Acco Guesthouse

Three friends and I stayed one night. We were given a code to enter both the building and the room. When we arrived, the room was under construction! We checked the Booking.com chat and that same day they had relocated us to a much more centrally located building in Akureyri. It was an entire apartment for the three of us. Beautiful, spacious, and completely renovated.

Confusingly this property has 2 names - Acco / Sulur guesthouse. I booked a family room with toilet, my room is spacious, heater works well, wifi is fast, shower is strong but the toilet is weirdly positioned. This would be a five stars if I'm reviewing the room only considering the value if offers. The kitchen is a huge letdown with space only enough for a single family and 6 seats. If you don't need to cook, this would be a far better experience instead of queuing to cook and taking turn to have meal while "pressuring" other guests to finish their meal.

The shower is only lock in one place and looking down. Youll have to bend your body and go so close to the walls so the water falls on you or hold the shower which is troublesome. You can hear everything from inside room. The loud people talking right outside the door is a kitchen. The people next door and cars driving outside even the boys just dribbling their basketball. You wont have a good sleep here, not even for one night. They didn’t even provide curtains here, only blinds that doesn’t really cover everything since some light can still get through even if you flip it closed—yes I know how to use a blind. The bedroom is very small—like a servant’s room and the mirror inside is broken. Even the bedsheets looked like they werent even folded properly before used to wrap the mattress. The pillowcases and comforter cover smell liked they haven’t been changed and already used but I can’t really tell since it’s in dark colors. I’m a frequent traveller and can tell with white sheets but on purpose, perhaps this accomodation used dark colors to cover it if they haven’t changed their sheets. Very old broken furnitures still in use. We stayed in another guesthouse in another town—Lyngas Guesthouse was so much better than this. Staying Lyngas Guesthouse is like a hotel room while this place “Acco” is like servant’s room like I mentioned. It seems the owners don’t bother to try to make it a comfortable stay to guests. To the owner: Please buy new and white sheets. All your zippers are broken and don’t even closed. You also used very old, thin and cheap pillows. It’s unfortunate that some guests wear there outdoor dirty shoes here even when there are signs everywhere. Acco Guesthouse late check in at 5pm---I’ve never seen anything so late and then very early check out. the owner wants to earn their money with the littlest effort and zero care for guests

We stayed one night in one of the cheapest rooms. Pros: a pretty good kitchen with everything you need for proper cooking and dishes. Cons: we arrived on December 22nd. The room was cold; we turned on the radiator and waited quite a while for it to warm up. The room is very small, but for some reason they even put a sink in there, which you can admire from the bed. 😅 The shower stall is very small. I found it extremely uncomfortable to shower in.