Name: Kverna Guesthouse
Address: 861 Hvolsvöllur, Skogar, Skogar, Skogar, 861, Iceland
Rating: 5

Smoke-free property

No elevators

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Pets Not Allowed

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Vestmannaeyjar Airport

Kverna Guesthouse

Skogar

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This place is in an old school and if you’re here in winter you may well feel like an extra in The Shining. We loved the atmosphere and looking at old school photos but seeing the stern headmaster in the middle was a little creepy, particularly as the place was a boarding school. The gym is the old school sports hall with some additional useful equipment. It was fun to shoot some hoops in Skogar, I never thought that would happen in my life. The rooms aren’t in great shape and the bathrooms are shared. The place could do with renovation. The breakfast was really good and the staff were friendly. It’s close to Skogafoss and a useful base if you’re hiking up the volcanoes. The Skogar museum is worth a visit.

Creepy and fun

Don't be fooled by their grand name or exorbitant price tag - this place is a low-grade youth hostel. (Hotel, spa, and gym? Nope). It is a former school in a crumbling, USSR-style concrete building. Contrary to what it said on Expedia, there are only shared bathrooms here. Our room, which was billed as a "family room," didn't even have a sink, though some other rooms had one. The only bathroom on our floor (containing all the showers, sinks and toilets for everyone on our floor) was out of order due to "contamination"?! Maybe you'd like to ask a staff member where the other bathrooms are? No one is at the desk and there's no way to ring for them. When I finally got a shower, the water was slippery (I don't know how else to describe it) and smelled of a mix of sulfur (to be expected in Iceland) and petroleum (not expected). Breakfast was OK, except that the hot water for tea was contaminated with what might have been coffee grounds, maybe. The location is nice, a 1 mile walk to the Skógafoss waterfall. If you like the youth hostel atmosphere and quality for the price of very nice accomodations in New York City, then definitely stay here. Otherwise, go somewhere else.


It's a youth hostel, not a hotel.

We stayed for a night at Hotel Kverna and it was just not worth close to $400/night.  First of all, the picture that was used to market this properly is very misleading, it is a repurposed hostel advertised as a hotel.  We were there with our friends and were given 3 rooms on their side property besides the main entrance.  The first sign was a stench of mold and sharing of bathrooms that smell like rotten eggs, the breakfast was not very appealing.  The sad part is that it is located in a great location besides the skogafoss waterfall but not worth the money we paid for this stay.

Hostel Kverna...not Hotel Kverna!

This is a former school sloppily turned into a hotel. I think hotel is pushing it. It's a fancy hostel at best. If you've been to college it's likely very similar to your freshman year dorm except somehow much smaller.  My wife and I were so exhausted from trekking all over that we just put in ear plugs, stacked the luggage in front of the door and tried to sleep. I actually got a fine night's sleep. The bed was fine, the sheets appeared to be clean and the noise around us was able to be blocked out by the ear plugs we brought. The facility has nothing in the way of amenities other than the free included breakfast which was unremarkable but acceptable.  The place is in a great spot and with an almost total gut-job remodel, could keep pace with the quality most of the other accommodations around it. If you're desperate to save money, there are savings to be had but if you are wanting to use the bathroom without waiting and showing in water which does not smell like egg farts, look elsewhere.

If you're ok with a shared bathroom/shower read on

Disappointing. This is definitely not a hotel but an old run down school. Definitely not worth the money. Small rooms where you cannot have an open suitcase at the same time as the door has to be opened. Toilet and shower in the hallway. However, the room was clean. The breakfast was good and the staff friendly.


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