Name: Skutustadir Farm House
Address: Skutustadir 2b 660 Mývatn,Skutustadir, Skutustadir, Skutustadir, Skutustadir, 660, Iceland
Rating: 8

Smoke-free property

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Non-smoking rooms

Family room

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Common kitchen

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Free Wi-Fi

Internet

English

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Free parking

Parking

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Pets Not Allowed

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At the hotel

Akureyri Airport

Skutustadir Farm House

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This place has some nice bonuses that you don't find everywhere else. For example, there was playing dogs and some cute rabbits. And the best of all, this farm makes it's own ice-cream, and has a cute little shop. 

You should really take a walk along the pseudocraters and the water, it's just across the road. We saw a lot of different birds, some of them with babies. 

The room was spacios. Breakfast ok, nothing special. 

The neighbour-farm offers horseriding. 

A good stop

Our stay at Skutustadir Guesthouse was great from the moment we arrived. We were checked in and shown to our room by a very friendly receptionist. We liked that they asked all guests to remove their shoes before entering the house and we could tell that the place was kept immaculately clean. Our room was a perfect size and although we had shared bathroom facilities there was never anybody else around when we needed to use them.

We were able to cook our own evening meal at the guesthouse across the car park and were also impressed with the facilities there. Our morning breakfast was served in the main house and was very nice with plenty of variety. 

We really enjoyed our stay at Skutustadir and would definitely stay again if we were in the Myvatn area.

Great welcome and facilities 

Friendly, homely, social, informal.
 
Liked · The family run the property with personal care and attention, the self catering facilities are good and able to accommodate 2 or 3 separate people cooking simultaneously. There is a communal dining and lounge area which encourages people to chat and share travel stories. The breakfast is excellent as  much is local food and some produced by the farm. Milk and eggs from the animals. Jam, marmalade and delicious chilli jam made by the owners, smoked trout from next door smokers, the local dark bread from the bakery. Home made ice cream and Angelica tea. There are several separate buildings which have all been added progressively so some more modern than others. We were there in a major snow and wind storm and had contacted them the day before we were due to stay to ask if we could come a day earlier so we didn’t get stuck on the east side of the mountains in Eglisstadir. They were helpful and other people had to stay extra nights because the roads were closed. Additionally people were brought to the farm by the rescue services having gone off the road in the storm and needing somewhere safe to stay. They took it all in their stride. Because we were stuck for 3 days, they did clothes washing for us. It is directly opposite the pseudo craters and a good information centre so enabling you to walk around before the coaches start arriving.

Disliked · The only less positive comments were that we were in the oldest buildings with private bathrooms and they did feel a bit dated but we’re still very comfortable. Also, like all places around there the smell of sulphur in the hot water was quite intense…maybe worse than other areas of Myvatyn due to the location.

Great, social, friendly farm stay

Really enjoyed my stay.  Guesthouse is affordable in an expensive lake area.

Well located on main road 15min to main town.  Lovely walks from hotel.

I stayed in a shared bathroom guesthouse.  Really comfortable.
My rooom was large and super comfortable, with shared facilities (kitchen, lounge, bathroom) being very clean and only shared with a few rooms.

Staff were lovely 

Bfast was lovely for a small guesthouse.  They really tried to have lots of house made options.

Restaurant at hot  egg l next door was also a good affordable dinner option if not cooking

Lovely stay, clean, comfortable affordable and friendly

We arrived pretty late and struggled at first with finding the right building, as there are quite a few businesses/guest houses in the "small village of Skutustadir," so the one you are looking for is the one with welcome sign stating "Skutustadir 2b" and milk cans right in front of it ! :)

There is the guesthouse (this where there are some rooms and shared bathrooms, also where we had stayed in) and then once you drive behind that building there is a parking lot  with more  individual rooms/separate cabins, and also the building where reception is located, adjacent to the breakfast area where the wonderful locally sourced food is served in the morning. The family that is handling the Farm are super nice and friendly people. I wish we had a chance to try their ice cream (they have a store on the spot) but it was already closed and we were too full in the evening to try it either way - but FYI they are selling homemade ice cream on the spot! Everything we have eaten during breakfast was top quality - probably best quality breakfast we had in the entire Iceland - their "lava bread" baked in the ground was delicious, I have tried it in many occasions on this trip but theirs was absolutely the best! :)

The guestroom we stayed at was cozy, no TV but WiFi worked great - the only complain I would have is, which is not to the owners but to the guests, depending on whom is also staying in the other rooms with you it may have some noise issues - we visited during the time a family from Italy arrived and they just completely ignored the fact that not only they arrived at 10PM and there are other people in the rooms too but they just spoke out loud until they finally went to sleep too - really not cool but again it's on the guests end and not the owners - we stayed at another hotel during the 10 nights in Iceland and didn't have that issue so if you are a light sleeper keep that in mind that you may want to upgrade the room and sleep in the separate building where you don't gamble with what type of guests you may be sleeping next door ;)

You are right on Lake Myvatn so all of the nearby attractions are super short drive, and some even walking distance - perfect area, I wish we actually stayed here 2 nights right than the other one at Husavik... 

TIP: you are pretty close still to Námafjall area, so if you remember the smell there that's what you will smell when you take a hot shower - the water here smells intensively :) at first I thought the showers are nasty but then it hit me, it's the sulfur that is present in the water and leaves those marks - didn't mind it at all, just letting you know about the smell so you dont freak out something bad is happening haha

One of my fav stays in Iceland!

Delicious buffet breakfast with fresh items like smoked salmon and yoghurt.
Common bathrooms a bit outdated. Ok rooms and shared kitchen. It's well located for trips in the Myvatn area and Akureyri too.

Recommended guethouse in Myvatn

This is a lovely place
Immaculately kept, fresh and clean
The breakfast is wonderful
Nice friendly staff
Good location
The on site ice cream is a must
We were in a room in the "reception" block, where breakfast is served. Other rooms are in the "house" block and the kitchen is in that building, across the car park
There was a fridge, kettle, tea, coffee in the shared lounge 

To be totally fussy it was a shame there were no shower products - shower gel, shampoo, conditioner - in the shared bathroom facilities

Did I mention how delicious the breakfast was??? 

Our best stay of the trip

There are very many aspects to this accommodation that are not good nor enjoyable. 
1. They make you take off your shoes at the front door, not in your room!
2. The bathrooms and showers are shared and not dirty but not shiny either.
3. The water distroyed a treasured silver bracelet.
When I spoke to the receptionist about it, she gave me a filthy rag and told me to polish the bracelet. It helped a little but I still have an expensive trip to my jeweller to look forward to, to get it fixed. What was especially dissapointing was the receptionists attitude, she was not even remotely appologetic, she actually managed to make me feel worse.
4. The walls of the rooms are so thin that you you can hear everything, and I mean everything, that goes on in thw next room.
5. The breakfast was relatively good.

Left feeling sad and dissapointed

We were here as a group and we got whole house for us. Big, well equipped kitchen, clean (but shared) facilities. Good, tasty breakfast included. Rooms were simple & elementary, no basin (!!). Guesthouse is nice located. Free parking, free wifi.

Very good for oversleep

Stayed 2 nights, very happy, clean, quiet and comfortable. Hosts were wonderful and the breakfast was top notch. Special treat is the homemade ice cream shop. Enjoyed our stay and would definitely choose to stay there again if given the opportunity. 

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