Assessment: Hilton Backyard Inn Faroe Islands

My accomplice Jessy and I stayed on the Hilton Backyard Inn Faroe Islands, located simply exterior the Faroese capital of Tórshavn, for 3 nights throughout our go to. 

As the one main chain lodge in all the self-governing archipelago, the Hilton Backyard Inn can be the one lodge that’s bookable on factors in an in any other case dear vacation spot.

Hilton Backyard Inn Faroe Islands – Reserving

The money charge for our particular dates was upwards of $500+ (CAD) per night time. The money value was fairly steep, so we opted to redeem 50,000 Hilton Honors factors per night time as an alternative.

It is a pretty costly a part of the world to start with, and mixed with this summer time’s phenomenon of “revenge journey”, the elevated money charge wasn’t too stunning.

It was good to get such good worth from our Hilton Honors factors. We’d ordinarily worth Hilton factors at 0.6 cents per level (cpp) (CAD), however we managed to get a redemption worth of 1cpp+ at this property, which was fairly satisfying.

I’ve been accumulating Hilton Honors factors for fairly just a few years now and not using a compelling option to redeem, so I used to be fairly pleased to spend 50,000 factors per night time right here within the Faroe Islands.

Hilton Backyard Inn Faroe Islands – Location

The Hilton Backyard Inn is situated on the northern fringe of Tórshavn, the capital metropolis of the Faroe Islands.

It’s a leisurely 20-minute stroll to the town centre, which was a great way to get some steps in and absorb our environment as we headed downtown.

The lodge can be located pretty near the freeway, making it a simple launchpad for exploring the remainder of the Faroe Islands. In lower than three minutes, you’ll end up on the principle street to different in style locations.

It was a 50-minute drive from Vágar Worldwide Airport in our rental automobile. As we arrived on the lodge, we had been happy to seek out free parking within the outside parking zone.

The constructing is sandwiched between two parallel streets which can be on totally different elevations. There’s a sideroad main down from the upper street to the lodge’s parking zone, and there’s additionally a paved pathway out there for pedestrians to entry the decrease street.

Hilton Backyard Inn Faroe Islands – Verify-in

After parking, we walked as much as and admired the lodge, or reasonably the reflection of the attractive surroundings bouncing off of the lodge’s glass window façade.

There was additionally grass rising on the roof, which made the lodge mix completely into the environment. We’d later uncover that this was a quite common roofing model everywhere in the Faroes. 

The home windows offered ample pure daylight all through the foyer as we entered. Within the foyer, there are just a few totally different seating areas, in addition to a fire, with outsized incandescent lightbulbs dangling from the ceiling.

Our keep occurred to overlap with a two-day Faroese nationwide vacation referred to as Ólavsøka (St. Olaf’s Day). The lodge was pretty full, and on our third night time, it was utterly booked up.

Sadly for us, this meant that there was no suite improve forthcoming with my Hilton Diamond standing.

Had there been availability, the very best suite we might’ve been upgraded to would have been the King Junior Suite. In our case, we had been merely handled to a King Room with View, which was nonetheless an improve from the base-level King Room into which we had initially booked.

The check-in course of was easy and fast. 

As we completed our check-in, we had been informed that we had breakfast included with our Hilton Diamond standing, in addition to two bottles of nonetheless or glowing water from the foyer market per day. Naturally, we tried just a few totally different flavours of water all through our keep.

After grabbing our glowing waters, we made our means over to the elevators and as much as our room.

Hilton Backyard Inn Faroe Islands – King Room with View

We had been assigned Room 426, situated on the lodge’s fourth flooring. The hallways are clear and fashionable, lined with a blue carpet and accented by giant picket door frames.

As we entered our house base for the subsequent few days, our first impression was that the décor was very… inexperienced.

Within the entryway, there’s an open closet, which additionally functioned as the baggage rack. The room then opens as much as the bed room, which has a inexperienced headboard, a inexperienced ottoman, a inexperienced chair on the desk, and a inexperienced chaise lounge.

The view from the window was additionally very inexperienced.

I discovered this to be a barely uncommon color motif for a lodge – one which I actually hadn’t seen earlier than to this extent.

The comfy mattress was accompanied by hanging lamps and round picket aspect tables. There have been loads of retailers on both aspect for charging our units.

On the foot of the mattress is a big flat-screen tv, with a small ottoman resting beneath.

