Everything you need to plan an amazing vacation to Iceland!
For more help planning your Iceland vacation with kids, check out our travel guide book, Iceland With Kids, or our fully customized Iceland trip planning services.Traveling without kids? Check out 100 Tips for Visiting Iceland, and our custom itinerary planning services for anyone visiting Iceland! This post is continuously updated; the last update was in …
“Reykjavik” by Marco Bellucci is licensed under CC BY 2.0 We’ve written many posts about planning for your trip to Iceland. Here is a summary of our best advice, at least so far. When to go to Iceland? There will be several obvious differences in your vacation experience based on what time of year you go: Temperature. This …
Buying an Icelandic SIM card Update: We just published our brand new post about using a cell phone in Iceland for your 2018 vacation. The post below will still have some great details, but see that post for the latest information! Updated December 2017 with new cell phone recommendations. The SIM card is the little thing, sometimes orange, that identifies …
This picture has absolutely nothing to do with cell phone plans. But it IS much more interesting … it was actually taken at the Reykjavik zoo. Option 2: Use your existing phone with an international plan In our last post, we mostly covered what not to do—don’t use data without an international plan! Here are …
If you plan to use any data at all, don’t just turn on roaming on your phone. Here’s why. You don’t truly need to have a cell phone with a data plan when you’re in Iceland. You could just bring your current phone, disable roaming data (this is critical! see below as to why), make an …
