Centerhotel Arnarhvoll

Centerhotel

We came to Iceland with a package tour but I chose this hotel because it's fairly new and has free internet access and its location is quieter than the Center Hotel Plaza. The Arnarvoll belongs to the Centerhotels and seems to be a 3 star hotel.

We booked a standard double room for a week. The design is modern and a bit dark and somewhat unpractical. The beds are two single beds next to each other both with two pillows each and a very warm duvet. The matrasses are a bit on the soft side but ok. What's dearly missing is a wardrobe, especially if you stay more than one night. There is some "no walls" installation with 8 coathangers and a safe. There is a flat screen TV on the wall with a few channels like one Icelandic one, Sky channel, BBC 1 and 2, CNN and that's about it. There are 3 seats, a miniature table and a very small writing desk with telephone and LAN as well as tea/coffee making facilities. There is also a mini-bar which was not plugged in. Not all the plugs worked and if you need a LAN cable, you have to ask the reception for it. It's free of charge like the use of the internet with your own notebook. The lights including the bedside lamps are not very bright at all. Our room is a non-smoking room.

The bathroom features a shower that makes half of the floor wet and a hair dryer, face washers and a small and a big towel each.

There is a rollo curtain apart from the white curtain.

Unique Quality: There is free WLAN in the reception hall and in the panorama restaurant on the 8th floor, where you will have your breakfast.

Breakfast is rather chaotic and from 7 till 10 am. They always seem to run out of something. On our second morning it was the bread but eventually they organised some toast bread. It's a buffet breakfast with one kind of cheese, ham and salami, porridge, scrambles egg, tiny sausages, jams, honey, butter, tea, coffee, chocolate, make waffles yourself, a bit of chopped up fruit.

The reception can book excursions for you.

• Opinion of Price: about average

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