Hotel Narsarsuaq

Built originally for those in transit through the airport, this functional hotel feels rather like a retirement home. The downstairs rooms with en suite are comfortable and recently renovated. Pairs of cheaper rooms share a bathroom and are a little more tatty, with curiously acrid dry air. Prices include breakfast. The dorms are not worth bothering with unless the youth hostel is full or closed. Upstairs, there is a semi-smart dining room with candles but rucked carpets. Its small selection of international dishes includes salmon with shellfish and chive hollandaise sauce. On Friday nights try the special Greenlandic fish platter.