Akureyri City Center Travel Guide
Akureyri
Visit Akureyri City Center
Popular places to visit
Hof - Cultural Center and Conference Hall
Learn about the events happening in Hof - Cultural Center and Conference Hall during your trip to Akureyri. Discover the northern lights views in this walkable area or seek out the horse riding.
Akureyri Church
Akureyri Church is just one of the places to see in Akureyri, so why not enjoy the other things to explore during your travels? Discover the northern lights views in this walkable area or seek out the horse riding.
Forest Lagoon
You can take time to visit Forest Lagoon during your travels to Akureyri. Discover the area's northern lights views and shops.
Akureyri Botanical Garden
Explore the great outdoors at Akureyri Botanical Garden, a lovely green space in Akureyri. While in this walkable area, you can savour the top-notch restaurants.
Hlidarfjall
Commune with nature and explore the great outdoors at Hlidarfjall during your travels in Akureyri. While you're here, you can savour the top-notch restaurants.
Centre for Visual Arts
Enjoy an outing to Centre for Visual Arts during your stay in Akureyri. Discover the northern lights views in this walkable area or seek out the horse riding.
Top hotels in Akureyri City Center
Centrum Hotel
Excellent and clean room and very friendly staff!
Reviewed on 9 Mar 2026
Hotel Kea by Keahotels
Great room and lovely food, fantastic location. Staff were incredibly helpful after a family emergency, their support and assistance was invaluable and if I visit Akureyi again, I would definitely stay there again for that amazing customer service.
Reviewed on 27 Mar 2026
K16 apartments
Lovely well decorated apartment with everything we needed. Easy parking, excellent location. However, we booked an apartment with ocean views but were not allocated one which had ocean views.
Reviewed on 22 Mar 2026
Lava Apartments
The accomodation was clran and contained all we needed for a comfortable stay. Contact with staff was minimal but satisfactory. The heat of the shower water wasnt great. The lighting was inadewuate
Reviewed on 21 Jan 2026
Hafnarstræti Hostel
Great hostel, perfect location, very clean with plenty of bathrooms (which we were concerned about after reading other reviews). Staffless check-in worked fine. Oh, and excellent free coffee! Only complaint is that the pod was too warm, with no way to control the temperature apart from a fairly ineffective ...
Reviewed on 18 Feb 2026
Akureyri Backpackers
You have to rent a towel for $5 to take a shower in the basement.
Reviewed on 4 Oct 2025
Other neighbourhoods around Akureyri City Center
Oddeyrin
While there might not be top attractions in Oddeyrin, you can explore the larger area and discover places like Hof - Cultural Center and Conference Hall and Akureyri Botanical Garden.
Giljahverfi
While there might not be top attractions in Giljahverfi, you can explore the larger area and discover places like Akureyri Botanical Garden and Hof - Cultural Center and Conference Hall.
