We are here now for a three night award stay.

Adam1222 ^ and NewbieRunner ^ have posted excellent photos that capture the essence of this property.

Our taxi driver got lost due to construction and one way streets, and had never heard f the Konsulat. Ultimately, we used my mobile phone navigation app to find the property. As you can see above, signage is minimalist dark brown on darkish wood in a very unassuming recessed entry area The best nearby landmark is the adjacent GOTT restaurant, which is the hotel’s breakfast room and restaurant. Taxi drivers are more familiar with GOTT, as it preceded the hotel’s opening by five years.

We arrived at the hotel at 11:00 am, check-in at 2:00 pm. All desk staff (two at a time during daytime hours) were very welcoming and helpful, to the point of making dining reservations, etc. We were upgraded to a Deluxe King room overlooking the street with construction going on weekdays 0900-1700 (5 pm). It can get noisy during those hours, though the rooms are well insulated.

There is no bell staff (or concierge), but there are trolleys in the entrance vestibule. The two lifts are on the small side and quite dark; one lift will accommodate a Bag trolley and two passengers. The lift requires you swipe your key over the WiFi symbol above the floor buttons.

The lobby is large and comfortable, and a good part of it doubles as seating for the bar. comfortable sofas, armchairs and the like prevail, so it’s like a really large living room with a clubby atmosphere. The bar is there too; they offer a happy hour 4-6 pm and a snack menu.

Rooms are accessed by a corridor that has a carpet designed to look like worn tapestry in off white and faded black, with dark green walls with two dark wood scrub strips preventing wall damage from the trolleys. The halls are a bit dark.

The room itself is spacious for European sizes, with a medium color wood floor, a strip nubby wool carpet, platform king bed covered with two half-width duvets and sporting with tufted grey headboard flanked by unadorned end tables, reading and general lamps, two USB and two recessed Euro outlets. At the foot of the bed is a leather-like brown sofa (trestle in the standard room) with small drum table.

There are small French-style balconies. You can go out on one, but there’s no room for furnishings, and even from the fourth floor views are quite limited. The room has a built in double armoire, but there is no chest of drawers and the number of hangers is small. The armoire has a laptop-sized safe, ironing set, and held two Turkish cotton bathrobes and pairs of carpet-type slippers.

There’s a desk niche adjacent to the armoire with lamp, dual Euro and USB outlets, and an armchair with hind legs that angle out - easy to stub a tie or hit the chair leg. Additionally there’s an armchair - imagine the hardness of an ultra-slimline airline seat - you get uncomfortable in quickly, and a huge flat screen television with remote. There is an empty mini fridge, coffee set and floor lamp. The lighting is not terribly bright. The blackout effect of the curtains is good for those here during “midnight sun” season.

The bathroom is light tile, and nearly stark. A closable closet contains the toilet, there’s a single sink with ample surround , supply of large, absorbent cotton toweling (including washcloths, not often found in European hotels) and a really huge shower stall with a really nice hansgrohe convertible rain or telephone shower. There is no US - Euro shaver outlet in the bathroom.

All guests get complimentary breakfast included. Breakfast offered ginger shots, juices, a variety of breads and pastries, cereals including oat meal, some fruits offerings, a cheese, butter and spreads, both spiced and marinated herring, a plate of lox, a server of scrambled eggs and another of bacon, fried eggs in square ceramic ramekins, hard boiled eggs and a couple of sliced breakfast meats like ham and a salami, spiced and marinated herring, lox, skyr. A large cappuccino machine was in need of cleaning, according to its flashing sign. The restaurant can become crowded for breakfast, and table bussing can be slow.

Check-out is at noon, but the staff are quite willing to store baggage if you’ll be out and about the day you’ll be checking in or out.

The “Diamond gift” is a box of chocolates, which we were told would be delivered to our room - and never was. And housekeeping, though largely very good, forgot to bring toilet paper.

So far, we are well satisfied with our stay. We depart soon.

Below: 1) GOTT restaurant street entrance sign (yellow circle), Komsulat Hotel entry and signage (red arrow).

2) Exit to easy access to Lækjargata, Bankastræti (which continues as Laugavegur, the big shopping street in Reykjavik)