Plans for a trawler floating hotel in Iceland
Could visitors to Iceland one day be spending the night in a trawler like this? Photo: Sigurður Bogi Sævarsson
Icelandic company Flostel has ambitious plans to convert a 40-year-old fishing trawler into a floating hotel – but location is proving a problem.
The company plans to buy an old Iceland wet-fish trawler, Bjartur NK-121, and run it as novelty hotel accommodation just off the Icelandic coastline.
The company recently presented their plans to Associated Icelandic Ports, with a view to mooring the new ‘floatel’ at Reykjavik Harbour. AIP management were not happy with the proposed location and rejected the application on that basis.
“That said, the idea could still come to fruition – they just need to find a different place to install the vessel,” says Harbour Master Gísli Gíslason. “I have been asked to talk to Flostel and discuss the matter further.”
