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Reviews of Vogur Country Lodge

3 out of 5
Vogur Country Lodge
Vogur, Fellsstrond, Deildarey

Reviews

8.8

Excellent

Rating 10 - Excellent. 41 out of 74 reviews" "
Rating 8 - Good. 21 out of 74 reviews" "
Rating 6 - Okay. 9 out of 74 reviews" "
Rating 4 - Poor. 2 out of 74 reviews" "
Rating 2 - Terrible. 1 out of 74 reviews" "

9.2/10

Cleanliness

8.6/10

Staff & service

8.8/10

Amenities

9.0/10

Property conditions & facilities

9.4/10

Eco-friendliness

Reviews

10/10 Excellent

Molly

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Vogur Country Lodge is in a very remote part of Iceland. The area is stunningly beautiful and this hotel is a perfect place to stay as a gateway to the West and West Fjords. The hotel is clean, comfortable and well staffed by Constantin, who prepared incredible meals. The hotel has a hot tub and a sauna. It's a lovely place to stay. I hope I get a chance to come back!!
Stayed 1 night in Mar 2024

10/10 Excellent

Paula

Travelled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
This was one of our favorite properties in Iceland. It's remote, quiet and provides local experiences. On our way to this property, we experienced so many amazing views and saw 2 herds in the road... one sheep and the other horses. The manager of the property was super personable and our suite was very nice. I highly recommend this property!
Stayed 1 night in Oct 2023

10/10 Excellent

Barbara

Travelled with group
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Great hotel and restaurant.
Great hotel. About 15 miles away from Holmavik. Great staff who were very helpful. Restaurant has great buffet and service on premises. Would definitely stay here again!
Stayed 1 night in Sep 2023

10/10 Excellent

Michelle

Stayed 2 nights in Sep 2023

6/10 Okay

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities
Disliked: Room comfort
Hard to sleep
The doors have a glazed panel in their upper section, which is not covered by a blind or curtain. In summer this allows the midnight sun to shine light into the room all night long. I hardly slept at all.
Stayed 1 night in Jul 2023

10/10 Excellent

Joseph

Stayed 1 night in Aug 2023

10/10 Excellent

Ketan

Travelled with group
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Good rooms and dining options
Stayed 1 night in Aug 2023

10/10 Excellent

Skye, Seattle

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
This place was extraordinarily special. The room was Icelandic: simple and clean. But the location was astoundingly beautiful and remote. The host was lovely, funny, and warm. The food was DELICIOUS: please try the potted fish soup. They were kind in offering gluten free options for me. As long as you like walking up to a private waterfall and down to a beach, visiting sheep, and seeing amazing vistas, this place is epic. If you are looking for nightlife, restaurant options, or lots of outings, I'm afraid the remoteness may be frustrating even if the drive is gorgeous. Just enjoy the hot tub and the brain cleanse of this beautiful place.
Stayed 2 nights in Jul 2023

10/10 Excellent

Yu-Shan

Travelled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
I had one of the rooms on the 2nd floor (#25). It only had one small side window - wished it was larger (for view and also for more fresh air). Note: it did have one large skylight window, but that is just for viewing the sky. Otherwise, great place to stay.
Stayed 1 night in Jul 2023

10/10 Excellent

MELINA, MILWAUKIE

Travelled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Beautiful place and wonderful food!
Stayed 1 night in Jun 2023

10/10 Excellent

Suzee

Travelled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Amazing place to stay and the staff was excellent
Stayed 1 night in Sep 2022

8/10 Good

Max

Travelled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
WIFI only works well in common area. the access point not strong enough to reach the room
Stayed 1 night in Aug 2022

10/10 Excellent

James

Travelled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
I cannot say enough good things about this place. Secluded, excellent restaurant, superior staff. Exceedingly friendly and helpful owner. 30 km down a dirt road to paradise.
Stayed 1 night in Aug 2022

10/10 Excellent

Donald

Travelled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Out of the way location with a beautiful backdrop. The hotel has its own private waterfall.
Stayed 1 night in Aug 2022

10/10 Excellent

Dhaval

Travelled with partner
Liked: Staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
If you are looking for a weekend gateway or you are just traveling to Iceland and want some great experience of Iceland country side, this is a place for you. It's out of the way from your typical tourist spots but location is absolutely amazing. I would highly recommend the place.
Stayed 1 night in Jul 2022

6/10 Okay

Mathilda

Stayed 1 night in Nov 2021

6/10 Okay

antony

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
The view was not great on the superior rooms as it was on the track and car park not as described. The Hot Tub was not that clean and the direction was all wrong
Stayed 1 night in Oct 2021

10/10 Excellent

clay

Stayed 1 night in Sep 2021

10/10 Excellent

Ólafur Ari

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Perfect
Our 30th wedding anniversary. We arrived when the restaurant was closing. They waited for us and we had a perfect dinner. Then we checked in and went to the hot pot and sauna. Perfect evening.
Stayed 1 night in Jul 2021

