Welcome Guesthouse Edinborg

I booked via Booking. I received indication to call the owner upon arrival to be let into my room (they do not send codes as all the other guesthouses do). So I called I don't know how many times and no one picked up. After some time a lady arrived and she didn't speak any English; by gesture she let us understand that she would call someone else with the room code for checking in. Another guy arrived, still not a word in English, and we finally had our room. The building smells bad, the bathroom too. The room is very small and the bathroom is freezing cold. The night was very windy and it seemed like the whole building was falling apart. For the same (very expensive) price you can find better places.

I read the reviews thinking it couldn’t be as bad as people are saying but unfortunately it is. ||We arrived for check-in at 4 PM but didn’t receive an email with our room access code like we were supposed to. So we used the phone provided to call them. No answer. We tried calling them for over an hour and got no response. Eventually a woman answered but as soon as I said hello she hung up on me. We tried emailing, what’s app messaging and calling until 9PM. Eventually we had to call Hotels.com and they helped us re-book somewhere else. ||Our friend also didn’t get his code. There was another couple there who got their code for their room, but it didn’t work. ||There is no one on the premises to help.

Great views, right off the ring road, clean and simple with a common area that you can cook your own food in. Cattle freely wandering past our windows was pretty cool. Make sure you have internet access (although they have free wifi) as everything is self check in and checkout (they email you a code to get your key and you drop it off in a box to check out). There doesn’t seem to be any staff presence permanently situated at the front desk but they have a phone there for you to call someone. I stayed in the main building which had this hostel vibe but with private bathrooms. Only downside is that the walls were a bit thin and we could hear people talking down the hall.

I wanted to like this place and say that people were just not understanding what a guesthouse was, but after our stay, and other stays around Iceland, I can’t.||Pluses - Clean, good location about 35 km west of Vik, great views behind the property up into the mountains, just north of Hwy 1, private bathroom. The common room upstairs was actually pretty decent though up an almost ladder to get to the 2nd floor.||Minuses - Tiny rooms that got hot even in May. Loud when people left in the morning. Maybe a foot between twin beds. Shower was 2 shower tiles wide.||It was closer in feel to a hostel than a guesthouse. The south coast is expensive but pay a little more to get a lot more.

There are a ton of negative reviews that I don't understand. If you want US style hotels, there is one 1km south for $400+ a night. We stayed 3 nights in two rooms. We cooked food in the ample kitchen upstairs and lounged in the upstairs area whenever we weren't exploring. Clean towels were delivered daily and the convenience to Vik, the Ferry, the nearby geothermal pool, and the glacier can't be beat. We dined at nearby restaurants, especially a few at Skógafoss that offered superior food (at superior prices). No, there is no desk or staff on-site for check in. You pick up the phone in the downstairs entry area, dial a # and a helpful staff member provides your room codes. The rooms are clean, enough space for two people, and each room has a private bath with shower. Spend your time exploring the area, come back tired, and have a good sleep. Recommended.

Small room and toilets which are just fine if you’re there only for a couple of days where you spend most of the time out of the guesthouse. The rooms were clean though and I have no other complaints apart from the size. During my time, I didn’t see any staff members at the location so make sure you don’t forget the key inside the room. They have a landline near the door and a number to call in case of emergencies but no one answers the phone most of the time. There’s a shared kitchen, coffee machine, refrigerator upstairs that’s available to use which is definitely a plus

Guesthouse , Cottages , Campsite surrounded by beautiful hills, large open area. There was 6 of us and we took 3 rooms at the guesthouse and we did some light cooking at the kitchen. Very relaxing place . Rooms are small but neat n clean. Wifi available and parking is easy.

room was tiny for price paid, service for the (hellish) check in process was, as expected, God awful. find somewhere else, maybe not in the Welcome franchise.