Stykkisholmur Holidays from £319

Solid location. Very lousy room. Smelled bad/musty in kitchen & WC. Shared bathroom - not helpful. Not worth cost.

It was definitely a luxury experience unlike most stays I've ever done, 10/10 no notes on the hotel itself, the staff and amenities were bespoke. Breakfast was custom made to my liking and brought on a cart in the morning at a time of my choosing. Unbelievably good food and the lady working the desk was very charming. Word of caution, however: it is the highest up apartment in the entire city, maybe the entire country and the hotel is limited to the private access top floor of a new skyscraper of mostly corporate offices. At night, it was likely that my (city facing/partial ocean view) hotel room was the only one lit up in the tower and since the walls --including the bathroom-- are all glass, everything inside rather stands out and there no real privacy without curtains drawn. At some point, shortly after returning back at around midnight, someone somewhere in the city who noticed my arrival to the hotel room started blasting the apartment with a high powered laser pointer until I closed the curtains. That aside, it was a remarkably nice stay, the only concern is that its wildly ostentatious for better or for worse and maybe the locals aren't too pleased with that haha. I would stay here again.

Everything seemed to be in order for a typical stay. You're not really within walking distance of the main shopping districts and the view out the window was right over a traffic circle so you're getting noise all night. The place was clean and I liked that they had setup a full dining room table setup with plates. That was a nice touch. Checkout was at 10:00AM, not 11:00AM. Wasn't too much of a bother as we were planning to exit at 10:15AM anyway, but I thought we had that extra hour. Directions to the unit were confusing. They went to great lengths to provide a very detailed writeup of how to get into the unit with the door passcode. However, we did get confused, and used the pass code to get into the unit only to find out that they were using the same passcode for two different buildings. So we thought we were in the right building, opened the door to our unit, and there's some family sitting there looking at us. So then I called and they picked up and guided us to the correct building. Lastly, they say parking is always available. I'm not sure what they mean by that as it's not always available. I had to park quite a distance away.

The blue luxury apartment is very well located and easy walk to downtown sites. Main things to watch out for: 1) no parking on site but convenient free to low cost street parking nearby. 2) very limited toiletries. Only 2/3 roll of bathroom tissue provided for 6 guests and 4 towels for 6 guests. Bodywash and shampoo in shower was empty. If you plan accordingly it isnt an issue but was a surprise for us. 3) the unit got warm and no easy way to cool. No fans in room and some of the wall thermostats were out of battery and unclear what they controlled. We had to sleep with all windows and outside doors open which was ok minus the bugs 4) kitchen is well appointed but you need to provide all ingredients 5) poor communication with hosts - i emailed several times and never received replies. 6) no elevator and to get to apartment plan to walk up steps. Not an issue for us but if you struggle with steps could be an issue