Reykjavik Hostel Village

Free coffee at the breakfast coffee machine

The place is not nice, not beautiful, and not amazingly clean (despite not being dirty either). We didn't receive any email to warn us that there would be no one to welcome us after 4pm (we had received an email, but it arrived in the junk box, and we hadn't spotted it). I had actually sent an email to the reception on the day of arrival, at 4.30 pm asking if there were any particular elements to know. I hasn't been answered yet (3 weeks after). Beware that the letter with the key says that the reception opens at 9am in the morning, but a sign on the door says it's not open before 10am. We would not have been able to go in, if it weren't for some other guests who told us the code to the door. The door to the room (that had been left for us in an envelope) was really hard to open (a first I thought we didn't have the right key). The room was tiny, the sink in the room was too to be of any news. The two small individual beds (that were put side to side as a pretence to be a double bed) were not of the same hight or consistance (making it impossible to be close to each other), the corridor to the bathroom and the toilets themselves were not welcoming. To the point that my wife preferred not to go to the toilets during the night, rather than walking there. There were 3 lamps in the room. Only one was functional. There was also an old - and unpluged - alarm clock in an unused cupboard. We luckily didn't take the breakfast that is proposed, as we would have been awfully disappointed (it consisted of a brick of juice, one yogurt, access to a coffee machine - that is free in any case - and an opened box with blueberries. Nothing close to the price it is charged.

Good location

Room was below ground. Pictures of the room are quite misleading. The whole building smelt like damp mold. Staff were not organised/late/ reception not open as advertised