Ev's Georgick's Travel Blog

“Most people like dried fish, although many don’t like the way its smells, but don’t let that stop you!”
from the Reykjavik Visitors Guide

Made it in fine, though the flight was turbulenty. No plane seat upgrades for us, you had to pay the full difference in price, which would have been over a thousand dollars each, ha! Seats weren’t all that comfortable, but the plane wasn’t completely filled so we lucked out by both being able to move into aisle seats across from one another with the middle seats unoccupied. Should have done a little more research into Reykjavik travel beforehand. We just hopped a taxi from the airport to the hotel because it was only a 30 mile drive, how expensive could it be? Well the answer, it turns out, is super, freaking expensive. Don’t do it. Catch the FlyBus instead, it’ll cost 1/3 that of the taxi ride and they’ll drop you off at your hotel (along with the other passengers, so it might take a little longer, but at huge savings). We arrived too early to the hotel for our room to be ready yet (wasn’t even 8am), so we wandered over to the free buffet breakfast, which was simple but delicious (breads, one type of cheese, two types of sliced meat, boiled eggs, cereal, milk, butter, coffee, orange juice). The hotel staff was very accommodating and put a rush on our room availability so that we were able to have an early check in (9:30am). These aren’t swanky rooms, but they are perfectly serviceable (think Ikea furniture). The thing is though, seriously I think we are in the absolute best room they have (out of 55) its a triple room (three single beds) on the corner of the top floor. It is totally spacious by European standards and and has the best view, with two full banks of windows. We are very happy with it. Fell asleep for 6 hours (by that time it was 3am Seattle time). Upon waking, walked 12 blocks to the downtown area, window shopped, and then had a very nice seafood dinner (local lobster with homemade pasta for Ev, local rockfish with risotto for Tamara Georgick). Time for another nap.