HAFALDAN HI

Nice hostel with big and well equiped kitchen and dinning area.

Un gioiellino.
Fantastica location per visitare i fiordi.
Ben attrezzato e pulito.

Das Hafaldan HI hostel war wunderschön. Es ist ein Hostel mit Geschichte. Früher war in dem Gebäude das Krankenhaus von Seyðisfjörður. An jeder Ecke wird man auf ganz liebevolle Weise an die Geschichte des Hauses erinnert. Die Einrichtung ist schön und sehr liebevoll. Wir haben in einem alten Schwesternzimmer übernachtet. Dies konnte man an der Tür erkennen. Das Zimmer war sehr gemütlich eingerichtet und wir hatten in einer kleinen Nische sogar ein Waschbecken. Die zahlreichen Badezimmer waren sauber und gut ausgestattet. Auch die Küche und der Essensraum waren sehr gut augestattet und man hat ausreichend Platz. Besonders hervorzuheben ist auch die Lage des Hostels. Man ist nur drei Gehminuten von der kleinen Kirche des Ortes entfernt und kann Seyðisfjörður von hieraus sehr gut zu Fuß erkunden.

The hostel itself was fine. The public areas are nice and functional, free saunas, and hygge, as they say in the north. The staff was friendly.
We booked a 4 people room with private toilet/shower for 2/3 of August 2023. We were given room 14. The room was nice, high ceiling, ok beds and also clean.
The private toilet/shower however was a disaster: there was that stench of black mould and uric acid, and on closer inspection the whole lower part of the shower area was spotted in black mould and around the toilet there were signs of the works of uric acid on the paint on the backsplash.
After discovering that, we kindly asked the staff if they could either give us another room or do someting about it. While talking they admitted that they knew about that issue of room 14. Since the hostel was fully booked (day before departure of the ferry) a room change was not possible, understandably.
BUT that they did not send over somebody from cleaning, to at least try to do something about it, was disappointing. Instead they pointed out, that we could use the public toilet/showers (which also had sign of mould, as I figured out later). Only after a civilized debate, on what to expect when booking and paying for a room with private shower and not getting it, the staff agreed on a meager 6.8% reimbursement. Changing to another hostel or hotel was not possible either, because of the ferry…
What should have been a nice last night in iceland somehow was ruined by black mould and uric acid.
At least staff promised that they will try to do someting after the seaseon…

Beautiful and affordable. You have chance to meet many students and many tourists.

The place is next to very big sea. So you can enjoy the nature. A cup of coffee with a sunrise and seeing reflections of the boat is something that I love.