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public transportation Reykjavík Region
10 Reviews The city centre, not being a large area, can be easily explored on foot. To rent a car or a taxi is an option, but an expensive one. To rent a bike can be fun in the summer, although Reykjavik is not...
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airport/ planes Reykjavík Region
11 Reviews Keflavik airport is clean and well-designed. The international wing where Icelandic Air operates is specially designed to work as a "hub": in other words, you deplane from your flight from Boston,...
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walking Reykjavík Region
5 Reviews Reykjavik is a very cool place and if you choose your accommodation (and attire) properly is pretty easy to get around by foot, or bike. I always pack some good shoes and this was a great city for...
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Icelandair is the airline of Iceland. It connect Europe and North America to Keflavik, the hub of the airline. It fly with Boeing 757-200 and B757-300. The cabin crew is very hospitality and the food is good!!! Icelandair is not very cheap but it allow to do a direct fly from the main town of Europe (Frankfort, London, Copenaghen... and North America (Boston, New York, San Francisco...). Icelandair is the first taste of Iceland!
In my opinion, the best way to enjoy Iceland is by car. Having your own set of wheels gives you the opportunity to see more of the country and it gives you freedom and flexibility. It will cost you though, as renting a car is not cheap, but, on the other hand, public transport isn't either. If you plan on seeing some of the interior of Iceland I suggest you get yourself a big 4WD. Particularly if you are going to be there in spring, you don't want to make the mistake of taking a car that is too small to cross some of the streams with melting water. On my trip to Iceland in may 2003 with my rental Suzuki Jimny (in the picture) there was one stream that couldn't be crossed, forcing me to turn back and miss out on what could have been one of the highlights of my trip. But on the rest of the trip my Jimny performed beautifully and I got to use the 4WD mode a number of times.
If you want to be free to go everywhere, the best way to visit Iceland is by car or by motorcycle. Most roads in the interior Iceland are not asphalted, so you may need an off-road vehicle. Many tracks are forbidden if you don't drive an off-road vehicle. Often you may need to cross rivers (with no bridge, of course). Water often comes from glaciers, so during summer the level of the water and the difficulty of the passage may vary in the day, lower in the first hours in the morning , higher in the afternoon. Ask locals when you can specifying your kind of vehicle.
Icelandair did an excellent job of getting us to Iceland (and providing our hotel along with several day tours). While there, the Reykjavik Tourist Card made it very easy to get around by bus and when we did take a taxi, it was definitely a luxury ride - complete with leather seats (uuummm, nice) but quite expensive though. If all else fails, horseback riding is quite popular and the Icelanders breed a very unique type of equine.
I use IcelandAir as an economic way to get from Boston, USA to Glasgow, Scotland on a somewhat regular basis. I took advantage of their offer to have a stopover for no additional cost to explore the island that I always just looked at landing and taking off.
This company is runing fly bus in conection with flights coming to Iceland and it is the cheapest way to get to Reykjavik (45-50 km) They also run a tour company to different destanations. Also they are runing the terminal where the buses go to different destanations arround the country (BSI)
Driving is a great way of seeing Iceland. Route 1 around the country is a reasonably good road (most of the time), but all the mountain roads and the roads in the interiour have grave surface and are not suitable for fast driving. Also watch out for animals. Keep your headlights on all the time. Petrol stations are closed at night (but driving at night is quite dangerous anyway, because many roads are narrow and winding).We hired this small Nissan Micra and it was appropriate for our trip, but, depending on your itinerary, you may need a 4WD.
Since busse are quite expensive, hiring a car quickly becomes a cheap option if you want to see a lot in a short time. The driving manners take a little getting used to though. There biggest road has two lanes and maximum speed is 90 km/h. Most of the times there is a steep descent next to the road and we saw two crashed cars who had gone that way. Add sharp hairpins and bad weather. Also all over Iceland sheep are kept in open space and they somehow have this instinct to cross the road when they hear a car coming. The icelanders obviously got used to all this and don't show much patience with tourists driving the boring 90 km/h. My mirror was often filled with huge 4x4s, white vans and trucks sticking to my back bumper. We wrote "take it easy" on our disty window and I took my time to get used to the conditions. Most of the time you'll be driving on your own though and you start to...
You must must must take a bus ride to the interior when you are in iceland. The busses are old things (made in Belgium :-) with good ground clearance. disregarding speedlimits the busdriver race over blind haedirs with the sunglasses down talking on the phone and eating candy. It's a little scary but we were soon trowing our arms in the air pretending to be on a rollercoaster. you feel like you're in Paris dakar when your are speeding at 100 km/u through what looks like huge gravel pit on your way from Reykjavik to Landmannalaugar. Water enters the bus from under the doors when you're splashing through deep rivers on your way back to Reykjavik from Thorsmork. To qoute the travel guide: "You can not reach it by a normal car and even experienced 4x4 drivers are not adviced to take the risk. Just take the bus." Sandra bullock suddenly looks a lot less cool!
We didn't have time to check out the city tourist pass but it has to be better than paying for each trip. Each time you boarded a bus it was about $3.00. The Icelanders think nothing of walking everywhere but when your time is limited you want to make the most of it. The busses are clean, efficient, have friendly drivers, and make great connections but be sure to checkout the discount passes at the tourist center.
Castle House Luxury Apartments Reykjavík Region
2 Reviews and 195 Opinions We have just returned from a long weekend break in Reyjavik and thoroughly enjoyed our stay at the...
Hilton Reykjavik Nordica Reykjavík
4 Reviews and 600 Opinions I am now staying in this Hilton hotel which was part of the package tour that I booked with...
Hotel Reynihlid Mÿvatn
2 Reviews and 74 Opinions We stayed in Reynihilo after doing a lot of research on the net as nothing else was available. In...
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