Hótel Búðir (Hotel Budir) is a hotel built near
Búðir
Church near Búðir, August 1989
Búðir (; also transliterated Búdir) is a small hamlet in Búðahraun lava fields in Staðarsveit, which is in the western region of Iceland, on the westernmost tip of the Snaefellsnes peninsula where Hraunh ...
, situated on a lava field on the westernmost tip of the
Snaefellsnes peninsula in west
Iceland
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. The hotel affords views over the
Atlantic
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coast and the glacier-topped
Snæfellsjökull
Snæfellsjökull (, ''snow-fell glacier'') is a 700,000-year-old glacier-capped stratovolcano in western Iceland. It is situated on the westernmost part of the Snæfellsnes peninsula. Sometimes it may be seen from the city of Reykjavík over Faxa ...
volcano and glacier,
and is located in a protected nature reserve.
The hotel is a three-hour drive north from
Keflavík International Airport
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.
History
The hotel originally opened as a guesthouse and fish restaurant
in 1947 on the site of an old apartment-store complex.
It was converted to a limited-liability company in 1956.
Icelandic author and Nobel prize winner
Halldor Laxness was a frequent guest in the hotel,
writing in a room which had views over the Snæfellsjökull glacier.
The Icelandic painter
Johannes Kjarval also stayed there.
The hotel was completely destroyed by a fire
on 21 February 2001, and the current hotel building was constructed on the site, opening as a hotel on 14 June 2003.
The hotel now has 28 bedrooms,
varying in size, aspect and amenities, and the hotel restaurant can seat eighty people.
Local amenities and activities
The only other building in the vicinity is Búðir church, a tiny black wooden nineteenth century building,
just a few minutes' walk from the hotel.
Some hotel guests use Búðir as a wedding venue.
Other activities include horse riding, glacier tours, sailing and hiking.
Gallery
File:Map of the Snæfellsnes peninsula.png, Snæfellsnes peninsula
File:Búðir1Snæfellsnes.JPG, The church at Búðir
File:Budavik seen from the Budir hotel (7271287280).jpg, View from the hotel
File:Región de Búðahraun, Vesturland, Islandia, 2014-08-14, DD 039.JPG, Location and landscape in the region of Búðahraun, Vesturland, Iceland
See also
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List of restaurants in Iceland
References
External links
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Hotels in Iceland
Restaurants in Iceland