The face of Reykjavík is changing – Example: Lokastígur
The appearance of Reykjavík is progressively changing with the ascent of the tourist industry. Visitors must have a roof over their heads and many pre...
Hotel sued for giving room key to ‘pervert’
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 strange...
Hotel refuses to scrap women-only floor
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 Hot...
Chinese investor wants to build luxury country hotel in Iceland
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 l...
Hotel bomber’s identity remains a mystery
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 nu...
Giant hotel planned for Reykjavik shoreline
The development company Thyrping has applied for permission to turn one of the unfinished luxury apartment towers on Reykjavik’s northern shore into a...
Stockholm’s jumbo jet hostel needs emergency landing
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 n...
Fosshotel has interest to replace Valholl at Thingvellir
According to Thordar Sigurdsson, chairman of the Fosshotel chain in Iceland, they have an interest in building a hotel in Thingvellir, the national pa...