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Hike vast glaciers, marvel at steaming volcanic lakes, and explore the land of the midnight sun: with Rick Steves on your side, Iceland can be yours!

Inside Rick Steves Iceland you'll find:
  • Comprehensive coverage for exploring Iceland, whether you've got a long layover in Reykjavík or two weeks to dive into the whole country
  • Rick's strategic advice on how to get the most out of your time and money, with rankings of his must-see favorites
  • Top sights and hidden gems, from the stunning northern lights to hidden hikes and cozy bookstores
  • How to connect with local culture: Soak in the famous Blue Lagoon, sample smoked fishes, and chat with locals in stark and lovely rural towns
  • Beat the crowds, skip the lines, and avoid tourist traps with Rick's candid, humorous insight
  • The best places to eat, sleep, and relax
  • Self-guided walking tours of lively Reykjavík and art and history museums
  • Complete, mile-by-mile driving tours, including the Golden Circle, the Ring Road, and more, with recommendations of Iceland's most scenic detours
  • Detailed maps for exploring on the go
  • Useful resources including a packing list, an Icelandic phrase book, a historical overview, and recommended reading
  • Over 500 bible-thin pages include everything worth seeing without weighing you down
  • Complete, up-to-date information on Reykjavík, the Reykjanes Peninsula, the Golden Circle, the South Coast, the Westman Islands, West Iceland, The Ring Road, the East Fjords, and more
Make the most of every day and every dollar with Rick Steves Iceland.

Expanding your trip? Try Rick Steves Scandinavia or Rick Steves Northern European Cruise Ports.
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Since 1973, Rick Steves has spent about four months a year exploring Europe. His mission: to empower Americans to have European trips that are fun, affordable, and culturally broadening. Rick produces a best-selling guidebook series, a public television series, and a public radio show, and organizes small-group tours that take over 30,000 travelers to Europe annually. He does all of this with the help of more than 100 well-traveled staff members at Rick Steves' Europe in Edmonds, WA (near Seattle). When not on the road, Rick is active in his church and with advocacy groups focused on economic and social justice, drug policy reform, and ending hunger. To recharge, Rick plays piano, relaxes at his family cabin in the Cascade Mountains, and spends time with his son Andy and daughter Jackie. Find out more about Rick at www.ricksteves.com and on Facebook.
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Ian Watson has worked with Rick Steves on his guidebooks since 1993, after starting out with Let's Go and Frommer's guides. Originally from upstate New York, Ian made his home in Reykjavík for several years. He now lives with his family in Germany.

Born in Denver and raised in central Ohio, Cameron Hewitt settled in Seattle in 2000. Ever since, he has spent three months each year in Europe, contributing to guidebooks, tours, radio and television shows, and other media for Rick Steves' Europe, where he serves as content manager. Cameron married his high school sweetheart (and favorite travel partner), Shawna, and enjoys taking pictures, trying new restaurants, and planning his next trip.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Rick Steves; 1st edition (March 27, 2018)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 472 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1631218131
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1631218132
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 13.7 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 4.63 x 0.88 x 8 inches
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    Guidebook author and travel TV host Rick Steves is America's most respected authority on European travel. Rick took his first trip to Europe in 1969, visiting piano factories with his father, a piano importer. As an 18-year-old, Rick began traveling on his own, funding his trips by teaching piano lessons. In 1976, he started his business, Rick Steves' Europe, which has grown from a one-man operation to a company with a staff of 100 full-time, well-travelled employees at his headquarters in Washington state. There he produces more than 50 guidebooks on European travel, America's most popular travel series on public television, a weekly hour-long national public radio show, a weekly syndicated column, and free travel information available through his travel center and ricksteves.com. Rick Steves' Europe also runs a successful European tour program. Rick Steves lives and works in his hometown of Edmonds, Washington. His office window overlooks his old junior high school.

