incl. Breakfast - HRS Rating: 6,01/10 - Skjaldbreið offers 33 rooms, all equipped with ... more
private bathroom, hairdryer, telephone, mini-bar, high-speed internet connection, radio and satellite TV. At the third floor a breakfast buffet is served every day b...
CenterHotel Skjaldbreið offers 33 rooms with private bathroom satellite TV telephone and ... more
high speed internet connectionAt the third floor a breakfast buffet is served every day between 7 and 10 AM in our comfortable sitting room There you can sit dow...
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Price is per double room per night and may vary depending on date booked...
The CenterHotel Skjaldbreid is a traditional property, located on the lively shopping ... more
street of Laugavegur, in the city's old town area. The 33 guestrooms feature contemporary decor with light wood furnishings. All offer high speed Internet access, di...
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Price is per double room per night and may vary depending on date booked...
The CenterHotel Skjaldbreid is a traditional property, located on the lively shopping ... more
street of Laugavegur, in the city's old town area. The 33 guestrooms feature contemporary decor with light wood furnishings. All offer high speed Internet access, di...
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Price is per double room per night and may vary depending on date booked...
Offering an enviable central spot on Laugavegur Reykjavik’s main shopping street, this ... more
striking property presents the ideal backdrop for your trip whether it’s for business or leisure. The rooms are designed in warm tones and the windows now have extra...
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Price is per double room per night and may vary depending on date booked...
Advantages: Central location, Clean and comfortable, Friendly staff all speak excellent English Disadvantages: Local bars can get quite noisy, especially at weekends
with only a few rooms on offer and vary a lot in price and quality. This limited availability can make finding a good room a little tricky, although things have been helped along with the recent decision of the Icelandic Tourist Board to introduce a voluntary classification system based on the internationally recognised star ratings to help tourists out.
The HotelSkjaldbreid fits this description of the typical Reykjavikhotel pretty well. It is a small family run hotel with just 33 rooms, located over three floors of a converted stately house, and has taken up the new ratings system in a bid to attract foreign visitors. It is also advertised as 1 of only 11 hotels in the city with Yes Travel, the agency that I booked my holiday through. Why did I choose this one and not the ten others? Partly because it fell right in the middle ...
Advantages: Central location, superb use of technology, and not expensive either Disadvantages: None that I can think of
The Settlement Exhibition is a relatively new addition to the cultural landscape in Reykjavik, having only been opened to the public for a couple of years. It is situated on Aðalstræti in the centre of the oldest district of the city, and the remains of the Viking settlement that form the focus of the display were uncovered during construction work for a new hotel in 2003. Public interest in the discovery was so great that the government decided to preserve the integrity of the site and the archaeological research conducted there has provided a wealth of information about how the earliest settlers lived, all of which has been carefully preserved and beautifully presented in this fascinating museum.
The centrepiece of the exhibition is the site of a Viking longhouse that was inhabited from the early 10th century, and to the north ...
Advantages: Beatiful, crowd-free, unspoiled Disadvantages: Cold (just wrap up warm) and expensive
Intro
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I have just returned from a family holiday in Reykjavik, the most northerly capital in the world. No one in our family is suited to the heat and we are not drawn by beach holidays. We were attracted by the reported beauty of the city and Iceland promised adventure with its volcanic landscape, geysers and waterfalls, puffins and whales. We were not disappointed and we left keen to return and explore more of this beautiful country.
The City
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Perched on the edge of the Arctic Circle, Reykjavik sits on the south west coast of Iceland, oh so many miles north of Scotland in the north Atlantic Ocean. It is rapidly increasing in size, mostly from people migrating here from other parts of the country. Iceland is very sparsely populated, two thirds of a total of only 300,000 Icelanders live in the Reykjavik area. This was ...
