This is the smaller of the two Edda Summer Hotels located in Laugarvatn, and we stayed two nights on our return leg back to Reykjavik after touring Iceland. being a family of 4 with teenagers we booked 2 twin rooms, and were allocated two spacious rooms with balconies overlooking the lake. Both rooms were with own facilities/bathrooms, neat and tidy. As with other Edda Summer Hotels, the place is actually High School accomodation during the rest of the year, and contains the typical long corriders associated with student accomodation. During our stay in mid week early August, the hotel was only half full with us, another family and a small independent Coach Trip each night.

Breakfast, Lunch and Evening Meals are available at extra cost in the restaurant overlooking the lake. We took breakfast both mornings ( very good buffet) and ate one evening meal (at last an Edda Menu that our teenagers would consider!). The other night we ate at the campsite cafe/grill in the town.

You do have to consider when looking to book here that the town only exists because it was chosen to be the site of the region's High School and University, and the small town has built up to serve it. It only has one supermarket, petrol station and bank. It also has the Midge problem in early evening - having avoided midges in our stay at Myvatn, we got a taster each evening at the b****** buzzed around near the lake and got into hair, eyes, ears, etc. though none bit anyone.

The location is perfect for visiting the big Golden Circle sights of Pingvellir, Gullfoss and Geysir. Given the vast amount of Holiday huts in this area, the Icelantic folks love the area too. It's also a quiet base to operate from and avoid the big coach operators and trips. You can pop up the road to Geysir for example early or late in the day and have the place to yourself.