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patmich
Citizen
Username: Patmich
Post Number: 35
Registered: 3-2005
| | Posted on Thursday, December 8, 2005 - 12:06 pm: |     |
Looking to take my wife to Iceland in January or February. Has anyone been there in the winter? Any hotel recommendations? Looking to get away for 3-5 days. |
mem
Citizen
Username: Mem
Post Number: 5583
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, December 8, 2005 - 12:30 pm: | |
I think you should go for broke and take her to beautiful Vinson Massif Mountain in Antarctica, with average temperatures of 180 below zero and winds topping 100 mile per hour. Sigh. |
patmich
Citizen
Username: Patmich
Post Number: 36
Registered: 3-2005
| | Posted on Thursday, December 8, 2005 - 1:18 pm: | |
How is the beach there? Is the sand soft and fluffy like Bermuda.
I was not kidding about Iceland. I have read great things, even in winter. |
Lizziecat
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Username: Lizziecat
Post Number: 967
Registered: 5-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, December 8, 2005 - 2:47 pm: | |
My husband and I took our kids to Iceland around thirty years ago because it was a free stopover when you flew Icelandic airlines to Europe. We stayed at the Hotel Loftleidir, which was a luxury hotel in Reykyavik, and we also stayed at a lodge in a place called Thingvallavaten, on the shores of a lake--maybe that was the name of the lake. It was the site if the Althing, which is the oldest democratic parliament in the world. We were there in the summer, so it never got dark, and it wasn't cold. We rented a Land Rover and drove around the countryside. We saw huge waterfalls, higher than Niagara, at Gullfoss, and a place where there were hundreds of greenhouses for growing vegetables. I don't know how much you'll be able to do in winter. When we were there they didn't have any television, so everyone played chess and knitted these wonderful hairy sweaters from the undyed wool of their Icelandic sheep. We each got one, and I think I still have one someplace. I believe that there are swimming pools that are naturally geothermally heated, which the Icelanders use all winter. I remember that food was very expensive there. The scenery is weird and lovely, but I don't know how much you'll see in the dark. |
jet
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Username: Jet
Post Number: 976
Registered: 7-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, December 8, 2005 - 2:57 pm: | |
Well if your into night clubs , hard partying , blond hair blue eyed girls & 5:oo AM hot spring dips Reykjavik is your kind of place. |
dave23
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Username: Dave23
Post Number: 1142
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, December 8, 2005 - 3:04 pm: | |
You should also be into elves. |
Mergele
Citizen
Username: Mergele
Post Number: 353
Registered: 7-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, December 8, 2005 - 3:51 pm: | |
Ummm... I've stayed at the Loftleidir relatively recently and I wouldn't call it a luxury hotel these days. It's not bad, and they serve a pretty mean fish breakfast, but I'd put it at about 3 stars. The one real advantage is that it's *not* in the town center - a place to avoid if you're in Reykjavik over a weekend and you want to get any actual sleep. ...try tripadvisor for current reviews and recommendations.
(And for late-night, post-barhopping greasy burgers, check out the drive-thru at the bus station... not far from the Loftleidir. Yum!) |
Robert Little
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Username: Boblittle
Post Number: 261
Registered: 4-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, December 8, 2005 - 5:28 pm: | |
I get specials from Iceland Air by email now and then. If you go mid-week in the winter it's really cheap, like $150 round trip. Big party town and a lot of hot springs. It looked gorgeous in "Batman Begins." |
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