Skard Cottages

Fantastic spot in an amazing place!

Great location(relatively close to geysers), but overall it was too expensive for what it was, compared to every where else we stayed at in Iceland. The sofa bed is uncomfortable. There’s no trash cans. It’s very challenging to find the place. The instruction on the email is poorly translated to English. The owner was very nice and responsive on the phone.

The host was very nice and super responsive when we had issues with the wifi, although it was never fixed during our stay. Biggest frustration was the advertised blackout curtains which didn’t cover the whole windows. The one in front of the double glass doors were a good 18 inches off the ground letting in a lot of light in the middle of summer which made it hard for my kids to get to sleep. Bed was super soft! But they were 2 single beds pushed together so I ended up in the crack a few times! Fold out bed is quite small though.

Bathroom area was not really clean

Huggulegt og rólegt umhverfi, ótrúlega þægileg rúm.

I have taken pictures there were spider webs all over the room . House was very dirty . There were no tissue papers . Utensils were dirty. We preferred to stay out as much as possible and. Only came back at 1 pm to just sleep. Horrible experience and completely water our money. This was only bad experience we had at Iceland otherwise everything about our trip was perfect.

When we arrived, we found a well equipped and handsome cabin in a beautiful place. However, I would not stay there again in summer for one reason: during the night we were eaten alive by bugs. When we first got in, I noticed a lot of no-see-ums tapping to get out the windows. Perhaps because of unusual summer warmth, it was uncomfortably warm in the cabin, but though we thought of getting window air, we couldn’t leave any windows or doors open because of the clouds of bugs. Even so, all three of us were bitten on every bit of exposed skin during the night. Not only did we not get much sleep, we are still itching all over a week later. A look in the guest book suggests that most people visit in winter, when this cabin would provide quiet and close access to the glacier and a view of northern lights. I would come to this property then, but in the summer this place needs screens and fans. We paid for our stay here with numerous days and nights of scratching at bug bites.

Decent for last minute stay. Water did smell like sulphur and the cottage was very small for 4.

Our Wifi did not work well on our cell phones but was fine on a laptop. Our front door did not lock. The stove was difficult to figure out, but we eventually got it. Great scenery.

There was a cobweb on the ceiling, so I slept on one side in case the spider would fall off.