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2.5 out of 5
Glacier Inn
Silfurbraut 40, Hofn

Reviews

6.8
Rating 10 - Excellent. 10 out of 51 reviews" "
Rating 8 - Good. 20 out of 51 reviews" "
Rating 6 - Okay. 8 out of 51 reviews" "
Rating 4 - Poor. 5 out of 51 reviews" "
Rating 2 - Terrible. 8 out of 51 reviews" "

8.0/10

Cleanliness

6.4/10

Staff & service

5.6/10

Amenities

7.2/10

Property conditions & facilities

Reviews

4/10 Poor

Guest

Travelled with family
Disliked: Staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Glacier Inn is not a hotel, it is a home. It only has shared baths, but advertises as having private baths. The man who met us at the property was very rude. DO NOT STAY HERE!
Stayed 1 night in Sep 2019

6/10 Okay

Verified traveller

Travelled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness
Disliked: Amenities
This is not a hotel/inn. This is a four bedroom residential house converted for guests. There are two shared bathrooms even though we reserved a room with private bathroom. The room was small and just big enough for the two twin beds. No control over temperature and had to open window to cool room. We could hear people in the adjacent room. No TV in room. Luckily we only stayed for one night.
Stayed 1 night in Aug 2019

8/10 Good

Jo, Florida

Travelled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
This is not really a hotel. Our room opened to outside like a motel. The room was small, basic, clean and comfy. Perfect for an overnight stay.
Stayed 1 night in Jul 2019

6/10 Okay

Penny

Stayed 1 night in Jun 2019

8/10 Good

Antoinette

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
The place was clean and well kept.
Stayed 1 night in Jun 2019

8/10 Good

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities
Clean property... could improve communications and directions.
Stayed 1 night in Jan 2019

8/10 Good

Jennifer, NY

Liked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities
It was a house shared by about 3 other groups. Basic but clean. We were able to cook a few meals there which helped cut down on cost. Going out to eat in Iceland is EXPENSIVE! Never saw the host but we checked in and out fine. The house is a little hard to find only because there is just a small sign on the door and not in the front of the house. It’s in a good location to sightsee around Höfn. We were satisfied with the accommodations.
Stayed 2 nights in Oct 2018

8/10 Good

Brett, Maple Ridge, BC, Canada

Liked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Nice location and facilities for a quick overnight stay
Stayed 1 night in Sep 2018

2/10 Terrible

Jenna

Don’t stay here
This place is very misleading. First of all it’s more like a hostel than a hotel. It was very expensive and was just a small room with 2 beds and no private bathroom as stated in the description. It is actually a house that you share with others and not a hotel at all. There was nobody to check us in and it was not easy to get a hold of the owners. Sharing a tiny bathroom with 8 strangers was horrible. You can’t control the air temp in your room and it was SO hot. To cool it off you have to open a window (no screens) and the bed is directly below the window. No blackout curtains either. You can hear EVERYTHING in the rooms next to you. It was a horrible experience.
Stayed 1 night in Sep 2018

6/10 Okay

Kevin

Nice but needs managee.
This hotel is house in what looks to be a residential neighborhood which is fine. It is a modest sized house with 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms living and kitchen area. The bathrooms was nice but you had to dry the floors when finished. Still ok. Bedrooms was small still ok. But they had 14 people in this house one night and the other was 10 people some of which was small children and running screaming. Nice family but too many people for such a little house. They didn't change our ththe towels and linen like most places do when you stayed for multiple nights. That is something that always gets me.
Stayed 2 nights in Sep 2018

8/10 Good

Danielle, Missouri, USA

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
This guesthouse is well-located and offers a comfortable living room, dining table, and well-stocked kitchen for guest use. There were 2 bathrooms that each had showers shared between about 5 guest rooms, which was a better ratio than several of our other guesthouses offered. The room itself was quite small without much room for organizing our belongings, but it was comfortable and clean and great for a one-night stay. We checked in with the hostess via an intercom system at the door, which worked smoothly. I would definitely consider staying here again.
Stayed 1 night in Aug 2018

