Recently Reviewed Hotels around Longyearbyen

• Gjestehuset 102 (Guest House 102)
  "Great posh hostel very friendly people"
  "I have just stayed at Guesthouse 102 for 5 days as part of a group. It's a great guesthouse, like a posh hostel really, with basic rooms and shared bathrooms. The showers are great, and even when the guesthouse was full, always free, and breakfast is included. There is a full kitchen with shared ..."fridges to store food and make tea or full meals if you want. Trond, who runs it, is a great guy, so helpful. It is about 20 mins walk from town but taxis are very quick if you need to get somewhere fast. Just bring a warm coat! " More >
• Spitsbergen Guesthouse
  "If you're going to the North Pole..."
  "So, in a mild bout of unchecked insanity yet again, I had decided to go on an expedition to the geographic North Pole, called "The Last Degree" for charity. If you want to read about that, go here: www.facebook.com/s1edger. I had been training furiously and was pretty much exhausted before I even g..."ot there. Pulling 45kg sleds around London parks in skimpy Lycra will take it out of you. So I met my expedition leader and comrades at LHR and we took the SAS flight to Oslo and then a connecting flight to Longybearen/Svalbard. Try and get a window for the approach and you will witness a small portion of the icy majesty that is the "Arctic Circle". The airport itself is fairly basic and does not suffer from the same malaise as big airports tend to do ie we shot through security and collected our kit bags with relative ease. Exiting through the revolving door, the seriousness of my undertaking became very real as I was greeted with one of coldest icy blasts I have ever felt. And I speak as a... " More >
• Spitsbergen Hotel
  "If you've just come back from the North Pole..."
  "Well, after having spent the previous night at Mary's in Longybearen (see previous review), we then had to move to our new hotel, the Spitsbergen Hotel. A fine place indeed. No wonder Prince Harry came here. We stowed our kit bags here here and moved on up to our rooms. Nice rooms. Spacious with goo..."d shower/bathroom facilities. The bed was extremely comfortable and the view was pretty good. All in all, a fairly well decked out room. However, for me, the rest of hotel was more appealing. The staff were great and couldn't have been more helpful. For example, I had inadvertently pressed down too hard on the toilet button and sent it flying into the the cistern. Perplexed, I sought out help and through a series of hand gestures (don't ask), I managed to enlist the help of a Thai (yes, Thai) hotel maid who came into the bathroom and duly showed me how useless a plumber I would never become. She duly fixed the problem in a flash. I thanked her profusely. The reception staff are friendly, eff... " More >