Longyearbyen Hotels - Reviews and Rates

So here we are. We landed in Spitsbergen last night at shortly before midnight (in broad daylight). We've had the day here in town - exploring the place didn't take long, as you can see from the photo it's not huge! It's definitely weird, the not getting dark thing. It's looked pretty much the same outside the whole time. And the hotel hasn't ha...

Hi Mates!!! an good austrian adage says "one picture says more than thousand words" so here they are =) brief details of our trip from 20.7-15.8.2008 to svalbard spitsbergen, 1. day plane: vienna - munich - oslo - longyearbyen 2. day resting and organizational matters 3. day boattravel to the ghosttown pyramiden 4.-8. day hikes around pyramiden ...

I was fairly sore in the morning from the hike the previous day. After breakfast we checked out of Guesthouse 102 and stuffed our luggage in the storage area under the building. The weather had turned for the worst and it was blowing and rainy. Definitely much colder than previous days, too. The day's activity was for us to visit Mine 3 and take...

The library in Longyearbyen has free wifi, otherwise it is very hard to come by here. There are apparently 3 or 4 hotels that have wifi. Of course, we are not at one of them. There is zero Internet available on the boat. The prices are a little better here because there are no taxes like on the main land. If I can just make it to the ship, I can...

We are headed to Longyearbyen from Tromso. We are flying in an SAS 737-800 and it is packed. I hear a lot of American English being spoken. I'd say most of the passengers are retirees going on their yearly eco-tour adventure. Longyearbyen is the northern headquarters for a couple cruise lines. We are going on one of these cruises. Apparently, in...

We got up at 6.15am and breakfast at the hotel before being picked up by tour company at 8.15am and driven the their office to change into snow suits and have a very brief introduction into driving a snowmobile. We left at 9.45am for a 10 hour trip to the east coast of Svalbard and back. S was given a few chances to get up to speed for the trip ...

After a lot of hesitation again due to the high price of excursions, I've booked for the whole day an excursion with snowscooter (skidoo). At the end it was a very good choice! Program: Riding a 400 CC skidoo at around 60km/h during 8 hours Safari for seals and huge valley ending up with a glacier. The seals where juøping in their hole if we wer...

78' 12,100N 015' 35,237 (3308km from home) If you check one position in my trip you can check this one with google earth First of all, if you are going near the north pole, please make sure that there is no marathon! I arrived in Svalbard (for those who wants to read a book in english: Northern lights from Philippe Pullman) in the beginning of t...

From the R/V Jan Mayen (although it took us a while to get the camera ready, and the pics are not from very close), we saw a polar bear. Those were very tense minutes, because before we saw it, the captain of the ship warned us about the high probability of encountering one, as we were approaching the limit of the drift ice. It became true. It h...