Advice please re bringing food wine to Iceland to save costs
Sep 4, 2022, 1:10 pm
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Advice please re bringing food wine to Iceland to save costs
My wife and I are travelling to Iceland for a 7 day stay.
We are using airpoints for the flights which are in business class so we have a lot of capacity to bring in extra supplies .
I hear that Icelandic food and wine is expensive and we are happy to dine out but sometimes just want to drink wine and eat cheese and crackers in our hotel room .
Any suggestions re what we could prepurchase in Helsinki or London on the way to save us some costs once in Iceland?
Thanks in advance.
We are using airpoints for the flights which are in business class so we have a lot of capacity to bring in extra supplies .
I hear that Icelandic food and wine is expensive and we are happy to dine out but sometimes just want to drink wine and eat cheese and crackers in our hotel room .
Any suggestions re what we could prepurchase in Helsinki or London on the way to save us some costs once in Iceland?
Thanks in advance.
Sep 4, 2022, 3:30 pm
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Tl;dr: no diary or meat, limits on amount of alcohol.
Tl;dr: no diary or meat, limits on amount of alcohol.
Sep 4, 2022, 6:22 pm
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Tl;dr: no diary or meat, limits on amount of alcohol.
Tl;dr: no diary or meat, limits on amount of alcohol.
Sep 5, 2022, 2:35 am
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My wife and I are travelling to Iceland for a 7 day stay.
We are using airpoints for the flights which are in business class so we have a lot of capacity to bring in extra supplies .
I hear that Icelandic food and wine is expensive and we are happy to dine out but sometimes just want to drink wine and eat cheese and crackers in our hotel room .
Any suggestions re what we could prepurchase in Helsinki or London on the way to save us some costs once in Iceland?
Thanks in advance.
We are using airpoints for the flights which are in business class so we have a lot of capacity to bring in extra supplies .
I hear that Icelandic food and wine is expensive and we are happy to dine out but sometimes just want to drink wine and eat cheese and crackers in our hotel room .
Any suggestions re what we could prepurchase in Helsinki or London on the way to save us some costs once in Iceland?
Thanks in advance.
Meat and dairy from HEL is not restricted for importing into KEF.
Sep 5, 2022, 8:52 am
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Let me put it this way: if I were you, I'd consider using that week as an opportunity to do some detoxing. Alcohol in the Nordics is expensive no matter how you cut it.
You mentioned cheese in your opening post; while not cheap, Iceland has a decent production of cheese, with product better in quality than most UK makers, in my opinion. There's also great yoghurt as well if you're into that.
You mentioned cheese in your opening post; while not cheap, Iceland has a decent production of cheese, with product better in quality than most UK makers, in my opinion. There's also great yoghurt as well if you're into that.
Sep 6, 2022, 1:14 pm
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Locals returning home to Iceland do most of their alcohol purchasing at Duty Free. Much cheaper than the state run liquor stores scattered around the country, or retail at a restaurant. Although Happy Hours can be pretty reasonable for visitors.
we found groceries to not be that much more expensive than back home.
we found groceries to not be that much more expensive than back home.
Sep 7, 2022, 2:35 am
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Sep 10, 2022, 1:24 am
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The Bonus supermarket chain has decent prices. And in the Westfjords I managed to buy a whole salmon from the fish farmers' company for 2000 ISK, but it was a case of me walking by the warehouses and striking up a conversation with one of the workers.