The opening of the hotels follows a successful reopening of Blue Lagoon, Blue Café, Lava Restaurant, Retreat Spa, Spa Restaurant and the on-site Blue Lagoon Skincare retail store on January 6, 2024.

For many people visiting Iceland, a trip to the steamy waters of the Blue Lagoon is the highlight. A new luxury hotel, the Moss Hotel, could make that highlight even better.

With only a few hours left in Iceland, I head to the hotel’s subterranean spa, which is built inside an 800-year-old lava flow, to try out the Blue Lagoon Ritual.

Iceland ’s famous Blue Lagoon spa has temporarily shut down, one week after a series of earthquakes led guests to vacate the hotel. The Blue Lagoon, a geothermal spa southwest of Reykjavík ...