Team Iceguide
Iceguide is a family run company owned by Óskar Arsson, who is one of the company tour guide, and his wife Íris Heiður Jóhannsdóttir. Óskar is born and raised in the realm of Vatnajökull glacier, and being passionate for the outdoors he enjoys mountaineering, climbing and glacier hikes.
Tours:
Glacier Kayak Adventure.
Meeting point: Our base camp is the meeting point, located 300 meter from road 1 (the ring road), 40 km west from Höfn by the road to Heinabergslón (GPS coordinates N 64´15.193´ W 015´.38.348), small green hut which is visible from the main road. There our guides will outfit all participants with the appropriate kayak equipment, and issue additional gear. Transportation from the base camp to the lagoon is provided. Small rental cars are not allowed to drive to the lagoon.
Included: Kayak, drysuit, safety vest, shoes, gloves, kayak paddle, transportation, 15 min drive from our base camp to Heinabergslón glacier lagoon.
The boats are sit on top Kayaks which means that participants do not sit in the boats like in classic kayaks, but on the boat. The boats also have double keels which makes them very stable and suitable for people that have no experience in kayaking. The drysuit is 100% waterproof. We also have fleece whole suits if participants do not have enough clothes to wear as an inner layer under the dry suit.
What to bring: Good thermal clothing to wear under the drysuit that we provide. For example fleece jacket, fleece trousers, soft shell or similar hiking trousers, good socks hat and gloves. Bring sunglasses on sunny days. We offer dry cases for your cameras and/or smartphones upon request. We do not take any responsibility for any personal gear that participants bring along in the tour, phones, cameras or clothing, things may get wet.
The tour is not physically demanding rated 2 out 5.
The tour is bookable online on our website iceguide.is so its easy to see availability each day. We have two tour on our schedule every day of the week 9:00 and 13:00. We also do customised tour, longer, shorter photography tours, groups or combo tours including glacier walk for example. We are flexible!
Our fleet includes 5 boats, all boats are single boats, four are double as well, so in total we can take maximum 9 persons.
Heinaberglón is out of the beaten track so we don't have other traffic on the lagoon.
Reservation is required, the tour is bookable online, by email or by phone Tel: 6610900 (its best to text us, I'm very often out of connection). Feel free to contact us for further informations or requests by phone or through our website Iceguide.is……..we are also on Facebook and for reviews you can look at Tripadvisor.com
All of our tours are undertaken as the responsibility of its participants. Iceguide does not take any responsibility for accidents that can be traced to participants own action.
Price: Single boat 15900 ISK per boat/one person in boat
Double boat 19900 ISK per boat / two adults in boat
Double boat, 1 adult and 1 kid in boat 17900 per boat (Adults 17+ Kids 12-16)
Age limit is 14 years old (in some cases we make exceptions f. ex with private group)
Total duration of the tour: 3 hours.
Time in the boat: 1.5-2 hours
Private and custom made tours available
For booking and further information see Iceguide.is
Ice cave tour (winter only)
Ice caves are temporary structures that appear at the edge of glacier every winter, very often where the glacier meltwater runs out from underneeth the glacier. During summertime almost every ice cave melts down and new one appears in the beginning of winter. Then the local ice cave guides go scouting out for new ice caves. When temperature falls the ice becomes more staple and the watersurface in the cave drops. Not every icecave is safe to visit, in our icecave tours the guide will evaluate each time if the cave is save to visit, with regard to the situation, weather and ice condition. Winter in Iceland can be rainy and warm, specially on the south-east coast of Iceland. Ice cave tours are very weather dependant, rain and warm days are not ideal condition for Ice cave excursions. On such days the caves can get flooded and/or the ice to unstable and the ice cave not save to visit. In these situations the ice cave tours can be cancelled because of safety reasons. We book our ice cave tour until end of March. If our Ice cave tour gets cancelled participants will get full refund. Our safety standards are high and Ice caves should never be visited without a local guide who knows the ice caves and the area well. In some cases ropes and other safety equipment may be needed, and should only be led by experienced guide. The ice caves are always situated in remote areas in Vatnajökull´s glacier. For truly safe and unique experience join our ice cave tours.
The ice cave tour departs from Glacier lagoon (Jökulsárlón) parking lot, coordinates N64 02.898 W16 10.795. Distance from Reykjavík is 370 km. Iceguide does not provide any transportation from Reykjavík to Glacier lagoon (Jökulsárlón).
48 hours cancelation policy, customers will get full refunded, if cancelled within 48 hours.
All of our tours are undertaken as the responsibility of its participants. Iceguide does not take any responsibility for accidents that can be traced to participants own actions.
Iceguide can not make sure that no other persons or other unrelated groups are in the Ice cave at the same time as our tours.
For booking and availability see Iceguide.is
Customized tours also available.
