Budget Stays in Þingeyri, Iceland
Off Route 60 on Dýrafjörður fjord, Þingeyri's three more affordable stays are all guesthouses rather than hotels, which keeps rates down across the Westfjords generally. Gemlufall guesthouse offers farm-stay rooms with a kitchenette for self-catering. The Guesthouse by the Fjord runs family and standard rooms with a shared bathroom option on the harbour street. KEX Þingeyri, in a renovated 1947 stone house, includes breakfast in its rate and shared bathroom facilities in most rooms. None publishes a fixed nightly rate, so guests should compare current prices directly on the booking page.
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What Each Rate Actually Includes
Gemlufall guesthouse keeps costs down for longer stays through its kitchenette in every room, letting guests cook rather than rely on Þingeyri's single restaurant for every meal. Its farm setting adds barbecue facilities and picnic spots at no extra charge, useful for a family trying to stretch a Westfjords budget across several driving days. The trade-off is distance: guests save on dining out but spend more time driving in and out of the village for anything beyond the farm itself, which adds fuel cost that should factor into any real budget comparison.
A middle path sits at The Guesthouse by the Fjord, with a shared kitchen, free on-site private parking and family rooms with private bathrooms, all on the harbour street inside the village. Reviews rate its location 8.4 for general guests and 8.5 for couples specifically, suggesting the value holds up for both groups. Its central position also cuts fuel and time costs that a farm stay outside the village adds, since the pool and restaurant are both a short walk rather than a drive, a saving that compounds over a multi-night stay.
KEX Þingeyri takes the opposite approach: breakfast is included as a buffet, and the restaurant serves dinner on-site, which can work out cheaper than self-catering for a short one or two-night stay where buying groceries isn't worth it. Set in a renovated 1947 stone house on Hafnarstræti, most rooms use shared bathroom facilities rather than private ones, the usual trade guesthouses make to keep rates down. Free on-site parking is also listed, useful for anyone driving the Westfjords loop on a budget without adding a paid parking cost on top of the room rate.
Across all three, the honest budget picture in Þingeyri is that low prices come from guesthouse-style service, not from being cheap versions of a hotel. Shared bathrooms, no 24-hour desk and self-catering kitchenettes are standard here rather than compromises, and none of the three lists a swimming pool or spa on-site, so budget travellers should plan on the short walk to Þingeyri's own village pool if that matters to the stay, rather than expecting it bundled into any of the three room rates on offer in the village right now.
Þingeyri doesn't have the kind of tourist pricing pressure a Golden Circle town does, since it sees a fraction of the visitor numbers passing through Reykjavík's usual day-trip radius. Guesthouses here price closer to a working Westfjords village than a tourist hub, though remoteness itself adds cost to groceries and fuel that a Route 60 traveller should factor in separately from the room rate, especially the further south a loop continues past the village.