Iceland's Golden Circle Self-guided Audio Driving Tour

Very informative. Best way to do the circle. Great scenery. Will take yo a good day to do everyrhing. M

The self guided tour was amazing , it told us exactly where to go and gave us great options that we would otherwise not know to stop at. The history and tales of Iceland added a wonderful touch! My 16 yrs old son was attentive the whole time and that a feat! Lol .

Well worth it. Very informative and easy to follow. Best thing we did was hire a car and follow the app. Diverted slightly to see different sites but stuck to the tour as much as possible. Beautiful country well worth visiting. Absolutely loved it. Had the heaviest snow fall since 1921. Was not expected but very welcome.

This guide is wonderful and surpassed my expectations. Don’t hesitate to get this one. The app is excellent as well.

Highly recommend this. It gives you history and fun facts and points out hidden gems that you wouldn't know were there unless you listen to the audio.

This was our second self guided driving tour and it was great. It’s a lot of fun to listen to the history of the island as you drive through and get the opportunity to stop and experience the landscape. We really enjoyed being able to stay in our own vehicle and stop as we wanted to without being on a bus tour.

Don’t worry about being at exact starting spot. Listen to the intro dentin - 5 of them before your trip. Get familiar with how app works in your car. Might need to have phone open and the video in car. Once you get used to how app works - it is great! Highly recommend

We really enjoyed this golden circle audio tour companion. We already had a tour path determined before hand. It was an excellent enhancement to our day trip around the circle.

This was a super helpful way to navigate the Golden Circle on our own! Once we arrived at the appropriate starting point, the app took over and told us all of the key places to stop along our drive. The stories and anecdotes filled the time and gave us some fun facts to laugh about. Well worth the investment!

The tour met our expectations. It seemed to spend a lot of time with mythology rather than speaking more about our current surroundings, which was frustrating. It did eventually hit on questions we were asking, but not till later in the trip. I suppose since we did the counter-clockwise version, that may be the case. However, 1/2 mythology is warranted and more about what we’re seeing would be nice. I would suggest breaking up the trip and not doing it straight through, it took MUCH longer than we anticipated and would prefer to stay in some inns and do more exploring.

A very pleasant tour. Easy to use and full of great tidbits of history, culture, geography, and mythology.

Brilliant app to get you round the Golden Circle. Saw all of the major sites, learned a lot and was easy to use. Took a little while to get used to it moving from the map to a story but once you stopped panicking it worked really well. Did have a bit of a mare with Spotify interrupting it randomly but once we disconnected it from the car's system it was fine.

We really enjoyed the driving tour and being able to go at our own pace rather than being trapped on a large excursion. The driving instructions were perfects, the Golden Circle had so many interesting stops and the information shared on the tour was interesting and enjoyable for all. I look forward to doing other tours this way in the future.

It never worked. No wifi. Put it on the setting that explains what to do if no WiFi. It was extremely frustrating and a total waste of money.

The idea of this is good, but there were way too many stories (that all sounded the same) rather than commentary of what we were seeing. It would be nice if information was provided about where we currently were. It took a bit to get used to the navigation but that worked after we figured it out.

The app would not work. Called for a refund after trying for 2 hrs, did not post. Have to follow up. Would not recommend wasting the money and your time.

Loved the stories while traveling the Golden Circle. Learned about history, geology and folklore. Narrator was very good. A few snags when the app stopped and it had to be restarted, hence the 4 stars instead of 5 stars. Definitely worth it

Easy to use and great for self driving at your own pace. No technical issues. Downloaded and plugged into car play. Screen doesn’t sinc but the sound and instruction is clear and timely. Great tool!!!

Highly recommend this audio tour. Full of information and stories to listen to along the way. Everyone from 8 to 68 enjoyed it!

This self guided tour was perfect! We love guided tours but dislike the large crowded buses. This was perfect! We rented a car and made all the stops, including Fridheimar. Lunch was so yummy! The tales given on the tour were funny as well. I highly recommend getting this tour for an individualized tour experience.

What a great guide! Driving solo thru Iceland, it was like I was on my own private tour. Too bad snow prevented me from finishing the last few miles. Thanks!

