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Mary-Ann’s has the best evening in the middle of the list. There’s the Vinterhagen restaurant, Peisen Bar and a sauna, and it’s the closest of our ten to Bykaia, about 1.1 km in a straight line.
What holds it at fifth is breakfast. It’s served from 07:00 to 10:00, but the hotel doesn’t say it’s in the rate, so it scores nothing there.
Some of the 39 rooms share bathrooms. Check before you book.
Book it if
- You want dinner, a drink and a sauna under one roof
- You want the shortest ride to Bykaia
Look elsewhere if
- You want breakfast confirmed in the rate
- You need a private bathroom and can’t confirm one
Your night before, from here
From check-in to the gangway, using only what Mary-Ann's publishes and our own map estimates.
The Vinterhagen restaurant and Peisen Bar, per the hotel.
No ride to the ship is listed. Bykaia is about 1.1 km in a straight line, the nearest of our ten, but still a transfer or a taxi with bags.
Served daily, 07:00 to 10:00; the hotel doesn’t say whether it’s in the rate.
Bykaia is about 1.1 km away in a straight line, the closest of our ten. With expedition bags, take your line’s transfer or a taxi ordered ahead.
No parking is mentioned. Guests fly in.
Night-Before Score: 36 of 100
Every point comes from the hotel’s own pages or its brand’s; the hub explains how the Night-Before Score works.
Getting here, and on to the ship
By our map estimate Mary-Ann's is about 4.7 km from Svalbard Airport in a straight line, and about 1.1 km from Bykaia. Every question mark below is a ride you book yourself.
No hotel shuttle; its Booking.com listing says the airport bus stops right in front.
No ride to the ship is listed. Bykaia is about 1.1 km in a straight line, the nearest of our ten, but still a transfer or a taxi with bags.
From LYR without a hotel shuttle
The Flybuss leaves 30 to 40 minutes after each scheduled landing and stops at the hotels in town: NOK 125 for adults from 1 August 2026, per Svalbard Buss og Taxi. Taxis come from Svalbard Buss og Taxi and Longyearbyen Taxi; neither publishes a fare. The airport page has the fares.
No parking is mentioned. Guests fly in.
Parking for your stay: Not mentioned.
No ride to the ship is listed. Bykaia is about 1.1 km in a straight line, the nearest of our ten, but still a transfer or a taxi with bags.
Flying in the morning you sail? You can skip the hotel entirely; the airport page has the landing check.
Which quay
BykaiaMeasured to Bykaia, Port Longyear’s main quay, Mary-Ann's is about 1.1 km in a straight line, and about 500 m from the town centre. No turnaround quay is published: smaller ships use other piers or anchor and tender, and Quark warns you may board by Zodiac. Your line’s documents name the place; the Longyearbyen cruise guide has the rest.
Source: portlongyear.noDistance
~1.1 km, straight lineAbout 1.1 km from Bykaia between our map pins, roughly 17 minutes on foot at an easy pace. That’s our estimate, not the hotel’s.
Airport bus
Flybuss at the door“The airport bus stops right in front of the hotel,” per its Booking.com listing.
Source: polarriggen.comParking while you sail
Cruise parking
Cruise parking unconfirmedNo parking is mentioned. Guests fly in.
In town
No cruise parking publishedParking isn’t the question in Longyearbyen. Almost everyone sailing from here flies in, on a scheduled flight or the line’s own flight, and Port Longyear publishes no car park for cruise guests. None of our ten hotels mentions parking on the pages we read.
The evening and the morning
The evening
Food or bar on siteThe Vinterhagen restaurant and Peisen Bar, per the hotel.
Breakfast
Depends on the rateServed daily, 07:00 to 10:00; the hotel doesn’t say whether it’s in the rate.
Address
Skjæringa, just off the centreSkjæringa, 9171 Longyearbyen (no street address published)
Hotel website
The fine print, in one place
Times, fees, rooms and the small stuff, as Mary-Ann's publishes it. We couldn’t confirm whether breakfast is included, which rooms have private bathrooms, accessible rooms, so ask when you book.
Check-in and check-out
Breakfast
Served daily, 07:00 to 10:00; the hotel doesn’t say whether it’s in the rate.
Parking for your stay
Not mentioned
Pool
No pool mentioned on the pages we read
Pets
Not stated on the pages we read.
Food and drink on site
- VinterhagenRestaurant
- Peisen Bar
Rooms
39 rooms, some with private bathrooms and some sharing, in a building from 1999 on the site of the old miners’ barracks.
Accessibility
Mary-Ann's’s pages we read don’t detail accessible rooms, so ask before you book one.
On site
- GymNot stated
- Sauna or spaYes
- Family roomsNot stated
- Pets allowedNot stated
Also worth knowing
- Some rooms share bathrooms; check which you’re booking
- Sauna, game room and a shared kitchen
- A red miners’ bus serves as the smoking shelter
- About five minutes on foot from the centre, per the hotel
Before you book
Worth knowing
- Some rooms share bathrooms.
- Breakfast 07:00 to 10:00; inclusion not stated.
- Check-in times come from Booking.com.
What we couldn’t confirm
- Whether breakfast is included
- Which rooms have private bathrooms
- Accessible rooms
Every hotel fact here comes from Mary-Ann’s own site and Visit Svalbard’s listing, read October 2026, unless we name another source. Distances are straight lines between our own map pins.
Worth a look alongside it
Before you book Mary-Ann's: the Longyearbyen cruise guide and Longyearbyen as a port of call.
Dinner in the winter garden, a sauna, the ship in the morning.
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Mary-Ann's FAQ
Is breakfast included at Mary-Ann's Polarrigg?
It’s served daily from 07:00 to 10:00, but the hotel doesn’t say whether it’s in the rate. Ask when you book.
Does Mary-Ann's Polarrigg have shared bathrooms?
Some rooms do. The hotel has rooms with private bathrooms and rooms that share.
How far is Mary-Ann's from the cruise quay?
About 1.1 km in a straight line from Bykaia by our map estimate, the closest of the ten hotels we ranked.
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