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Hotel Qaanaaq |
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Hotel Qaanaaq |
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The Qaanaaq Hotel is placed on the side of a gently sloping glacial drift hill with a spectacular view overlooking the fiord. The most needed and common facilities are provided for all visitors. There is a restaurant, cozy sitting room, bath, and facilities for washing clothes. There are no unnecessary
facilities in the rooms like TV sets and video. Prices are very reasonable
compared to prices in other hotels in Greenland.
Meals are eaten in the restaurant, which is arranged in a very personal style and decorated with examples of local handicraft items and pictures from the district. Meals are prepared in a common style and on the basis of the most tasty and available local and imported supplies.
The sitting
room, where many fascinating stories are shared by guests, is also decorated with handicraft, samples of local art and pictures. For guests who care to keep in touch with what is happening in the rest of the world there is a satellite TV in the sitting room.
There is a small shop for buying stamps, postcards, handicraft, literature about Greenland as well as the most needed daily items imported from Denmark.
The hotel has only five rooms, each with two beds. In the high traffic summer season the hotel is usually able to provide rooms in other facilities in Qaanaaq.
The hotel is an integrated part of the district society and is often visited by locals. The hotel staff is very experienced in arranging sight-seeing tours to other villages or just shorter one day trips near Qaanaaq. These tours
will be by dogsledge or small boats, depending on the season.
The
ice cap is only a couple of miles away just above Qaanaaq. It is easily
reached on foot by persons in normal physical condition. Along the walk over the beautiful rocks polished by eons of glaciers one can enjoy the lichens, grasses and flowers rushing to do their best in the short summer of continuous sunshine. Unlike most areas around the ice cap edge, here at Qaanaaq the
ice cap is smooth and can be entered without any danger.
Summer temperatures range in the high 40 and 50 F. degrees range in the continuous 24-hours-a-day sunshine. The air is normally so dry and clear that seeing distances are greatly lengthen. Although cameras have never been able to capture the full true natural grandeur of the vast landscape, bring your camera, plenty of film, and capture what you can. There are breathtaking "once-in-a-lifetime" snapshots to be found everywhere.
Hotel Qaanaaq has phone and fax at (Greenland) 971234, and e-mail at:
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