Reykjavík Marina - Berjaya Iceland Hotels — Hotel in Reykjavik

Quark Expeditions offers small-ship (maximum between 150 and 199 passengers) polar expeditions into the Northwest Passage during the arctic summer. My expedition was to begin in late August 2025 and started with a stay at Reykjavik Marina - Berjaya Iceland Hotels. From there our group would take a chartered flight from Reykjavik to Kangerlussuaq, a settlement in western Greenland in the Qeqqata municipality.||Berjaya Iceland Hotels’ Reykjavik Marina was a great choice for the expedition’s starting place. My flight from Dulles IAD arrived around 9 a.m. one day before the expedition’s scheduled departure. I used Flybus from KEF to the BSI bus terminal in Reykjavik’s town center; and then transferred to the bus that served the Reykjavik Marina. Within an hour after landing at KEF I was getting off the bus at a bus stop that was about two city blocks away from the hotel. ||Once off the bus, I backtracked, staying on the sidewalk where the bus let us off; and then turned left and left again, right into the marina. The hotel – a grey façade looking directly into the marina and its ship rehabilitation facility – was conveniently located, had a comfortable library, and provided a perfect starting point for this expedition.||Reception was cordial and understandably not able to put me in my room just then – I arrived around 10 a.m. and would need to wait until 3 p.m. to check in. So, I put my backpack into the hotel’s storage area and explored the local attractions. First on my list was The Lava Show, which was less than a 15-minute walk from the hotel. Awesome entertainment! ||Found lunch – fish and chips right across the street from the hotel, and had options for whale watching, ATV tours, and similar excursions. ||Upon returning to the hotel my room was ready – one flight of stairs (or I could use the elevator) and I found a comfortable small room, perfect for my needs. (There’s even a sign acknowledging the small size of the room, encouraging guests to visit the bar downstairs, which is exactly what I did.) The room was quiet, clean, had zero single-use plastic, a working blackout curtain, a window that opened to the outside, and a great restaurant and bar below the first floor.||Our expedition was set to depart before breakfast was served, so Quark and the hotel offered carry-out sack meals that did the job. We left the hotel around 6 a.m., boarded charter buses at the same bus stop that Flybus used, and from there we made our way to KEF...

Quark Expeditions offers small-ship (maximum between 150 and 199 passengers) polar expeditions into the Northwest Passage during the arctic summer. My expedition was to begin in late August 2025 and started with a stay at Reykjavik Marina - Berjaya Iceland Hotels. From there our group would take a chartered flight from Reykjavik to Kangerlussuaq, a settlement in western Greenland in the Qeqqata municipality.

Berjaya Iceland Hotels’ Reykjavik Marina was a great choice for the expedition’s starting place. My flight from Dulles IAD arrived around 9 a.m. one day before the expedition’s scheduled departure. I used Flybus from KEF to the BSI bus terminal in Reykjavik’s town center; and then transferred to the bus that served the Reykjavik Marina. Within an hour after landing at KEF I was getting off the bus at a bus stop that was about two city blocks away from the hotel.

Once off the bus, I backtracked, staying on the sidewalk where the bus let us off; and then turned left and left again, right into the marina. The hotel – a grey façade looking directly into the marina and its ship rehabilitation facility – was conveniently located, had a comfortable library, and provided a perfect starting point for this expedition.

Reception was cordial and understandably not able to put me in my room just then – I arrived around 10 a.m. and would need to wait until 3 p.m. to check in. So, I put my backpack into the hotel’s storage area and explored the local attractions. First on my list was The Lava Show, which was less than a 15-minute walk from the hotel. Awesome entertainment!

Found lunch – fish and chips right across the street from the hotel, and had options for whale watching, ATV tours, and similar excursions.

Upon returning to the hotel my room was ready – one flight of stairs (or I could use the elevator) and I found a comfortable small room, perfect for my needs. (There’s even a sign acknowledging the small size of the room, encouraging guests to visit the bar downstairs, which is exactly what I did.) The room was quiet, clean, had zero single-use plastic, a working blackout curtain, a window that opened to the outside, and a great restaurant and bar below the first floor.

Our expedition was set to depart before breakfast was served, so Quark and the hotel offered carry-out sack meals that did the job. We left the hotel around 6 a.m., boarded charter buses at the same bus stop that Flybus used, and from there we made our way to KEF...

2 stars are for the location. Day 1 The woman at the front desk was very nice & told us a room was ready early which doesn’t usually happen she pointed out. We thought it was a win. The room was clean & what we expected as hotel rooms come. We asked for a room on the marina side. It’s THE reason why we chose this hotel. We got one on the main road side. It ruined our trip. The room was incredibly warm. We turned the heat completely off and opened the windows thinking how lovely it would be to have fresh air. Nope! After a sleepless night due to either being so hot we had to cool off by opening the windows to having to close the windows because the traffic was so loud. The hotel is at an intersection so it wasn’t even a flow of traffic wherrring by. It was stop & go & stop and go constantly. After the second night we asked to move to the marina side. We didn’t ask after the first night because the countries hotel workers were on strike so we didn’t want to add to the already overwhelmed staff. Whe we asked the man at the front desk if we could switch rooms, we were told that there was no other rooms & that other people have altasked because they were hot too & they were first, and to maybe ask tomorrow. It was an odd exchange. I chalked it up to language/cultural barrier kind of thing. Day 3 we left the windows open while we were out all day to try & cool off the room for the night. It didn’t help. Side note, it was so warm I never got under the covers. Night 3, windows open, room hot, traffic wherring. Then the music! At 10:30pm the base of the music in the bar started. I went downstairs to ask how long it would be going. 1 am I was told. I asked the front desk man if there was any way to move rooms, that we’d asked, that we were here for adventures that included early mornings so we really wanted to get some sleep. He was so rude. He cut me off mid sentence and said “It will not happen.” And he walked away into the back room. Obviously over a review I can’t convey how rude it was, but I was honestly shocked. I was literally left standing in the lobby wondering if he was coming back or what. Other people in the lobby noticed it because as I walked back to the elevator to go to my room a few people gave me a knowing look. I wouldn’t recommend this hotel. It was a massive...