Kulusuk Hotel
Kulusuk island, East Greenland
Location
Kulusuk, East Greenland
The hotel sits on Kulusuk island in East Greenland, a small Inuit hunter settlement of around two hundred and fifty people, surrounded by ice-filled fjords and mountains. Kulusuk lies on the east coast, cut off from the rest of Greenland by the inland ice and reached most easily not from the capital but on the short flight across from Iceland.
Transfer
Minutes from the airport
Minutes from Kulusuk airport, the gateway to East Greenland with flights from Iceland; helicopter transfers continue to Tasiilaq and the wider Ammassalik region.
Villas
Comfortable twin rooms
Around thirty-four comfortable twin rooms with private facilities and a sea or mountain view; a spacious dining room and lounge, and a shop of Inuit carvings, in a settlement hotel where the experience, not the facilities, is the draw. With around thirty-four rooms it is small enough to feel personal, the staff drawn largely from the settlement itself and full of local knowledge.
Best For
Who it suits
Travellers who want authentic Inuit-settlement immersion at the edge of East Greenland, easily combined with Iceland, and who value the experience over hotel facilities. This is travel to the very edge of the map, and the hotel makes a remote corner of the Arctic accessible without losing any of its raw authenticity.
Board Basis
Bed and breakfast
Bed-and-breakfast, with some all-inclusive packages adding meals and activities; the food is well reviewed, served in a spacious dining room over the fjord.
Overview
Greenland's only settlement hotel, in the remote east
Kulusuk Hotel is Greenland's only settlement hotel, on remote Kulusuk island in East Greenland, minutes from the airport that is the gateway to the Ammassalik region and easily added to an Iceland trip. You wake to barking sled dogs and views over ice-filled fjords and mountains, in one of around thirty-four comfortable twin rooms with private facilities and a sea or mountain view. The setting is the edge of the map: Kulusuk is a small Inuit hunter settlement of around two hundred and fifty people, ringed by ice-filled fjords and mountains, with helicopter transfers continuing to Tasiilaq and the wider Ammassalik region. A spacious dining room serves local delicacies, the food is well reviewed, and staff arrange glacier and dog-sledding tours, hikes and Greenlandic drum-dance evenings. Authentic Inuit-settlement immersion at the edge of East Greenland, where the experience, not the facilities, is the draw.
Accommodation
Comfortable twin rooms
Around thirty-four comfortable twin rooms have private facilities and a sea or mountain view, in Greenland's only settlement hotel on remote Kulusuk island. Simple and well-kept, they put guests in the heart of a small Inuit hunter community, the ice-filled fjords and the mountains framed from the window and the sled dogs barking across the settlement — the experience, not the facilities, the reason to come. The rooms are simple but warm against the East Greenland cold, the real luxury the setting itself, the ice-choked fjord and the peaks of the Schweizerland Alps rising beyond the settlement.
The room
Twin Room
Sleeps two. A comfortable twin room with private facilities and a sea or mountain view, in an authentic East Greenland settlement.
Private facilitiesSea or mountain view
Food & Drink
Dining
A spacious dining room serves local delicacies and a buffet over the ice-filled fjord, with a hotel bar that doubles as a gathering point in the settlement. The food is well reviewed, leaning on the fish and game of East Greenland, dinner taken with the fjord and the mountains beyond the glass. Meals lean on what the hunters of Kulusuk bring in, and the dining room doubles as the social heart of a community of around two hundred and fifty people at the edge of the ice.
Restaurant
The dining room
The dining room, well-reviewed local delicacies and a buffet.
Bar
The hotel bar
The hotel bar, a gathering point in the settlement.
Setting
Fjord views
Fjord views, dining over the ice-filled fjord.
Activities & Experiences
Signature Experiences
Settlement life, glaciers and dog-sledding define a stay — step into the rhythm of an authentic East Greenland Inuit community, take a dog sled across the ice, and join glacier and fjord boat trips among the ice. Greenlandic drum-dance evenings, a helicopter hop to Tasiilaq and the wider Ammassalik region, and the raw beauty of the fjords round out a stay at the edge of the map. East Greenland is one of the least-visited inhabited places on earth, and a stay here is as much about the rhythm of an Inuit hunting community as about the glaciers and the ice.
Inuit settlement life
Inuit settlement life, an authentic East Greenland community.
Dog-sledding
Dog-sledding, across the East Greenland ice.
Glaciers and fjords
Glaciers and fjords, boat trips among the ice.
Drum-dance evenings
Drum-dance evenings, Greenlandic tradition.
Helicopter to Tasiilaq
Helicopter to Tasiilaq, the Ammassalik region.
Getting There
Location & transfers
By air
Iceland to Kulusuk
Iceland to Kulusuk, minutes from the airport with flights from Iceland.
By helicopter
On to Tasiilaq
On to Tasiilaq by helicopter, into the wider Ammassalik region.
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A settlement hotel
- Comfortable and well-kept; the experience is the draw.
Easily added to Iceland
- Easily added to Iceland, reached on flights from Iceland.
Bed and breakfast
- Bed-and-breakfast, with some all-inclusive activity packages.
Getting there
- Minutes from Kulusuk airport, East Greenland.
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