Holiday home at Tangstad, Bøstad

A whole house with a garden, a barbecue and a terrace in the quiet middle of northern Vestvågøy, with check-in available at any hour — useful after a late crossing — and a cot and a high chair for a young family.

A family: two bedrooms that each take a double and a single, a high chair, and a cot available. Up to six can be booked, although the beds are four. It suits people with a car, since the house sits between settlements on the north side of the island, and people who will cook and eat in the garden rather than walk to a restaurant.

The price is not the whole cost. DanCenter's fine print says power and water are normally excluded and billed by what you use when you leave, with the detail in the rental statement sent with the booking confirmation, and NOK 2,500 is taken in cash on arrival as a refundable damage deposit, repaid by bank transfer within fourteen days if nothing is broken. Check-out is by 10:00, early for a self-catering house. The stated maximum is six but only four beds are listed, two doubles and two singles, so agree the party size first; no extra bed is available, although a cot can be, depending on the option booked. Pets are not accepted. The name claims four stars while Booking.com's own rating for the property shows three. One guest has reviewed it, scoring 7.0 — not a basis for judging anything.

One house of 52 m², listed as a Two-Bedroom Holiday Home with four beds: each bedroom holds one double bed and one single bed, and each is capped at three people. One bathroom holding a shower and a toilet. A living room with a television, a radio and a video player; a kitchen with a dishwasher, an oven, a hob, a microwave, a refrigerator and a coffee and tea maker; a washing machine; and a children's high chair. The house is detached and non-smoking. Booking.com's whole-property maximum is six.

Free WiFi throughout, free parking, heating, a terrace with outdoor furniture, a garden and equipment for a barbecue. A garden view is recorded; no sea view is listed. The house is detached and non-smoking, and Booking.com's star rating for it is three.

Self-catering, with a dishwasher, an oven, a hob, a microwave and a fridge indoors and barbecue equipment on the terrace. No meals are served and no restaurant or bar is on site.

At Tangstad, 8360, in northern Vestvågøy. Kartverket's nearest registered settlement name to the map pin is Sortland, a grend 0.42 km away in Vestvågøy municipality — not the Vesterålen town of the same name, which is 89 km off. Bøstad, which the listing's title names, is 6.7 km to the east by Kartverket's point for it, and Tangstad's own registered point is about 1.5 km south-east. This guide's centre point for Leknes is 11 km away in a straight line. The setting is recorded as rural.

Booking.com gives Leknes Airport as 18 km away, Vestvågøy Rådhus as 19 km, Borga Radarstasjon as 22 km, Lofotenmat Sa as 23 km and Nusfjord as 43 km. Free parking is on site, and check-in can be made at any hour, though the property asks for your arrival time in advance.