Hotel Vestmannaeyjar

We had a fantastic stay! The location is wonderful, the staff were incredibly kind and helpful, and the breakfast was excellent. Our room was spacious and had a beautiful view, which made our stay even more enjoyable. We especially appreciated how helpful the staff were with practical travel advice. Due to bad weather, the ferry was operating to a different destination, making the journey almost 3 hours instead of the usual 45-minute sailing. The staff kindly shared all the information and tips we needed, which was extremely helpful. We also highly recommend visiting the local museum and learning about the latest volcanic eruption. Another highlight was the lovely sanctuary for beluga whales and puffins. We were lucky enough to see puffins there, as most of the other local population had already left for the sea. A truly lovely place with wonderful hospitality. We would be very happy to return and highly recommend it!

Nice clean rooms. Very friendly and accommodating staff.

Ideal position to explore the Island, good restaurant menu

Unfortunately we had a bad experience in the restaurant, due to large group ordering many cocktails we waited nearly an hour to get drinks. With only one bar person and no help from within the hotel she was absolutely “ drowned” the group then kept cutting in to drinks queue to order more whilst we kept waiting.Experienced bar staff will have shared the pain!!

Nice room. Good selection at breakfast. Good location for key places on the island.

We were in a room (212) at the back of the building. It meant we were close to three separate ventilators (two seemed to be for the hotel itself, one seemed to supporting the refrigeration for a nearby restaurant). The humming sounds from the ventilators were loud, even with the windows closed. It was noisy enough to be disruptive to sleep. The WiFi was poor and cut out regularly. In our two weeks in Iceland we could generally use our devices to stream in all hotels, but not this one as the WiFi signal was too weak and unreliable. Both of the above may have been due to the location of the room, which was slightly annexed from the main corridor of rooms and may have meant we were closer to the noisy ventilators and further removed from the WiFi signal. The tv did not have much functionality and did not allow for streaming services or screen mirroring from other devices. The hotel is not easy to identify from the street. There is a sign with the hotel name on the building but it is not visible at street level at many angles. Despite this, the lady on reception was critical when we enquired to confirm we were in the right place.