We get to know you personally regarding things like personal interests and goals, travel preferences and budget and then create a package which includes car, hotels, breakfasts, guided excursions, comprehensive travel documents, regional guide books and 24/7 concierge service. We can also upgrade to include a full-time driver guide with enough notice. Off-season our packages include aurora alerts and weather watch and re-booking in exceedingly rare instances.

You and your travel agent can not plan a better trip. For nearly three decades we've been fostering elusive personal and professional connections no one else has access to so we can develop personal experiences to reflect your own individuality. We also engineer your experience to flow perfectly and avoid pitfalls not obvious from online resources. FAR NORTH TRAVEL is the difference between ordering couture clothing and buying off-the-rack; it's hiring a top architect to design and build your life-long dream house.

You are welcome to make your own bookings before and after the segment we plan for you. Our work must begin and end at Keflavik International Airport with a single arrival and departure time. If other members of your party travel outside these times they will have to coordinate with you to resolve the discrepancy.

Icelandic is the national language of Iceland and is Old Norse time-capsuled in Iceland’s island remoteness. 99% of Icelanders are also fluent in English.

We delight in sending guest in every month however if we had to short-list it we’d suggest around June 21 for 24 hours of ‘midnight sunshine’ and a profusion of wildflowers, newborn animals in-field and wild eggs and chick in ground-nests. Add another two weeks to that to hedge bets against a late-arriving summer. Conversely, for northern lights and often lovely autumn weather arrive around September 15 (after the 16th for better car rental rates.) Again, all months have exceptional, varying attributes so only use this rules-of-thumb if your travel dates are unlimited.

You really need a car to do it right- forget about using public transport which is geared up for commutes rather than sightseeing. If you can’t or wont self-drive the a private driver guide can be arranged but keep in mind that instantly doubles the cost of a typical trip because of economics which include high wages in Iceland unlike in other destinations.

Surprisingly not! The average Reykjavik temperature in January is 33 F- that’s one degree above freezing. The reason is the Gulf Stream Ocean Current which originates in the Caribbean and makes other places unnaturally warm like Maine, eastern Canada, the U.K. and France. In general, Iceland’s temperature swings are much more moderate than places like the northern United States. Its never gets very far below freezing and likewise, in summer it seldom goes above the low-70s. When you book with us we’ll provide a user-friendly Travel Readiness Guide which tells you what to pack for your travel dates as well as insights for electronics, currency and credit cards, phone use and much more.

If you’ve ever driven in winter climates back at home you’ll be fine in Iceland: we recommend using a 4WD vehicle between September 15 and May 15. Icelanders live and work here and need the roads cleared too. You can monitor road conditions in English on www.ROAD.is

‘Official’ aurora season starts September 15 and runs through April 15, although we see fainter ones before and after because outside these dates we have too much sunshine to spot them. 2024/25 marks the height of an eleven-year solar cycle, making your chances the best in a decade right now. Its why people have already been seeing them as far-south as Tennessee! Iceland does it better! We provide our guests real-time auroral alerts during travel as well as tips to optimize sightings!

Icelandic cuisine is the dark horse of expectation, presenting highly sophisticated, beautifully-prepared food with intense pride of fresh, local ingredients, often foraged and procured through relationships with farmers, hunters and fishermen. Iceland is ‘inadvertently organic’ in that growth hormones and pesticides are prohibited. The air is the cleanest on earth: Iceland pollutes SO little that its the only nation permitted by the Kyoto Protocol to actually increase carbon emissions (which it does not.) Iceland ranks among top global destinations in its ability to accommodate dietary concerns for any reason. Just have a conversation with your server and you will be embraced with no pushback.

Iceland is easy-access and everyone can experience 99% of the most-remarkable sites- just park and walk right over. You do not have to be athletic or determined to experience the best-of-the-best. Most hotels have wheelchair-accessable rooms and cars for wheelchairs can be arranged.

