Holy crap you weren't joking:lightbulb wrote: ↑ Iceland is an incredible place to visit if you like natural wonders / landscapes. Our family spent a week there over the Christmas-New Years holiday and had an amazing time despite the very very short daylight. I'll say you will never see New Year's celebrations like Reykjavik, where they have uncontrolled fireworks that go on for hours everywhere, throughout the city; unique and incredible experience. Although summer would be incredible with the endless sun, it is also much more expensive and would a lot of tourists everywhere, given the current popularity of Iceland. We used Iceland as a stopover on the way back from Paris, which both WOW and Iceland Air use as selling features.
We also used Lagoon Car Rental after much research and found them dependable, honest and fairly priced. I think it was about C$75 day for a new RAV 4 (manual).
Yes, Iceland is really expensive, especially alcohol and really poor selection of food in their supermarkets compared to Canada. Eating out is pricey, I remember our first night of fish & chips with one beer being about $35 each; very good quality food though.
I would definitely got back and recommend unless you're more of a resort / relax with cocktail kind of vacationer.
For a country of ~300,000, that's a hell of a light show. But it would suck if you were expecting to see the Auroras that night lol