Iceland (2 Viewers)

[talkingllama]

Has anyone been? Would you be able to recommend a good travel guide book? I normally get the Lonely Planet books but this one is after getting slated badly on amazon so i'm a little reluctant to buy it...

thanks in advance.
Lama.

 

[plug]

yeah, I started a thread about it before, being actutely interested in going for a while. never got it together. a few people have been there alright.. so I'm sure they'll post some info in due course! all I know really is that it's pretty expensive to get travel. a good friend of mine was there; it got two thumbs up from him!

 

[krystal]

It can be dear but it doesn't have to be - we got flights last week for 215 euro each, with BA from Gatwick. So that's not too bad really.

 

[dudley]

getting there is one thing, going out is another 8)

 

[talkingllama]

plug- thanks, will do a search for your thread.

I've already been forewarned about it being expensive so am preparing for the worst. booked flights for €260 from heathrow (which isn't too bad, but still not as cheap as kirstie! ) so that's sorted anyway. looking forward to it already.... we're going pony trekking - Icelandic ponies have an extra speed between trot and canter....

 

[dudley]

when are you going? there's milliuns of us going over in july

 

[talkingllama]

when are you going? there's milliuns of us going over in july

Heading over at the end of May. don't think i could last until July without a substantial break from work!

 

[old]

Current cheapest flights are with BA from Gatwick.
Stay somewhere with self catering and stock up on duty free!
Eating out is prohibitively pricey.

 

[pete]

Stay somewhere with self catering

where?

 

[Raudi Raus Schinkel]

bananas are a euro each from what i can remember. pints were 7.50 each, at least in cirkus, that were folk kinda go out. I went round the whole country and I'm tellin ya, it aint cheap. 100 euros a day should do ya. never really ate out much, there is a cheap chipper in reykjavik though, so you will be eatin a lot of chips there cos to go to a restaurant, no, forget it. It is well worth it though, especially the geothermal lake in the north you can get in an swim in and its nice and toasty. the glaciers are fuckin coolest shit ive ever seen too.

 

[krystal]

cool, I hate bananas.

 

[talkingllama]

i´m waaay too amused by the fact that thumped map is showing me in iceland right now! it´s deadly by the way. the icelandic horses rock..|..|

 

[TenRabbits]

the glaciers are fuckin coolest

pun?

See em soon tho cos they're backpedalling quicker than a politician after election.

 

[dirtyvicar]

Living in rip-off Dublin, I didn't find Iceland *that* expensive. Even eating out is not so bad, if you stick with fish. Vegemot is great restaurant, in the vicinity of Cirkus and Kaffeebarrin.

 

[RSJ]

Where's nice to stay? Thinking of taking herself for her birthday in jan, seen flights for e400 for both of us, seems doable.

 

[dudley]

might be worth waiting, ryanair are going to start a dublin/iceland route next march.

 

[pete]

might be worth waiting, ryanair are going to start a dublin/iceland route next march.

i'd rather swim

 

[pete]

Where's nice to stay? Thinking of taking herself for her birthday in jan, seen flights for e400 for both of us, seems doable.

mr & mrs ramps stayed in what appeared to be some manner of sex hotel

http://www.roomwithaview.is/index_en.html

 

[RSJ]

Are those apartments as nice as they look on the website?

 

[pete]

Are those apartments as nice as they look on the website?

i didn't visit but they're in a great location, right in the middle of town.

i'm sure stan / kirstie / rampz can fill you in on the details.