4-Day/3-Night Iceland Vacation Package: Roundtrip Airfare, Hotel, Breakfast & Tours Expired

The method you should use is this:

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.

I took my family to Iceland in august last year. I highly recommend it for adventurers or even the less mobile (I took my mother too).

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 Reykjavík. 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.

Reykjavík info
Downtown Reykjavík is very walkable and not large. if you are reasonably fit you can walk to most things in about 10-20m.
Reykjavík 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 Reykjavík

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 Reykjavík 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.visiticeland.com/arti...den-circle
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.

a 17 hr flight just to stay 3 nights? you are kidding, right.