Excursiones en las Tierras Altas

What an incredible experience! Brilliantly curated but with the right amount of freedom to choose what you wanted as you made your way. From the start the communication with Natan, ou Guide to Icelan representative, was both prompt and thoughtful. The itinerary was detailed enough to make suggestions as to what to see and expansive enough to accomodate different tastes. Rental car pickup was right on time and the 4x4 vehicle was clean and worked well on all road surfaces, even through the highlands! The camping card was easy to use as well as the fuel discount card. And the free map was a nice surprise. All of the information that we got from Guide to Iceland was helpful as we made out way through the 6 day tour. The horseback riding was exceptional and a real highlight. Driving through the backcountry in the highlands was amazing...we saw glaciers, innumerable waterfalls, beautiful lakes and rivers, spent time by the sea...for a nature lover, this was truly an awe-inspiring trip and incredibly well organized. Really the trip of a lifetime and made so much easier with the tremendous support of Guide to Iceland.

I just returned from Iceland and feel homesick! I'd love to return next year with my husband. This package tour included all the best local sites in the southern region and tour guides all were knowledgeable, competent, kind and patient. I highly recommend this tour.

Summer 2018: -We would absolutely recommend! Guide to Iceland made it very easy to plan this trip and once I was there everything was set up and ready to go. The hotels were clean and centrally located to everything. The bus pick up was easy, every driver knew my name and called me and got me to where I needed to be on time. Each planned excursion was exciting and well planned out by the tour guides. -The top highlights of my solo trip include: 1. Snowmobiling on a glacier with Mountaineers of Iceland - "a must do" 2. Hiking on a glacier 3. Going inside a volcano (note: there is about a forty-five walk through a lava field just to get to the volcano from the parking lot, which is great when it is nice outside). 4. Hiking the rim of another volcano to see the colorful oozing looking rocks 5. The waterfalls 6. The boiling geysers 7. The tiny, quiet city of Reykjavík 8. ATV tour (I booked that at my hotel, it was a lot of fun.) 9. My fun tour guides 10. All the people from around the world I met traveling through Iceland 11. The locals who make it fun and like talking to tourists (I just sat in the park and spoke with a few on a nice day). 12. The cool black volcanic beaches 13. The glacier lagoon (Golden Circle Tour) 14. Blue lagoon (wow). It is not cheap, but for good reason. You get what you pay for and it like nothing you have ever seen before on this planet (note: I got a crazy sunburn from the lagoon, so be careful in summer). 15. Hiking in the national parks and seeing the divide between Europe and North America. 16. Seeing where Game of Thrones and J.B. film the show/video. 17. Great pick up and drop off right from my hotel, or just down the street. 18. If you do have leftover time in the city, take a walk to a geothermal city pool. It is a good way to spend a few hours, and it is not expensive. 19. Eight days was the perfect amount of time to see the highlights of Iceland. --Suggestion/observations: 1. Save money on food by going to the "Bonus" grocery store. Also, take a short walk out of the highly touristy areas, the farther you walk, the lower the prices. The complimentary hotel breakfasts are great, so eat up each morning. 2. Reykjavík won't take more than one day to explore so plan an excursion for each day. Most excursions end around 6 pm so you will have plenty of time to see the city. 3. Reykjavík is flat and very walkable. You won't need to hire a cab (or drive a rental) to get around. There are no highways to walk across in the country and being a pedestrian is the way to safely go. 4. Great water resistant shoes are highly recommended for every excursion. You don't need winter jackets or snow pants in the summer. Just a warm sweater and a warm rain jacket will suffice. 5. Alcohol is expensive, so don't plan to spend too much time at the bar. 6. It is fun to go with a group of friends, but you can also safely do this trip solo without any problem. You meet nice people, of many different ages, from around the world each day and the tour guides love talking with everyone.

The Guide to Iceland team was great and very responsive. Hotel Alda was centrally located and had great breakfast. Bus pickups were at a central zone not at hotel. There was a great deal of confusion in finding right bus as there were many people waiting for different tours and many of the buses did not have signs saying where they were going. Also bus drivers were not always helpful. Tours themselves were of variable quality. Our favorites were the two-day south coast tour (mainly because of our Guide) and snowmobile/ice tunnel tour. Food quality in Reykjavik was surprisingly good (especially for fish lovers) but pricey.

Superbe journée, fabuleux paysages d'Askja... nous avons eu la chance d'avoir une journée ensoleillée, malgré une tempête de sable qui a modifié le programme. Super jeep très confortable, conducteur accompagnateur très sympathique... Une très belle journée à ne pas manquer lors de son voyage en Islande.

