Reykjavik hotels in Hlíðar

Friendly staff,decent location, clean dorms, nice locker for suitcase. Not having bathrooms for both sexes on both sides of the floor. Layout of dorms not great. Bad internet

This review is about the two floors of the hotel which are a hostel, not a hotel. They lend you a tiny (nearly a joke, I guess) lock to put on the small cubby boxes in the room. 1000ISK deposit. The kitchen contains dishwashers. I stayed in a room with 12 or 14 beds. The doors on these rooms are "underdamped", meaning they are designed or adjusted to slam very very loudly if you let them close by themselves. It shakes not just the room, but is even obnoxious during the day if you're in a common kitchen or lounge down/across the hall. The door in my room was slammed AT ALL HOURS of the day except 12h30 -- 03h00 a.m. by the absurdly inconsiderate guests. The problem is that there is no effort by the hostel to tell people how to behave, and for some reason a large cross-section of the sample of young travellers in my room seem entirely oblivious to the surely-obvious effects of their actions on other people. There were no quiet hours announced. No one was told to close doors quietly. I was dumbfounded how people stayed up shouting, drinking, etc inside the dorm room (there are couches) until midnight, even when others were obviously trying to sleep, and the same people when they were on a different schedule, were up at 03h a.m. sharp talking loudly, and slamming the door countless times again. I mentioned to the staff that there was an educational solution (maybe) to this problem, but they didn't seem very interested. In addition to all that, the rooms, which look nothing nice as clean as in the pictures online (of course), have little cubby boxes below the beds where you supposedly can lock your valuables. The locking tabs are a bit of a joke, maybe, but in my room several were actually broken off anyway, so there was no way to lock them. This was my worst hostel experience ever.

The breakfast was very nice, the rooms were clean, it was a quiet place to stay at, it was not a far walk (5 minutes) from the main downtown area.

Warm, comfortable and clean room with plenty of hot water for the shower. Tv remote was difficult to work. Not enough tea,coffee,sugar & milk available in the room.

Convenient and well located. Quiet. Beds were a little dirty.

Hotel personnel and breakfeast. Also the possibility to make your own meals Hotel is located just by main road. So if you have the room from road side it can be noisy

Guests were mostly international students and fun to visit with them It was more like student dorm. & family hotel and was no 24hr staff to wake you up!! You must have your own alarm clock. I almost missedmy early morning flight because the alarm clock the hotel lent me did not go off!!

Nice atmosphere

Breakfast was very good Too far away from everything, no transport (shuttle bus did not work) on website the free shuttle bus service was stated, which made taxi transport very expensive

Staff very friendly and the place was very clean.Beds were very comfortable It would have been nice to have been able to make coffee and tea in the room

Simple, clean warm and friendly. Wi-fi did not work in the rooms as advertised.

No double beds!! No double beds

good location , ocean view , free wifi , free coffee machine/hot water , heating is very good regulated in room and in bathroom water is a bit volcanic taste ; room service only once in five days

Located in the center of the town Old hotel with traces of humidity in the bathroom

Near the town centre. Free car parking. Reasonable cost. Clean and cosy. Rooms were small. Limited tv channels.

Nice place, clean, good breckfast ,perfect location for a couple of night during Iceland classic ring tour.

Kind staff Ordered meals for conference was not always on time. There eas no toaster for the toast bread for breakfast

The wi-fi connection Poor cleanliness, no chance of having some help in organizing the journey to the airport

Not having to meet with that dick of an owner. I liked nothing. The owner is an asshole. There was a problem with my flight out of Akureyri the night of my booking, and I was forced to drive into Reykjavik instead of flying. This choice was not mine to make, I had no fault in this action. Rather than understand and take my business the owner told me he could not meet me when i got into the city and said for me to visit him on Monday morning. Only one problem with that plan, I was flying to Germany at 7:30 that morning. When trying to explain my situation, as polite as i could be, he would keep cutting me off and telling me no. He was not accommodating, and it was like he wasn't even listening. I say Fuck hotel Pavi, it's about the worst customer service I have ever had.

Friendly and good value The tv didn't work and the toilet was not 100% clean

Unbelieveably rude staff. I would suggest to avoid this place simply because of the poor customer service.

the fact that the windows didn't open

Enkelt, you get what you pay for. Räcker gott och väl om maninte skall hänga på hotellet utan endast sova där. Lätt att checka in och ut.

nicely maintained facilities and a good location walking distance to the bus terminal

Easy to get to (Flybus+), clean & comfortable, internet pc, washing & drying facilities available for guests to use (a pleasant surprise as I don't remember seeing this on the website). Plenty of food at breakfast. Easy walking distance from the main shopping area. Problem with a blocked drain (which had been fixed when I returned for my second visit), washbasin in room (2nd stay) had no plug and tv would not stay on-channel.

The night shift staff is friendly and helpful. The room is very basic but clean. The location is a bit far from the city center (10 minutes walk) but it was in a quiet neighborhood and I had great sleep. Great value for the rate that I paid... The bathroom could be cleaner.

For problems with the suit-cases and with arrangements with the car rental service and immediately and one helped uncomplicatedly.