Guidebook for Akureyri

Ragnheiður&Bjarni
Ragnheiður&Bjarni
Guidebook for Akureyri

Arts & Culture

Beautiful botanical garden with a very decent café.
Botanical Garden
Eyrarlandsvegur
Beautiful botanical garden with a very decent café.
This is a great little museum filled with nails, doorhandles, cups, wood and whatever else you can imagine immaculately arranged by the late Sverrir Hermannsson who was a carpenter in Eyjafjörður.
8 helybéli ajánlásával
Smámunasafn Sverris Hermannssonar
8 helybéli ajánlásával
This is a great little museum filled with nails, doorhandles, cups, wood and whatever else you can imagine immaculately arranged by the late Sverrir Hermannsson who was a carpenter in Eyjafjörður.
This museum is a true gem with Icelandic folk art as it´s focus. http://www.safnasafnid.is/en/
9 helybéli ajánlásával
Safnasafnið
9 helybéli ajánlásával
This museum is a true gem with Icelandic folk art as it´s focus. http://www.safnasafnid.is/en/
Sjónlistamiðstöðin, Center for Visual Arts is a must stop for art lovers. http://listasafn.akureyri.is/?page_id=497
Kaupvangsstræti
Kaupvangsstræti
Sjónlistamiðstöðin, Center for Visual Arts is a must stop for art lovers. http://listasafn.akureyri.is/?page_id=497
The library, one of the best in the country!
The Municipal Library of Akureyri
17 Brekkugata
The library, one of the best in the country!

Shopping

Flóra, in Hafnarstræti 90 is one of our favorite local stores in Akureyri and more then a store, a workshop and cultural center where you can get local handy craft, art and music.
Flóra - concept store - studios - shows
Hafnarstræti
Flóra, in Hafnarstræti 90 is one of our favorite local stores in Akureyri and more then a store, a workshop and cultural center where you can get local handy craft, art and music.
Eymundsson, 2 minutes from our house, is a great book store containing a very good café with a wifi.
11 helybéli ajánlásával
Penninn Eymundsson Akureyri
91 Hafnarstræti
11 helybéli ajánlásával
Eymundsson, 2 minutes from our house, is a great book store containing a very good café with a wifi.
This is Akureyri´s shopping center. Containing NETTÓ, the biggest grocery store in Akureyri, prices between Bónus and Hagkaup. Also clothing stores, restaurants, café´s and then some.
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Casa
13 helybéli ajánlásával
This is Akureyri´s shopping center. Containing NETTÓ, the biggest grocery store in Akureyri, prices between Bónus and Hagkaup. Also clothing stores, restaurants, café´s and then some.

Essentials

This is the cheapest grocery store in Iceland, offering all the basics.
69 helybéli ajánlásával
Bónus
Kjarnagata
69 helybéli ajánlásával
This is the cheapest grocery store in Iceland, offering all the basics.
A bit pricier then Bónus but with greater selection of gourmet stuff
30 helybéli ajánlásával
Hagkaup
17 Grenivellir
30 helybéli ajánlásával
A bit pricier then Bónus but with greater selection of gourmet stuff

Everything Else

This is our place! It is Hafnarstræti 86, a big green colored house. We are on the very top floor.
8 helybéli ajánlásával
Hafnarstræti
Hafnarstræti
8 helybéli ajánlásával
This is our place! It is Hafnarstræti 86, a big green colored house. We are on the very top floor.
This is our local pool with great hot pots and two 25 meter swmming pools in addition to a great steam bath!
65 helybéli ajánlásával
Sundlaug Akureyrar
4 Skólastígur
65 helybéli ajánlásával
This is our local pool with great hot pots and two 25 meter swmming pools in addition to a great steam bath!
This is a swimming pool with a GREAT view over Hörgárdalur.
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Þelamörk Swimming Pool
Þjóðvegur
9 helybéli ajánlásával
This is a swimming pool with a GREAT view over Hörgárdalur.
Akureyri´s cultural center. This is where the TOURIST INFORMATION center is located
18 helybéli ajánlásával
Hof Cultural and Conference Centre
12 Strandgata
18 helybéli ajánlásával
Akureyri´s cultural center. This is where the TOURIST INFORMATION center is located
If you are going to Mývatn (which we HIGHLY recommend) then you must visit this place and take a hot nice mud bath!
Jarðböðin við Mývatn
If you are going to Mývatn (which we HIGHLY recommend) then you must visit this place and take a hot nice mud bath!
Átak is one of our local work out places. This one has a great view over the harbor with a hot pot on the roof! http://www.atakak.is/
7 helybéli ajánlásával
Átak
14 Strandgata
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Átak is one of our local work out places. This one has a great view over the harbor with a hot pot on the roof! http://www.atakak.is/
Fjórðungssjúkrahús
Fjórðungssjúkrahús
The hospital!
Bílaleiga Akureyrar, Akureyri´s car rental company. One of the biggest in the country! http://www.holdur.is/en
National
Bílaleiga Akureyrar, Akureyri´s car rental company. One of the biggest in the country! http://www.holdur.is/en
This is our house!
8 helybéli ajánlásával
Hafnarstræti
Hafnarstræti
8 helybéli ajánlásával
This is our house!

