Grafarós House

Perfectly located with amazing views from our room. We were minutes away from one breathtaking attraction after another. Kim our host was charming and accommodating. (And gave us cookies!)

Beautiful and spacious room Access to sauna and hot tub Great location Beautiful views

Expensive for what it is Food and drink options were limited Staff mostly absent and had to be reached by phone for any requests e.g. had to call for a hairdryer, couldn’t order a drink after 8PM as no one was around

Amazing views, friendly and professional staff. Ride tour was 100%

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Exceptional Stay at Holy Ram Farm Hotel – Highly Recommended! We absolutely loved our stay at the Holy Ram Farm Hotel. The rooms were beautifully furnished, spotlessly clean, and the beds were very comfortable. Watching the horses from our window was a real highlight – such a relaxing and memorable experience. Check-in was seamless with clear instructions, and we were warmly greeted by the hosts. They were incredibly helpful and always just a phone call away whenever we needed anything. They went out of their way to make sure our stay was perfect. Would definitely love to come back soon. Highly recommended!

Loved every aspect of the hotel.

Lovely common space. Quiet location.

No one there when we got to rental. Typed instructions for guests. Advised to call when we got in although all info on typed instructions. It’s expensive to do international calling so this seemed a step one shouldn’t t need to do for a hotel. Didn’t call since we had the info we needed. Not one contact from owners to assure all was ok. No wine bottle opener despite bar in common area. Lost power while staff was making our breakfast so it was incomplete. But no offer to decrease the cost of the breakfast. Felt $15 pp for very basic no frills breakfast. Was a little high. Only had soft boiled eggs. No omelettes etc. no pastries. Unable to toast bread.

The design is original. The hotel and the area are very quiet.

The hotel is difficult to find. There's no sign on the road and no sign on the building with the name of the hotel. The name used on Booking.com (The Holy Ram Farm-Hotel) is different from the name used at the house itself (Gröf). The hotel is priced as a 5 star hotel (I paid 298 Euros for a single room), but there are absolutely no services available in the evening. No front desk. No staff. No restaurant. No bar. You can't buy any food or drink, and the nearest town is a 30 minute drive away. There's a hot tub but it's closed. There's no information sheet. There's no information about how how to connect to WiFi (it's not obvious). It's a self check-in hotel, which can be OK in the budget segment but not in this price range. There is no glass in the bathroom if you want to drink water. The windows don't open. There are blackout curtains on the windows on the wall but there's a window on the ceiling, right above the bed, that has no blackout curtains. With 24 hours of daylight in Iceland in summer, it's like sleeping with the lights of a lamp on. There was breakfast in the lobby in the morning but once again there was nobody there and there was no information about it. I started to have breakfast than another guest told me that I was eating breakfast that she had pre-orderd. How was I supposed to know that? Giving all information is important at any hotel. Charging such high rates for a hotel with zero service is not acceptable.

We loved the interior design, sauna and jacuzzi. The view was also spectacular!

The property is in the middle of nowhere so there are no shops or restaurants near by. Hotel doesn’t inform you about breakfast or dinner options, you have to ask. Service staff would bring card machine in the middle of dinner to make us pay, it felt like we had to ask for everything and were publicly told “you have to pay for the wine” - while we had no intention of not paying. There is no menu or price list so bill at the end is a surprise. Hotel is clearly catered for horse riding groups, if you are not part of the group - you feel a bit like a second hand citizen.

The hosts were extremly nice and made us feel very welcome. The rooms are very nicely made and clean, there is a nice bench at the window to enjoy the nice view. The Hotel Lobby has some comfy sofas and chairs to spend some time and relax. Breakfast had everything you could wish for and was very good. We would absolutely come here again!