Hotel Hans Egede

The good: - Central location with a grocery store across the street, great restaurants a short walk away, and a taxi stand in front. - Two (though expensive) restaurants on the top floor, and a great (though expensive) bar on the top floor with good views of the city. Tisha was a fantastic bartender. - Free breakfast buffet has good variety, though the coffee is tasteless. - Super friendly staff. Everyone speaks fairly solid English. - The WiFi is fast and reliable. The shower got hot quickly. The elevators were quick. The bad: - I found the beds to be painfully uncomfortable. Too narrow, not enough padding, you only get 1 small pillow per bed, and one duvet which bakes you underneath (which would be nice in the winter, but in the summer I’d expect lighter sheets). - The rooms are designed to hold heat, which again would be great in the winter. But in the summer, even with the temps peaking at about 55 degrees, the room gets quite warm and stuffy. You can open a small window about 1” but that barely helps, especially if the wind is light. I really wish there were a fan to help circulate air. And if you open that window, you’ll hear street noise. I heard people (mostly drunk) yelling at each other outside until 3 am every night. - There’s currently a lot of construction going on during the day. It got loud at times. The hotel comps you for this with a ~$15 drink voucher, which seems a little cheap—maybe instead offer one voucher per day you stay there? - There’s no ramp to get your luggage to the lobby. If you have heavy luggage, you’ll need to carry it up 3 stairs from the street. There’s no staff member at the front door to help you. I saw some elderly folks struggling. - The buffet at Sarfalik is terrible and way overpriced. The food is just bland, dry and mostly tasteless. They ran out of several items and no one replenished those items for too long. My waiter didn’t bring me water until I was about to leave. Too long a line to get food. The non-buffet nights might be much better. Other tips: - The rooms are small and spartan, which is not at all unusual by European standards. But don’t be surprised when, for instance, there’s no phone or clock, the TV only gets about 5 channels, and you don’t get any small towels. This might be the best hotel in Nuuk but in some ways it will feel like a 2- or 3-star hotel elsewhere in the world. - All the AC outlets use the standard European two-pin plug. If you want to charge your phone or a computer, be sure to bring a plug adapter. There are no USB charging ports. - The curtains are not quite blackout quality. In the summer, the sun never completely sets and some light gets through the curtains. You might want to bring an eye mask to sleep.

I was disappointed by my hotel experience. Nuuk may not be ready for tourism like its neighbor, Iceland. While the HHE is considered the best hotel in Nuuk, it is no better than a 3-star tourist hotel in the United States. It is more like a Days Inn than a Marriott or a charming European Boutique hotel. The deluxe polar class hotel was spartan, the bathroom small and had a moldy shower curtain that created a terrible odor in the room. There was a single window to air out the room, and the housekeeping was spotty. The hotel had breakfast in a conference room, and the food was very sad and of limited selection. The hotel was undergoing construction and the construction noise was loud from morning to night. I stayed three nights and regretted the choice.

First, AVOID any room like 410 or 412. If assigned a room on the 4th floor, ask the staff specifically at check-in if they are directly below the restaurant/kitchen. I had these specific rooms on two different stays and both times they must do deep cleaning at night. Incredibly noisy, and frankly a poor design to have guest rooms directly underneath especially the kitchen without very heavy soundproofing. Get a room on the lowers floors. That said, the staff were good in moving me to another room on the 3rd floor when the noise became intolerable at 1am. Except for this I would give the hotel 5*. The rooms are very colourful, well-heated, and clean. The beds are good and comfy. Gorgeous views out the big windows, which are well-sealed against outside noise. The staff were on top of their game, except for assigning me rooms that are known to have severe noise problems, that is. Efficient, and very friendly, There is an included breakfast buffet in that rooftop restaurant which was an average selection of offerings. The hotel has an excellent location in central Nuuk, perfect for walking to the harbour or around the commercial area.

Hans Egede hotel & restaurant was built in 1987 and is located in the center of Nuuk (former Godthåb). Named after Hans Poulsen Egede (1686), the Danish Lutheran missionary and founder of Godthåb, the hotel offers 150 rooms & apartments over 5 floors, meeting rooms, restaurant & bar. Furnishings and decoration provide a nice Scandinavian & Greenland atmosphere. Service is friendly and helpful. In a group of 60 tourists of the Le Charcot icebreaker we had a private lunch. The buffet lunch was hearty with soup, cold & hot dishes, cheeses & breads, desserts & pasties, drinks, tea & coffee. Hotel & Restaurant Hans Egede is nice Greenland establishment with tasty local & Scandinavian food. Highly recommended.

Great location in the centre of Nuuk. Lovely décor throughout the hotel. Our Polar room was very comfortable and clean and there were lovely treats on arrival plus dressing gowns. Staff were friendly and helpful. Breakfast was great with lots of choices of fruit. Only negative is that their smoking room is inside the hotel and the smoke gets into the vents and can be smelled throughout the hotel corridors. Otherwise it would have been 5 stars.

In the Heart of Nuuk i found a beautiful Hotel and it was very nice to saw the Nuuk City. As i want to make Activities The Whale Safari was more than a Trip to See Grönland by the Sea. The nice cool and fresh Weather gave me 3 times to do this activity.