Plaza Hotel Reykjavik boasts that visitors who brace themselves for the cold Icelandic winters will be rewarding by catching the ‘swirling in a wild and carefree dance across the heaven in dramatic shapes, colours, patterns and sizes’ that mark the Northern Lights, or Aurora Borealis. The hotel is near restaurants, shops and nightclubs. Too cold to venture out? Just draw a bath, crank up the heat, raid the mini-bar and catch some sleep before another big day exploring Iceland’s charms.