Icelandair is Offering
Iceland Vacation Package (Roundtrip Airfare, 1 Checked Bag, Advance Seat Selection, 3-Night Standard Hotel Room, Daily Breakfast & Tours) on sale
from $879 Per Person. Offer is valid for Travel March 1 - May 31, 2024. Book by February 20, 2024.
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Includes:
- Round-trip airfare in Economy Standard
- One piece of check-in luggage, up to 50 lbs (23 kg)
- 3 nights standard hotel room
- Standard double or twin room
- Tours:
- Hvammsvik Hot Springs with transfer from ReykjavÃk Excursions (choice of 1030 or 17 tour time)
- South Shore Adventure from ReykjavÃk Excursions
- Hop On Hop Off 24 hour pass from ReykjavÃk Excursions
- Lava Show from Lava Show (choice of @ 12, 14, 16 and 18 showtimes)
Sample Itinerary:
- Day/Night 0: Depart North America on red-eye flight
- Day/Night 1: Arrival in Iceland; Lava Show; Hop On Hop Off
- Day/Night 2: South Shore Adventure
- Day/Night 3: Hvammsvik Hot Springs with transfer
- Day 4: Departure from Iceland on late afternoon departure
Available departures from US gateways such as: BOS, JFK/EWR, BWI, IAD, DTW, ORD, MSP, DEN, RDU, MCO, PDX and SEA.
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1. Start on flights.google.com, set your origin and departure, and use the calendar picker to get a sense of which dates have lowest fares. For example, Sun/Thur departures for 4 day trips in April seem best.
2. Open the promo page's section "Lead hotel price availability by departure date" section and see which of those dates overlap with (1). Or start with the dates in (2) and try all the combinations in (1).
Example: ORD, April 18-22, $946/per person.
This trip is not bad for the price considering most cheap flights will be in the $400-600 range, hotels are $150-250/night. I do agree with someone else though that this itinerary isn't that great. A lot of flights are overnight too and people often arrive early morning so it's not an easy adjustment.
I'll try to give some short helpful info but obviously there's a ton of videos. Search youtube for Iceland 3 day visit or something. On a trip like this I wouldn't do more than the golden circle around Iceland. I wrote more than I expected so I added some section headers.
Travel info
Make sure your passport is not expiring within 6m of the trip. No visa for US citizens needed.
I didn't need cash ever while I was there. You can use Euros too for like tipping the maid or something.
Cell service in iceland is amazingly good. I strongly recommend buying a prepaid esim card for your phone.
The airport is a good 45 min away from ReykjavÃk. Expect a $110+ taxi. No Uber/Lyft in Iceland.
I would add: I personally recommend renting a car. Rentals are $40-70 a day. Taxis are horribly expensive, no Uber. Parking even downtown is not too difficult. I personally would prefer to drive then be in a tour bus on their schedule. Your US license is ok for Iceland, and you drive on the right. The roads are very easy to navigate. Cell service and GPS coverage is near 100% on roads. The cars are familiar and easy to drive but beware many are manual. Get AWD and be mindful of local laws (Don't drive off road and seriously obey speed limit). You may want sand and ash protection.
March/April will be COLD and windy. Probably not too wet vs snow but bring good waterproof layers and great comfortable waterproof hiking shoes. You may see northern lights but it's not like the videos which are mostly time lapse. Also by April the days get longer like 6am-9 or so. You will see lots of incredible scenery regardless so have a decent camera.
ReykjavÃk info
Downtown ReykjavÃk is very walkable and not large. if you are reasonably fit you can walk to most things in about 10-20m.
ReykjavÃk has a great music scene. Also nice restaurants but most are expensive. Expect like $20-50 per head without alcohol and alcohol is very expensive. Buy some Brennivin at the duty free before you leave the airport
Lots of info online on what to do in ReykjavÃk
Food info
Someone said already shop at Bonus store to save money. Drink tapwater, it's some of the best I had in the world! Well in ReykjavÃk it might be a little sulfury but let it run a minute on cold and its fine.
Food: Fish and chips were the best I ever had, consistently. Arctic char was also amazing.
​Reykjavik Kitchen is amazing. Dinner is expensive and hard to get a table, try lunch. Hlemmur Mathöll is a fantastic food hall.
Nearby attractions info toward Vik
Blue lagoon is currently open but it could close at anytime due to the lava flows which have been starting and stopping a lot lately. Hvammsvik seems nice but I haven't been there, we drove past it. We went to Blue Lagoon.
