My booking at Hotel Skuggi was expensive, possibly the most expensive per night hotel booking I have ever made. But that’s Iceland – everything is relatively expensive, from hotels to bags of sweets.
Regarding location, the hotel is positioned off-centre, but in a good way. It’s close to one end of Reykjavik’s nicest street, good for eating, shopping and promenading.
The hotel tries to get a stylish ‘boutique’ look, but it isn’t convincing. Actually, I think most furnishings in my room came from Ikea, and they had an Ikea weakness that makes them not ideal for hotel room use: low-density particle board / fibreboard with thin laminate, they are easily damaged and show the damage. Most of my furniture looked a bit battered and tired.
My room was not as clean as I expected: there was dust at the backs of shelves, on the clothes rail, and on some other surfaces. That’s a problem with black furniture (all my furnishings were black): it readily shows dust.
I paid extra for a relatively large room with double bed, and yes, the room was relatively big. However, it had strangely little storage space. A short rail for hanging a few clothes, and a black Ikea ‘Kallax’ shelf unit with four small shelves. Frustrating; despite having a fair amount of space, I spent the week being cluttered up by my own stuff because there was nowhere to put it all away. I didn’t want to put anything on the floor because that, being black wood-effect laminate, showed dust too.
Breakfast was adequate, nothing special, but not bad.
In conclusion, Hotel Skuggi was okay, served me adequately for a week, but wasn’t great, and I expected better for the price.
