We are fantastically well located in the centre of Reykjavik 101, warm, cozy and welcoming. All Reykjavik’s main attractions, including her best restaurants, bars, cafes and shops are within a stone´s throw. We have come home to Reykjavik to raise our family and know the city, its language and culture intimately. We love it here. We love Airbnb too – we seem to attract incredibly friendly and inquisitive guests of all ages, be they single travelers, couples, families or groups of friends. The house is a traditional timber built Icelandic house, warm and snug throughout the year as heated with Iceland’s famous hydro-thermic hot water. “Thor's Room" is a small private room designed for single occupancy. It is a little room, primarily a sleeping space, is upstairs and looks out over our street. We have other private guest bedrooms in the house, including larger standard single rooms if you would like more space. All our guests have access to two shared bathrooms, two sitting rooms, a dining area and to a kitchen which can be used for heating up food and snacks but not for cooking full meals. We do not offer breakfast for the very good reasons that we are not licenced to serve food and there are so many excellent bakeries and coffee houses so locally; these open very early. Our house itself is quite well known, and is listed. It was a bicycle shop for fifty years, the first of these in Iceland, and as such it is much loved in Reykjavik, especially by people who bought their first bike here a generation ago. Your private bedroom, two shared sitting rooms, kitchen, dining room. There are three shared bathrooms which are exclusively for the use of guests. There is a back yard with attractive golden rowan trees in it which is a nice aspect out of the windows, but this is part of our family space and not part of the guesthouse strictly speaking. I am half English / half Icelandic, born and bred in Reykjavik, and am native in both languages. This is my home as I grew a couple of hundred meters away in Njalsgata street. My husband and children (by upbringing) are English. Be in touch before you travel to allow us to help you have the best possible experience of Iceland. Once you book Fergus will send you a list of tips and suggestions as well as directions for a stress free arrival. We are located in Þingholtinn, the meeting place as it was called at the time of the settlement, between the city lake with its small park and the great church of Hallgrimskirkja. The National Gallery is a 2 min walk and most of the other galleries in Reykjavik are not much further. The main shopping streets Skólavörðustígur and Laugavegur are around the corner. Harpa concert hall is 7 minute's on foot and the old harbour about 10. We have more restaurants and bars within a 5 minute radius than I can list and we recommend some of these in the Guidebook. Because we are so central we walk everywhere. If you are planning trips beyond the city, the main excursion companies pick up either from City Hall 3 minutes down the hill or from Hallgrimskirkja 3 minutes up the hill. The central bus station BSI and the domestic airport are an easy walk away unless you have heavy baggage. I will order taxis which will get you there in under 5 minutes if I can't run you down there myself. If you have a car there is some free parking up at Hallgrimskirkja church. Our road has parking meters but these are not expensive at all relative to other capital cities (ISK 150 per hour - ie £1 or $1.30); these are in force on weekdays and on Saturdays, and are free on Sundays and on national holidays. Be in touch before you travel to allow us to help you have the best possible experience of Iceland. Once you book I would be happy to send you a list of tips and suggestions as well as directions for a stress-free arrival. Reykjavik is served by hydro-thermally heated hot water. Our hot water is hot and plentiful therefore and each bedroom has a radiator with an adjustable regulator. Don't be cold. Turn your radiator up if you wish.