Layover or weekend tour ? - do you want to get to know our city ?

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5 to 6 hours (approximately)
Pickup offered
Offered in: English

Experience all the major sights, design, hear about the history, the distinctive features, popular seasonal and daily habits, places locals visit regularly and get the knowledge of your special fields of interests.

What's Included

Refreshments at a coffee house or at a pub
Lunch
Dinner

Meeting and pickup

Pickup points
You can choose a pickup location at checkout (multiple pickup locations are available).
Pickup details:

Travelers can specify which hotel they would liked to be pickup at.

Itinerary

Duration: 5 to 6 hours (approximately)
  • 1
    Harpa Concert Hall and Conference Centre

    After pickup at the travellers hotel, we head down town to the city centre with the sea on our left hand and the city on the right. We will stop at the Harp, ,,Harpan“, the home of the Opera, Symphonic orchestra, Reykjavik Big band – basically all music genre - and have a look at this beautiful building from the inside. It has two restaurants.

    40 minutes Admission ticket free
  • 2
    Reykjavik

    From there we go through the city center, by the parament building and all the most historic important official buildings, into the City hall on the lake, where there is a huge 3d map of the country. We will pass by Icelandic Museum of art, when the Settlement museum and the oldest house in the country on our way out of the cold.

    1 hour 40 minutes Admission ticket free
  • 3
    Reykjavik Art Museum Hafnarhus

    Next to the Cultural house, is the more avant garde, Reykjavik Art Museum where it is nice to sit down over warm chocolate and pastries or beer and a light lunch, while overlooking the harbour area. This is a good opportunity to get familiar with the visitors special interests if any. The tour is partly custom made but after the refreshments we are half way through the tour.

    40 minutes Admission ticket included
  • 4
    Old Harbour

    Leaving the Reykjavik Art museum and the old harbour area, we will take a detour to the souroundings of the Maritime museum, the Whale museum (life size) and the Fly over Iceland building. On our way to a couple of stores with icelandic design, we will also drive through the west part of the city, between colourful older houses standing next to the former harbour area, dressed in wrought iron and more robust concrete houses from the same era.

    25 minutes Admission ticket free
  • 5
    Reykjavik

    From the west part of town we will head to a couple of stores with icelandic design, can be clothing, home design, wool etc.

    1 hour 20 minutes Admission ticket free
  • 6
    Perlan

    Before we head to the hotel, we will stop by the Pearl, ,,Perlan“ and go up to the observation deck where visitors can see most parts of the city while getting some information on various buildings and areas. Travellers can decide if they want to stay for the ,,Wonders of Iceland" in the Pearl building or be taken back to the hotel.

    1 hour Admission ticket included

Additional info

  • Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
  • Service animals allowed
  • Public transportation options are available nearby
  • Specialized infant seats are available
  • Suitable for all physical fitness levels
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Half-day Tours
Bus Tours
Private Sightseeing Tours
Cultural Tours
Historical Tours
4WD Tours
Walking Tours
Car Tours
Shore Excursions
Port Pickup
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Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

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