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 Over the years the buildings and the area at Hotel Geysir has changed with the people who lived and worked there.
The valley of Haukadal is one of the historically very well known places of Iceland, today as well as in the past.
Let's go to the twentieth century. A farmer's son of Haukadal by the name of Sigurđur Greipsson, who had studied sport science in Denmark and Norway, returned home in 1927 and founded a sports school. He ran the school for 43 years with his wife, Sigrún Bjarnadóttir. He built a single storey hut containing five rooms and a hall used for teaching and at mealtimes. Sigurđur worked hard during the summer of 1927.
The first of three swimming pools was built. It was rather primitive by our standards as the pool was dug in to the rock and the sides of the pool were lined with sods of earth.
The school was opened the following autumn with 12 students.
More than 900 people passed through the school whilst Sigurđur worked there. Many famous wrestlers (wrestling was one of the main subjects), policemen and leaders of youth movements graduated from the school.
An extension was built to the east of the hut and this is still standing today.
A stone building was built between 1944-1946 and was later on connected to the new big house, which is the Restaurant and Hotel today.
Today Hotel Geysir is open all year around and managed with a lot of love and effort by Sigurđur's son, Má Sigurđsson and his wife Sigríđur Vilhjálmsdottir.
We are very ambitious that you, dear customer, are as content when you leave as when you came and your visit here was a very pleasant one.
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