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    Cameron Hewitt was born in Denver, grew up in Central Ohio, and moved to Seattle in 2000 to help Rick Steves research and write America's bestselling guidebooks. Since then, Cameron has spent 100 days each year exploring Europe. He has traveled to and written about more than 35 European countries and has co-authored guidebooks on Croatia, Budapest, Iceland, Scotland, Greece, Berlin, and many more. Cameron also serves as Content and Editorial Director at Rick Steves' Europe, Inc.; guides Rick Steves tours in Europe; contributes to Rick's television series and radio program; presents travel talks; and blogs about his travels at www.cameronhewitt.com. The Temporary European: Lessons and Confessions of a Professional Traveler — a collection of travel stories from 25 years of exploring Europe — was published by Travelers' Tales in early 2022. Cameron married his high school sweetheart and favorite travel partner, Shawna; they live in the Phinney Ridge neighborhood of Seattle, Washington.

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4.7 out of 5 stars
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We had to purchase this book locally as we were heading to Iceland two days after this book was released (just returned last night). This book was priceless and entertaining. We had multiple other books but kept reverting to this one. If it were printed earlier, we would have used it for reservations.Iceland is a wonderful place but expensive. The biggest problem: tourists everywhere, particularly in the west. We drove 2200 km and never went to the north (gas about $8.50US a gallon). Books are crazy expensive, too.Thanks Rick Steves!
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Meggie OK
5.0 out of 5 stars Never say never, Rick!
Reviewed in the United States on August 20, 2018
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Back in 2014, Rick said on his website that he wouldn't be publishing an Iceland guide, and he recommended Lonely Planet's guide instead, but I guess that the money to be made off Icelandic tourism lured him into changing his mind. I've been a Rick Steves devotee since I was about 7, and I just won't visit any European destination without Rick as my guide. "Rick says..." is usually the first thing I say about every site, restaurant, hotel, etc., and my devotion to his guidebooks once provoked my travel buddy into tossing the Spain guidebook off the top of a castle in Segovia.

As usual, Rick served up matter-of-fact info with the appropriate amount of detail and solid recommendations. I will say, though, that this was the first time that I had a Rick Steves guide that didn't give me information on everywhere I might have wanted to go in a country. I suppose it makes sense, since most travelers either stay in/around Reykjavik or do the Ring Road, but the fact that there was no information at all on the Icelandic highlands or on reindeer, for example, was surprising. Maybe in subsequent editions? Also, Rick is just clearly not a huge Iceland fan; he was more dismissive of much more of the country than in any other guidebook I've read, frequently calling restaurants, museums, or entire towns "uninspired" or "skippable." Finally, either I've gotten more adventurous (and am not in Rick's target demographic) or Rick is showing his age: many "short hikes" were quick walks on flat, paved trails, and the writing was downright disdainful when discussing festivals that included drunken revelry and the like. Still, it was a useful guide to the country as a whole, and his Reykjavik city walk was characteristically great.
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HMS Warspite
5.0 out of 5 stars Off to Iceland, land of glaciers and volcanoes...
Reviewed in the United States on June 6, 2018
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Iceland is just far enough off the beaten path that it doesn't get as much tourist guide book coverage as it probably deserves. Fortunately for the enterprising traveler, Rick Steves has done his considerable homework. His "Rick Steve's Iceland" is close to being one-stop shopping for planning a visit.

The author provides a menu approach to Iceland's attractions. An upfront section (in color!) introduces Iceland as a travel destination. The rest of the book provides options for Reykjavik (Iceland's capital and only real city), for attractions near Reykjavik, and for the famed Ring Road around Iceland (800 miles of access to rest of the country). The narrative lays out options, opinions and possible tradeoffs, along with the proper cautions for Iceland's weather and other natural hazards. This reviewer wishes the maps were a bit more detailed, and more of the photographs were in color. Well recommended as a very good planning resource for a trip to Iceland.
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Megan B.
5.0 out of 5 stars Do It!
Reviewed in the United States on October 7, 2018
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My sister and I recently took our first solo adventure to a foreign country together. And we didn’t exactly do a lot of planning before hand - but I did buy this book. Because I’m a 90s PBS kid, can you feel me? We rented a car, bought a basic map and took off around the ring road with Rick and Co. as our guide. This booked helped us prioritize our stops in our jam packed seven day trip. Rick gives you a run down of all major stops, best eatin and sleeping locations and sidebar info that you can’t help but read in your best Rick Steve’s voice. I’d say the info we we acted on was all right on! We were never once steered wrong on finding the right local eatery. They’re listed by price- $,$$, or $$$ and being the resident tighta$$ we pretty much stuck to the $. It always felt like we were eating in that cool place around the corner where the locals ate.

