Excellent stay , our room was very clean and awesome location to Reykjavík downtown ! The front desk was very helpful in answering our questions . The only downside to this place is that the hotel does not have parking so you have to drive a little further out to park . This would have been good to know while booking so that we could have planned accordingly .
Very nice and comfortable for 3 people. The hotel is separated into 2 or 3 buildings about 50 meters from each other on the same street. We were in the Embassy building. The hotel will inform you to check using an app but we find that complicated so you can ask for a key card from the reception. Lucky we found parking 20 meters from hotel. The room looks nicer than in the photo. There is small kitchen where one can cook .
The only drawback is that our room was facing the street so you could hear car passing by probably until 9pm -10pm.
We were so glad we chose this hotel and can only recommend it.
The location is great and the rooms were clean and spacious (we had one family room and one smaller studio room). There were L'Occitane toiletries in the room. There were also laundry facilities, so we could wash our clothes.
One of us (the sole carnivore in our group) ordered the breakfast, and it was quite generous -- freshly baked sourdough (a different type many days, with the pumpkin seed one being particularly good), regular slices of bread, meat, cheese (different types most days), yogurt or Icelandic skyr, fruit/vegetables, jam, chocolate, etc. Even those of us who didn't order breakfast were given milk/oat milk, orange juice, and corn flakes. There are a couple of grocery stores within a five-minute walk, so you can easily buy other things to cook in your room.
The staff were friendly and always helpful. They booked one trip for us (buggy rides) plus our airport transfers, and they also answered other questions. They even stored our suitcases for us when we travelled away from Rekyjavik for a few days.
If we return to Rekyjavik, we would definitely stay here again.
We stayed three nights at the Reykjavik Residences, staying in a second floor apartment in the Prime Minister's residence. It was a lovely sized apartment with a bedroom with tall windows, good blackout shades and plenty of hanging space, a nice sized bathroom (which could have used a few hooks), a small foyer outside the bathroom with a full length mirror, and a large living room with a fold-out couch, a small bar and a full equipped kitchen with milk and juice in the refrigerator. There was a coffee and tea set-up with an electric kettle. Every afternoon by 4pm, someone delivered a basket with bread, cheese, hard boiled eggs, fruit, jams, butter and yogurt into the fridge so we could eat breakfast whenever we woke up. Someone else delivered fresh bread (yum), hung on the doorknob, by 8am each morning. It was delightful to eat breakfast in our room, and a particularly good idea as we'd flown in a long way. The room also had a food compost container with a top, so we could dispose of our coffee grounds and egg shells, and not have them smell up the room. (Having a food waste container in a hotel room is not common for us, and a very welcome addition.) The room fronted on a main street, but the windows and walls are quite thick so the room was pretty quiet. (Even a Saturday night rock concert on an adjoining street wasn't too loud.) Housekeeping was exceptionally sensitive and attentive. The Front Desk is in another building, but staffed 24/7 and very helpful. Our contact-less room key system didn't work (we think we had a bad reader on our door), but the physical key system worked well. An added plus, we arrived at 10:45am, and although our room wasn't to be ready until 3pm, the Front Desk kindly allowed us to check-in early, for which we continue to be profoundly grateful. We loved the Reykjavik Residences, and hope to return there soon.
We stayed at the Reykjavik Residence Hotel on the first and last nights of our 9-night Iceland trip. Both rooms were very clean and comfortable, and within a short block from the reception desk. We highly recommend arranging for the hotel's driver for transport to and from the airport to the hotel. We also recommend the breakfast option, which is really a smorgasbord of food delivered in the afternoon with a fresh loaf of delicious sourdough bread delivered at 8am the next morning. We had a little bit of trouble using the phone app to get into our assigned building on the first day, but reception can provide key cards when you check in.
