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The Lodge is for families. The apartments sleep four or six, each with a full kitchen and a washing machine, which is worth a lot after a week on a ship.
It scores on the kitchen and the centre location. There’s no breakfast on site; its Booking.com listing points you to Polfareren, 50 m away, without saying it’s included.
Visit Svalbard warns the pub downstairs can be noisy at weekends. And its Flybuss stop is closed until 31 October 2026.
Book it if
- You’re a family of four to six
- You want to cook and do laundry before or after the voyage
Look elsewhere if
- You want breakfast included
- You’re a light sleeper on a weekend
Your night before, from here
From check-in to the gangway, using only what Svalbard Lodge publishes and our own map estimates.
Cook in the apartment, or walk into the centre. The pub on the first floor can be noisy at weekends, per Visit Svalbard.
No ride to the ship is listed. Bykaia is about 1.5 km in a straight line; use your line’s transfer or a taxi ordered ahead.
Not served at the Lodge. Its Booking.com listing points to breakfast at Polfareren, 50 m away; inclusion isn’t stated.
Bykaia is about 1.5 km away in a straight line. Use your line’s transfer, or order a taxi the night before.
No parking is mentioned. Guests fly in.
Night-Before Score: 33 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 Svalbard Lodge is about 5 km from Svalbard Airport in a straight line, and about 1.5 km from Bykaia. Every question mark below is a ride you book yourself.
No hotel shuttle. The Lodge’s Flybuss stop is closed from 9 August to 31 October 2026; use the Polfareren stop.
No ride to the ship is listed. Bykaia is about 1.5 km in a straight line; use your line’s transfer or a taxi ordered ahead.
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 1.5 km in a straight line; use your line’s transfer or a taxi ordered ahead.
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, Svalbard Lodge is about 1.5 km in a straight line, and about 50 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
~1.5 km, straight lineAbout 1.5 km from Bykaia between our map pins, roughly 25 minutes on foot at an easy pace. That’s our estimate, not the hotel’s.
Airport bus
Use the Polfareren stopThe Basecamp Hotell / Svalbard Lodge Flybuss stop is closed from 9 August to 31 October 2026 for roadworks; use the Svalbard Hotell Polfareren stop, per Svalbard Buss og Taxi.
Parking 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
Not statedNo restaurant of its own; each apartment has a full kitchen. There’s a pub on the first floor of the building.
Breakfast
Depends on the rateNot served at the Lodge. Its Booking.com listing points to breakfast at Polfareren, 50 m away; inclusion isn’t stated.
Address
The centreVei 228, 9170 Longyearbyen (Booking.com); Visit Svalbard gives Sentrum, 9171
The fine print, in one place
Times, fees, rooms and the small stuff, as Svalbard Lodge publishes it. We couldn’t confirm the hotel’s own website, whether breakfast at polfareren is included, accessible rooms, so ask when you book.
Check-in and check-out
Breakfast
Not served at the Lodge. Its Booking.com listing points to breakfast at Polfareren, 50 m away; inclusion isn’t stated.
Parking for your stay
Not mentioned
Pool
No pool mentioned on the pages we read
Pets
Not stated on the pages we read.
Rooms
Two-room apartments for up to four (51 m²) and three-room apartments for up to six (61.4 m²), with full kitchens and washing machines, per Visit Svalbard.
Accessibility
Svalbard Lodge’s pages we read don’t detail accessible rooms, so ask before you book one.
On site
- GymNot stated
- Sauna or spaNot stated
- Family roomsYes
- Pets allowedNot stated
Also worth knowing
- Washing machine in every apartment
- A pub on the first floor; possible weekend noise
- Baggage storage, per Visit Svalbard
Before you book
Worth knowing
- Apartments sleep up to four or six.
- Breakfast isn’t served on site.
- The Flybuss stop is closed 9 August to 31 October 2026.
What we couldn’t confirm
- The hotel’s own website
- Whether breakfast at Polfareren is included
- Accessible rooms
Every hotel fact here comes from Visit Svalbard’s listing (the hotel’s own site redirected to a page we couldn’t read), 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 Svalbard Lodge: the Longyearbyen cruise guide and Longyearbyen as a port of call.
A kitchen, a washing machine and room for six.
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Svalbard Lodge FAQ
Does Svalbard Lodge have kitchens?
Yes. Every apartment has a full kitchen and a washing machine, per Visit Svalbard.
How many people fit in a Svalbard Lodge apartment?
Two-room apartments take up to four and three-room apartments up to six, per Visit Svalbard.
Is breakfast included at Svalbard Lodge?
It isn’t served at the Lodge. Its Booking.com listing says breakfast is available at Polfareren, 50 m away, without saying it’s included.
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