If you’ve booked a trip to Iceland and have begun searching around for good Reykjavik hotels, you’ll certainly want to insist on somewhere that’s comfortable and friendly; but don’t forget the importance of location either. Reykjavik has more than enough far-flung places to stay – but is it really wise to rely on buses and painfully expensive taxis when instead you could be staying in the heart of the city? Read the full story

Passengers arriving at Stockholm’s Arlanda Airport will discover that one of the aeroplanes has missed a turn, parking itself atop a hill just outside the airport grounds. This is no mistake: just the latest innovative effort to create budget accommodation for those who wish to sleep near Stockholm’s airport. Read the full story

The Icelandic apartment hotel, Hotel Hafnarfjordur is pushing its family friendly and value for money credentials to coincide with an increase in visitors to Iceland due to the weakness of the Icelandic krona making Icelandic tourism cheaper. Read the full story

“Iceland is obviously quite a bit cheaper than it was this time last year, mainly because the whole country went bust.” This is how a text in an article at the Times Online today and goes on saying “But is Iceland really the sort of place you want to go for some cheering winter sun?”. Then the Times Online reporter Matt Rudd writes about 20 hours of darkness and cheap vodka.

Iceland might not have the cheering winter sun but it has the beauty of its nature, the Northern lights, geothermal heating, great (now cheap) restaurants and a nightlife well worth exploring. Then there are the shops, not only is it much cheaper to shop now but you also get the VAT back, not the whole 24,5% but close.

We at IceNews looked at the possibilities for flights and accommodation in Reykjavik Iceland and found that there are two airlines flying to Iceland www.flights.is and www.icelandair.co.uk  and for hotels and guesthouses in Reykjavik try Hotels Iceland.

We might also want to say that Iceland has much more daylight than four hours, it’s close to that in Manchester at the moment; and finally the country has not quite gone bust: Icelanders are still standing tall.

It’s now cheaper to go on holiday with the kids in Iceland than ever, and it can also offer more freedom and better service too.

With the freedom and value of holiday apartments and the comfort and service of a hotel, Hotel Hafnarfjordur apartment hotel offers a large selection of studio rooms in Iceland.

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Hotel Hafnarfjordur, a leading apartment hotel in Iceland, is taking part in the annual Vestnorden Travel Mart which will be held between 15th – 17th September in Reykjavik.

The travel fair, which will be held for the 23rd time, is dedicated to the three West Nordic countries of Iceland, Greenland and the Faroe Islands. Representatives from the travel trade in each country will demonstrate the various tourism opportunities on offer.

This year the exhibition and appointments will take place the first day with a tourism conference being held on the second day. Pre-tours of the fair will take place in Greenland this weekend and post-tours will be held in Greenland and the Faroe Islands for five days after the exhibition in Reykjavik.

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Self-catering holiday apartments tend to be cheaper than hotels and offer greater independence and freedom; but hotels have important things like 24 hour reception, internet access, a bar and tourist information. Hotel Hafnarfjordur’s website boasts that, as an ‘apartment hotel’, their guests benefit from all the above and more.

The old fishing town of Hafnarfjordur is ideally located for apartment hotels in Iceland. Perched by the sea, on the edge of a breathtaking lava field on the way to the airport and just a few minutes drive from Reykjavik, Hafnarfjordur is a great base for holidays to Iceland.

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