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 1 night in Sep 2018

8/10 Good

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
OK for one night
There is no front desk in this building. Our room is clean. There are two shared bathroom without hair dryers. The kitchen is big with two refrigerators. I feel it's a bit pricey for what we got (compared with other hotels in Iceland).
Stayed 1 night in Aug 2018

10/10 Excellent

Mary, Clarkston, MI

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
I was very pleased with Glacier Inn. It's not really an Inn. It is 4 rooms sharing a house. My only disappointment was sharing bathrooms. I knew this going in though. The house was sparkling clean. Luckily, all of our fellow guests were nice and considerate of other's needs. This is important with rooms only big enough for your beds. Overall, it was a very nice experience.
Stayed 2 nights in Aug 2018

6/10 Okay

Frederic

Liked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities
Disliked: Staff & service
Very very small
The "Inn" is actually a family house, where you stay in one of the children's rooms. While it is nice to stay in the kitchen and living room area, the room is really tiny for two people. We were lucky there was only us and another family in the evening, I can hardly imagine all 4 rooms full. Also, we did not receive any instructions for self check-in and had to wait for the keys person to arrive.
Stayed 1 night in Aug 2018

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Cute room, perfect size, lovely town.
Stayed 1 night in Jul 2018

10/10 Excellent

Dan

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
clean and nice
Very nice and helpful host. easy to find the location. need to bring your own shampoo. we enjoyed our stay.
Stayed 1 night in Jul 2018

6/10 Okay

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness
Disliked: Staff & service, room comfort
Stayed two nights and the back half is the house was like a zoo with people coming and going between the four rooms for let sharing two baths. Hostess left her car idling as she quickly checked people in and seemed rushed. Was not able to park in the driveway the second night but street parking is ample. Only place we stayed without a hair dryer which was an inconvenience for my wife. Apparently they bought one when they opened but it broke same day - easier not to get another one than return a defective product.
Stayed 2 nights in Jul 2018

8/10 Good

Travis

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Good guesthouse.
Nice little converted house. Safe, clean, friendly and well located. Two shared baths for four rooms, nice big kitchen and living room. Decent prices too.
Stayed 1 night in Jun 2018

8/10 Good

Debbie, Indianapolis

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, room comfort
It has a beautiful view of the glacier.
There were a few things that could have been improved on 1) microwave, 2) fix the broken facet in the kitchenette 3) some sort of a table or bench in the shower. More counter space would have been great.
Stayed 3 nights in Jun 2018

10/10 Excellent

nancy

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
It’s not marked. This is a house. It would help if we were told ahead that it’s a house. Also, it would help a hole lot if instructions on check in were emailed to us after making reservation. We never got instructions, and after a long day, we just wanted to rest.
Stayed 1 night in Jun 2018

8/10 Good

Verified traveller

Liked: Staff & service, room comfort
Just a little more work.........
This recently remodeled room has great potential but needs to be completed. The plumbing fixtures in both the kitchen sink the shower and the toilet were new, but barely attached, the bathroom mirror was just propped up on the counter and a few of the overhead lights weren't installed yet. Just a little more work and this room would have been perfect.
Stayed 1 night in Jun 2018

4/10 Poor

Verified traveller

Disliked: Staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Give this a miss
Just like a student hostel only MUCH more expensive. No key codes emailed so arrived and could not get in. Do not have phone so cannot ring. Another guest helped out with her phone or we would have had to sleep in the car!
Stayed 2 nights in Jun 2018

10/10 Excellent

Hildigunnur

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Four Icelandic lady friends
Four lady friends on the way from Reykjavík on a rountrip in Iceland. Good day´s drive from Reykjavik to stay in Hofn one night and on the road to Egilsstadir the next day. Thank you, all very nice. Hildigunnur and friends
Stayed 1 night in Jun 2018

