travel42 Hotel Review: ION, The Adventure Hotel, a Design Hotel

ION, The Adventure Hotel, a Design Hotel travel42 Professional Hotel Review

Location and History

This is Iceland's uber-modern showpiece, at the base of a volcano, appearing in numerous advertisements for the country to demonstrate its forward-thinking progress in architecture and lifestyle. Although it is in the Icelandic wilderness, it is only an hour away from Reykjavik.

Its design is meant to roll right into the surrounding landscape without standing out like a traditional hotel (it is built into the mountain itself), and the hotel is positioned ...