Live Lofoten Fishermen's Cabins

You can cook or eat on site, borrow a bike, hire a boat and be met at the airport, which is unusual for cabins at this price. Arriving late by sea is handled too: the property has said keys are left in a box outside for guests who reach Stamsund on the night ferry.

Families and groups of four to seven wanting a whole cabin with the convenience of a kitchen and a restaurant in the same yard, and travellers without a car who can use the shuttle, the bicycles and the Hurtigruten sailings. Guests score it 8.6 out of 10 across 294 Booking.com reviews, lower than most cabins in this guide, so read recent reviews on what has been refurbished.

Arrivals are taken between 16:00 and 20:00, and photo identification and a credit card are asked for at the desk; anyone reaching Stamsund later should arrange the key box in advance. Nobody under 18 may check in. Neither cots nor extra beds are offered, and pets are refused. Towels and sheets appear with an extra fee. Upper floors are reached by stairs only, quiet hours run from 23:00 to 08:00, and hen or stag groups are not taken. The airport shuttle, boat hire and laundry cards are all paid for separately.

Booking.com lists seven units: five holiday homes of 50 m² with four to seven beds, a Three-Bedroom House with five beds and a Two-Bedroom House with four. Bedrooms mostly hold two single beds, with one room of bunk beds and one of three singles. Every unit has its own bathroom, a kitchenette and a desk. Live Lofoten's own site says it has 14 cabins of two or three bedrooms, so what appears on the listing is part of the stock.

Booking.com records that upper floors are reached by stairs only.

Free WiFi, free parking on site, an airport shuttle, a car rental service and bicycles at no charge. Units have a kitchenette, kettle, tea and coffee maker, heating, a private entrance and a sofa; some add a terrace or patio with outdoor furniture. Laundry is run with electricity cards bought in the restaurant. Bed linen and towels are supplied, with towels and sheets also listed at an extra fee.

There is a restaurant on site, with a bar, a coffee house, a snack bar, fruit, wine and champagne, a children's buffet and special diet menus on request. The cabins also have kitchenettes with a dishwasher, oven, microwave, stovetop, fridge and kitchenware, so you can cook instead.

Steineveien 17 in Stamsund, the settlement Kartverket names, in Vestvågøy municipality. Leknes is 10 km away in a straight line. The harbour is a Hurtigruten port of call, and some units look out to sea while others face the inner courtyard.

Booking.com puts Leknes Airport 16 km away and Vestvågøy Rådhus 15 km. The property runs an airport shuttle it has priced at NOK 600, rents cars on site and lends bicycles. Guests arriving on a late Hurtigruten sailing have been told to ask for the key box.