Grand Guesthouse Garðakot

Top choice in The South


Set on a pastoral sheep farm, this small, tidy house is rented out as a whole. It holds four beautiful rooms, two with private bathrooms and two that share. Heated hardwood floors downstairs, sweeping views of volcanoes and sea upstairs, and friendly proprietors, pretty decor, serenity and flat-screen TVs. It's 14km west of Vík, south of the Ring Road on Rte 218. Two-night minimum stay.