Iceland is always rated one of the safest, happiest and most-peaceful nation on earth- and is often rated #1. Crime is virtually non-existent and treatment of women is probably the world’s finest. All religions and personal orientations are embraced and celebrated. Icelands is the safest place on earth to be yourself. There are no animal or insect nuisances and Giardia is non-existent. Iceland actually offers some of the finest healthcare although Icelanders love to grumble about it constantly. The biggest risks to visitors is in assuming they are being looked-after in nature: there are few warning signs or barriers protecting you from what Icelanders feel really should be self-evident. If you are sick or injured within Iceland dial 112 or 911 from your own personal mobile phone and you will be connected with an English-speaking dispatcher. Watch road conditions off-season before you go out each morning on www.ROAD.is and watch weather warnings year-round on www.ENG.VEDUR.is You can safely drink tap water which is really natural spring water like you buy in bottles.

Like the Hawaiian islands, Iceland has been entirely made-up by volcanic eruptions over millions of years and there is often one erupting remotely where it has almost no affect on tourism or the people who live and work in Iceland. In fact, often visitors request to see an active eruption. The current active hot spot is too remote to access for tourism. Nobody has ever or been injured by a volcanic eruption in hundreds of years and your trip is highly unlikely to be affected by vulcanism. That said you can protect your purchase by adding inexpensive travel insurance at the time of buying your trip.

Iceland is always rated one of the most expensive travel destinations on earth- above the rest of Europe and other notoriously expensive locales. The reason is simple- unprecedented demand and scant supply: we have under 400,000 citizens in-all serving 4 million visitors, annually. Its often ranked the 7th most-booked travel destination by reliable resources like the New York Times Travel Show and the travel guru, Wendy Perrin. This means the tiny population can not build and operate enough tourism infrastructure to accommodate it’s intense popularity. In summer, people with no booking often end up sleeping in their car. As a result, locals know they will sell every car, room and tour and waiting lists are long. This causes constant price increases with no bottom.

Short of a handful of popular places like the world-famous Geysir, you’ll feel open space and relaxed pace. Icelands is the world’s 7th most sparsely-populated nation (Outer Mongolia is #1) meaning the expansive landscapes swallow up any semblance of tourism influx. There are no trespassing laws which means you can wander across any land and so its easy to feel you are the first person in a location, whether or not that’s actually true. Its important to make the effort to find toilets and not to feed horses or let animals out of gates and fences.

Iceland is in an artificial time zone to do business with Europe on Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) all year round (naturally it would be three hours later.) It does not change between summer and wintertime.

Dial 011 354 followed by the seven-digit local number. There are no area codes within Iceland. If you are sick or injured within Iceland dial 112 or 911 from your own personal mobile phone and you will be connected with an English-speaking dispatcher.

Icelanders drive on the right side of the road and generally roads are well-maintained, quickly. You do not need an International Driver’s License. You will need to be 24 or over and present your local driver’s license and a credit card to pick up a rental car.

Fiercely independent, Icelanders are not part of the European Economic Union and have their own national currency- the Icelandic Krona. Do not ask to spend U.S. Dollars or Euros here- these are not accepted and the inference of Iceland not being its own autonomous nation is highly offensive to otherwise low-key people. That said, Iceland is a virtually cashless society meaning credit cards and ATM cards are accepted everywhere for the tiniest amounts without stigma. Some credit card transactions may offer the option to pay in Dollars or Euros with hidden commissions, so the best value is to select Icelandic Krona.

Your passport must have an extra three months expiration past your arrival date. You don’t need a visa to enter Iceland for visits of up to 90 days. Please ensure your passport is stamped when you enter and leave. Border guards will use these passport stamps to check you have not overstayed the 90-day visa-free limit for stays in the Schengen area. If your passport was not stamped, border guards will presume you have overstayed the visa-free limit.

Electricity is 220 volts, 50Hz as in most of Europe. Plugs and sockets are the two round-pin type.

Icelanders do not expect tips and especially guides are well-paid and will often refuse tips. Restaurant charge slips have no place to write-in a tip. Lately we are seeing tip jars at cafe counters, but as Iceland is mostly on-cards, there just isn’t much cash floating around. All that said, its not considered offensive to offer a tip as it is in places like Japan where its something like assuming a person is ‘poor.’

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