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ION Adventure Hotel - Mount Hengill - Iceland

A hearty redesign covered the older, boxy part of the building in black cladding — in tandem with the raw concrete, it’s a perfect, volcanic-inspired camouflage against the rocky landscape.
ION’s guest rooms are decorated in a style that’s appropriate to the landscape, largely monochrome, with rough concrete walls, rich hardwood floors, and furniture made from reclaimed driftwood. The bedding is top-notch, and the bathrooms are suitably immersive and spa-like.

The hotel, true to its name, caters to just about any appetite for adventure, from relatively sedate horseback riding and fishing outings to hot spring visits, superjeep tours, glacier hikes, ice climbing, and even diving.
The hotel was refurbished and renovated by a Californian design studio. That studio, Minarc, is owned by a husband and wife, architect and interior designer, both Icelandic. The designer is Sverrisdóttir’s childhood friend from Reykjavík. They concentrate on sustainability so there was no question about it from the beginning.

Less than an hour outside of Reykjavik, on the edge of Þingvellir National Park, in a landscape of lichen and long-dormant lava fields, ION has the otherworldly landscapes angle covered.

It’s as green as anything, built largely from reclaimed and renewable materials, heated geothermically.
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