The audio tour is nice enough and has a few interesting bits, and we liked the way it started automatically so you could concentrate on driving. That must be really useful if you're travelling alone. BUT the narrator sounded like he was reading it for the first time, with a lot of mispronunciations and some sentences being really hard to understand because of the way he put the emphasis. The info was pitched at a pretty basic level (maybe aimed at children?) and I knew some of the dates were wrong from having glanced at Wikipedia the day before. If the only thing you know about Norse gods is from Marvel movies, this is for you. Otherwise, probably not. There's nothing on it that you wouldn't know from a really basic guidebook or website. The Golden Circle is well enough known for you to be able to plot your own route between the main points. It's definitely not worth the £34 we paid for it. Get a good guidebook for a fraction of the price and listen to some atmospheric Icelandic music by Sigur Ros or Olafur Arnalds instead as you admire the landscape.

tour says 4-6 hours, That's really if you don't stop anywhere if you want to do hikes along the way or jump in a spring really plan for an 8 hour day! great tour! great value!

This was perfect! We were traveling with teens and our elderly parents. All enjoyed and all could easily hear/understand the narrator.

Was great to have a self driving tour and commentary! There was a lot about the history and current culture of Iceland. However, the app wasn't great with directions (apps like GPSy in the US have warnings well in advance and then tones when the turn has come up). We also couldn't turn up the sound enough on our rental car's terrible sound system.

despite the occasional wandering away from the path due to the app not updating in a timely manner, was an excellent tour, definitely will repeat in the future!

Was so amazing! Nice roads in the fall so don't worry about rough driving. And amazing cool stops. Stories were great!!! Having the freedom to stop asking the way was great!

This was the best $24 ever spent on travel. There were over 100 narrated stops all of which were activated by your physical location in regard to GPS. The app was easy to download and easy to use. The narration was extremely informative and interesting. We wished that there were more Iceland tours from this Guide.

The commentary was amazing …we learned so much about Iceland and thus was our second visit. We wanted to take the guide with us on our upcoming drives here in Iceland. We’d really love it for the Western Fjords. Please consider doing more for Iceland. It was tge best $24 that we’ve ever spent traveling. The GPS trigger worked perfectly.

We did it backwards. Maybe you can start it that way. We just had to figured it out ourselves. Thanks

After realising that it would not work until you were on the route covered by the app, it was easy to use and enjoyably informative. Much better way to explore the various sites in your own time by Hire car over a number ofdays to suit yourself. Good dialogue and highly recommended.

The audio tour was an economical way to see the Golden Circle if you have a rental car. The first waterfall listed (Helgufoss) is on a very bumpy road and the gate at the end to access the walking trail is closed. One of the natural spring baths recommended was basically a small pool/hot tub. I have seen other larger more natural ones advertised (e.g. Blue Lagoon). We loved the Strokkur geysir, the crater, and the Gullfoss Falls were fantastic. The recording got out of sync a couple times with the surroundings, but was generally good.

This was definitely worth the cost. You just have to be comfortable driving outside the US because of the different signage. The tour needs a few tweaks, but we overall were glad to have purchased it over just driving to the different sites. We probably also preferred it over a bus tour since it gave us more flexibility (and a much much lower cost). The app worked well and the tour itself worked well with the GPS. There were a couple of driving directions that were missing or miss-timed which is why I gave it 4 stars instead of 5. The tour will be best in the summer so that you have tons of daylight. Spring and fall will be better than winter, but will want to start your journey in the morning, but you don't have enough light. We did it in May and had enough light even into the late hours of the night. Dress warm and have waterproof shoes and a jacket available, especially for the waterfalls! We skipped a few of the sites, and the tour still took us 8+ hours!

Really enjoyed the folklore. It’s very silly. Gulfloss is quite impressive. Ponies were so cute with winter coats!

Difficult to download. Expedia takes you to a different website that you need password & code. Use that website instead? When we eventually download it had a lot of fun facts and the story telling w music was entertaining

It was a great tour for background information on the various stops on the tour. We skipped around as we did not visit all of the places on the tour. We plan to catch up on the lore provided when we get home.

This was a great experience in Iceland, and the audio tour did a great job of sparking our interest in the history of the places we visited, and it was one of the key factors that made this trip one to remember for my family and me.

We loved this! Easy to follow and interesting facts kept us engaged. Our teenagers are even okay with it…. It was the last day of our trip so we were tired and this was a perfect chill activity at our pace.