2/10 Terrible

unhappyguest

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Don’t stay here. Pass this one by.
There is no Inn. There is no check in. Unprofessional innkeepers who are only interested in you taking your shoes off, not parking on the street and making money. Chaotic check in procedure and impossible if you are not traveling with a phone. Owners blame any confusion with check in on the website you used and not with them. They only seem to be familiar with AirBnB and not interested in fixing the check in procedure. I have since learned it has happened to others. Wasted a lot of time trying to check in and find the place. It is a tiny house on a residential street with four small bedrooms with locks on them with small shared living space. Great if you are missing frat life. Technically close to golf course and beach but not in usable sense. Very mis-represented. There are lots of nice places to stay in Hofn. This is NOT one of them.
Stayed 1 night in Jun 2018

6/10 Okay

Lezlieden, Massachusetts, USA

Liked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Hard to find and no one to let you in
Our GPS couldn't find this. The street has three sections and there's no sign on the building. We didn't receive any info from the hotel to tell us that we had to call the owner when we got there. A sign on the door would have been helpful. We ran into other guests who had the same problem so they told us what to do. Once inside, the room was comfortable and clean. Note that this is not a traditional hotel. There's a common area with a small kitchen, 2 bathrooms with showers, and 4 guest rooms.
Stayed 1 night in May 2018

10/10 Excellent

Lucille

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Wonderful Hotel!!
We were late in checking in and the proprietor was so kind and waited for us. All with a smile. The hotel was really clean and nice.

8/10 Good

Ta-Jen

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

10/10 Excellent

CJ

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Glacier Inn was great. Its a house, so it was nice to stretch out and relax a bit after some tight spaces (we have 3 kids). Definitely look forward to returning. Diamond beach who just
Stayed 1 night in Jan 2018

4/10 Poor

Verified traveller

Travelled with family
Liked: Cleanliness
Disliked: Amenities, property conditions & facilities
2 bagni per poi dib10 persone, inaccettabile. Andrebbe specificato in fase di prenotazione
Stayed 1 night in Aug 2019

8/10 Good

Mirjam

Liked: Cleanliness
Disliked: Staff & service
Positiv: Sehr schöne Lage, Parkplatz direkt beim Haus Negativ: Für drei Personen mit Gepäck etwas eng. Kontakt über Eigentümer bestand nur über Gegensprechanlage, keine Infos erhalten. Eingang zur frontseitigen Wohnung geht über Palettenstapel. WC-Türe lässt sich nicht richtig schliessen.
Stayed 1 night in Aug 2019

2/10 Terrible

Yann

Liked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Disliked: Staff & service
Fausse représentation de hôtel.com attention!
Hôtel.com mentionnait que cet établissement offrait une salle de bain privée (cela est indiqué sur ma confirmation de réservation reçue de hôtel.com). C’est faux, les salles de bain sont partagées. J’ai noté en lisant les commentaires que plusieurs autres clients se sont aussi fait avoir! Le propriétaire de le l’hôtel dit qu’il faut adresser la situation à hôtel.com, hôtel.com dit qu’il faut adresser la situation au propriétaire de l’hôtel. J’ai utilisé les services de hôtel.com une bonne vingtaine de fois au cours des dernières annees. Considérant leur manque d’imputabilité et leur très mauvais service que j’ai reçu suite à cette fausse représentation de leur part, je n’utiliserai plus jamais leur service.
Stayed 1 night in Aug 2019

8/10 Good

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Stayed 3 nights in Jul 2019

4/10 Poor

Verified traveller

Travelled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness
Disliked: Staff & service
Disappointed by the level of service from the owner. The woman checking us in was speaking to us through an intercom and didn’t come out to greet us. A little human interaction would have made our welcome much better. The price of the room is also ridiculous for a tiny space and shared bathroom. Try to avoid this place if you can.
Stayed 1 night in Jul 2019
Response from GE on 19 Aug 2019
Sorry to hear and it would have been no problem for me to come and greet you if you had requested. But our experience is that people do not come to Iceland to meet the staff of hotels and hotels.

