Gistihúsið - Lake Hótel Egilsstaðir

Hotel · Austurland

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"Six years ago, I traveled to this little town in Iceland called Egilsstaðir to film a show called Fortitude. Part of my attraction to the role was the location. We flew to the town, which is about an hour's flight from Reykjavík, in January, and stayed in this very boxy, very cookie-cutter hotel, and I thought, Oh, my God, what am I gonna do here! But there was this old farm about three quarters of a mile away, across a field, that had been turned into a hotel—Gistihúsið Lake Hotel. The same family has owned it since the late 1800s. There I was, walking across this field and looking at the northern lights, going into this more than one-hundred-year-old farmhouse, and eating an incredible meal of reindeer and fresh langoustines. It was just magnificent."

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Egilsstaðir 1-2, Þjóðvegur 2, 700 Egilsstaðir, Iceland Get directions

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