Hótel Eyvindará (Egilsstaðir, Iceland)

Welcome to Eyvindará: About your hosts My name is Sigurbjörg Inga Flosadóttir and my husband is Ófeigur Pálsson. We took over Guesthouse Eyvindará in March 2007. Up to then, it was a Bed & Breakfast run by a couple called Bogi and Erla. It was a small cosy home consisting of four rooms with shared bathroom and three cottages. They had been running it for a long time and were ready to retire. They had succeeded in creating a wonderful atmosphere, which we wanted to build on. Today, the name has changed to Hotel Eyvindará. This is because we have got bigger, thanks to hard work in improving our facilities and teaching our staff to make your stay unforgettable. We are always improving and we recently changed our logo into its current look. The logo is inspired by the mountain Skagafell (987 m), which is clearly visible from the restaurant windows. Eyvindará gets its name from the nearby river Eyvindará. It used to be one of Iceland’s major weather stations and, if we go even further back to around the year 1000, the Icelandic Sagas say that the burial mound of the legendary Helgi Droplaugarson is in the land of Eyvindará. I graduated in Tourism Studies after having worked as a farmer and fish-processing educator. I have always had a passion for my country – before I bought Hotel Eyvindará, I was the manager of the Information Centre of the East of Iceland for many years. My husband Ófeigur is a carpenter and worked for many years as a fisherman. He also studied Agriculture at the Agricultural University of Iceland in Hvanneyri. This experience was perfect for us, because it has enabled us to divide up the tasks at the hotel. Ófeigur is responsible for fixing things when they break and takes care of planning and managing the buildings that we have been adding since we started. Our son, Flosi, graduated in American Theatre from Rose Bruford College (UK) and has been helping us out at the hotel for ten years. We really hope you will have a wonderful stay with us and we can’t wait to meet you. Hlökkum til að sjá ykkur, Sibba, Ófeigur & Flosi