Aurora Hotel at Keflavík International Airport

Arrived from USA east coast on red-eye flight at 6am. Easy walk with luggage from KEF to Aurora Hotel (although signage at airport could be improved). Breakfast available at check-in. Got some sleep and then walked to car rental company. Room was quiet, comfortable. Breakfast buffet had lots of choices. Ended the trip here also. Would stay again.

We only stayed here 1 night before we flew on to France. It is a great airport hotel! Friendly staff, very quiet rooms and a decent restaurant. It’s pretty pricey but that is Iceland. We stayed in a room with 2 double beds and it was adequate in size for our luggage. Great proximity to dropping of the rental car and then walking to hotel and walking to airport at 5 am. There is no shuttle, you’re that close. Decent breakfast begins very early, which is a bonus, and is included in your stay.

What a great and convenient hotel! |The staff were very friendly, check in was quick and easy and the room was very large and super clean! Their restaurant was really good too, thankfully had vegan options which were delicious!|The hotel is a 5min walk from the airport and absolutely worth spending the night there before an early morning flight. Staying here made the end of our trip to Iceland so smooth.

The Aurora Hotel is very well located at Keflavik Airport and a short walk to the main terminal.|The rooms are small but have all of the necessary basics.|The public rooms are austere to the point of boring, but everything functions.|Reception is efficient but not friendly.|The restaurant is expensive as all restaurants are in Iceland. The food quality was surprisingly good as was the service.|The hotel is within walking distance of the rental car return locations.|This hotel is well recommended for an overnight before an early flight.

The hotel is effectively located within the airport car parking lot, walking distance from the terminal (weather permitting) making it a great choice as a transit hotel. The hotel itself is quite basic, however, it’s clean and provides the minimal facilities. The breakfast was basic. If you have a late night arrival or an early departure- staying here versus a driving distance airport hotel could save you ~30 mins.

You can't beat the location. It's our 3rd year that we stay in and outbound at Aurora Hotel. It's a typical airport hotel with decent sized rooms. Decent breakfast and ok dinner. Not many choices. The staff at the reception is professional and helpful. The soundproofing of the room is great. We need an accessible room, bathroom a bit small but otherwise ok. We would definitely come back on a future trip to KEF

We stayed one night. Our room was clean and the bed comfortable and quiet, despite it being within ten minutes walk of the airport!|We ate dinner in the hotel restaurant which was fine, and we had breakfast in another part of the hotel. This was plentiful.|My only criticism would be that it’s expensive, but as it’s the handiest hotel to the airport, they can charge what they want! Our last night before flying home was spent in the Blue Viking Pods. This was substantially cheaper, and I think much better value.

*Graphic warning* Do not stay in room 330 What was supposed to be a pleasant 1-night stopover at the end of our honeymoon turned into a nightmare, on Halloween no less. We woke up in the middle of the night to my absolute horror, discovered multiple bedbugs crawling over our bed and itchy welts on my arms and subsequently my back. It’s highly likely that the bedbugs infested the room for a long time; there were baby and adult sized bed bugs hiding in the bed upholstery and crawling on the walls. When we informed the hotel, the male staff on duty at 4am on 31 Oct was unapologetic and made no effort to help us. What irked us most was his claim that he was “just a receptionist”- we were certainly met with a nasty reception. He also condescendingly asked why we did not check the rooms the night before. It defies logic that the onus of ensuring sanitary and health standards in a hotel should fall solely to guests. It is also common knowledge that bedbugs are adept at hiding in dark and inaccessible places to evade detection, which the hotel seems to be doing with its service recovery too. The emotional and physical trauma aside, this level of service standards and cleanliness ultimately harms reputation of Icelandic tourism, since many international guests will pass through the hotel waiting for their flights. This is genuine feedback, we are not asking for any compensation aside from a refund. I really do not wish upon others my experience, thus I strongly recommend the hotel take measures to eradicate the bedbugs quickly, while the low season approaches.