The National University Hospital Hotel is located at the hospital on Hringbraut (see map), opposite the women's department.
The hotel has 75 rooms, including accessible rooms for individuals with mobility impairments and larger family rooms. The hotel is connected to the hospital by corridors in the basement.
Visiting hours are the same as at the National University Hospital, and staff are available at the reception 24 hours a day.
Guests have access to a dining room, lounges, and a sunroom.
Eligibility
The hospital hotel is for patients and their relatives who need to stay away from home due to examinations, treatment, or other healthcare services.
Requirements
Guests at the hospital hotel must:
Have completed treatment in an inpatient ward and be in stable physical and mental condition.
Be self-sufficient and able to perform activities such as dressing, maintaining personal hygiene, using the restroom, and obtaining food and drink.
Be able to get in and out of bed or the restroom independently. Those who need assistance must have a relative with them for safety.
Bring their own assistive devices (wheelchairs, walkers, and crutches).
Bring their own medications but can receive assistance from nurses regarding medications and administration.
Length of Stay
Cost of Stay
The cost for patients is 1.890 krónur per day.
The cost for relatives is 6.860 krónur per day.
Uninsured individuals pay 41.395 krónur per day for a stay based on 1 guest in a room and 49.273 krónur per day if there are two guests in the room.
Children who are patients pay nothing for their stay.
The first accompanying person pays nothing for their stay but pays a meal fee of 4.790 krónur per day.
The second accompanying person pays for both the stay and meals, totaling 6.628 krónur per day.
Children as accompanying persons from ages 1 to 13 pay half the meal fee, which is 1.889 krónur per day, but no accommodation fee.
Full board, prepared on-site, is included. Meals cannot be excluded from the daily fee.
Request for Stay
The healthcare provider submits a request for accommodation at the hospital hotel for the patient.
Facilities and service
The hospital hotel offers a single room with two beds, where family members can stay with a patient for a fee.
All rooms have a refrigerator, reading lights, TV, telephone, safe and internet. The hotel is smoke-free, vape-free, and free from alcohol and drugs. Not following these rules may result in being asked to leave.
All rooms have a spacious bathroom with a shower, shower chair, and hairdryer. Specially equipped rooms with wheelchair access or specialized equipment are allocated according to individual needs.
It is possible to book a wheelchair-accessible room, and one room is specially adapted for people with limited mobility. This room has an overhead lift from the bed to the bathroom, and there is the option to connect it to an adjacent room for companions or family members.
Please contact the hospital hotel in advance if the patient has significant mobility impairment or requires assistive devices.
Room Cleaning
Rooms are cleaned and beds are changed once a week.
Sunroom
The sunroom is on the 4th floor and offers beautiful views over the city. Quality coffee is available there, provided by the hotel.
Kitchen facilities
Rooms with kitchen facilities are on the 3rd floor. There is a microwave, heating stove, stove and oven. Guests leave by themselves if they use the kitchen facilities of the hospital hotel.
Laundry room
Guests have access to a laundry room with washing machine, drying rack and dryer.
The hotel’s restaurant is for registered guests and offers hot meals at lunch and dinner.
Breakfast
weekdays from 8 to 9:30
weekends from 8:30 to 10
Lunch
Dinner
Room service
In special circumstances, it is possible to order meals to your room, in consultation with a nurse.
Patients can contact the nurses on the 1st floor. The nurses provide monitoring and counselling, and their duties include:
Advice and support in accordance with the patient’s medical condition
Planning of treatments and interventions
Monitoring of vital signs
Administering medication
Wound care
Fall prevention
Care of drains and stomas
Responding to unexpected deterioration
The patient hotel received 81% in the building’s design certification and was therefore awarded an “Excellent” rating according to the BREEAM system. This is the highest rating a building has received in BREEAM design certification in Iceland.
The assessment considered environmental management, health and wellbeing, energy, transport, water, building materials, waste, land use, ecology, and pollution. Particular attention was given to aspects that improve the building’s indoor environment, especially air quality and the choice of building materials such as flooring, ceiling materials, paint, adhesives, and varnishes. These materials contain volatile organic compounds (VOCs), such as formaldehyde, below specified limits. The project also scored highly for access to sustainable transport, including good facilities for cyclists and electric car charging stations.
