Edda Hotel Laugum Sælingsdal**

Location

The hotel is situated in a grassy valley surrounded by low mountains, in the Dalir district north of the Snæfellsnes peninsula.

Laugar is one of two farms in the Sælingsdalur valley.

Laugar (Warm Springs) derives its name from two springs that provide water at a temperature of 60°C. The sagas mention a bathing pool at Laugar in olden times; traces of old structures remain at one of the springs, which is now largely covered by a landslide, and this is believed to have been the old bathing spring. The other spring is used to heat the buildings and swimming pool at Laugar.

Rooms

23 rooms with washbasin
22 rooms with shower
60 sleeping-bag accommodation
Meeting facilities
Restaurant

Facilities

22 rooms with telephone, TV and private bath. These rooms are classified as three-star, Hotel Edda Plus.

Adjacent to the hotel is a campsite and a modern open-air swimming pool with hot pot.

Surroundings

The picturesque country around Laugar makes for pleasant excursions, whether by car or on foot. An easy walk from Laugar is Tungustapi, a rocky outcrop which, according to folklore, is an elven church.

At Eiríksstaðir in Haukadalur, a replica of a Saga Age farmstead has been built, to commemorate Eiríkur (Erik) the Red, settler of Greenland, and his son Leifur Eiríksson (Leif the Lucky), who discovered America around 1000 AD.