8/10 Good

Daria

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 1 night in Jul 2019

8/10 Good

Verified traveller

Stayed 1 night in Jul 2019

4/10 Poor

Verified traveller

Travelled with partner
Disliked: Staff & service
Treated as a walking credit card by the hostess in a bleak B&B.
Stayed 1 night in Jun 2019

8/10 Good

Verified traveller

Travelled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Gedeelde keuken en kamer. Keukenaccessoires zijn beperkt aanwezig, prima kamer en bedden.
Stayed 1 night in Apr 2019

2/10 Terrible

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness
Disliked: Staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Bad experience
Shared house with other guest, No private toilet inside bedroom, only 2 toilets shared with 8 guest. Small bedroom. No greeting from households. Only get the key from key box.
Stayed 1 night in Oct 2018

6/10 Okay

Anthony

Disliked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities
Propreté à revoir
La propreté est à revoir... (poussière sous le lit, évacuateur de douche bouché). Même si tout ne dépend pas directement de " l'hôtel ", il y a des choses à revoir.
Stayed 1 night in Oct 2018

6/10 Okay

Giovanni, TPE

Liked: Cleanliness
Disliked: Property conditions & facilities
勉勉強強住一晚
房間小，浴廁共用只有兩間，客廳大的要死，但房間很小，老闆沒什麼耐心，住房規定ㄧ堆，沒停車場，性價比不高
Stayed 1 night in Oct 2018

10/10 Excellent

Svetlana

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 1 night in Sep 2018

2/10 Terrible

Verified traveller

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Accoglienza fredda..impersonale.spazio in camera insufficiente per aprire valige...spazi comuni un po meglio..
Stayed 1 night in Oct 2018

8/10 Good

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 3 nights in Sep 2018

8/10 Good

cemar!e, CHAMBERY

Liked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Guesthouse proche de l’océan dans quartier calme
Chambre petite mais confortable et propre Cuisine et salle agréables
Stayed 1 night in Aug 2018

8/10 Good

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
in front of the glacier
We stayed only 1 night. quite comfortable apartment (2 bathrooms). Room a little bit small. free parking
Stayed 1 night in Aug 2018

10/10 Excellent

Christophe

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
belle maison, super accueil, propre
Super accueil, belle chambre et une belle cuisine / salle à manger, maison au calme, un grand merci !
Stayed 1 night in Jul 2018

2/10 Terrible

Man

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Terrible pour le prix
Prix exorbitant pour avoir une petite chambre dans une maison.... Beaucoup trop cher
Stayed 1 night in Jun 2018

2/10 Terrible

Dorte

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Very high price for a very low quality
When we arrived we could not get inside the house, which had no name or any contact information on it. Fortunately some other guests came and they had a telephone number. After calling a lady came and opened the door. Of course we were upset about the situation, but instead of apologizing the lady was busy explaining their innocence and their own problems. Later the owner came and did the same, very disturbing. The room was very small, the materials of the house cheap and synthetic, and I woke up with a bad headache the next morning. We think there was a bad atmosphere and that it was a tourist trap.
Stayed 1 night in Jun 2018

8/10 Good

YIFAN

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
空間不大，但一切都算是舒適
赫芬是個可愛的小鎮，雖然四人房不大，浴廁及廚房客廳也要和別人共用，但在下大雨、雪的夜晚，主人很熱情的迎接我們，比較像guesthouse的概念，住家旁的風景透過窗戶看過去就像畫一般。不同於其他冰島旅店self check in ，冰川旅館hotels.com下訂完後沒有什麼確認資料，所以我們是當日需自己打電話聯絡主人，主人出現後才把鑰匙交給我們，介紹環境。
Stayed 1 night in Mar 2018