A woman has filed a lawsuit against Starwood Hotels and Resorts after employees at a Finnish property allegedly gave her room key to a drunken stranger. Read the full story

A hotel in Denmark is refusing to remove its women-only floor despite being told by the country’s equality board that it is illegal. The Bella Sky Hotel in Copenhagen says its 17th Bella Donna floor will stay free of men despite pressure from the Equal Treatment Board to abandon the venture. Read the full story

A wealthy Chinese investor this week bought one of the biggest plots of land for sale in Iceland: Grimsstadir a Fjollum. He intends to build a large luxury hotel on the remote site, but approval is needed first from Icelandic and Chinese authorities. Read the full story

The man arrested after an explosion at a hotel in Copenhagen has gone to great lengths to keep his identity under wraps, even scratching the serial number off his prosthetic leg, say police. Read the full story

The development company Thyrping has applied for permission to turn one of the unfinished luxury apartment towers on Reykjavik’s northern shore into a 160-room hotel. The head of the company says that the people who will have to decide on the application are the same people who previously wanted to build a 400-room hotel in the exact same neighbourhood. Read the full story

Just seven months after it opened its hatch for business, the world’s first hostel built within an abandoned jumbo jet has been put up for sale. The novel lodging, which is parked on a hill outside of Stockholm’s Arlanda Airport, was a headline stealer when it first opened, but it seems it was an ill-timed move. Read the full story

According to Thordar Sigurdsson, chairman of the Fosshotel chain in Iceland, they have an interest in building a hotel in Thingvellir, the national park and a UNESCO site in Iceland, roughly 45km east of the capital Reykjavik. Read the full story

A hotel close to Thingvellir, the national, historic park of Iceland, roughly 45km east of the capital Reykjavik, suffered a tragic fire and burnt down Friday night (10 July). The fire completely destroyed Hotel Valholl. The fire was started from the kitchen and restaurant area, which was the only part of the entire hotel without a sprinkler system, according to hotel owner Ulfar Thordarson. Read the full story

Hotel Hafnarfjordur, Iceland’s new and welcoming apartment hotel in the Reykjavik area, today released details of a sale with large discounts on summer accommodation. Read the full story

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