Adventure Hotel Hof

Our staff is friendly and welcoming. They are young and ambitious boys and girls from different European countries. We have staff from UK, Sweden, Poland, and Portugal. They will try to make your stay comfortable and calm.

Hof in Öræfi has been a ecclesiastical site for almost 700 years, and is first mentioned in a cartulary from 1343. Hofskirkja Church was dedicated to saint Clement. The core of the current church at Hof was built in 1884, and was the last turf church built in the old Icelandic architectural style. Its walls are assembled of rocks and its roof made of stone slabs, covered in turf. The reredos in Hofskirkja Church was painted by the artist Ólafur Túbals. Hofskirkja Church is one of six churches, in Iceland still standing which are preserved as historical monuments. Today, Hof in Öræfi inhabits around 20 people, with permanent residence on 5 estates. Circumstances have thus changed vastly since the late 19th century, when Hof was populated by around 130 people living on 13 small farms. Sheep cultivation and horse breeding have for the most part, been the primary source of livelihood for the people residing at Hof, but tourism has been steadily growing as a profession, both there and in the surrounding areas.