Food Scene

Great burgers and if there is an game on they will broadcast it! http://www.akureyribackpackers.com/
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Akureyri Backpackers
26 helybéli ajánlásával
Great burgers and if there is an game on they will broadcast it! http://www.akureyribackpackers.com/
A great sushi restaurant. Reservations recommended but they also do take out! http://www.rub23.is/is/akureyri
81 helybéli ajánlásával
Rub23
81 helybéli ajánlásával
A great sushi restaurant. Reservations recommended but they also do take out! http://www.rub23.is/is/akureyri
Kung Fu Sticks&Sushi is a very decent restaurant with a good size menu. They also do take outs https://www.facebook.com/pages/Kung-Fu-Stickssushi/118366474895526
Brekkugata
Brekkugata
Kung Fu Sticks&Sushi is a very decent restaurant with a good size menu. They also do take outs https://www.facebook.com/pages/Kung-Fu-Stickssushi/118366474895526
a very nice café in one of the old beautiful houses in the pedestrian street with a great selection of cakes and also a nice lunch.
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Bláa Kannan
16 helybéli ajánlásával
a very nice café in one of the old beautiful houses in the pedestrian street with a great selection of cakes and also a nice lunch.
Located on the top floor of Skipagata 15 with a beautiful view from their balcony. Serving pizzas, burgers and other yammies of high quality! http://www.strikid.is/en
29 helybéli ajánlásával
Strikið
14 Skipagata
29 helybéli ajánlásával
Located on the top floor of Skipagata 15 with a beautiful view from their balcony. Serving pizzas, burgers and other yammies of high quality! http://www.strikid.is/en
A true gem in the coffee house choices of Akureyri! Nice outdoor seating on a sunny day.
17 helybéli ajánlásával
Kaffi Ilmur
107b Hafnarstræti
17 helybéli ajánlásával
A true gem in the coffee house choices of Akureyri! Nice outdoor seating on a sunny day.
Krua Siam a very decent and reasonably priced thai restaurant. Address: Strandgata 13, across from Hof cultural house.
Strandgata
Strandgata
Krua Siam a very decent and reasonably priced thai restaurant. Address: Strandgata 13, across from Hof cultural house.

Drinks & Nightlife

They have a very good happy hour at Icelandair hotel and it has a great outdoor patio and a very nice lobby where you can have drinks and snack also a quite good restaurant.
15 helybéli ajánlásával
Icelandair Hotel Akureyri
23 Þingvallastræti
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They have a very good happy hour at Icelandair hotel and it has a great outdoor patio and a very nice lobby where you can have drinks and snack also a quite good restaurant.
The bar, Múlaberg, is a very nice one with variety of cocktails and very nice in- and outside seating.
Hotel Kea by Keahotels
87-89 Hafnarstræti
The bar, Múlaberg, is a very nice one with variety of cocktails and very nice in- and outside seating.
The most popular bar in town. Open Thursdays-Saturdays. Gets pretty rowdy after midnight but a nice watering hole with variety of beer.
41 helybéli ajánlásával
Götubarinn
94c Hafnarstræti
41 helybéli ajánlásával
The most popular bar in town. Open Thursdays-Saturdays. Gets pretty rowdy after midnight but a nice watering hole with variety of beer.