Travelled around Iceland and stayed in many hotels and guesthouses. All of them had better price / quality ratio!
We booked 4 nights in advance for $280 per night. Upon arrival we noticed a huge mismatch between the price and the overall level of the hotel. We decided to check the current prices. It was $170 for the same room.
I know about the live pricing, but normally hotels go from reasonable price to a discounted. Aurora Lodge does the opposite: they start from extremely overpriced rate and then come to a more or less reasonable rate.
So, based on $280 - the hotel is bad and the service is very poor.
In more details:
-Small rooms
-No sound proofing
-No TV/Phone/Locker
-Only one wardrobe did not have neither doors nor shelves (= useless)
-No place to put anything
-No socket for kettle
-Fantastic landscape, but windows facing inner car park
-No shower gel in the hotel (only shampoo)
-No shelves in the shower
-Very poor breakfast (ham, cheese, cereals. That’s it. Good coffee for an extra charge)
-Hot tubs outside, but no shower. Wanna take a shower - walk across the car park.
-The “hot” tub is cold in the afternoon,
-Sauna, but the entrance is strait from outside. No place to put towels/glasses/anything else.
-Only one lady from the hotel stuff. She was handling literally everything. Cooking breakfast with one hand and checking out guests at the same time with another one.