Hamar Guesthouse - Vestmannaeyjabær

S. H. G.

Einfalt og snyrtilegt.
Orðið þreytt og lúið að sumu leyti. Sturtklegahurðir lausar, brotið gler í opnanlegum glugga. Hilla á baði laus (í vaskinum). Hitabreyting (hækkun) mjög hægvirk. Tenglar rafmagns svo fáir að annaðhvort sjónvarp eða hraðsuðuketill ótengt!.
Morgunmatur ágætur.

Lori R.

Excellent location. You can literally see it from the ferry dock. Comfortable beds and friendly staff. Within walking distance of Whale Santuary and Eldfell. We brought a car and free parking was available. Breakfast was sufficient...cold foods such as breads, cheese, and fruit, plus pancakes and hot oatmeal.||Appreciate the squeegee for the shower. We are learning to adapt to the Icelandic open shower and being able to squeegee the floor was so helpful.

John D.

Deception by omission. This place is 3 stories, so be prepared to carry your luggage up & down as there is no elevator. The website doesn't tell you that. Upon arrival, the keys were laid out on the counter with a bell. There is a coin-operated payphone by the desk also. I use cards & didn't have any krona, the phone was useless. I guess the bell was to get a person. You could ring till the cows came home & no one would respond. After dragging our luggage to the 3rd floor, we found 1 towel in the bathroom. Not one per person, just 1 towel. Each bed also had only 1 pillow. We connected to wifi, but I guess the router wasn't working. I went downstairs again to find someone. After searching hi & low I found a guy who 'kind of works for them'. He called the owners, got authorization to give us 2 towels & relayed the concerns about internet access. They must have remotely reset the router. I turned the TV on, finding it was frozen. The date on BBC was 6 days prior to our arrival. I sent a message to the owner's, the next morning, it was still frozen.
3 stars my butt. Don't waste your money. Stay at Stracta in Hella - a true 3-star hotel and take the ferry for a day trip.

M E.

I will start with the positives: The "Museum" in the dining area is every bit as interesting and in many ways more informative than the official volcano museum. The location is excellent - walking distance to almost everything - and the neighborhood is friendly. However, we were definitely underwhelmed by our breakfast experience! We booked this hotel in part because it promised breakfast included. On our first morning there we went down at the appointed time only to be told that since only two rooms were occupied the night before, instead of providing breakfast they were sending us to a local bakery. Had we been told about that the previous evening, it might have been a charming opportunity to explore a local spot. But as it was, I had a broken foot and had not dressed for a walk downtown. I had to go back upstairs with my broken foot, change clothes and shoes, and then find the bakery. A hard thing to do when we hadn't even had coffee yet! ||All we had been given was a little note saying we could have breakfast at the bakery. But it was very confusing as to how that worked and there were no clear instructions. We placed our order only to be asked to pay an exorbitant sum. It turns out that we couldn't order whatever we wanted - we could only order one each from some small sandwiches (not the big sandwiches!), one pastry (but only CERTAIN pastries - and not the ones we wanted), and EITHER coffee or orange juice - not both. It was SO frustrating. Normally at hotels with breakfast included you can have both coffee and orange juice, and SOME kind of protein, like yogurt or eggs. Not here - if you couldn't eat gluten, or couldn't eat lots of carbohydrates, you were out of luck (and the sandwiches with eggs were NOT ALLOWED!). The bakery did at least let us get refills on our coffee. ||I would have MUCH preferred it if the hotel had just given us a boxed breakfast, with yogurt, pastry, juice and coffee, and called it a day. Or if they had just given us a voucher for a certain amount of money so we could order what we wanted. To send us out into the cold unexpectedly because it was too much trouble to make breakfast for "only" two rooms, and then not let us order what was suitable for us was kind of insulting. ||The next day apparently their occupancy requirements were such that we were allowed to have breakfast at the property. It still was not a great breakfast, but at least we were able to get some protein to start our day. ||So I would not stay here again. And if you do, I recommend you ask ahead of time whether there really will be breakfast. The other couple who had been sent to the bakery almost missed their ferry because they had planned their morning to grab a quick breakfast downstairs and then go to the ferry. They ended up just paying for their whole breakfast themselves because they were tired of trying to figure out the rules and didn't want to literally miss the boat.

Sandrine L.

A aimé · La Guesthouse est très bien placée près du port, des commerces et des restaurants du centre ville. Il y a un centre d’informations pour touristes à quelques minutes à pied. Nous sommes arrivés vers 20h et avons fait un self check-in car la réception était fermée. Les chambres étaient très spacieuses (chambres triples avec chacune deux lits simples assez larges, et un canapé-lit que nous n’avons pas utilisé), propres et confortables. Il y a un réfrigérateur commun dans le couloir pour l’usage des clients (pratique pour y mettre le contenu de sa glacière et recongeler ses packs). Le petit déjeuner était correct et copieux. Nous avons apprécié le fait de pouvoir garder nos chambres tard dans la matinée afin de pouvoir nous reposer. Notre séjour était plutôt agréable et reposant.|N'a pas aimé · L’Établissement paraît un peu vieillot mais on voit qu’il est bien entretenu. Accueil minimaliste, nous n’avons vu aucun personnel jusqu’au petit-déjeuner. La tuyauterie de salle de bain de la chambre voisine a temporairement fait un bruit sifflant assez fort au moment de son usage par nos voisins.

Mara S.

Spent one night here while we were on the island.
Pros: Room was clean and quiet and in a great location. Small but nice breakfast is included
Cons: No elevator - lugging suitcases to the 3rd floor was a surprise - and no one was at the desk when we arrived (our key was just set out for us with a note about when breakfast and checkout were). Bathroom was TINY - shower was so small that an adult barely fit in it. Amenities are sparse - one small towel & pillow per person, some sort of body wash in the shower - that's it. Had to find someone in the morning so we could check out and pay for our room.

elena M.

Piccolo hotel su due piani (senza ascensore) a pochi metri dal porto, ben gestito: la ragazza alla reception è professionale e molto cordiale. Davanti solo 4 posti auto, ma si può parcheggiare lungo la strada gratuitamente. Camera abbastanza ampia con letto comodo, tende ben oscuranti e riscaldamento regolabile. Bagno con box doccia (spesso in Islanda non ci sono) e phon. La colazione è buona e varia, con cibi dolci (anche pancakes e brownies al cioccolato) e salati. Ampi orari di check-in (15-20) e check-out (7-12). Un ottimo posto, sicuramente consigliabile!

Neil B.

Amazing place!! Wonderfully nice people. Book this room if you come to these islands. Owners are super nice, friendly, and accommodating. Super responsive, we needed help with something and they were over immediately to fix it.

Very convenient location. Clean. Historic pictures on the walls of the volcano. Check out the view!!

Thanks so much to this very nice family for letting us spend our vacation at your hotel.