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Clean, Quiet and Inexpensive:
The Salvation
Army Guesthouse
There is only one Salvation
Army Guesthouse in the
world, and it’s located in
downtown Reykjavík, just
across from the oldest house in
the city, former home to Jón
Sigurðsson. If you’re worried
that by merely entering the
building you will be instantly
converted and asked to follow
the beliefs of founder William
Booth, who suggested goals
of education, relief of poverty,
and performing charitable
acts beneficial to society as a
whole, worry not. You don’t
have to have any religion or be
interested in charitable acts to
stay at the hostel.
The hostel has 58 rooms,
with space for 90 people total.
No rooms have private baths,
though all are so clean and
quiet that guides like Let’s
Go and Lonely Planet have
given the hostel its highest
recommendations. Because of
these recommendations, the
hostel is booked throughout
the summer, though there is
often still a possibility to get
in when people miss their
reservations.
The price is right: 2000
ISK for a shared room up to
5000 ISK for a single room in
the heart of downtown can’t
be matched in the area. And
the decor is so timeless and
well-kept, that our reviewer
described it as “a lot like
my grandmother’s country
cottage.”
During the winter, rooms
are available for monthly rent.
If you want churchin’,
though, it is possible to be
around religious people at the
Salvation Army. The premises
contains a chapel which holds
services on Sundays at 10:30
and holds fellowship services
from July to August at 20:30,
but, again, this is by no means
required of guests.
Salvation Army Guesthouse.
Kirkjustræti 2, 101 Reykjavík.
Phone: 561-3203 more info at
www.guesthouse.is.
By Sari Peltonen and staff
Fríam
m
Urðarstekkur Guesthouse
Cheap accommodation just by
bus-terminal at Mjódd
Urðarstekkur 12 - 109 Reykjavík
tel: 557-4095
Salka Guesthouse
Skipagata 1
600 Akureyri
tel: 461-2340
e-mail: salka@nett.is
Lónsá Guesthouse
Lónsá in Hörgárbyggð
601 Akureyri
tel: 462-5037
Cottage Þóroddsstaðir
Up to 6 pers. per house + hot tub
245 Sandgerði
tel: 893-7523/423-7748
e-mail: putti@simnet.is
Bed and Breakfast in the center
of Reykjavik. Attractions within five
minutes walk. We offer you relaxing
atmosphere. Guesthouse Odinn,
Odinsgata 9, 101 Reykjavik, Tel: +354
861 3400, www.odinnreykjavik.com
Guesthouse by Engjavegur
Kitchen, TV and bathroom in all
rooms. Hot tubs!
800 Selfoss, tel: 482-3585
gesthus@gesthus.is - gesthus.is
Hótel Hellnar
-at the Foot of the Glacier
Hellnar, 356 Snæfellsbær
Tel: 435-6820 Fax: 435-6801
hotel@hellnar.is - hellnar.is
Brekkur
871 Vík
tel: 487-1333
www.dyrholaey.is
Accommodations
Grundarfjörður Youth Hostel
Do nothing, then rest. Or go hiking,
swimming, horse-riding, whale wathc-
ing, kayaking, golfing and more.
Central in Snæfellsnes. Open all year.
Tel: 562-6533/8956533
grundarfjordur@hostel.is
Hamar Hostel
Made beds and sleep-
ing bag accommodation
from 1950 ISK only!
Less than an hour drive from
Reykjavík by the main road no.1.
Hamri, 310 Borgarnes.
Tel. 437-1663, hamar@hostel.is
Vík Hostel
Suðurvíkurvegur 5
870 Vík.
Great veiw over the
ocean and beautiful sur-
roundings. Nights from only 1650 ISK.
Tel.: +354-487-1106
/+354- 867-2389
E-mail: vik@hostel.is
Vogar Travel Service
12 rooms w/ made beds, sleeping
bag accommodations for 64 pers.
Kitchenfacilities. Real budget accom-
modation!
Vogar, 660 Mývatn
tel: 464-4399. Ask for Þuríður,
info@vogahraun.is
Hótel Breiðafjörður
Only 2 hours drive from Reykjavik. Small
and friendly hotel, perfectly located in the
centre of the town, only a few minutes walk
from the beautiful harbour of Stykkishólmur.
The hotel offers a splendid view over the
harbour and Breidafjordur. If our guests
need to access Internet they can do so on
a fulltime online computer. Hotel guests
can play golf without a charge at the towns
9 holes golf course.
tel. +354-433-2200
www.prinsvaliant.is
hotelbreidafjordur@prinsvaliant.is
Nýibær youth hostel
By main road Hafnarbraut. Double
rooms or dormitory rooms. Kitchen-
facilities. Many types of activity in
the area. Vatnajökull glacier tours
available near by. Hafnarbraut 8, 780
Hornafjörður. tel. 478-1736 want to be in
accommodations ?
Call for
information and
rates :
540 3605
Hotel Bjarkarlundur
580 Reykhólahreppur
tel: 434-7762
bjarkarlundur@bjarkarlundur.is
www.bjarkarlundur.is
GUESTHOUSE ÁRBÓL
Bed and breakfast
Ásgarðsvegur 2
Húsavík
Tel: 464-2220
guest.hus@simnet.is
www.simnet.is/arbol
Sími 435 6700
budir@budir.is · www.budir.is
Frím
ann