We had a great experience in this tour with our driver and tourist guide Fin. The scene of Landmannalaugar is completely different comparing to the South Coast. It is like the surface of another planet. Some of the places can only be reached with super jeep and professional guide. Our car was broken on half way, but this didn't affect our tour at all. Fin is very professional and he found us other cars to take us to the waterfall. When we came back, the company sent us another super jeep to continue the tour. When we hiked through a creek, Fin built a bridge with the stones and even my parents enjoyed the half hour hiking a lot!

My experience in Summer 8-Day Best Attraction Tour Package was excellent! Besides the typical activities such as Blue Lagoon hot bath, Golden Circle, Black Sand Beach, Glacier Lagoon, Myvatn Lake hot bath and sight seeings, we also took Glacier Hiking, Into the Volcano and Ice Tunnel walk. They were really a life time experience.Before I booked the trip I did a lot of studies about Iceland and their attractions. However, the real experience was far beyond my expectations! The glacier hike was a real challenge for me. It was a rainy day, windy and cold. Even with all the gears we had, it was not an effortless activity. It made me appreciate God's enormous creation and how tiny we are.It also gave me new perspective of how hard it was for the early settlers. The tour guide Christian was great! He is not only experienced, knowledgeable but also caring and considerate. It was a challenging activity but I enjoyed a lot. I would recommend to anyone who is still in good health to take this adventure. However, this is not for small children. We also took and tour Into the Volcano that erupted 4500 years ago and is inactive. The volcano was awesome and pretty. The technology to get down the bottom of the volcano was interesting, the hiking from the base camp was worthwhile, we hiked across the N.America and Euroasia tectonic plates on snow and rocks. Once got to the entrance area, a delicious hot soup/drink was waiting for us. The tour Operator TripAdvisor crew were fantastic. Too bad I did not ask their names. I would highly recommend this tour. The ice tunnel/cave tour is worthwhile too. The tunnel will disappear in 50-60 years. It is better now than later to visit. Overall,I enjoy this oncein a life time tour very much. I appreciate the agents Emla and Olafur's help in making my final decision on what activity and tours to take. Lily Tu

It was a great trip that we never had ! If possible, we would like go to Iceland again

This was an awesome tour. However, the weather doesn't always cooperate and the Landmannalauger tour was cancelled due to storm conditions. Also, we couldn't reach parts of the Snæfellsnes Peninsula due to the weather and we were on Plan X as our guide made sure that we still got to see some pretty awesome things on the tour in place of the things we were missing. We hiked to the top of a crater - it was so windy we thought we would blow off but that was the highlight of the trip for my son. Embla, our travel agent, was great at getting us alternate tours and finding us a hotel room in Reykjavik when the Landmannalauger tour was canceled. Even though we were so bummed it was canceled we knew that that is to be expected with winter weather in Iceland and you just have to go with the flow. I know that Guide to Iceland is just arranging tours for us with other tour companies, which we could have done on our own, but I was sooooo glad we went through Guide to Iceland. We were notified by email that our Landmannalauger tour (scheduled for the following day) was canceled due to weather when we stopped for lunch and had access to wifi. I then forwarded the email to Embla right away. After that we had cell reception and wifi maybe only 10 minutes for the rest of the day until we got back to our hotel at 8pm. If we had booked our tours ourselves, we would have gotten back to our hotel and would have had to find hotel rooms for the following two nights on our own. It was a good feeling knowing I didn't have to worry about it because Embla was taking care of it while we didn't have cell/wifi service. We were still able to do a one day Golden Circle/Snowmobile tour and a one day South Iceland ATV tour of black beach (that was my favorite part of the trip). The ice cave and the snowmobile tours were extremely crowded. I actually enjoyed Snæfellsnes Peninsula a lot because it was very quiet and not crowded. We didn't see one other tour bus while we were up there. All in all a fabulous vacation and I will definitely be back to Iceland. I highly recommend Guide to Iceland.

Bonjour à tous, Nous avons réservé ce voyage très à l'avance, environ 8 à 9 mois. Le jour J est arrivé et nous avons à fond profité de ce voyage juste extraordinaire. Durant ces quelques jours en Islande, nous avons eu pas mal de malchance. Beaucoup de séjours annulés à cause du temps. Cependant, GuideToIceland a été au TOP ! Notre agent a su tout de suite rebondir sur ces événements et nous trouver des alternatives plus que satisfaisantes. Et oui, on a goûté aux météos Nordique :D Enfin voilà, un très grand merci à cette agence de voyage que l'on recommande fortement ! Professionnel et honnête sont les deux mots qui qualifierait selon nous le mieux GuideToIceland!!