meggies

We will be in the city center of Reykjavik, for four whole days. We plan to use our rental car part of the time and take guided tours part of the time. Our downtown Reykjavik hotel does not have parking facilities and recommends nearby street or garage parking. So we need to ask: How much should one expect to pay for full-day use in a downtown Reykjavik parking garage? How long may one safely leave a car parked curbside in the street near a hotel? Are there fees/meters for parking at curbside? Any dangers in parking curbside? Hotel is on the corner of Bankastraeti and Thingholtstraeti.

meggies

So hard to believe there isn't a fellow traveler out there, or a kind local, who knows something about parking in Reykjavik? Sure could use some help here, please! Thanks so much for any advice you can give.

Cowboy1968

Well, I don't know nothing, but Google knows this:
http://www.visitreykjavik.is/desktop...355_read-1548/

meggies

Thank you, Cowboy. I should have googled first. Is there any free on-street parking, or shouldn't one count on finding such?

mamcalice

Another puzzle for Google. Not many of us have traveled to Iceland and fewer still have ranted a car, I imagine. This may be one for the Reykjavik Tourist Bureau.

Jay_G

Are you staying at Hotel Thingholt by any chance?

I stayed there a couple of years ago and hired a car for a couple days. If memory serves (and it might not, due to the number of glasses of Black Death that I drank) I never paid for parking on the street.

I parked the car on Laugevegur, which I think was free in the evenings and up until a certain time in the morning, by which time I'd already upped and left. It's perfectly safe to leave a car on the street (you'll see a fair few luxury cars parked on the street) and although the Icelanders like to get rowdy on the weekend evenings, they very rarely damage property, only themselves and the odd pint glass.

meggies

Thanks, Jay for the Laugevegur parking advice. Mamchalice, I will also contact the Reykjavik Tourist Bureau. Cowboy, I printed up the Parking Garage and paid street parking maps on your link. I always rely on this forum for the best advice! Thanks, everyone.