Hjalteyri Hot Tub

The whole place is one tub. No reception, no ticket window, no attendant — a changing room, a bathroom and a hot pot facing the water. The catch is the valve behind the bathroom door. It feeds hot water to the tub, and if you leave it shut you spend the visit in a lukewarm bath. Open it, and the water comes up to around 40°C.

The view runs out across the fjord and back over the village. Dolphins have been seen from the water here, and whales surface and blow within sight of the tub. Another use for it is warming up after a dive at Strytan, out in the fjord.

• One tub only. There is no second pool. If someone else is already in it, you wait.
• Open the valve. It is behind the bathroom door and heats the tub. Leave it shut and the water stays lukewarm.
• Bring cash. Payment goes into a box by the changing room — 700 kr per person as of mid-2026, towards maintenance.
• Suitable for children. There is a changing room on site.

Hjalteyri is a small village on the western shore of Eyjafjörður, a short drive north of Akureyri on the road towards Dalvík. No regular bus runs to the tub, so come by car. The village is easy to find, and the hot tub sits among the old harbour buildings at the water's edge.

Better: spring and summer for the wildlife. Dolphins have been seen from the tub in May and whales in August, and they come close to the shore.

Avoid: writing it off as a summer stop. The tub is used through the winter, including in a March snow storm.

The interest here is the water and what passes in front of it, so the weather matters less than the season does.