My husband and I have decided to go to Iceland for part of our honeymoon. We are actually going to Amsterdam to visit some friends, as well. I have a few questions. We are leaving on Monday, July 9th to fly to Amsterdam. We are currently undecided on how much time to spend there - we have been there together before. We are leaning towards staying there until Saturday or Sunday and then flying to Iceland. We have not purchased any tickets yet. We are then staying in Iceland until the following Thursday or Friday. As you can see, we are flexible with our travel plans in terms of how many days in each.
In Iceland, we are looking forward to seeing as much as possible of anything and everything. We want to see glaciers, hot springs, volcanos, etc. We love taking pictures and exploring. We also love just walking the streets and taking it all in. Any recommendations for an itinerary? We know it's an expensive country and plan on bringing food from Amsterdam - does anyone know how much is allowed? Any particular places to stay? our budget is approximately $175 USD per night (11.585 ISK per night). We are willing to spend more - it is our honeymoon after all! But, we would prefer to spend our money renting a car (if this is what we are advised to do) and eating!
Thanks for your advice...

Kristen

Hi K,

>We know it's an expensive country and plan on bringing food from Amsterdam -<

You are bringing a week's worth of food with you?

Have you tried searching this forum for 'Iceland', 'geyser', etc ?

There was a post a couple of years ago from someone who'd driven right round Iceland, visting many sights, and wrote a very interesting and inspiring trip report.

Customs let each person import duty-free up to 3 kg of food, not exceeding the value of ISK 13.000. There are restrictions on certain types of food, especially certain meats, dairy products and eggs.

What sort of food are you going to take in? How are you going to cook it? Why not buy in local supermarkets (they're not that expensive)?

Less than a week is not long in Iceland, but if you browse this forum you will find many posts about things people do in a short time.

I would suggest you need to spend time on a little research (here http://www.nat.is/main.html
might be a start) and then decide what you would like to do and what you can do.

Michael

We were going to buy bread lol. I don't know, we haven't thought that far! I will do more research, which I have done a lot of - just looking for real people's advice now. I'm tired of looking at websites lol! Thanks!

Thanks for telling me that the supermarkets in Iceland weren't that expensive! I didn't know that...very helpful. Also love the website that I went to so far! Thanks again!

Apart from the fact that bread takes up a lot of space it's likely to get squashed on a flight and will be stale when you get round to eating it!

A number of places do room only with access to a kitchen.

On a recent trip we ate a lot of pasta - we did take dry powder sauce mixes which didn't need milk - and veg. Skyr (a sort of zero calorie cream dessert) is amazing.

At breakfast a couple of big bowls of granola (sort of crunchy muesli) and cultured milk will keep you going well into the day.

Depending on where you are going shopping needs a bit of planning as there is a lot of shopless space in Iceland. However most settlements of any size have a store with reasonable supply of basics. Larger places (larger by Icelandic standards - 1,000 or so people) have quite good supermarkets. Prices were higher than UK, but not ridiculously so for basics.