This book barely left our hands and made for good reading and entertainment during windshield time!
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Kernman
4.0 out of 5 stars Very thorough and informative like all of Rick Steves’ guides
Reviewed in the United States on March 27, 2018
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I preordered this book knowing it would be worth the wait and it was. In typical Rick Steves fashion, there is a lot of historical and practical information. As always there are plenty of time and money-saving tips. I particularly like how the ‘best of’ and ‘must sees’ are called out and color or shape coded. It makes finding bucket list ideas easier. There are also some handy single and multi day schedule samples as well. The book describes what there is to see be geographic region, broken into chapters like Western Iceland, Southeast Iceland and so on. Like most of Steves’ books, it caters to families and older travelers in my opinion. But that’s his demographic. While the vast majority of the book focuses on the peak season of the summer months, there are some tips and highlights that cover winter as well (my interest) but not as much as I had hoped for. There’s a lot of value in this book and is pretty much all you need to plan a typical vacation to Iceland. I take a half star off for a couple of reasons. There’s a lot of back and forth page turning, where something is referenced on another page. Not a reason the dislike the book, but somewhat annoying. But more than that, I’m looking for more extreme adventure, such as self-driven off road sites on the famous F roads, or dogsledding tours, and this book doesn’t cover that much. It only references driving rules and encourages buying tours for the off highway stuff. I also wish there had been a color map included as a pullout to take in the car or something. An additional book will be needed for the backcountry or extreme adventure information. But all in all an excellent book. A must-have for your first time in Iceland.
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McGinty
5.0 out of 5 stars Rick Steves Iceland
Reviewed in Canada on January 7, 2020
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The book is very helpful and covers a great range of things that should be helpful on our trip to Iceland
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1.0 out of 5 stars Incompleta
Reviewed in Italy on October 5, 2019
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Lo stile dello scrittore è interessante, e mostra molto particolari che sia la Rough che la Lonely ignorano, specie per Reykjavik
Tuttavia se qualcosa non gli piace , lo ignora . Completamente. Io visiterò i Westfjords e la penisola di Snaefellsnes nel prossimo viaggio (motivo per cui ho comprato questa guida, visto che la mia vecchia Lonely è ormai datata ); ebbene, con mio completo sconcerto entrambi meritano un trafiletto di mezza pagina : nient’altro
Se volete un approfondimento su alcuni capitoli del vostro viaggio va bene , ma se volete visitare il West Iceland passate oltre
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1.0 out of 5 stars Incompleta
Reviewed in Italy on October 5, 2019
Lo stile dello scrittore è interessante, e mostra molto particolari che sia la Rough che la Lonely ignorano, specie per Reykjavik
Tuttavia se qualcosa non gli piace , lo ignora . Completamente. Io visiterò i Westfjords e la penisola di Snaefellsnes nel prossimo viaggio (motivo per cui ho comprato questa guida, visto che la mia vecchia Lonely è ormai datata ); ebbene, con mio completo sconcerto entrambi meritano un trafiletto di mezza pagina : nient’altro
Se volete un approfondimento su alcuni capitoli del vostro viaggio va bene , ma se volete visitare il West Iceland passate oltre
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Milvia van Rij-Brizzi
1.0 out of 5 stars Targeting exclusively the US public.
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 27, 2019
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Much to my surprise, this guide is meant exclusively for the US public. As we are Europeans most if not all of the practical information was of much use or relevance and we ended up having to buy in a rush Lonely Planet, which is far more geared toward a more global public. This factor could usefully be indicated in the description of the product.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Very useful during my trip
Reviewed in Canada on April 2, 2019
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Rick Steves series is always our go-to when traveling in Europe. So glad an Iceland one came out in time for our trip. The advices were very useful.
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carol ann glanville
5.0 out of 5 stars Iceland here I come.
Reviewed in Canada on August 31, 2018
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As always Rick Steves books are wonderful.
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