Testimonials

The process of booking the tour with Alex at Nordic Saga was easy and efficient, and everything was organized according to plan.The tour in Iceland itself and our guide Simona was amazing, and she went out of her way to make our trip great. We were so lucky to have her.

Thank you for a wonderful 6 day tour or Iceland, we had an amazing time! After seeing that our tour could be up to 20 people I was delighted to see that we had only 7 of us on the tour making it very nice to get to know each person on the tour. Our first nights at Hotel Cabin were good, the room was very small but clean, quiet and enough for our couple days stay. The day staff at the hotel were wonderful, very helpful and always ready to answer questions. The evening staff(2 gentlemen) were not so helpful, one who was there at check in the first day was speaking to a customer and after she asked him a question he answered it abruptly and threw his pen on the counter, this was not good customer service as it was seen by my family, others at the front desk and even one of the other front desk staff. Otherwise all of the other staff at Hotel Cabin were wonderful. On Monday we met Anna Lara our guide, let me just say she was amazing! Her knowledge of Iceland, its history, her personal stories driving skills and welcoming and warm personality made the 6 days very interesting and thought provoking. Knowing that she was born and raised in Iceland she shows the love of her country, her joy to show people its beauty and awe, and how she wants to see it thrive. From the minute we started the tour she made sure we saw all of our destinations and even kept us safe when the environment became to dangerous. She really is an amazing guide! Next, our hotel in Hella was great, very spacious and well maintained. The staff and the breakfast were good. Unfortunately on this part of the trip we were not able to see one of the sights in Landmannaluauger because of too much snow on the mountain but finding out after wards that Anna Lara's judgment call to go no further was correct since even 4 wheel huge trucks were being towed out of the mountain we felt she had out best interest at heart. She definitely made up for any missing destinations with other stops. She definitely challenged all of us on the tour to push past our comfort zones(in a good way) seeing as we had a 85 year old Australian lady on our tour and she was amazing as well! She kept up with us and even passed us in walking many times, climbed the mountains with us(Anna Lara at her side) and kept us on our toes! Personally, I never thought I could have hiked the mountain I did and hiked the glacier I did but Anna Lara really empowered us to rise to the occasion. Finally our last 2 days in Vatnajokull National Park at Hotel Skaftafell were great as well. The hotel is clean, comfortable and has amazing views. Again, Anna Lara provided us with a lot of amazing history, family stories and information regarding how the landscape of the National Park is changing for both the good and the bad. Sadly because of ridiculously high winds were not able to do the Jokulsarlon glacial lagoon ride but we were still able to see the Diamond Beach and floating glaciers. Many thanks to her boss for giving us a free meal for that evening as compensation for our missed trip, well done! Finally, we did get to see the Northern Lights! They were not real bright but still amazing! My family thoroughly enjoyed our trip, all of the destinations and activities. I would definitely highly recommend this tour to any of my family and friends. I feel that we learned so much about Iceland and its history, people and amazing nature. We have so many amazing pictures of our trip and hopefully we will be able to return one day. Please thank all involved in putting this tour together and hope that we can do it again. Thank you so much Dmytro for being our point of contact. Hope to travel to Ukraine and Iceland again soon. Best, Anne Peterson & Family

Nordic Saga Tours - Best of South Iceland Tour – September 2018 This might be a long review but well worth the read! My family and I just returned from a 10 day trip to Iceland. This included 1 day pre-tour, 6 day guided tour(Nordic Saga Tours), and 1 day post tour. After looking at photos on the @icelandicjourney page on Instagram I decided to book a tour for 4 family members including myself. We flew WOW airlines into Reykjavik and used our Flybus voucher(roundtrip included in tour package) to get to our pre-tour hotel, Hotel Cabin(tour hotel also). The rooms were small with no room to move around with luggage. The day staff at the hotel was wonderful; they answered all questions, gave us maps and helped us find our way. The evening staff was not so helpful. Our next hotel, Hella Hotel was clean, rooms were huge, had a supermarket, gas station, bakery and wine store all within 2 minutes of walking. There were only 3 restaurants to choose from for dinners. Our last hotel was in Vatnajokull National Park, Hotel Skaftafell, again clean comfortable with an amazing view of the glacier at the back of the hotel. Unfortunately the only place to eat was at their restaurant(did not open until 6:30pm) or across the street at the gas station/restaurant which had a small buffet. The restaurant at the hotel only had 4 items on the menu to choose from. All hotels had northern lights wakeup call if you were interested. Finally, we returned to Hotel Cabin for the last night of the tour and was presently surprised by the hotel room which was much bigger and had amenities not found in the earlier stay. Hotel Cabin did offer a lunch and dinner buffet of salad bar, some hot food, bread and drinks for $26.00USD. Breakfast’s at each hotel was the standard European breakfast of meat, cheese, bread, tomatoes, cucumber, cereal, pastries, oatmeal, coffee and tea. On our first day we met our tour guide Anna Lara, let me just say she was one amazing guide and driver. She is a native Icelander who has a vast knowledge of Iceland’s history, environment, and local customs. She has many personal stories of her family and herself growing up in Iceland. You can tell she is very passionate about showing people her beautiful country. My suggestion is see if you can have her as a guide! She always made sure everyone was having a great time and stayed safe. After reading that our tour could be up to 20 people we were pleasantly surprised to only have 7 people on the tour. I believe this made it a more pleasurable time at each destination and we really were able to connect with our other members of the tour group. I definitely think 20 would have been way too many. Our tour was jam packed everyday with waterfalls, beautiful landscapes, amazing mountain views, volcanos, craters, geothermal landscapes, icebergs, beaches, amazing hikes, glacier walk, glacier lagoon ride(unfortunately it was too windy for us, it was cancelled), and soak in the famous Blue Lagoon. Finally our tour ended with a great city tour. There was so much to take in and see I cannot even begin to describe the beauty and natural wonder that we were able to experience. I do not think we could have seen all of the natural wonders on our own. Many of the roads we took were inaccessible to the regular vehicle and even some 4-wheel trucks. Also, I don’t believe driving on our own we would have gained the knowledge and history of Iceland that we did with our guide. Our tour package was very reasonably priced and included roundtrip vouchers to and from the airport, all breakfasts, entrance fees to any national parks, tours, museums, etc.., we also added in a pre-tour and post-tour hotel stay which Nordic Saga arranged. I feel Nordic Saga Tours was an exceptional tour for the price and recommend highly if deciding to visit Iceland. Our tour was seamless.