Courtesy of Blue Lagoon The Retreat Hotel There are 62 rooms at the Retreat, and I stayed in one of the junior lava suites. Walking into the suite, I instantly fell in love with the understated ...

Now, the spa is making plans to expand into a full-fledged resort with the 62-room Moss Hotel, a new Moss Restaurant, and a new spa called Lava Cove.

The resort, which was slated to open last fall but will finally open its all-glass doors in April, is built into a private 800-year-old lava flow on the southwest side of the lagoon, far enough ...

The 62-room resort hotel is embedded in the lava formations and turquoise geothermal pools of Iceland 's Blue Lagoon complex, which is situated within the UNESCO Global Geopark.

The original Blue Lagoon Spa, the subsequent Silica hotel and other extensions of the Blue Lagoon facilities were designed by Sigríður Sigþórsdóttir founding partner of Basalt Architects.

Iceland’s Blue Lagoon is hardly an undiscovered gem. In fact, of the 2.1 million people who traveled to the Nordic country in 2017, more than half of them took a dip in the geothermal waters of ...