Hotel Sveinbjarnargerdi

Great place, great location

This was a great place to stay just outside of Akureyri. The room was small but clean and comfortable with a big window for viewing the aurora, and next to the dining area was a comfortable lounge area with spectacular views of the snow capped mountains and the fjord. The breakfast was the best selection of our trip so far, and coffee and tea were available all the time, which was great after being outdoors in the cold. The concierge was fantastic! We had been traveling the ring road and had to do laundry so we asked for the location of a laundromat. He let us use the hotel’s laundry facility for free. He also scraped the frost from the windshields as people were checking out. We stayed two nights as a rest stop after some pretty intense road trip days and it was a great, comfortable place to take a rest before continuing on the other half of the trip. It’s close to downtown Akureyri, and it’s also very close to a sweet little museum of a turf and stone farm called Laufás, that was a very pleasant surprise just down the street.