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Friday, September 12, 2008

Iceland Travel Guide - Start your planning here!

Planning a vacation to Iceland?

This is everything you need to know for anyone researching trips to Iceland! This includes travel resources from hotels and cars and things I wish I had known before heading to Iceland!


Resource Pages


  • Iceland: My 10 Day Driving Itinerary - All mapped out!

  • Iceland Car Rental - All you need to know about driving in Iceland

  • Iceland Hotels - Some websites where you can book rooms.

  • Ferry Baldur - Sail from Snaefellenes to the West Fjords

  • Iceland Weather - Don't bother with weather.com, this site shows the temperature, wind, from Iceland's Meteorological office for all Icelandic cities. All in English

  • Air Iceland - Domestic Flights within Iceland (Pretty cheap at $90 each way)

  • Iceland Travel Store - Don't leave home without these essentials!

  • See Iceland's Vik beach in a Dentyne Ice Video Commercial


  • Did you remember everything for your trip?

    Visit our Iceland Travel Store to find out.

    My Iceland Diary
    With photos and info on the hotels we stayed at.

    Day 1: Hello Reykjavik!
    Day 2: Battling Nature? Not for the Faint Hearted
    Day 3: It's a Beautiful Day (channel: U2)
    Day 4: The road to Myvatn
    Day 5: Iphone Malfunction
    Day 5: All Fossed Out
    Day 5: Jarbodin - Spa Myvatn
    Day 6: The Barren Interior and Askja
    Day 7: Off the Beaten Path
    Day 8: Hellish Driving Day!
    Day 9: Revenge of the Puffins
    Day 9: Food and Botched Reservations
    Day 9: Nuni? No Nüni ....
    Day 10: Time to Say Goodbye

    3 comments:

    Anonymous said...

    Hi,
    Thanks for posting your experience in Iceland. I'm going there for 9 days end of July.

    Where did you stay every nite? Did you book hotels ahead of time for all the stops?

    Are there bed and breakfast type of places that we can find without booking hotels ?

    Thanks
    DJ

    Jan Nordic said...

    Wanna travel around Iceland?
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    Beth B-dóttir said...

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