Navigate this site by:

The Viking Challenges Multi-Activity Tours Do It All, See-it-all Adventure Travel
NEW Driving tours for the independent traveller
Small Group & Coach Touring
Our Popular full service Driving Tours
How easy is travel in Iceland? & NEW Califonia NonStop
Women Riding in Iceland
Photo, Subjects & Map Index Page
Horse Back Riding Tours
The Horses
City Tour; R-Town In & Out
Guest & Clients' Photos
Who Are We, and Why Are We Doing this?
Links Page
Email us and we'll snail mail or email you information
Too Much Info?? Here's a simple chart to help you explore Iceland's possibilities
Here's some video from a ride
PDFs of our tours
The Fold-It-Yourself Calendar is Back!
Travel Insurance

Navigate this site by:

INSURANCE

Iceland is a surprisingly short distance from North America. It's 5 or 6 hours from the east coast of the US.. It's only a few hours from most of Europe. Americans and most Europeans don't need visas, (you do need a passport, though).

We are over there several times a year traveling into favorite and new-to-us places. We can help when you're thinking of a trip but have a few questions. When we're there we spend time with our guides and outfitters but we spend much of our time as tourists, discovering and exploring and doing. We keep the traveler's perspective and we work hard to make that outlook the basis for our services to our clients. We look at the quality of lodgings, the knowledge of tour guides, the routes between attractions, the birds, the glaciers...

• Before you go exploring yourself we can explain the regions of Iceland, the types of tours, the weather, the roads and the horses
• We've visited and stayed in most of the accommodations we suggest and can match travelers to lodgings
• If you're interested in riding treks we've ridden many dozens of our outfitter's horses on many miles (kilometers!) of Iceland's trails - we can help you through the process of picking a riding tour
• Our travel package contains not only your airline tickets and vouchers but clear and thorough instructions, on how to get to where you have be. Travelers using our itineraries leave for Iceland and Greenland with some confidence, and often return with a "Thank you!"

We'd like to help set up your trip. And we can give you the information you need to make your trip easy, You can just have fun and explore.

The scheduled flight time from Boston is less than 6 hours! JFK, BWI and Minneapolis / St. Paul all have flight times of just over 6 hours. From the US flights to Iceland leave in the evening between 7 and 9 pm. California flights leave San Francisco at 11:30 am and arrive 2:30

We include airfare in most of our tours. On many of Horses North's horse back riding tours, and some of the guided coach tours, the cost of everything is included except for a few meals and taxes (usually $120 or so), the price for some of the tours includes every thing you'll need from the time you get on the airplane in the US until you get off again on the return flight. Check the individual itineraries for the specifics.

When you use our services to advise you and arrange your trip you'll get our guidance both before and during your trip. We hear from our clients that our itineraries have been very reassuring and have given them just the sort of directions they needed.

• On either a simple trip -
• Just getting off the plane, going right onto an exciting tour and then coming right back home on the plane
• Or if you're taking a four week trip that involves horses, buses, planes and cars, and side trips to mainland Europe ---
• You'll have everything you need to know - what, and where, and who, at each step.

Travel to and from the European Mainland

SOME OF THE DETAILS for your trip

We write out complete itineraries that tell you the details - where you'll be met, some tips on exploring in downtown Reykjavik, where to get the best chocolate. We make every effort to get this into your hands as soon as possible so you can go over maps and guide books - planning and anticipation can be part of travelling to some of us!

Vouchers are used as payment for accommodations, transportation and activities, and the vouchers list the services or accommodations and include phone numbers.

For traveling you'll need a passport and Government issued Photo ID (for most of us this is our driver's license) to clear airport security. If you don't have a passport yet you can apply at County Clerk's Offices or, in smaller towns, the Post Offices can handle it.

After you land in Iceland gather your luggage and pass customs you are either met by your outfitter in the lobby, get the keys to your rental car, or you step out the door and onto the "Flybus" that delivers travelers to hotels and guesthouses in Reykjavik and Hafnafjordur. You'll have a voucher to pay for this transfer.

After we have worked out most of the details of what you want to do and have reserved your spaces on tours, airline tickets, lodgings, etc. we require a $300 deposit for each traveler. Payment can be by check or credit card.

We don't need payment up front for airline tickets and the tickets are not "fly-or-die". We can often alter travel dates to accommodate availability or some unforeseen change in plans, if circumstances allow and it's early enough.

Sixty days before your departure date we will expect the balance. We won't automatically charge anything without communicating with you to see how you want to pay.

Get home, settle down, drop your film off to be printed and start gloating to your friends. It'll be easy.