South Coast Adventure: Small Group Day Tour From Reykjavik

Definitely is a must-do if you visit Iceland. Very happy with the Nordur Travel tour took us to see several great places from water fall, black sand beach, glacier and we have a nice delicious lunch at Vik a small lovely town south of Reykjavik. Tour guide is knowledgeable, friendly and very helpful, give us lots of information. Thanks for a great tour.

Very good tour guide nice and polite Good and more experience

We had a really good day. The tour was very nice and we saw a lot of things. Our guide Nacho was very kind and he answered all of our question withlut problem.

I had some luck, Carlos was a guide on the day tour. Informative, helpful, showing creative thinking, always open for humour. Wonderful day and great impressions. Hope for another day tour with Carlos in the future

Edgar was really good, genuine and a good sport. Weather really cooperated.

Edgar was great, fantastic route, small group Fantastic atmosphere

Our tour guide Edgar was amazing! We had the perfect time at each stop and everything went smoothly. The views were amazing!

we went with company Nordturs, our guide Rodrigo was fantastic. he gave his best to explain us in two languages. we see amazing nature and hear interesting facts. very well done!!

I highly recommend choosing this tour! We had a great experience as we had plenty of time to enjoy each place we stopped at. The atmosphere was pretty relaxed as it was a small group. Edgar is an amazing and knowledgeable guide.

Everything went smoothly with our tour guide Edgar. He assessed that the original schedule/itinerary was not optimal and modified it to better our experience, I can definitely say his advise and reasoning was thoughtful and genuine, overall greatly appreciated on my behalf😁👍.

Though it was a very long tour, it was amazing. The tour guide gave us plenty of time at each stop to enjoy the beauty.

It was great to see the major landmarks on the south coast, waterfalls, black beach and a glacier. Piotr, our guide, was very knowledgable about the sites and brought the information across with subtle humour. He also gave great advice about where good food was available on the trip. We really enjoyed our day.

First they gave a 30 min window for pick up and we’re still 20 mins late! The info the office provided about the vehicle was completely incorrect! Terrible van with the smallest plastic covered seats that were sooo uncomfortable. No air circulation at each seat and at the back it was so stuffy and claustrophobic as you couldn’t see out at all! Don’t book with Nordur travel! Our guide’s English was so heavily accented we couldn’t understand his English. We did a tour to the golden circle with Nice travel and it was soooo much better!!!! Much better vehicle and guide and service all around.

If you don’t know what you want to see in Iceland or are brand new, like we were, this is the perfect excursion for you. We saw so many interesting stops. Piotr was a great guide. Made sure to keep us on time so we could see all the magnificent things he had planned for us. A lot of the tour guides you’ll get in Iceland were born and grew up there, which is great. But Piotr, being from Poland, was able to offer a different perspective. His perspective is one that connects more to tourists because he’s able to talk about why he decided to move there. There were things that enticed him to come and he explained that all to us on our journey. It was very fascinating. Two waterfalls and a glacier is usually enough of a sell, but getting to see the black sand beaches amongst other things was also amazing. It’s a lengthy trip, but it is very much worth it. You’ll be talking about it for years to come.

My husband and I use Viator services often and have always had good experiences. This was not one of them. We booked this excursion months in advance. Our instructions for pickup seemed simple enough. We were to meet the van at the peer 1/2 hour prior to excursion time. When we departed the ship we were faced with utter chaos. Hundreds of people and hundreds of buses, vans, taxis and private cars all trying to meet up match up without guidance. The only clearly marked tours were the Princess buses. Every other company were jumbled up in the sea of confusion. No signage. No company reps helping people locate their transport. I’ve never seen such confusion. We located one van we thought was ours. It was the right company but for the 0800 tour, ours was 0900. That van was still there at 0830 because it had a flat tire. That driver offered no help except to say “Just wait here until someone shows up.” Not sure how he thought anyone would find us in that mess! Eventually we heard someone in the crowd calling my name and we connected. We joined the small group in the van and departed. The next problem was that the van’s microphone wasn’t working and although the driver tried to speak loud enough for everyone, the van was very noisy and my husband who is hard of hearing did not hear anything the driver said. There were Spanish and English speaking passengers so he had to yell everything twice. I asked him when we first boarded to go over the itinerary for the day. He tried but was interrupted over and over and never got back to the itinerary. In the first 2 hours we had two unexpected stops for a guest that was having GI issues! Evidently the guest knew she was ill and still chose to go on the excursion. This should not have been allowed. If she was contagious we were all potentially exposed yo who knows what. We finally got to our first stop which was Skogafoss Falls about 11:00 am. Knowing we had a full itinerary yet to go I asked the driver how we would get it all done and be back to port by 5 pm? He said we won’t. We will be back at 7 pm! I’m not sure if Princess changed their port times changed after I booked this excursion but obviously we had a big problem. The driver said that there was no way he could get us back by 5 pm. Long story shortened, he assisted us in finding a private car with driver that was available to drive the 2 hours to pick us up and the 2 hours to take us back to port at a great cost to us. We had to agree as we had no other options. This mistake, which very well was mine for not rechecking the tour time against the port time, could have been avoided had we reviewed the itinerary at the start of the excursion. Unfortunately, we never got to see any of Reykjavik except the Falls. Very disappointing.

A very educational trip with some amazing sites to view and experience . Our driver / guide Carlos has a very engaging relaxed manner. We never felt pushed or pressured to keep to time schedules . Carlos provided lots of information on Iceland and the places we visited mixed with plenty of humour . One of the best tours I’ve done anywhere in the world .

Did glaciers and waterfalls w Lorenzo - amazing tour guide and very unique tour, esp the glacier hike - so much fun! Thank you, we loved it!

This was such a great trip and thankfully the sun came out too! Great location great group great guide! Edgar was fab and we loved it!!!!!

We went to blue lagoon and did several stop along the way to check some interesting things, Felisa the guide was very nice and told us interesting trivias about the places we visited.

Recomendable excursión en la que hemos visto espectaculares cascadas(Skogafoss,Seljalandfoss)playa de arena negra Rejnisfjara y la impresionante lengua del glaciar Mirdasdjokull, con parada a comer sopa de cordero en el pueblecito de Vik, mientras nuestro guía Nacho nos iba comentando datos y curiosidades de los sitios a visitar de camino e íbamos viendo el paisaje islandés. Gracias a nuestro guía Nacho por su amabilidad y explicaciones.

La experiencia ha sido increíble. Nacho ha sido en todo momento, una gran guía. Con sus explicaciones, nos ha enseñado un montón de cosas sobre la isla y su geografía. Totalmente recomendable 👍🏼👍🏼.

Un gran dia. Hemos pasado un maravilloso día visitando lugares espectaculares. Nuestro guía, Nacho un 10, muy atento a todos los viajeros contándonos muchas cosas y respondiendo a todas nuestras dudas. Sin duda el mejor de los guias. Muchas gracias y os recomendaremos.

I just unlocked one of the best experiences of my life. Black sand beach, glacier, and impressive waterfalls. Thank you Edgar.

Very good experience, it has been great and we have seen beautiful places. Our guide Edgar was explaining everything to us.

The excursion has been great. Our guide Edgar explained things to us along the way. Recommended!

I am very happy to be able to visit Iceland. The guide David is a very knowledgeable person and he guided us while looking out for everyone's safety. He drives very well and is very pleasant.