Between the mattress and the window is an extended chaise lounge.

Subsequent to the tv is a picket desk. On the desk is a water kettle and a espresso station, and there’s additionally a small Smeg fridge tucked beneath.

The open format linked the room with the lavatory space. Whereas the entire room was on the smaller aspect, we didn’t actually thoughts an excessive amount of, as we deliberate to be out and about exploring the Faroe Islands as an alternative of hanging out within the lodge.

One other attention-grabbing a part of the room was that the hardwood flooring lined all the room. The wooden floors prolonged all the best way to the glass-enclosed bathe room, which was a considerably unusual design alternative.

There are two rooms within the lavatory. In a single is a bathe, and within the different is a bathroom.

Between the room’s entrance and the lavatory enclosures is a small white self-importance. 

Though the lodge opened pretty not too long ago in 2020, the bathe already had a particular metallic scent coming from the pipes. Hopefully that is one thing the lodge addresses quickly, because it was a bit disagreeable.

In any other case, we thought the room was comfy, and it gave us some good nights of sleep and nice views of the Faroese panorama.

The north-facing window seemed away from Tórshavn and gave us a glimpse of life within the Faroe Islands. We loved gazing out over the pastures, the place wildlife grazed proper in entrance of us.

Our view supplied a pleasant introduction to the Faroe Islands, permitting us to rise up shut and private with the islands’ nature and surroundings with out having to go away our room.

Hilton Backyard Inn Faroe Islands – Breakfast

Every day, our complimentary breakfast was served within the foyer restaurant, Hallartún. Breakfast is served from 6–10am from Monday to Friday, and from 6am–1pm on Saturday and Sunday.

Breakfast got here within the type of a buffet station, with cold and hot choices.

There have been loads of choices, together with the standard pastries, cereals, espresso, and tea. 

There was additionally a made-to-order omelette station, which is at all times appreciated.

I believed the standard of the meals was truly pretty common. There have been just a few dishes and choices we favored, similar to a bowl of complete avocado halves which we might make into avocado toast.

Nevertheless, I believed the new breakfast objects – scrambled eggs, sausages, and many others. – had been beneath the standard that I’d’ve in any other case anticipated.

So, we primarily handled this breakfast as a fast option to gasoline up within the mornings, reasonably than maximizing it and filling up as a lot as we might.

Hilton Backyard Inn Faroe Islands – Different Amenities

The foyer hosts a small co-working house, which was a pleasant contact. I got here down right here to attend just a few digital conferences throughout our keep.

Within the foyer was additionally a self-serve market, the place you can assist your self to some toiletries and necessities, in addition to some snacks and drinks.

As talked about above, Hilton Diamond members are entitled to 2 bottles of nonetheless or glowing water from the market per night time of their keep.

On the second flooring is a reasonably well-equipped health centre. Whereas it didn’t have the best format, I believed it was fairly good for a lodge in this sort of distant location.

There was a variety of dumbbells, kettlebells, and cardio machines, in addition to yoga mats. The 2 treadmills offered sweeping views of the encompassing panorama.

There was additionally a laundry room on-site, together with complimentary laundry detergent out there from the entrance desk. This was very helpful for us, as we had been attending to the purpose within the journey the place we wanted to do some laundry. 

The dryer didn’t seem like working nicely after we tried to make use of it, so we ended up drying our garments in our room as an alternative.

There’s supposedly a Jacuzzi out there for visitors, though it was closed once I tried to make use of it. It was a little bit unclear if this was a short lived or a extra everlasting closure right here on the Hilton Backyard Inn Faroe Islands.

That was a disgrace, as I believed that spending time within the outside sizzling tub would’ve been a super option to absolutely immerse myself within the lodge’s pure environment, particularly in a vacation spot as outdoors-oriented because the Faroe Islands.

Conclusion

If you happen to’re on the lookout for lodging within the Faroe Islands, there actually aren’t too many choices within the first place. Having opened in 2020, the Hilton Backyard Inn Faroe Islands is the one worldwide chain lodge on the town, so I’d suggest it for that motive alone.

You probably have Hilton Honors factors saved up, then this actually isn’t a nasty lodge to make use of them on. You’ll in all probability get redemption worth, particularly when in comparison with the steep money costs right here.

With its location each near the town centre and close to the freeway to proceed exploring the islands, we thought the Hilton Backyard Inn Faroe Islands made for a terrific house base for our three-night keep.