Akureyri Backpackers

Das Ganze erinnert eher an einen Irish Pub mit Gästezimmern im OG. Nichts gegen Irish Pubs, wir lieben Irish Pubs und auch dieser Laden ist als Kneipe wirklich top und cool. Aber man muss wissen, dass es direkt ohne Tür aus dem Gastraum in den offenen Flur geht. Sämtlicher Lärm und der harte Geruch von Frittenfett und gebratenem Fisch zieht einmal schön durch das Treppenhaus in alle Rtagen, bis nach oben durch. Es riecht überall in den Fluren nach Imbiss, was wir ziemlich ekelig fanden. Die Zimmer sind davon verschont. Ganz oben hört man auch nichts mehr vom Lärm, nur ganz leicht Musik und manchmal Stimmen. Weiter unten muß es fies sein. Und die Wäbde sind so dünn, dass man jede Unterhaltung aus dem Nachbarzimmer hört. Alle Böden sind aus Holz, man hört jede/n der nachts auf Toilette geht oder morgens um 5 mit dem Rollkoffer daa Backpackers verlässt. An Schlaf ist dann nicht mehr zu denken. Mag sein, dass es für eine Jugenherberge reicht aber wir würden nächstes Mal immer ein Hotel in Akureyri bevorzugen.

We were there for two nights, and the first night was OK. Noisy location, with people yelling on the street right in front of the hotel until 1:00, during our second night at the hotel. Then heavy machinery started operating on the street at 6:30, during one hour. Earplugs made no difference. The same night around 22:00, there was a fire alarm, that made us go downstairs to evacuate the building. On the first floor at the bar and restaurant also serving as the hotel reception, life continued as normal. One employee was busy consulting the alarm control panel, trying to understand the reason for the alarm and to make it stop. The other employees didn’t seem to be concerned about the alarm, keeping serving drinks and meals as usual. Several hotel guests like us just stood up near the front entrance, waiting for some instructions of some sort, that never came. We even saw a group of 8 tourists or so going to the upper floors with their backpacks, as if everything was normal. Many hotel clients didn’t evacuate the building at all. When the alarm finally stopped, I inquired from the same busy employee who confirmed that it was a false alarm. No employee ever went to the floors and rooms to explain the situation to the clients. I saw the same employee coming from the evacuation stairs at the back on the third floor, perhaps to check if someone was still there. Good luck to anyone staying at this hotel, if there is a real fire alarm someday.

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This is my own fault for not doing more research, but the property is connected to and above a bar. To use the showers you have to walk through the bar and since we were only only the 2nd floor we could hear everything below and didn't have very sound sleep.

Super clean