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This is Exeter

We're not really a hotel. We're where Reykjavík keeps its energy and happens to have 106 beds.

Close view of the Exeter Hotel facade with its illuminated sign, dark windows, a young tree, and a large blurred golden foreground shape.

Smiling woman holding an open city map inside Exeter Hotel, seated against a green upholstered wall.

The Exeter Hotel welcomes you to Reykjavik.

Exeter opened in 2018 in an old industrial building steps from the Old Harbour, right in
the middle of 101.

Since then it's become the thing we always wanted it to be: a place where locals grab coffee, travelers figure out their night, and everyone ends up at the same bar. The room is where you sleep. Everything else is the reason you'll want to come back.

Woman in a black shirt pointing to a city map while smiling inside Exeter Hotel’s green-toned lobby.

Interior of a DEIG bakery counter with a large illustrated menu, shelves of pastries and bagels, and a customer waiting at the counter.

Sunlit view across Exeter Hotel’s courtyard and surrounding buildings, with rooftop seating, balconies, and a bright blue sky.

Two DEIG bakery staff members standing behind a service counter with a coffee machine, menu, and Icelandic lamb sign.

Four people gathered in a bright lounge, talking around a small table with flowers and wine glasses beside a mustard-yellow sofa and framed abstract artwork.

Work with us

Good people make Exeter Exeter. Bartenders, hosts, creatives, night owls, if this is your kind of place, come work here.

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The building

Steps from the Old Harbour, in the beating centre of the city.

Industrial bones, modern edges, and a courtyard at the heart of it all where guests mingle, plot the day, or do gloriously little. Walk out the front door and Reykjavík does the rest, harbour on one side, Austurvöllur and Laugavegur buzzing on the other, everything within a stroll.

The rooms

106 of them, from smart doubles to suites, including a top-floor suite with a balcony that looks straight out at Mt. Esja and the harbour, 50m² of "I'm not leaving this room… actually, let's go out." All designed for late nights, slow mornings, and everything in between.

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Bright lounge with four people talking around a coffee table, beside a mustard sofa, concrete wall, flowers, and framed artwork.

Sip & taste

You don't have to go far, or anywhere at all. Deig bakes fresh every morning, Le Kock slings the best burgers and street food in the building, and Tail pours cocktails, natural wine, and bottoms-up draft beer late into the night.

Want to venture out? You're perfectly placed for the Old Harbour's restaurant row and the whole downtown buzz. Your call.

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Overhead close-up of a sesame-seed burger with greens and crispy toppings beside loaded fries covered with avocado, spring onions, sauce, and crunchy garnish, while a hand holds a fork above the meal.

Modern hotel room with sheer curtains, a large window, a black armchair, concrete wall, pendant lamp, and television.

Unwind, revitalize, repeat

Exeter has corners worth discovering. A courtyard for daylight, a generous lounge for lingering, and a sauna and relaxation room for the days the city ran long. There's a gym too, if you're the sort who works out on holiday, no judgment. However you reset, you'll leave lighter than you arrived.

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