Reykjavik: The Lava Tunnel And Golden Circle Small-group Tour

Lilly was our tour guide, she was exceptional at telling facts about all of our stops. The entire trip was enjoyable, but unfortunately, at the last stop my mom lost her iPhone. We will definitely book excursions again.

Well worth the cost. Each destination was unique and the beauty of Iceland was evident. We had the best tour guide ever.

This is a very unique experience that takes you below ground so you can walk through the multicolored and fascinating feel of a true lava tunnel

Our tour guide (Bruno) for the golden circle part was awesome!! He even prepared a sweet treat for everyone at the end of the tour. We really had a great time with Bruno.

When I booked the tour, the booking said that the tour started at 8:00. I had wanted to be picked at bus stop #6. I emailed the tour operator, Arctic Adventures, three times, twice via their website and once through Tripadvisor asking what time I would be picked up at bus stop #6 and when should I get there. Receiving no response, I canceled my booking and booked with someone else.

Sergio was our guide and he was exceptional in narrating the lore around the becoming of Iceland. He shared about the natural landscape, weaving it into the daily agriculture and seasonal chores of the Icelandic people such as lamb birthing season or wool knitting for winter. Sergio also went above and beyond when checking with guest on their bus stops, ensuring everyone disembark and boards safely at each attraction. As a solo female traveller I felt very safe and accounted for. Through Sergio's sharing of the Iceland Saga, Iceland became more alive than the rocks and the trees. I highly reccomend him as your tour guide. And of course, he drove us safely, reminding us to keep our seltbelts on at all times. Five star experience!

This was a brilliant day trip! Our party was myself, husband, and our 8 year old son and it was well-paced, super informative, and the locations were stunning. I had done a golden circle tour previously, but this one was so much better. Our guide, Guna, was absolutely fabulous and I would book another tour with her in a heartbeat. Our lava tunnel guide was also brilliant. Overall the whole day was about 10 hours, but it flew by for us. We will definitely be booking with Arctic Adventures again.

Very informative and a bit of an adventure to learn and see how the tunnel was formed. Need to be steady on your feet as it’s a bit of a trek over rocks and steps.

Both the Lava Cave and the Golden Circle tours were fantastic. Our guide in the cave, Dimitri, was informative and fun. The sites on the Golden Circle tour were spectacular! It makes sense that they tell you this is what you should do if you have only one day.

The tour was brilliant. All our guides were very knowledgeable and made the tour really interesting. The lava tunnels were beautiful. The scenery on the Golden Circle part of the tour was stunning. We really recommend the smaller, more private tour as it didn’t feel as rushed as some of the bigger coach tours.

You should avoid this tour in combo form. The lava tour was great, bit after they bring you back to Reykjavik drop you at a bakery for over an hour so they can pick up people and then rush you through the golden circle. This was sad as the golden circle tour was incredibly rushed with only 20-minutea at each stop which is just nothing. This was all due to the structure of the combo of lava and golden circle. Do anything else, but do not do this combo. Lastly, we got back 30-minutes early and also spent 10-minutea looking at horses, which I still can't figure out why. Way too much time wasted (45-minute return drive and over an hour in a bakery). Just a horrible design which is really too bad.

Action-packed day with a great guide. We enjoyed the stops at the Lava Tunnel and the Golden Circle. Guide (Aliza - sp?) was really knowledgeable and shared a lot of good history and information in between stops.

Absolutely beautiful!!! We loved every minute of this experience!!! Really well thought out trip. Highly recommended.

I got more than I excpected from this tour. The Lava Tunel was super cool and very colorful. The guide Sonya was very professional and friendly. The Golden Circle tour was also amazing and our driver and guige Christopher very well prepeared telling stories about places what we passed through.

Margaret was excellent, informative and friendly. She made the day even better. The cave was interesting as well as amazing to see. The crater is a nice addition to the experience!

Our guide Kasper was really entertaining and knowledgeable. He was extremely patient with Asian tourists who were consistently late at every stop which I thought was very rude and inconsiderate of others.

