey for the fourth day of our visit, and after packing our belongings and putting them in our car, we head to reception for breakfast.

The welcome is non-existent, but we settle in at a table. The buffet is rather spartan, with products of very average quality. Not even an espresso machine.

Nevertheless, it will do the job before our day of exploration. It’s worth noting that cleanliness isn’t necessarily the order of the day, since we sat at the same table as for dinner, and a stain that was already present the evening before remained.

Departure

Check-out formalities were fast as there were no formalities, given that we had paid for the room at check-in, and given that there is no possibility of charging extras to the room.

We just held out the access card to our room as we left.

Bottom line

A fairly basic hotel, but very practical thanks to its location, with a decent restaurant service but nothing to get excited about.