Anyone done the Iceland stopover option on route to Europe?

[onesweetworld]

We are considering doing this in October. At first we thought we would maybe just go to Iceland for a week but I see now that IcelandAir has the stopover option where you fly there, stay however many days you want in Iceland, and continue to your destination with no extra (flight) costs.  This seems like a pretty good deal to me and I was wondering if anyone has done it. 

[Birdie]

rupertpenny might be able to add to this when she wakes up

[meganew]

My girlfriend has done this before and loved it, in fact she's doing it again on her way to Germany in September! She scubas and said it was amazing.

[onesweetworld]

Thanks, guys - I'm excited now!

I think it will be Toronto-->Reykjavik-->Oslo-->Toronto.

I think scuba diving is out because of the 6 year old coming with us but a lagoon sounds amazing!

[whitemerlot]

I think tacom just vacationed there.

[Redpoppy]

We did, on the way to London on our honeymoon. It was great. We rented a car and explored for a couple days. Blue lagoon, golden circle, etc were easy to find tours but we wanted to drive out to Jokulsurlon (glacier lagoon, probably spelled wrong).

[LeggsBenedict]

I would sooo do this. I really want to go.

[amberlyrose]

I'm going in September I'll update when I get back.

[ECB]

A friend of mine did this and he LOVED it.

[v]

I have not done that specifically, but I spent 3 days in Iceland two Labor Days ago and it was fantastic and totally worth visiting for even a limited amount of time.

The glacier lagoon is the most amazing thing I've ever seen. Spoiler alert:



(will DD)

That whole day was amazing -- I thought the drive to/from the glacier lagoon was way better than the Golden Circle.

[tacom]

Jun 2, 2015 16:23:24 GMT -5 whitemerlot said:

I think tacom just vacationed there.

it's been 10 months!!!

I didn't do the stopover; Iceland was the main destination. I LOVED it and highly recommend it as a vacation spot.

 my review w/ pics and budget: pandce.proboards.com/thread/359690/iceland-budget-pics-review-inside

[rupertpenny]

I've never done the layover either, but spending 4-5 days in Iceland is a great amount of time.

A friend just told me that Oslo is horribly boring though. He's Danish though, so maybe it's just Nordic rivalry.

[Captain Serious]

I have been dying to do this.