Escorted Iceland holidays from the UK
Iceland sits close enough to Britain for a short holiday to feel worthwhile: a flight of around three hours puts you in a landscape of steam vents, black lava fields and waterfalls fed by ice. Our Iceland travel is built around a single hotel in Reykjavík, with guided days out by private coach, so you unpack once and let someone else watch the weather and the road conditions.
It is a small part of what we do, and we would rather say so. What is here is on this page, with flights, transfers, breakfasts and every listed excursion included in the price.
Frequently Asked Questions About Our Iceland Tours
It depends entirely on cloud cover and solar activity, and neither can be booked in advance. Between late September and early April the nights are long enough for a good chance over several evenings, but a week of low cloud can pass without a single sighting. Our Iceland holiday includes a Northern Lights sightseeing tour by coach; treat any display as a bonus rather than the reason you came, and you will not be disappointed.
Yes. Entry to the Blue Lagoon is one of the listed inclusions on our six-day Iceland holiday, along with the Reykjavík city tour, Perlan, the Golden Circle tour and the Northern Lights tour. The lagoon is a geothermal bathing complex on the Reykjanes peninsula, in a lava field near the airport. If you would like to know exactly what the entry package covers on your departure, ask us and we will confirm.
The Iceland holiday is five nights bed and breakfast at Hotel Fron in Reykjavík, so breakfast is included and evening meals are your own. That suits the city rather well: the hotel is central, and there is a good spread of restaurants and cafés within a short walk. Eating out in Iceland is not cheap, so it is worth budgeting for. Tell us about any dietary requirements and we will pass them on.
The Golden Circle in one day
The Golden Circle is a loop of roughly 150 miles east of Reykjavík, taking in three places that between them explain a good deal about Iceland. Thingvellir is a rift valley where the North American and Eurasian plates are pulling apart, and where the Althing, one of the oldest parliaments in the world, met in the open air from around 930.
At the Geysir geothermal field the ground hisses and the pools are the colour of weak tea. The original Geysir rarely performs now, but Strokkur next door throws water twenty or thirty feet into the air every few minutes, and most people wait for a second go. Gullfoss, further on, drops the glacial Hvítá river in two stages into a narrow canyon; on a bright day the spray carries a rainbow, and in cold weather the viewing paths are edged with ice.
Chasing the Northern Lights
The aurora needs three things: a dark sky, a clear sky, and some solar activity. Iceland has the latitude, and from late September to early April it has the darkness. A guided evening tour by coach takes you out of Reykjavík, away from the street lights, to wherever the cloud forecast looks most promising that night.
Nobody can promise a display, and any operator who does is selling you something they cannot deliver. Some nights are a washout. Others produce a slow green arc that lasts an hour. It is worth dressing for standing still in the cold: hat, gloves, proper boots and more layers than you think you need.
Perlan, on a hill above the city, is a sensible complement — a planetarium aurora film and a walk-through ice cave built inside the old water tanks, with a viewing deck over Reykjavík.
