#43

Cheers guys. All my excursions booked. I didn’t want to eat in April, anyway.

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#44

Booked for 8pm on my birthday. Could be worse!

#45

what about easter eggs?

#46

I would disagree that it’s the same price as a UK city centre… I was there in November and a beer was around £10 if you didn’t go during happy hour, and food was mega expensive too if you didn’t want to eat at Dunkin Donuts every day - like, I don’t think we really found anywhere where a main dish was less than around £20. (Dunkin Donuts do surprisingly good bagels, though).

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#47

have you any idea about the price of food in supermarkets?

#48

it is MENTAL expensive in supermarkets. like £7 for a box of cereal.

#49

Cereal is expensive everywhere in Europe though, because it tends to be imported as it’s not as big a thing.

We shopped in the Bonus supermarket - it’s not too badly priced.

Beer in music venues is about the same as London music venues, we found.

#50

Imagine thinking Iceland wasn’t expensive

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#51

Yeah, not really my experience at all. Pints were like €5/6 for the local stuff (their stout is good too!). Went to some place that did craft bottled beers and they were expensive but for the most part found it reasonable. Think our most expensive dinner was about €50/60 for the two of us and that was tapas style local dishes with a pint each. That was November 2015.

Not saying you’ve got it wrong badman, just different experience. It’s far from cheap but didn’t find it to be as extortionate as people had made out. Supermarkets were expensive.

#52

November 2015 was when we went too. The exchange rate isn’t so good now:

http://www.xe.com/currencycharts/?from=GBP&to=ISK&view=2Y

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#53

yeah i mean that’s a year before i went and without factoring in Brexit

#54

Any updates to this thread?

I have 19 hour layover in Iceland this Friday. Car and AirBnB already booked.

#55

Having now been to Iceland, I can now confirm I actually do hate Iceland*

*I don’t really hate it, but we didn’t really have a very good time.

#56

:frowning:

#57

I’d probably go back if the situation arose, things just didn’t work out for us. Appalling weather, unpleasant AirBnB, super expensive, smelly water, and afterwards we went to Nova Scotia where the weather was beautiful and everything cost pennies so Iceland seemed even worse in comparison.

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