Hótel Búðir | |
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![]() Búðir seen from Hótel Búðir | |
General information | |
Location | Búðir, Snæfellsbær, Iceland |
Coordinates | 64°50′N 23°33′W / 64.833°N 23.550°W |
Opening | 1947 2003 (rebuilt after fire) |
Other information | |
Number of rooms | 28 [1] |
Number of restaurants | 1 |
Website | |
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Hótel Búðir (Hotel Budir) is a hotel built near Búðir, situated on a lava field on the westernmost tip of the Snaefellsnes peninsula in west Iceland. The hotel affords views over the Atlantic coast and the glacier-topped Snæfellsjökull volcano and glacier, [2] and is located in a protected nature reserve. [1]
The hotel is a three-hour drive north from Keflavík International Airport. [1]
The hotel originally opened as a guesthouse and fish restaurant [3] in 1947 on the site of an old apartment-store complex. [4] It was converted to a limited-liability company in 1956. [4] Icelandic author and Nobel prize winner Halldor Laxness was a frequent guest in the hotel, [3] writing in a room which had views over the Snæfellsjökull glacier. [5] The Icelandic painter Johannes Kjarval also stayed there. [4]
The hotel was completely destroyed by a fire [3] on 21 February 2001, and the current hotel building was constructed on the site, opening as a hotel on 14 June 2003. [4] The hotel now has 28 bedrooms, [1] varying in size, aspect and amenities, and the hotel restaurant can seat eighty people. [6]
The only other building in the vicinity is Búðir church, a tiny black wooden nineteenth century building, [1] just a few minutes' walk from the hotel. [7] Some hotel guests use Búðir as a wedding venue.
Other activities include horse riding, glacier tours, sailing and hiking.
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