Pick up was arranged 1 hour earlier than booked, unable to attend your, poor organisation between viator and Arctic Challenge, never will I book through Viator again

Really enjoyed this tour with Artic Adventures! We felt safe and comfortable the entire trip. I definitely recommend adding the lava tunnel - an amazing experience to learn and experience the beauty! Our guide Christopher was exceptional and made the trip informative and fun - thank you!

This tour was spectacular. The tour guide was friendly and knowledgeable, the van was clean, and we stopped frequently to see new sights. I wish we had more time at each site, but that is not the fault of Artic Adventures as this is the action-packed tour that we picked. It was fun and is highly recommended.

Great tour with a good variety of activities. Our driver Gunn was very friendly, the bus was in good order, and there was enough time at each location.

This was a great tour to go on, and good way to get to all the golden circle sites without much time available.

We had a wonderfully kind bus driver, Aron. He was on time, gave us a lot of information about every stop, and gave us enough time to enjoy each location. Plus, his music during the trip made it very enjoyable!

I really loved the Lava cave, it was so unique and cool to see it. The tour guide was super and I learned a ton. Very cool to see all the ice and snow in the cave. Very beautiful in there. Golden circle tour is what it is. Not too exciting but something that you should definitely do.

The expedition to the caves was exciting and both tour guides were friendly, experienced and informative. A unique experience. Doing a condensed golden circle tour was perfect and the balance to the day stopped the teens getting bored. The Greek tour guide was very knowledgeable and I would definitely recommend this trip. Doing both in one day reduced the amount of driving around and still saw the major land marks

Myself and my partner went back to Iceland to do the things we didn’t get to do on the first visit. It was my partners birthday and I knew he wanted to do the golden circle and be a bit more hands on with activities/experiences and loves caves and anything to do with volcanoes so this was perfect! The driver and the tour guide were both very pleasant and helpful and would answer anything you needed to know. They were patient with us tall (perhaps unfit) people trying to crawl through certain parts and would offer a choice of two routes back. The driver led us back the way we came in and the tour guide would take the others on a slightly more challenging route. It was fascinating learning all about the lava trails and forming of the caves and an amazing sight. The storytelling was fun too (troll myths) The golden circle was amazing and definitely worth a visit the experience and the photo opportunities at the geysers is worth every penny! The only thing (and I don’t want to be negative about this trip) was just that they won’t agree to pick up in outskirts of Reykjavík, what would’ve took them 5minutes we had to walk 30mins to meet. Definitely recommended as a tour though and these tour guides and arctic adventures are very good at what they do. We did have a tour with another company and the guide was terrible.

<p>Awesome experience! The tour guide/driver was a little late coming to our hotel because the tour company office gave the wrong hotel information. Otherwise, the tour was perfect!</p>

The tour is a total waste of time and money. We went on 15 minute walk on a mostly metal platform up and down some stairs. There is nothing worth while for the money they are charging. The tour guides were very nice and pleasant but in good conscience I cant recommend. I did hear that the extreme is worth while but the one we took was a total waste of money. Find another activity that you will enjoy.

<p>Great trip, cavng was amazing. More time needed for Golden circle tour though. Thankfully I had been before</p>

<p>I found with most things in Iceland they over-priced, and over-promise and under deliver. Unfortunately this was no different. The driver/guide use the word guide loosely was friendly, but we had to ask her questions, pry for information about Iceland and the places we were visiting. She was also a reckless driver - to the point where quite a few passengers made comment. <br/> The sights themselves were great - however my partner and I felt quite rushed on each of the Golden Circle stops - and we were constantly waiting for the same couple to return to the bus the guide didn't hurry them along.</p>

<p>Tour guide, Sveni?, I think, was friendly, knowledgeable and helpful with all aspects of the tour. Totally enjoyed all sights and the approx. 1000 meter lava caving was GREAT! Highly recommend.</p>