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The Vault is a plain, central bed. It’s in the middle of town, about 1.4 km from Bykaia, with luggage storage and free bikes.
It ranks low because nothing it publishes scores past the distance: no restaurant listed, and breakfast is offered without a word on whether it’s in the rate.
Fine for one night if the others are full.
Book it if
- You want a simple room in the centre
- You’ll eat out in town anyway
Look elsewhere if
- You want breakfast confirmed
- You want dinner in the building
Your night before, from here
From check-in to the gangway, using only what The Vault publishes and our own map estimates.
Nothing to eat on site that we found listed, so plan dinner in town.
No ride to the ship is listed. Bykaia is about 1.4 km in a straight line; use your line’s transfer or a taxi ordered ahead.
A buffet or continental breakfast is offered, per its Booking.com listing; whether it’s in the rate isn’t stated.
Bykaia is about 1.4 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: 30 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 The Vault is about 4.9 km from Svalbard Airport in a straight line, and about 1.4 km from Bykaia. Every question mark below is a ride you book yourself.
The hotel doesn’t say where the airport bus stops; Avinor says it stops at all the hotels.
No ride to the ship is listed. Bykaia is about 1.4 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 1.4 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, The Vault is about 1.4 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
~1.4 km, straight lineAbout 1.4 km from Bykaia between our map pins, roughly 23 minutes on foot at an easy pace. That’s our estimate, not the hotel’s.
Airport bus
Not statedThe hotel doesn’t say where the airport bus stops.
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 or bar is listed. The centre is outside the door.
Breakfast
Depends on the rateA buffet or continental breakfast is offered, per its Booking.com listing; whether it’s in the rate isn’t stated.
Address
The centreVei 507.01, 9170 Longyearbyen
The fine print, in one place
Times, fees, rooms and the small stuff, as The Vault publishes it. We couldn’t confirm whether breakfast is included, the hotel’s own website, where the airport bus stops, so ask when you book.
Check-in and check-out
Breakfast
A buffet or continental breakfast is offered, per its Booking.com listing; whether it’s in the rate 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
35 rooms: 33 doubles and 2 singles, per Visit Svalbard.
Accessibility
The Vault’s pages we read don’t detail accessible rooms, so ask before you book one.
On site
- GymNot stated
- Sauna or spaNot stated
- Family roomsNot stated
- Pets allowedNot stated
Also worth knowing
- Free bikes
- Luggage storage
Before you book
Worth knowing
- Luggage storage and free bikes.
- Check-in and check-out times come from Booking.com.
What we couldn’t confirm
- Whether breakfast is included
- The hotel’s own website
- Where the airport bus stops
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 The Vault: the Longyearbyen cruise guide and Longyearbyen as a port of call.
A room in the centre, the bags stored, the ship tomorrow.
Tell us your sail date and we’ll check The Vault for the night before. No payment on the form.
The Vault FAQ
Is breakfast included at Svalbard Hotell The Vault?
Its Booking.com listing says breakfast is offered but not whether it’s in the rate. Ask when you book.
Does The Vault store luggage?
Yes, per its listings, and it lends free bikes.
Booking the cruise too?
Tell us the sailing and we’ll line up The Vault, the ride to the ship and the cruise itself. No fee, no obligation.
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