Soti Lodge

Soti lodge was the perfect location for a women’s trip. Great food, really nice accommodations and location. The scenery was beautiful and quiet. Olof was a great host. She was knowledgeable about the area and able to help with any of our questions.

Lovely modern intimate country inn with 7 rooms and gorgeous mountain views. The inn keeper Ollie was friendly and happy to answer questions about life in Iceland. She's a fine baker, too. Substantial breakfast buffet and good coffee. What a refreshing change from big hotels.

Such a beautiful stay. We used the pool and hot tub before dinner. Comfortable rooms, food was amazing. Just a generally lovely stay.

Lovely small group accommodations. Dinner was included and really delicious 3 course meal. Good spread for breakfast too. Recommended!

We had a lovely time at Soti Lodge, Arrived after long drive from Grundafur to warm welcome from staff and a relaxing soak in the pool. Dinner was delicious soup , cod in lemon sauce with salad and barley, and a creamy rice pudding with strawberries. Evening walk up the valley. Comfy beds. Next day we went to the excellent herring museum in Siglufjordur and to botanical gardens in akureyei. Discovered GoHusky just outside Akureyei where you can visit, hike, or in winter sled with friendly huskies. Another dip in pool and hot tub. Dinner was outstanding with a salad, lamb with roast potatoes, garlic cream sauce and veg followed by perhaps the best ice cream ever (vanilla caramel). Breakfast is a buffet with cheeses, eggs , meats, home baked bread, yogurt, fruit and pastries including addictive French canele. We didn’t do a horse ride but we saw others from the farm across the road at full ‘tolt’! Good blackout curtains and very quiet rural location with views of mountains and sea,

We were disappointed by this place which cost us €360 per night. The lodge website implies that this is a hotel which offers a range of activities, bookable trips and local information. Indeed, at reception area there is a poster advertising exactly this and urging guests to contact and book. Yet the young girl who gave us our key said that no activities were available for us and we could not book any. She could not advise on on the local area or hiking and could not give us any information on what we could do apart from the school swimming pool next door and a number for a riding stable. The pool was not well maintained and was always full of noisy local children and families during our stay. I was surprised at the low occupancy of this lodge in high season. Just us and one other family. The breakfast was a disgrace at this price- see photos. Cheap supermarket cheese and ham. No warm dishes or fresh pancakes, cakes etc as in other places we have stayed. We saw no evidence of the local, seasonal or artisan produce promised on the website even though there was a farm making cheeses just down the road. The evening meals were plain meat/ fish and veg. We asked for a packed lunch and were told they could do a ham salad roll for 2500 ISK each and that was it as not enough notice. We had not been asked the day before about lunch or given any options. I only knew that they did packed lunches by reading old reviews here. This was the only place we stayed in Iceland which did not send a welcome email a day or two before with information about the the property and the area or about food options. We did not see any management or owners, just the young girls giving keys, cleaning and serving food. The exclusive Deplar Farm is in this area and we began to wonder if they had creamed off the experienced staff from Soti as so different was our stay from old reviews. We regretted our booking of this lodge and in our opinion their website is deceptive. Perhaps they are selling up and no longer care much.