Hotel Hafnia
Tórshavn · StreymoyIn the middle of Tórshavn, a few minutes from the old harbour on foot.
Central, so some street noise on weekend evenings.
No car needed
4.640 DKKexample total · 4 nights
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Island
Streymoy
The largest island and the one you will almost certainly land on. Tórshavn, the airport road, and the north-west valleys.
- Getting there
- Connected by road
- Population
- 24,500
- Area
- 373 km²
- Do you need a car?
- Car helpful
Connected to Vágar by subsea tunnel and to Eysturoy by bridge. No ferry needed.
Streymoy holds about half the country’s population and nearly all of its infrastructure. If you have four days in the Faroes, you will spend at least one of them here whether you plan to or not.
The island splits into two very different halves. The south-east is Tórshavn and its suburbs: dense by Faroese standards, walkable, with the only real concentration of restaurants and shops in the country. The north-west is empty — Saksun, Tjørnuvík and the valleys above Vestmanna, where a settlement of twenty people is normal.
Tórshavn population14,400Hagstova Føroya, July 2026
The road to Saksun passes through private farmland. Parking is restricted and there have been long-running disputes about access — check current signage rather than older guidebooks.
Come here for
- A first trip, or a short one
- Travelling without a car, if you stay in Tórshavn
- Eating out — most of the country’s restaurants are here
- Arriving late or leaving early
Go elsewhere if you want
- Feeling remote, unless you go north-west
- Puffins — go to Mykines
- Avoiding other visitors in July
Getting around Streymoy
Car helpful
Walkable day to day, but a car opens up the island. Tórshavn itself works without a car. The rest of Streymoy does not — Saksun has no bus and no shop.
Towns and villages
Tórshavn
The capital, and the only place in the country where you can genuinely live without a car for a week.
Saksun
A handful of farms around a tidal lagoon. No shop, no bus, no facilities of any kind.
Vestmanna
The harbour the bird-cliff boat tours leave from, on the west coast of Streymoy.
Kirkjubøur
The country’s historic seat, twenty minutes south of Tórshavn — a ruined cathedral and the oldest inhabited timber house in the world.
Things to do
Vestmanna bird cliffs by boat
A boat trip into sea caves and under vertical bird cliffs on the west coast.
Nólsoy on foot
The easiest island day in the country — a short ferry from Tórshavn and a single village.
Tinganes and the old town
Black timber and turf roofs on the promontory where the parliament has met since the tenth century.
Kirkjubøur — cathedral ruin and Roykstovan
A roofless fourteenth-century cathedral and the oldest continuously inhabited timber house in the world.
Saksun lagoon at low tide
A tidal lagoon in a natural amphitheatre, walkable to the sea at low water.
Heimablídni — dinner in a private home
The Faroese tradition of hosting paying guests for dinner in your own house.
Where to stay on Streymoy
Hotel Føroyar
Tórshavn · StreymoyTurf-roofed, above the town, with the best view in Tórshavn — and a hill between you and dinner.
The walk into town is downhill out, uphill back.
Car recommended
5.800 DKKexample total · 4 nights
Hotel Brandan
Tórshavn · StreymoyThe newest hotel in town, north of the centre, with a spa and a quiet street.
A quarter of an hour from the old town on foot.
Car helpful
6.600 DKKexample total · 4 nights
Tinganes Old Town Flat
Tórshavn · StreymoyA one-bedroom flat among the black timber and turf roofs of Tinganes.
No parking anywhere near — the lanes are too narrow for cars.
No car needed
5.710 DKKexample total · 4 nights
Saksun Turf Cottage
Saksun · StreymoyA restored turf-roofed cottage above the tidal lagoon. Two other houses in sight.
No shop, no restaurant, no bus. A car is not optional.
Car essential
5.810 DKKexample total · 4 nights
Vestmanna Harbour Apartments
Vestmanna · StreymoySelf-catering above the harbour the bird-cliff boats leave from.
Self-catering — no breakfast and one small shop.
Car recommended
4.660 DKKexample total · 4 nights
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