10/10 Excellent

Chanelle, Laval, Canada

Travelled with family, Travelled with family and small children
Liked: Staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Beautiful property & grounds. the staff is amazing & accomodating, It is very remote on a dirt road but it adds to its charm. they also have a great cat.
Stayed 2 nights in Sep 2019

8/10 Good

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Stayed 1 night in Aug 2019

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveller

Travelled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
We happened to be the only guests the evening we stayed. There were a number of guests the night before and after. Our host offered to make us dinner when we arrived, but we were tired and refused. We had a wonderful breakfast the next morning and were on our way..
Stayed 1 night in Dec 2018

10/10 Excellent

Alex, Tel Aviv

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Very nice hotel, in the middle of nowhere, new and clean. We liked it!
Stayed 1 night in Sep 2018

10/10 Excellent

Alex, Tel aviv

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Nice hotel! In the middle of nowhere, new very nice hotel!
Stayed 1 night in Sep 2018

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 1 night in Sep 2018

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 1 night in Oct 2017

10/10 Excellent

Leslie

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Nice countryside hotel
Breakfast for an extra fee, but was very delicious. Very clean and comfortable. Not many conveniences nearby due to being located in the countryside, but nice ocean view & waterfall on mountain out back of hotel.
Stayed 1 night in Oct 2017

2/10 Terrible

Monica

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
NOT AS ADVERTISED
the advertisement on here is COMPLETELY WRONG. it is not close to the city it advertises, its actually 90 miles away!!!!! I specifically booked this because it was advertised as only being 14 miles from Stykkisholmur, imagine my surprise when we arrived and found out it was actually 90 miles away! They refused to let us cancel the reservation so we ended up paying double as we booked a different place near the town we originally planed on.
Stayed 1 night in Oct 2017

8/10 Good

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 1 night in Oct 2017

6/10 Okay

Wayne, Canada

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service
Disliked: Property conditions & facilities
OK but not great
Difficult to find the place; long distance to travel over a gravel road to get there with no signage whatsoever to confirm you are going the wrong way
Stayed 1 night in Jul 2017

6/10 Okay

HDeonarine, Toronto, ON Canada

Liked: Cleanliness, room comfort
Lovely spot.
Approx 45 mins to get to the hotel. Hotel could not find our booking but they cared. Nice to stop over. Nice staff.
Stayed 1 night in Jun 2017

4/10 Poor

Gary

Watch the food cost
The lodging was good. No place to eat except hotel, the chef ask if we were eating at lodge. We said yes. Then he ask if we wanted steak or lamb. No menu was provided. Our mistake was not asking price. Cost for two was 184 usd. I drank coffee and my wife had 1 glass of wine. Meal was good, price was upsetting. The lodge is now where near another town.

8/10 Good

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Lovely and quiet place to stay.
My daughter and I traveled to Vogur Country Lodge as part of a trip around the Snaefellsnes Peninsula. The lodge is a little out of the way, but it is a lovely gem. I would highly recommend the Lodge, especially if you had the time to enjoy the restful and quiet experience there.

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Far from everything but amazing
This place was our favorite place to stay and we stayed in a lot of hotels in Iceland. I believe it's a family owned hotel. The room was very spacious with an equally spacious bathroom. There is no TV but that was ok with us. The food is amazing. It was by far our favorite meals throughout our entire trip. You can't go wrong with anything the chef makes. Be warned though, it is in the middle of nowhere so be sure to bring snacks. But the chef does make lunch for you if you ask him too (he will even come back if he has left the property). There is a gorgeous waterfall on property that was fun to check out.

8/10 Good

Chad, Boise, ID, USA

Liked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Nice luxury surprise
We had a change of plans while we were in Akureyri, and had to find a last minute booking. This was seemingly the only place available that was on the way to our next destination, and while the 40km of gravel road to get to it in our little car was a little much (and unexpected), it was well worth it once we arrived. The room was spacious, clean, new, modern, and we had a very much welcomed private bathroom. The only reason it didn't get five stars was that the hot water was spotty, and the water pressure isn't great, but otherwise it was just what we needed. The wifi is slow to almost nonexistent, but you don't come to Iceland for internet. We also ate dinner at the restaurant and the food was great. They had some real creative dishes and were well executed. Service was a little clunky, but I have no complaints about it.

6/10 Okay

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities
Disliked: Staff & service
Nice building and poor services.
The lodge is modern, the rooms are spacey, clean and with good beds, but the service was below expectations. Worst was that the promised high speed wi-fi didn't work or was slow the few times we were connected. Our first breakfast, a monday morning, was a disappointment. Bad coffee, only white bread and tasteless waffles. The lodge is in need of a hotel manager!

6/10 Okay

Michael, Ann Arbor

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Get away from it all
Great place to relax.

8/10 Good

Carolyn, California

Liked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Great surprise after an unpaved drive out
Had comfortable stay and tasty dinners. Friendly service.

