Out of Pod Experience

Vist the penis museum.

I went to Iceland once a few years back. I visited the glaciers, waterfalls, that blue lagoon place and did a lot of hiking. It was really great I'd recommend it.

1. That's also my general experience. Since I don't have a car, I regularly take a cab. I've yet to catch a driver **** me over

2. Generally it's easiest to use card. They take it everywhere. Fish money is a ***** to deal with when it's smaller amounts.

3. Islenski Barinn and Hresso has food until midnight or so. And if you want fastfood, you can also go to Nonnibitan or the hotdog stand.

7. Remember that it should be an adapter that has ground at top and bottom. Many EU countries has a very similar plug, but this one is at least different from many other places. If you didn't bring an adapter, you can get it in the book shop right across from 10-11 down in the center of Reykjavik, a few minutes from the fanfest venue

9. Most waiters will be rather awkward if you try to tip them. They'll be the most happy if you use card or exact money.


And here's my tips:
1. Don't press the red button on the shower. It will make the water become boiling. As will turning the sink faucet all the way to hot. Literally boiling.
2. The showers here in most places will smell of sulphur/rotten egg. You can sometimes mask it with deodorant. But expect some smell. You'll have forgotten about it in a few days.
3. Most of the interesting parts of Reykjavik are on the main street("Laugavegur") and the streets off there. You won't need to divert much from that. It's 2 minutes from the fanfest venue, and you'll have plenty of good restaurants and bars there.
4. People here are extremely nice and most speak very very good English. Don't be afraid to ask people for help if needed.

After searching all over the internet trying to find an American who has gone to Fanfest 2012 i have come across your post here, my questions are simple. after watching Fanfest online on EVE TV i ave decided to get things together for a trip to Fanfest 2013, my problem is this, i have been unable to find out from anyone about how much for one person it will cost to go to Fanfest. i understand there is Boston and Seattle that i need to get to in order to catch the flight to Iceland but i would like to know the round about amount it will cost with everything to enjoy the experience for one person, any information from anyone will be helpful.

If you didn't know, Iceland is a seismically active. As such, geothermal energy from boreholes gives them megacheap electricity (so cheap that heaters stay on all year and if you get too warm, you don't turn it off, just open a window).

As a byproduct of borehole use for 'leccy, there's a massive amount of mega hot water which is used for central heating and showering. I wouldn't drink it, but I know from personal experience that it is fine to shower in.

Just make sure to take a quick rinse with cold water afterwards if you want to kill the smell.


Also, to op: Visit Þingvellir (Thingvellir) if you've not already. It's rather striking. Tours/Transport can be arranged from the tourist centre, on one of the streets leading up to the cathedral iirc.

I knew Iceland was seismically active (I remember that huge volcano eruption a few years back), but I still just can't see bathing in water with sulfur in it as healthy.....

Sorry for the late reply.. been busy.

You can spend anywhere from $2,500 to $5000 on plane tickets. I chose to treat myself.

Most cab rides to and from the Harpa to my hotel was under 20,000 ISK (About $15) and I did this at most 4 times a day after leaving america on the 17th of March. They take credit card fine but I had one taxi driver complain that nobody was using cash.

My hotel cost me 135 euro/day plus the little fees for things like Internet access, but it was full service with a maid, room service, in suite safe and so forth. The usual amenities. I'm sure you can go cheaper. I just like being in a nice hotel, and the view out of my window on the 11th floor tower looking at the city at night was great and even natives said so.

I ate what some people considered to be extravagantly; most of my meals cost me almost 8,000 isk each (Thats About $65/USD) but for things like Fin Whale, Puffin, Raindeer, Goat, Lamp/Sheep, Horse, (They all tasted adorable) etc or for example when I ate dinner with the Eve Uni group, it was wortth it. I honestly enjoyed myself for almost every meal I had with the exceptions being few, far between, and my own fault. There is a great little icelandic/French fusion cafe that is a favorite spot to eat near the CCP bar that is actually much cheaper but so good that everybody seemed to be there. I actually bumped into Mittens and a bunch fo others. Oh and despite all of this I lost weight on the trip. Oh and I ate lots of Skyr.. love the stuf.

Looking at my credit card - I mostly used it for everything on the trip with no trouble, just make sure you tell your bank to expect use in Iceland first - and adding the little Icelandic Cash I bought before entering, I spent only around $2000 on random items not related to my travel tickets, fanfest tickets, the CEO dinner tickets, the pub crawl tickets, or the blue lagoon tickets.. and I didn't even go to the blue lagoon because I spent the day with a female friend I made there in Iceland. This included buying a better coat since I got in early enough to be outside in the snow storm.

All in all I spent probably around $8,000/USD or about 886,769 kr/isk on the week and a half trip. But thats not an issue for me because I make the equivalent of about 20,000,000 kr/isk a year, and I really enjoyed myself.

I have no doubt it could be done cheaper.

I just dont like worrying about lowest cost issues; If you race to the bottom in price you often race to the bottom in quality. Cheap tickets could be $2500, meals could be a third or more what I spent, and you can go cheap in the rest. I say minimal expect 3k in costs if you get a travel package that includes flight and hotel.

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Not shy at all..