The Top 16 Hotels Near ÓX
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Sitting on the Old Harbor next door to the Harpa concert hall, this sleek design hotel channels Iceland's landscape and Reykjavik's edgier creative energy into one building, which is a harder trick than it sounds. Rooms are modern, there's a spa and a nightclub on site, and most of the city's landmarks are a short walk away. The kind of place that makes you feel like the trip was a good idea before you've even unpacked.
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Seven houses stitched together on Laugavegur make up this boutique hotel, which sits next door to Sandholt Bakery and a venerable local tailor, so the neighborhood does its part before you even check in. The rooms lean toward spare Nordic cool rather than saga-hall kitsch, and the on-site bistro and bar give you a reason to stay put. The selected hotels list from Michelin notices it, which tracks for one of the more thoughtfully designed places to sleep in Reykjavik.
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One of the buildings here used to be the Prime Minister's residence, which is either a fun fact or a reasonable standard to set for your lodging. This apartment hotel sits a single block from Laugavegur, Reykjavik's main drag, with studios, suites, and full apartments spread across a small cluster of buildings. Even the smaller rooms have kitchenettes, useful when you're close enough to the city's best restaurants to walk home with leftovers.
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The postal code "101" doubles as both address and identity at this boutique hotel in central Reykjavik. The former home of Iceland's Social Democratic Party now runs black-and-white interiors, open-plan rooms with sleek Nordic furniture, and bathrooms where the claw-foot tub sits right in the room with you. A glass roof reveals a permanent mural overhead, and the gallery rotates work by Icelandic artists. The lounge draws a crowd that didn't come here to stay in.
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A 1940s industrial building quietly renovated into a minimalist, monochrome boutique hotel by Icelandic-born, L.A.-based designer Gulla Jónsdóttir. The 52 rooms and suites sit a block from Laugavegur, Reykjavik's main shopping strip, with a day spa on-site for when the wind off the harbor reminds you what latitude means. No restaurant, but the neighborhood handles that without much effort.
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The pitched skylights in the top-floor suites are a good argument for upgrading. This four-star hotel sits on one of central Reykjavík's older streets, steps from Lake Tjörnin and the art museum, with 130 rooms finished in warm taupe, dark grid-patterned headboards, and forest green cushions. The in-house restaurant does modern Northern European cooking in Art Deco surroundings, and two rooftop terraces plus a steam-and-sauna spa keep you from spending too much time outside in January.
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The bartenders at the in-house bar wear white pharmacists' coats, which tells you something about how seriously this hotel takes its own concept. The building, designed by the architect behind Hallgrímskirkja, wraps Art Nouveau bones around 45 contemporary rooms in central Reykjavík, a block from parliament. An Argentine grill anchors the open kitchen downstairs, so there's a decent argument for staying in on a cold night.
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Parked beside the Icelandic parliament on an old-school Reykjavík square, Kvosin is a boutique hotel that feels more like a well-appointed city apartment than anything fussy. Rooms run from Normal to Bigger to Biggest, which is either refreshingly honest or a mild act of genius. The interiors lean modernist, the spaces are airy, and the ground-floor restaurant hands you off to the town, or at least to the in-house wine bar, by seven.
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Sitting on the edge of Þingvellir National Park in a sprawl of lava fields and lichen, this adventure hotel is heated geothermically by water pulled from underground at 190°C, so the showers are not in danger of going cold. Rooms are monochrome concrete and reclaimed driftwood, the outdoor hot tub has panoramic views of the otherworldly surroundings, and the activities range from horseback riding to diving between two tectonic plates.
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Guests-only geothermal lagoon, floor-to-ceiling lava-field views, and a spa drawing on Iceland's volcanic geology: this is what it looks like when a famous tourist attraction builds a genuinely serious luxury hotel around itself. Minimalist suites come with robes you'll end up wearing to dinner at Lava, the all-day restaurant. Moss, the flagship, holds a Michelin star. The Retreat holds a Michelin Key.
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Thirty-five low-slung rooms designed by Basalt Architects sit among volcanic rock on the Reykjanes Peninsula, where the landscape looks borrowed from another planet. This small, spare hotel is part of the Blue Lagoon complex but quieter and more private, with large windows framing the lava fields and direct access to the Silica Lagoon. The interiors run warm but uncluttered, quality textiles and not much else competing with the view outside.
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Less than an hour from Reykjavík, this boutique hotel takes its name from the indoor plants that soften what is otherwise a very Icelandic piece of modern, utilitarian architecture. Rooms aside, the building also holds a food hall spanning global cuisines and a handful of shops stocking local Icelandic clothing and provisions, which makes it more of a small village than a place to sleep.
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The black-sand beach outside isn't decoration; it's the whole point. This minimalist hotel on Iceland's south coast, forty minutes from Reykjavík, keeps its profile low and its interiors spare, warmed mostly by good textures and DUX beds in fine linen. The restaurant faces the beach through floor-to-ceiling glass, and the surrounding south coast puts waterfalls, geysers, and the Northern Lights within reach.
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The name is literal: floor-to-ceiling glass wraps the whole building on a hilltop outside Selfoss, so the southern Icelandic countryside, mountains, distant water, and occasional Northern Lights are basically the decor. This boutique design hotel pairs that view with plush-meets-industrial interiors and a spa fed by a mineral spring a thousand feet underground. The restaurant runs a set dinner menu built on local Icelandic ingredients, which is the right move when the larder looks like this.