Best Hotels near Geysir, Reykjavik

The selling point of this house is location. It is very close to geyser and the Golden Waterfall in the Geyser geothermal landscape area, located in Golden circle. There is a N1 gas station and a family restaurant Mika at the door. Specialty food shiq various Icelandic lobsters Laungoustine and chocolate, mainly serving locals and welcoming tourists. There is also a large family greenhouse farm nearby Fridhelma, which offers a special lunch (12-16 point): a buffet with tomato sauce soup and bread in a greenhouse full of tomatoes and flowers, and a bar with Horse Show reservations. Not far from the attractions, there is also a hot spring town Fludir where you can soak in hot springs.

A very comfortable hotel with exceptional food. It was great to see a kids menu that didn’t include fish with chips and burgers with fries. My son loved his meat balls. My dinner was the best I have eaten in an hotel or restaurant in Iceland over the last five days. I really do mean good !!! The staff are so friendly and helpful. We have stayed in a wide variety of hotels across south Iceland at different price ranges from low to high and this was the best … it’s clean and comfortable, staff are kind and lovely, the hotel is well maintained and the food is great. It doesn’t have the perception of luxury of some of the larger hotels and the rooms are rustic - however the hotel is wonderful for its simplicity and charm with high quality of food. I couldn’t recommend it more highly.

This is my first review on trip advisor. After a long vacation, , taking the time to write a review was never on my list. As a busy mom of four, I was always headed straight to the laundry room when I got home. However, I do feel this review needs written regarding our stay at these cabins First of all, our travel agent booked our stay. We paid her company directly and not a booking company online. She told me that this resort had good reviews on trip advisor and that is why she chose to book our stay there. Trusting she is in this business and knows what to look for, we allowed her to take control. She has never failed us before. Upon arrival, one of our 2 cabins was not ready so we had to wait 2 hours until we could get into our cabin. Which was fine for us and not a huge problem because we had the other cabin our kids were in to sit and wait. The young girl at check in was very sweet as well as the lady cleaning the cabins. Our cabin windows were all closed due to the late cleaning which, we understood. The weather was unusually hot while we were there making the cabins around 85 degrees inside. When we immediately opened the windows, as warned at the front desk, flying biting insects flooded our cabin so we shut the windows quickly leaving the biting insects inside and the cabin becoming a sauna and feeding frenzy for the pests. When I called the main desk to ask if they had a fan, they said they did not and advised us to use insect spray on our bodies to help us sleep. Not only were the flying insects a problem, while sweating and literally picking flying insects off your body, sand fleas were also jumping on you from the main living area. At 1:00 am, 2 of our family members chose to move into the car to sleep while the others slept on the linoleum floor trying to stay cool. We left in the morning before anyone was even at the check out counter since it closes at 9pm and opens later in the morning. We chose to leave even though we had paid for 2 more nights ..paying for 2 cabins. You can do the math. These cabins are quaint yet, dated. They are located in an untamed vast natural area. I completely understand that the environment cannot be controlled. However, screens do exists in the area as we noted while exploring the country. Management knew and warned us about the flying insects yet, failed to invest in fans or screens which both, repel biting midges. After our experience, I invested time into reading previous reviews and realized this was not their first review regarding these issues. Furthermore, the manager, unprofessionally replied to a previous review calling the customer “clumsy” because she tripped on the flooring entering the bathroom. K.R, the managers initials clearly needs to attend a workshop on people skills and should not be in the customer service business. His replies are harsh and insulting. His unpolished personality is a reflection of the type of service and overall stay in the cab

Serviced apartment on convenient route near Golden Circle area. Within 1 hour to major sights including Kerid Crater, Thingvellir, Geysir, and Gullfoss. Nice view of the countryside, but far from any restaurants or stores (20+ min) so plan ahead before you return for the night. Apartment itself was recently renovated and felt very new. Kitchen had refrigerator and everything we needed to make our own breakfast. You are texted a code to the door ahead of time which felt a bit sketchy, but very simple upon arrival. Each unit has its own door with a key pad. Towels were replaced during the day. South Central Apartments was our favorite accommodation (and largest, only one with fridge) out of several across Southern Iceland (including 2-3 star hotels).

Great and comfortable stay. The keypad entry makes check in simple. Loved this feature. Several rooms were contained in housing unit and our neighbors were friendly, quiet, and/or absent. The door lock feature on our room required we lock the handle before entering our room. We didn't see another way to lock the door from within the room. We figured it out but advanced info would have helped.

This is not the review I wanted to write - unfortunately I cannot recommend staying at this hotel if you are a person of color. For context: my partner and I are American, I am white and my partner is visibly brown. After our stay I cannot help but feel the hotel was racist. Check in was fine at first but something felt off. The front desk attendant would not make eye contact with my partner, and whenever she asked a question, the desk attendant turned and told me. The real issues came when we came to eat at the hotel restaurant. My partner was the only non white person at the restaurant when this happened. The service we received was evidently worse than the tables around us. One table sat 30-45 minutes after us and got served before us. One of their entrees was the exact same as ours and the other entree we got was an appetizer from the starters menu!!! They got a hot entree. We did not get served for at least 15 minutes after them. We sat as servers went around checking in with each table and just walking past us. When their plates were cleared they got asked about dessert, ate it, and then left all before our plates were cleared. When they came to clear our plates they did not bother to ask if we wanted dessert and we continuously tried to get the server’s attention but they didn’t even look at us! The couple that sat at the same time left an hour before us. At first we thought maybe this was some kind of anti-American prejudice, which is understandable, I guess, Americans can be obnoxious. But nope, the table behind us was American, and they received doting service. In the end it’s that disparity in service that really got to me. If the kitchen was slow and the servers didn't have time to check on tables that would have been fine. The food was pretty good and we would have been okay waiting for it. But the clear difference in the way every other diner was treated in the restaurant from the only table with a non-white diner was impossible to look past. I hope it was something else but going over it again the only rationale I can think of for the way we were treated was racism.