Hov Gjestehus

A farmhouse you take whole, with a restaurant, a beach sauna, a white sand beach and around fifty Icelandic horses on the same property, on the outer coast of Gimsøy rather than in a village.

A group of up to twelve — six bedrooms and three bathrooms, a shared kitchen and a living room — and anyone who came to Lofoten to ride. The farm's riding tours run from fifteen-minute introductions to multi-day journeys, so both first-timers and experienced riders are catered for.

This is a farm rather than a hotel: the guest house is one of several things Hov Gård lets, alongside a campsite and pitches for caravans, so check you are booking the house and not a pitch. Five of the six bedrooms are upstairs. The farm publishes no check-in or check-out times and no guest rating on its own site, and there is no Booking.com listing carrying this property, so times, prices and what is included have to be settled directly. Gimsøysand is about 21 km from Henningsvær in a straight line, with no shops on the doorstep.

Six bedrooms across two floors of the farm's old main house, five of them upstairs, with three bathrooms and space for twelve guests. A kitchen with an island and an espresso machine, and a living room opening onto a veranda, are shared by the house. The farm records underfloor heating, shoe dryers and laundry facilities, and says rooms look out at the sea or the mountains.

Five of the six bedrooms are on the upper floor of the house.

Inside the house: a kitchen with an island and an espresso machine, a living room with veranda access, underfloor heating, shoe dryers and laundry facilities. On the farm: Låven restaurant, riding tours on Icelandic horses, a sauna on the shoreline with access to the sea, and a campsite with powered and unpowered pitches.

Låven, the farm's restaurant, serves breakfast, lunch and dinner built on local ingredients and traditional recipes, with homemade cakes and locally roasted coffee. The guest house also has its own kitchen with an island and an espresso machine, so guests can cook for themselves.

Tore Hjorts vei 471, 8314 Gimsøysand, in Vågan municipality — Kartverket's address register places the property at 68.3383 N, 14.1104 E. Hov lies on the outer coast of Gimsøy, with a white sand beach below the farm and Hoven rising behind it. Henningsvær, the nearest destination this guide covers, is about 21 km away in a straight line; Svolvær is about 22 km.

The farm gives its address as Tore Hjorts vei 471 at Gimsøysand. No public transport times or road distances are published on its own pages, so plan the drive from the address rather than from a stated figure.