Getting to Iceland
 

Hi all

These questions are quite unusual - hopefully someone will know the answer.

From Europe;

1. Who flies to Iceland (I know Icelandair do but do anyone else?)

2. How many points/miles, and in which program, do you need to go to Iceland from europe.

3. Hs anybody anybody been there and what did you think of it?

cheers Peter

In response to your inquiries:
1. SAS code-shares with some Icelandair flights.
2. See http://www.icelandair.com for points on Icelandair. Icelandair is also an FF partner with SAS and TWA.
3. I spent 24 hours there in August of 1998. It's definitely worth at least a brief visit, and I understand that the interior mountains have terrific hiking. If you go, be sure to visit the Blue Lagoon--it's a surreal experience.

Icelandair is also offering $99/1W from the US to any of their European destinations in Jan/Feb. I wouldn't be surprised if they're offering a parallel deal from Europe to Iceland.

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Hi. I was in Iceland for about a week in the summer of 1996. I must agree with Chalf, the Blue Lagoon is worth a trip. Iceland Air Vacations has several 'touristy' things they can help arrange, even if you do not have a flight booked with them. I took a couple of day trips where you travel by motor coach and see various sights. I appreciated how very clean it was and how warm-hearted all the people (that I came in contact with) were.

david

I've been to Iceland twice, one when an ETOPS (767) had to stop and they let me, but not the other passengers out (a separate story) and in October. TWA requires 60K, 70K if you want to go to Europe and stop in Iceland.
There are plenty of posts about Iceland. www.thetrip.com > hot talk has Iceland post periodically. There are a few websites. About 1.5 hours out of Reykjavik there is Geysir and the Gulfoss waterfalls.

Thanks for your replies

I purchased the Lonely Planet guidebook to Iceland today - hopefully that will tell me a bit more about the country. Looks interesting. Pity more airlines don't stop there.

cheers Peter

I was under the impression that iceland is in Europe...

James -- I may be mistaken, but I believe Iceland sits right on the mid-ocean ridge which divides the North American and European plates. So you could say that it's half American and half European.

skylink USA said: "...if you want to go to Europe and stop in Iceland."

Hmmm... I am sure that geographically Iceland is in Europe, Greenland is in N. America. You have to draw a line somewhere, but Iceland is on our side http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/wink.gif

when i went in october the icelandics i met confirmed for me that they were definitely european but most definitely not scandinavian!!

much like the finns!!

For getting to Iceland (and beyond), members of SmarterLiving can get 10% off of travel on IcelandAir. See http://www.smarterliving.com.

The "line" between NA and Europe may be drawn to the west of Iceland on a map, but you can see it running through the middle of Iceland. There's a fissure where the North American and European plates are moving apart from each other. (I'm no expert in geology; that's probably a bit of a simplification.)