Updated · prices read from our operators' live listings
Short answer: €171 per person is what most people pay. The cheapest we sell is €85 and the most expensive is €1,100. That range comes from 51 real horse riding tours across 19 operators — live prices, not estimates.
Ride length and pickup. A one to two hour ride on an Icelandic horse is the base price; add Reykjavík pickup and it climbs.
We can put a number on this rather than guess. Across 24 horse riding tours , the ones you drive to yourself have a middle price of €132, and the ones that collect you from your hotel have a middle price of €262 — 98% more.
If you have a car, meeting on location is the single biggest saving available on this kind of tour. If you are relying on the bus, the difference is what that seat genuinely costs to run — it is not a markup.
Medians across 14 meet-on-location and 10 pickup tours, per person, day tours only.
Cheapest is not always right — a €50 saving hurts less than a wasted day. These are the low-price options we'd still put our name to.
Hestasport
meet at the start point
45 min · from Sauðárkrókur
Horse Riding all year around - Date the Icelandic Horse - 45 min. - North Iceland
AK Hestaferðir ehf
49% below the €171 typical for horse riding tours
from age 7 · meet at the start point
1 h · from Akureyri
Riding tour for 1 hour near our farm
Magic Iceland Travel
49% below the €171 typical for horse riding tours
from age 6 · pickup at extra cost
8 h · from Reykjavík
Explore Iceland’s iconic Golden Circle on a 8-hour guided tour with an English-speaking guide. Visit Þingvellir National Park, Geysir, and Gullfoss, and enjoy a small local Icelandic touch included along the way.
If a horse riding tour is the thing you came to Iceland for, pay the middle price rather than the floor — the difference usually buys a smaller group and a guide with time for you. If it's a nice-to-have on a day you're already busy, the cheapest option does the job. Either way, book it for a day early in your trip: if weather cancels it, you'll have another day to try again. Most of these run in Golden Circle, Reykjavík, North Iceland, South Coast.
We sell 51 horse riding tours from 19 Icelandic operators. The cheapest is €85 per person, the typical price is €171, and the top end is €1,100. Ride length and pickup. A one to two hour ride on an Icelandic horse is the base price; add Reykjavík pickup and it climbs.
No. You pay the operator's own price and we take a commission out of it, so booking here costs the same as booking direct — with one checkout if you book several tours.
On most of these, yes: cancel more than 24 hours before and you get the full amount back. The exact rule belongs to the operator and is shown on each tour page before you pay.
Yes, and most people on the tours are beginners. Icelandic horses are small, calm and used to novices, and the one- to two-hour rides on the farm tours (/experience/164615/, /experience/170834/) move at a walk with a taste of tölt, the smooth fifth gait the breed is known for. You get a helmet and a short briefing. If you have ridden before, tell the guide; they will match you to a livelier horse.
Because Icelanders will correct you, politely. The Icelandic horse stands around 13 to 14 hands, pony height elsewhere, but it has been bred as a horse for a thousand years with no outside blood since the settlement. It has five gaits, including tölt and the flying pace. Once a horse leaves Iceland it cannot come back, to protect the herd from disease. Call it a horse; the guides will like you more.
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