In the southern coast some highlights on the way to Vik:
Golden Circle https://www.visiticelan
Gljufrabui an amazing cave waterfall next to Seljalandsfoss (Anything -foss means waterfall) but I highly recommend walking into the cave if you have waterproof gear.
Skogafoss has a really cool stairway all way up and you can keep hiking on the top to see much more waterfalls and river feeding the main falls.
Dyrhólaey Lighthouse is worth visiting. Especially when the puffins arrive in late April to May.
Vik is a fantastic town. Has a few nice restaurants and bars and a fantastic black beach. We spent 2 nights there in a really nice place called Vik Apartments and Hotel Vik.
West about 1.5-2h is Gulfoss, Geysir very close by. You can also dive at the continental divide at Silfra.
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Golden Circle, Dive in Silfra, Blue Lagoon.
I know its touristy but its only 1.5 days and the tourist traps are never that crowded in iceland compared to some other natural places I have been and 100x less than city attractions.
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It's been ~6 years since I last flew with them as the first/last legs of a European trip.
Flying into Reykjavik airport went OK, but leaving the airport was bad.
First flight from the US to Reykjavik was fine. Flight leaving from Reykjavik to Europe was cancelled, no other flight options offered until next day, got vouchers for food, taxi ride and hotel stay. Food vouchers expired 2 hours after issuance, so by the time we were done researching and making changes in our itinerary, they were worthless. Hotel was Motel 6 quality. Our luggage didn't follow us, had to scramble for necessities at our arrival in Europe, including insulin for one in our group. 1 and a half days of our itinerary wasted, 3 days until our luggage caught up with us.
Flight out of Europe into Reykjavik had no problems. Flight leaving from Reykjavik to US was a disaster: delayed twice, each delay rescheduled at a different gate sending us scrambling in a herd of panicked passengers from one end of Reykjavik to the other. At the 2nd rescheduling, flight was cancelled 5 minutes before boarding closed.
Luckily we were at the back of the boarding pack and happened to be closest to the customer service desk; when the cancellation was announced the entire boarding line essentially backed into the customer service desk. Because we were at the front of that line we managed to get on another flight, albeit 10 hours later. Not everyone behind us was so lucky - the later flight did not have enough capacity to hold everyone from the cancelled flight. Had desperate people offering us several thousand dollars if we would transfer our ticket.
While we spent the next ~10 hours in airport gate purgatory, we got to watch the repeated process of masses of people on flights delayed/cancelled scrambling back and forth across Reykjavik airport.
No matter how low the rate, I will never fly IcelandAir again if there is any, ANY, other option.
https://www.airlinequality.com/airline-reviews/icelandair [airlinequality.com]
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It's been ~6 years since I last flew with them as the first/last legs of a European trip.
Flying into Reykjavik airport went OK, but leaving the airport was bad.
First flight from the US to Reykjavik was fine. Flight leaving from Reykjavik to Europe was cancelled, no other flight options offered until next day, got vouchers for food, taxi ride and hotel stay. Food vouchers expired 2 hours after issuance, so by the time we were done researching and making changes in our itinerary, they were worthless. Hotel was Motel 6 quality. Our luggage didn't follow us, had to scramble for necessities at our arrival in Europe, including insulin for one in our group. 1 and a half days of our itinerary wasted, 3 days until our luggage caught up with us.
Flight out of Europe into Reykjavik had no problems. Flight leaving from Reykjavik to US was a disaster: delayed twice, each delay rescheduled at a different gate sending us scrambling in a herd of panicked passengers from one end of Reykjavik to the other. At the 2nd rescheduling, flight was cancelled 5 minutes before boarding closed.
Luckily we were at the back of the boarding pack and happened to be closest to the customer service desk; when the cancellation was announced the entire boarding line essentially backed into the customer service desk. Because we were at the front of that line we managed to get on another flight, albeit 10 hours later. Not everyone behind us was so lucky - the later flight did not have enough capacity to hold everyone from the cancelled flight. Had desperate people offering us several thousand dollars if we would transfer our ticket.
While we spent the next ~10 hours in airport gate purgatory, we got to watch the repeated process of masses of people on flights delayed/cancelled scrambling back and forth across Reykjavik airport.
No matter how low the rate, I will never fly IcelandAir again if there is any, ANY, other option.
https://www.airlinequality.com/airline-reviews/icelandair [airlinequality.com]
Unfortunately, all airlines and all airports have those horror stories. Actually, just looked up American Airlines on that same site you listed, it has even lower ratings than IcelandAir. Since I normally fly American Airlines, maybe for me IcelandAir is an upgrade.
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