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Batmancop
Batmancop

Excellent location

5.0 of 5 bubblesReviewed 16 Sept 2024
Excellent location. You can literally see it from the ferry dock. Comfortable beds and friendly staff. Within walking distance of Whale Santuary and Eldfell. We brought a car and free parking was available. Breakfast was sufficient...cold foods such as breads, cheese, and fruit, plus pancakes and hot oatmeal.

Appreciate the squeegee for the shower. We are learning to adapt to the Icelandic open shower and being able to squeegee the floor was so helpful.
Date of stay: September 2024
Trip type: Travelled with friends
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Reviewed 11 July 2024

I will start with the positives: The "Museum" in the dining area is every bit as interesting and in many ways more informative than the official volcano museum. The location is excellent - walking distance to almost everything - and the neighborhood is friendly. However, we were definitely underwhelmed by our breakfast experience! We booked this hotel in part because it promised breakfast included. On our first morning there we went down at the appointed time only to be told that since only two rooms were occupied the night before, instead of providing breakfast they were sending us to a local bakery. Had we been told about that the previous evening, it might have been a charming opportunity to explore a local spot. But as it was, I had a broken foot and had not dressed for a walk downtown. I had to go back upstairs with my broken foot, change clothes and shoes, and then find the bakery. A hard thing to do when we hadn't even had coffee yet!

All we had been given was a little note saying we could have breakfast at the bakery. But it was very confusing as to how that worked and there were no clear instructions. We placed our order only to be asked to pay an exorbitant sum. It turns out that we couldn't order whatever we wanted - we could only order one each from some small sandwiches (not the big sandwiches!), one pastry (but only CERTAIN pastries - and not the ones we wanted), and EITHER coffee or orange juice - not both. It was SO frustrating. Normally at hotels with breakfast included you can have both coffee and orange juice, and SOME kind of protein, like yogurt or eggs. Not here - if you couldn't eat gluten, or couldn't eat lots of carbohydrates, you were out of luck (and the sandwiches with eggs were NOT ALLOWED!). The bakery did at least let us get refills on our coffee.

I would have MUCH preferred it if the hotel had just given us a boxed breakfast, with yogurt, pastry, juice and coffee, and called it a day. Or if they had just given us a voucher for a certain amount of money so we could order what we wanted. To send us out into the cold unexpectedly because it was too much trouble to make breakfast for "only" two rooms, and then not let us order what was suitable for us was kind of insulting.

The next day apparently their occupancy requirements were such that we were allowed to have breakfast at the property. It still was not a great breakfast, but at least we were able to get some protein to start our day.

So I would not stay here again. And if you do, I recommend you ask ahead of time whether there really will be breakfast. The other couple who had been sent to the bakery almost missed their ferry because they had planned their morning to grab a quick breakfast downstairs and then go to the ferry. They ended up just paying for their whole breakfast themselves because they were tired of trying to figure out the rules and didn't want to literally miss the boat.

Room tip: Ask whether breakfast will really be served or if you will be sent to the bakery so you can dress appropriately for a walk into town.
Date of stay: July 2024
  • Trip type: Travelled as a couple
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Reviewed 31 December 2022

Set in the perfect location with a warm and friendly greeting when we arrived. The breakfast was lovely and tasty and the rooms were spacious, clean and cosy. We truly enjoyed our stay here and would recommend the RIB speed boat trips and the trips to the puffins and volcano on the island. A lot of rich history and wildlife to be seen here, we loved our stay!

I would recommend Tanginn restaurant for great food and service too.

Date of stay: July 2022
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Reviewed 5 August 2022

Stayed two nights while on the island. Adequate rooms. No elevator. Nice that floor had a medium size fridge to keep food in. Grocery store is block away. No one mans front desk, but keys were there on arrival. A few blocks away from ferry. Standard breakfast. Rooms had tv which was not always the case in stays in Iceland. Limited parking but was able to find spots on the street.

Date of stay: July 2022
Thank Ed H
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Reviewed 29 July 2022 via mobile

My family really enjoy our stay at Hotel Hamar. We had family room spacious and very clean. If you take a look you can see it isn' a new Hotel, but you will see how clean everything is. In Vestmanneyjar you don't have many option if you need Hotel, special in summertime. We was quite lucky when we got our booking confirmed. Staff is friendly and are doing good job, breakfast is simple and good in spacious dinner room. We was in short distance from almost every interest thing in town, and perfect to take tour with Viking Tours local company with perfect guide.
All restaurant within 5min walk. Ferry Herjolfur 3min away.
I can recommend this hotel because how clean it's. That's sign of good staff.

Room tip: Free parking
Date of stay: July 2022
Trip type: Travelled with family
1  Thank JosefSt
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Reviewed 1 July 2021 via mobile

My first stay here. Everything as planned. Clean, spacius room good bed, good service friendly staff perfect location in walking distance from ferry.
Great value for money, brekfast good and brekfast area nice. Will definetly stay here again. Thanks !

Date of stay: July 2021
Trip type: Travelled on business
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