592 - Smyrlabjörg in Suðursveit

592 - Smyrlabjörg in Suðursveit
  • Country hotel
Total number of beds: 97
  • Cat I - The rooms are simple, comfortable and adequate. The beds are made and rooms cleaned daily. Clean towels are supplied. Guests have access to communal sitting room. Breakfast included
  • Cat IV - Rooms with private facilities in country hotels. Better equipped with TV, radio and sometimes coffee making facilities. Breakfast included
  • Facilities for disabled
  • Handcraft centre
  • Credit cards accepted (Visa/Euro/Mastercard)
  • Non-smoking area either in all or part of the facilities of the farm
  • Wireless Internet
  • A working farm, where traditional farming is pursued at commercial level
  • Glacier tours
  • Restaurant/coffee-house
  • Licenced dining room/bar
Family owned country hotel, specializing in homemade cooking from local products. Well located for sightseeing in the Southeast. Nearby attractions: Jeep/snowmobile tours on the glacier Vatnajökull (2 km), Jökulsárlón glacial lagoon (30 km), puffins in Ingólfshöfði (45 km). Possible to see reindeer and Northern lights from September to March. Breakfast, lunch and dinner offered during summer. Dinner offered during winter for overnighters.
 
Interesting walking routes and possible to see reindeers in the neighbourhood. Northern lights can often be seen from 20th of August until end of February.
 
The hotel is by road 1, 45 km west of Höfn and 30 km east of Jökulsárlón.
 
Open: 05.01 - 21.12.
 
Farm animals: Sheep, horses and a dog.
 
Shopping/Swimming pool/Golf: Höfn 45 km. 
 
English spoken.
 
 
How to find?                 
Smyrlabjörg is by road no. 1
 
Nearest town is Höfn.  40 km drive from Höfn, direction to Kirkjubæjarklaustur on road no. 1. 
 
Distance from:
Skaftafell National Park: 90 km. 
Kirkjubæjarklaustur: 160 km.
 

Hosts Laufey Helgadóttir, Sigurbjörn Karlsson