8/10 Good

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
overall okay but too far from tourist spots

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Super relaxing room with a view!
We had spent 3 days in reyjkavik and were glad to get away from it all and enjoy the serenity of remoteness!

6/10 Okay

Joanne, Orangevale CA

Disappointing
People who run the lodge are very nice, and the chef is excellent. But there is no TV in the public room as advertised, internet did not work in our room, and our room was not cleaned or serviced during our stay. Also breakfast was not included as advertised. So we spent our down time there in the public room with internet. Now if there had just been free coffee. . . .but there was a charge for that by the cup. This is a remote location, 30 miles off the main road, so it was a pain to go touring from here and the gravel road damaged our rented vehicle, so we would not stay here again.

8/10 Good

Frank, Brooklyn

Liked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities
Recommendable remote place
Nice hotel in a remote but beautiful location: awesome view on a fjord and a spectactular waterfall in the backyard - stunning! The restaurant is nice and has good food but service, although very friendly and trying, was not really great. Our room was very clean but lacked small towels and the furniture was not exactly perfect.

10/10 Excellent

Mark, San Francisco

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
A great country setting.
This place really is out in the country. It was nice and quiet with wonderful views. The staff were friendly. The rooms were clean and comfortable. Largest bathroom of any hotel we stayed at in Iceland. There's a hot tub and sauna free to use. Just be advised that it's at least a 30-45 minute drive down a dirt road (fine for cars) and there really is nothing else around.

10/10 Excellent

Andy, Bewdley UK

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Lovely remote location
Although this place really is a long way on an unpaved road from the nearest village, it really adds to the peace and quiet - there is NO noise here outside except for nature - a rare thing these days ! The staff could not do enough for us and our daughters - nothing was too much trouble ! The food was stunning - some of the best we have had anywhere, let alone in Iceland Breakfast was more than adequate. We will come back ! Well-recommended

8/10 Good

sharon

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

6/10 Okay

Adam, USA

Liked: Cleanliness
Expensive mixed bag
We booked this hotel for one night while on the road, because of its location (the only one in the vicinity) and online info. Getting to it requires driving about 30km on a gravel road. The view of the Snaefelsnes Peninsula across the bay is spectacular, but from the hotel it is obstructed somewhat by a farmhouse that I presume belongs to the hotel owners. There is absolutely nothing else in the vicinity of the hotel. The room was a good size with comfortable beds, but too hot with no way to control the temperature, making sleeping difficult. Soap and shampoo were not provided. We ate dinner in the restaurant (nothing else around). We were offered these choices: salad, an entree of either fish or lamb, and a dessert. The server was uninformed, didn't know what kind of fish it was (turned out to be arctic char). We decided to have salad and entrees. Even with just 2 choices, the server got our order wrong - forgot the salad, so we told him to bring it after the entrees, at which point they had run out of salad. On the plus side, the fish and lamb were both excellent. Breakfast the next morning was fine. The info we had read about the hotel spoke of a hot tub, so we were looking forward to using it while enjoying the view. When we found it, it was not heated above room temperature, so we were disappointed there, too. All in all, we would have found it acceptable for a 1-night stopover, but the prices were too steep for what we got.

10/10 Excellent

Eric, Florida

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Great Hotel, and Staff
Hotel is a great place to get away from the crowds. Food was excellent, staff was super and very willing to help with any question. Room was very clean and bed was not too soft or hard, for me almost perfect. Already planning to go back this spring. Definitely recommend this place.

8/10 Good

Paula, Monroe, LA

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Wonderful and peaceful Icelandic stay
Having spent six strenuous days sight-seeing and trekking over southern Iceland, my daughter and I then traveled to the Vogur Country Lodge where we rested a bit among the most striking other-world landscape on Earth. I wished that I had had the ability to paint as the scenery was unbelievably beautiful. In my mind the music of Edvard Grieg played and Tolkien's characters seemed very close at hand. This lodge is quite remote from everything so we were glad that we had purchased a few snacks earlier which we brought with us. Our evening meal of beef prepared by the Vogur Country Lodge chef was cordon bleu in quality. As is true for most things purchased in Iceland, the price was greater than would have been paid in the States, but the quality was superior. Due to the remoteness of the Vogur Country Lodge, locating it was a challenge as we only had a Garmin navigational device to use. We were very glad that we had rented a heavy four wheel drive vehicle as the gravel road to the Lodge had no guardrails and at times the wind seemed to be blowing at least 60 miles an hour. A very nice sauna and hot tub were available free of charge for all hotel guests, and horses and bicycles could be rented.. Our hours spent here were golden.

10/10 Excellent

Adriaan

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Fantastic place, great kitchen and a great environment to explore.
Stayed 1 night in Oct 2023

10/10 Excellent

Iván

Travelled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Genial
Todo perfecto
Stayed 1 night in Aug 2023