How long have you got?
The ring road, comfortably. The shortest trip where going all the way round is a holiday rather than an endurance test.
Guided multi-day packages whose length falls in 6–7 days, shortest first. Length is taken as the largest of three figures — the days in the title, Bókun's durationDays field, and the span of the operator's own itinerary — because they disagree on 22 of the 89 packages that publish an agenda: one "9 Day - Around Iceland" ships durationDays: 2. Trusting any single field alone put whole packages in the wrong place.
Arctic Yeti Ehf
Moderate · from age 16 · pickup included
6 days · from Landmannalaugar
Embark on an epic 6-day self-guided hiking adventure on the Laugavegur trail, taking you from the colorful rhyolite mountains of Landmannalaugar to the lush valley of Þórsmörk, sleeping in tents.
Sóti Summits
meet at the start point
6 days · from Ísafjörður
A unique ski touring adventure on board the lovingly-restored oak boat Örkin.
Snaeland Travel
from age 12 · meet at the start point
6 days · from Reykjavík
Explore Reykjavík and experience the Golden Circle on this 6-day adventure. Optional tours include the Northern Lights, Blue Lagoon, South Coast, and a Reykjavík Food Tour — blending Icelandic culture with natural wonders.
Snaeland Travel
from age 12 · meet at the start point
6 days · from Reykjavík
Savour a 6-day self-drive adventure along the south of Iceland, visiting geysers, glaciers and waterfalls.
Snaeland Travel
from age 12 · meet at the start point
6 days · from Reykjavík
Experience the best of Iceland in a express 6-day circle tour.
Arctic Adventures
from age 8 · pickup included
6 days · from Reykjavík
All the main Golden Circle and SOuth Coast highlights paired with unique Westfjords destinations
BusTravel Iceland
from age 6 · pickup included
6 days · from Reykjavík
Discover Iceland's wonders: waterfalls, geysers, ice caves, and more on the Ultimate Icelandic Adventure Tour.
BusTravel Iceland
from age 6 · pickup included
6 days · from Reykjavík
Explore Iceland's nature: waterfalls, geysers, ice caves, soak in the Blue Lagoon
Arctic Adventures
from age 8 · pickup included
6 days · from Reykjavík
A 6 day tour around the ring road, stopping at all of the highlights that Iceland has to offer
David The Guide
Moderate · from age 12 · pickup included
6 days · from Reykjavík
Descubre los paisajes más icónicos de Islandia en invierno en una aventura guiada de 6 días con glaciares, cuevas de hielo, cascadas, playas de arena negra, Círculo Dorado y la Laguna Azul.
Arctic Adventures
from age 8 · pickup included
6 days · from Reykjavík
A 6 day tour around the ring road, stopping at all of the highlights that Iceland has to offer
Arctic Adventures
from age 6 · pickup included
6 days · from Reykjavík
A 6 day tour around the ring road, stopping at all of the highlights that Iceland has to offer
Nothing on this page matches all of those filters. Clear one or two, or try a day either side of your date.
One checkout, any number of operators
Book a glacier hike from one company and a whale boat from another in a single payment, with one booking reference.
Rankings are not for sale
We sort by rating, never by what an operator pays us. No supplier can buy a higher position here.
206 operators vetted, and not all of them accepted
We don't list everything in Iceland, on purpose. Every operator here is one we would book ourselves.
If it falls short, we fix it
Free cancellation up to 24 hours before most tours — and if an operator lets you down, tell us and we sort it out.
31 of them, from 10 operators: Arctic Yeti Ehf, Sóti Summits, Snaeland Travel, Arctic Adventures, BusTravel Iceland, David The Guide and 4 more. Every one is a company we hold a contract with — we do not list everything in Iceland, on purpose.
Yes — 31 of the 31 run over two days or more. Those include accommodation and usually breakfast; check the individual itinerary.
16 of 31 (52%) offer pickup. The rest ask you to meet on location. Pickup is the single most common cause of a missed tour in Iceland: it runs to a window rather than a time, and the bus will not wait long.
3 of the 31 are private, the other 28 are shared departures. Private costs more in total but is priced per vehicle, so for four or more people it often works out close per head — and you set the pace.
Across the next 360 days of live availability we hold departures in October, November, December, January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September. That is a rolling window rather than the whole year, so a month missing from that list is not necessarily a month with nothing running.
12 of 31 run only part of the year; the other 19 run all year round. In Iceland that is usually about daylight or ice rather than demand.
15 of 31 (48%) allow free cancellation at least 24 hours before departure. The exact window is on each tour page and comes from the operator's own policy, not ours. If the operator cancels for weather you are refunded in full.
Operators rate them: 15 easy, 8 moderate, 4 very easy, 4 challenging. Iceland's ratings assume weather — an easy walk in still air is a different proposition in 15 m/s of wind.
18 of the 31 set one, ranging from 6 to 18 years. The rest have no stated minimum, which usually means infants are allowed but not that the tour suits them.
16 of 31 are marked family-friendly by the operator. That is their judgement rather than ours, and it usually means the walking is short and the vehicle has a toilet.
Varies by operator. Across these: wi-fi on board on 9, parking fees on 8, admission fees on 8, national park entrance fee on 6, bus fare on 3. Anything not listed as included is not included — Icelandic operators are literal about this.
19 of 31 are guided in person, with guiding offered in Chinese, English, French, German, Icelandic, Italian and 1 more. English is standard on every shared departure in Iceland; other languages usually mean a private guide.
They start from Highlands (Landmannalaugar), Westfjords (Ísafjörður, Hólmavík), Capital Region (Reykjavík), Vatnajökull (Skaftafell, Höfn), Akureyri & the North, South Coast (Hella, Hvolsvöllur, Vík) and 1 more. Where a tour starts matters more in Iceland than how long it lasts: the same tour from Reykjavík and from Vík are different days entirely.
The operator cancels and refunds you in full — Icelandic operators cancel readily, and that is a good sign rather than a bad one. What they will not do is refund you for a tour that ran and simply had poor visibility. Wind cancels more tours here than rain or cold.
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