Hotel Eyjar

I know the reviews are mixed on this place. But we like the location so we gave it a try. We were very happy. We had a room on the top floor for our family of 4. The beds were fine, the room was clean. Staff is very hard to find now in Iceland so I understood when we found out that in fact there was no breakfast included. There was coffee! Our 9 and 11-year-old had fun feeling free and grown-up. They were able to walk around town "alone" while my husband and I enjoyed the time to ourselves. We could walk to the tours and also drove around the island to hike as a family. We could walk to the nice restaurants and 66 North. We loved Gott and the bakery! We took a small RIF boat tour thru seacliff and a small bus tour thru eyjatours. I highly recommend both. So from a cost and location, I would say this place is great! YOu can spend more and get a nicer place. Or you can adventure all day long and spend the extra money on doing fun things! Like seeing the beluga whales... BTW, entry is included to this thru the Eyjatour.

Things went poorly for us from the beginning of our time at Hotel Eyjar. Understandably for a small operation, a note was left on the door stating that we could call to begin the check-in process. However, for an operation and country with primarily English-speaking residents, seems odd the note was only in Icelandic. We translated, called and someone met us to check us in within 10 minutes. The 4 bedroom room we were shown had an eclectic furniture style (not a problem) but the floors had clearly not been swept - the only initial problem we had with the hotel. We then came to discover when attempting to throw away some of our own trash, the trash under the sink in the main room was OVERFLOWING with trash from previous tenants including multiple pizza boxes, food items, and 3 full grocery bags. Due to no other options, we stayed the night but left promptly in the morning not opting for whatever breakfast was in store. Couldn't discouraging booking here strongly enough.

Great little hotel! Check-in was just a phone call to the proprietor and he told me which room to go in, and that I would find my key on the table (which it was!). Hotel was right on the street, but it was quiet. It was very clean and roomy for an Icelandic hotel. We had three in our party (Me, my wife, and our 26-year-old daughter) and they had a fold-out couch for our daughter to sleep on. Extra linens were in the closet. (Except for the excessive snoring in the room, she slept great....) Good restaurants down the street and across the street. Parking was off-site (on the street), but there were no issues. Wifi was faultless. TV worked fine and we found English channels. Vessmannaeyjar is a charming island with a lot of interesting things to do: (look for puffins; climb the 1973 volcano; go to the Volcano Museum - very accommodating proprietor there, as well....) Breakfast choices were limited but we found a decent donut shop kind of around the corner from the hotel. Highest marks to these folks! I would visit the island again, and I would certainly stay at Hotel Eyjar again!

The location is ideal, couldn’t be better. And our room ended up being simple yet lovely. They had however promised us online a room with a kitchen, sofa & view & when we got there - they at first showed us one with none of these, and blocked windows. Not ok. A very nice woman we found did move us to smaller nice room, with view.

No frills property, no lobby, no normal check-in, no amenities whatsoever; yet for the area, it is a reasonable stay.

The room was not ready for us when we checkt in. Hade to wait one houre for the room . They forgot to clean it

Great location, pretty nice room. No reception, but good service from the person who came when we called. There was a bit of noise during the night, some odd sounds like a drill at 5am keeping us up.

The location is fantastic, but my praises stop there. I'm not sure if this is a COVID-only procedure or