Everything you need to plan an amazing vacation to Iceland!
“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 …
“Iceland” by Moyan Brenn is licensed under CC BY 2.0 If you are planning to drive in Iceland, you need to understand F roads. F roads are mountain roads; Fjallið means mountain in Icelandic. For lots more about F roads and driving in Iceland, check out our brand new Safe Driving in Iceland Video Course! Some …
A tiny seaside Airbnb cottage by Kristen Sloan is licensed under CC BY 2.0 For our trip to Iceland, I started by looking at hotels. Many were already sold out for the summer, or the rooms were too small. And getting two rooms would be prohibitively expensive. Then I started looking for cottages and apartments to rent, …
“Colors of Water” by Ulrich Latzenhofer is licensed under CC BY 2.0 A surprising number of tourists get themselves into trouble while driving in Iceland. They blindly follow their GPS to destinations 6 hours the wrong direction. Or they follow their outdated GPS onto closed and dangerous roads. Or they cause accidents by stopping in the middle of …
Camuflaje by Andrés Nieto Porras is licensed under CC BY 2.0 Update December 2017: Worldwide Insure, my favorite excess rental car insurance company, no longer offers excess car rental insurance in Iceland. I recommend them for coverage in other countries, but you’ll have to go with Roamright or someone else for Iceland. See all of the details below. Car …
The Icelandic Tourist Board publishes very nice data on how many people flew into Keflavik Airport. And since nearly everyone going to Iceland gets there via Keflavik, this shows a very accurate view of travel and tourism to Iceland. (We’ll ignore the people who take a ferry from Denmark.) Data from 2015 was just published, so …
