travel42 Hotel Review: The Retreat Hotel

The Retreat Hotel travel42 Professional Hotel Review

Location and History

This luxury hotel enjoys an enviable location by the country's most famous attraction, the Blue Lagoon. It is more convenient to the airport than many city hotels (45 minutes away in Reykjavik), and many guests book this on their first or last night in Iceland since the airport is less than a half-hour's drive.

Geothermal energy powers the hotel's hot water, electricity and heating systems.

This hotel is built into the lava flow itself and is making w...