Dalvík Hostel - Dalvík

Ólafur M. K.

Snilldar staður og eigendur. Mæli hiklaust með að gista hér. 5 stjörnur 👌
Takk fyrir okkur Bjarni

Andrzej R.

Great location. Beautiful view. Nice host who is helpful. Information brochures and many maps of the area are available at the property. Clean and pleasant!
Highly recommended!

Antoine M.

Thank you for your understanding, help and kindness .
A very cozy and beautiful place, owned by a nice and welcoming couple !
Don't forget to get upstairs , just for the view !
Takk fyryr vinurminn 🙏

Ps : get a fish soup and a kaffi down there and check the beautiful theater !

Chris

Visited to escape from the rain on my camping trip. Lovely host, and rooms hot water, WiFi and all facilities were ideal. I slept well in my single room and enjoyed my stay here.
Well located near to shops, restaurants etc, and is close to hiking trails on the hills behind as well.

jilliang989

This was the perfect stay! My husband and I stayed for 2 nights during our honeymoon in one of the cottages and it was our favorite place by far during our whole 3 week trip. The room is adorable and cozy and had everything we needed to make ourselves breakfast in the morning. The bed was super comfortable and a double (not 2 twins which we’ve mostly experienced traveling on a budget in Iceland… pretty funny on your honeymoon!). The hot tub outside next to the outdoor shower and barrel sauna was SUCH a treat, perfectly hot and so welcome after a freezing cold/wet day ferrying out to Grímsey island. And the value for the room is amazing, and not just by Iceland standards! ||More than anything though the host Bjarni is just about the nicest human we’ve ever met. He was so accommodating and generous from the second we booked the room months before our trip until when we arrived in Dalvík. It felt like he was catering to us personally which we know can’t be true because he also manages a 40 bed hostel down the road AND runs the little cafe in town! He showed us around his cafe the morning we left and it’s super charming with tons of history, we wish we could have stayed and enjoyed some of his famous fish soup. We loved listening to his stories about the characters he’s had at the cafe (True Detective filmed their 4th season there!). And it sounds like the “eat free fish” festival in August is quite the event! ||Also want to give a shout out to Dalvík in general, super charming little seaside town and a great break from the hustle and bustle of the ring road. It’s well worth the detour, check out the beer bath (Drink beer while bathing in beer?! Hell yeah) and be sure to make it out to Grímsey to see just an unbelievable amount of birds and a really interesting tiny island community.||10/10 all around, we will absolutely be back!

Rene_004

Pro |Big kitchen & living room |Owner is a cool and funny Icelandic guy, he owns also a cool coffee place in Dalvik|Central location a stones trow from the ferry to Grimley, you can see the ferry from the kitchen.| |Con|The room doors are a bit hard to lock, be careful

S9832KGmichaels

Für uns eine der tollsten Herberge auf unserer 17 tägigen Islandrundreise! Etwas abseits der 1 lohnt sich der aussichtsreiche Umweg über die 82 & 76 auf jeden Fall. Dalvik ist eine tolle Station für die Übernachtung. Das Gimli-Hostel hat uns total begeistert. Hier fühlt man sich sofort wohl, die Zimmer sind sehr individuell und von der Größe her absolut ok (da wir die ersten an dem Tag waren, konnten wir in alle Zimmer schauen).||Ein schöner und großer Gemeinschaftsraum mit ausreichend ausgestatteter Küche ist das Herzstück. Von hier kann man sogar auf den Fjörd schauen. Toiletten / Bäder sind ausreichend vorhanden.

WanderinRubes

We stayed in a small cottage without a built in shower (but WITH a built in bathroom). Going to the main hostel (Gimli) for a shower wasn't difficult at all, just a five/ten minute walk. The double bed was low to the ground, which suited us just fine, and there were many windows and a comfortable couch. Although the space is small (it's a cottage!) it comfortably fit both of us and we're tall people by any standards. There was a stove-top hotplate and a mini-fridge, which was very helpful, and we could adjust the heaters to make it a little less warm inside. The cottage was very cutely decorated and felt homey.||||The small front porch was a huge bonus, and we enjoyed meeting neighbourhood cats in the evening while having a beer and looking at mountains and the fjord. There's a shared hot tub for the cottages that we greatly enjoyed (looking at mountains in a hot tub!!!), and while we didn't get a chance to try the new barrel sauna I'm sure it would've been awesome. Also the free wifi meant I got to upload my millions of photos of the countryside right away, which ruled.||||The proprietor Bjarni and his family were absolutely lovely people, happy to help and answer questions and share a funny story or two. Something I was a little concerned about was that I'm maybe a bit unusual for a guest in a small town - as a woman with a neck tattoo, alternative looking hair, and pride stickers on my belongings - but Bjarni and his family made me feel right at home. We can't wait to come back and stay again the next time we visit Iceland.