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Everyone told you, and everyone was right. But 400,000 people live here on Icelandic wages and still eat out, drink out and go swimming, and they do it with a handful of habits nobody puts in the brochure. This is that list. We'd rather share it than watch you pay 7,000 kr for a burger on the main street.</p> 150 <p class="cp__meta">Straight from the app, updated 22 September 2026. <a href="/download">Get Icebreaker</a> and the app does the counting: happy hour, cheap-eats windows, the cheapest pump and the nearest pool.</p> 151 152 <h2 class="cp__region">The eight habits</h2> 153 <div class="info-cards"> 154 <article class="info-card info-card--good"><h2 class="info-card__title">1. Eat inside the windows</h2><p class="info-card__text">Lunch deals, soup that counts as dinner, hot dogs at 880 kr, the bakery counter. <a href="/cheapeats">27 cheap eats</a>, most with their deal hours. Supermarkets: Bónus and Krónan, in that order.</p></article> 155 <article class="info-card info-card--good"><h2 class="info-card__title">2. Drink at happy hour</h2><p class="info-card__text">A beer is 1,500â2,000 kr at full price and 900â1,200 at happy hour. <a href="/happyhour">79 bars with happy hour</a>, with times. Alcohol for the apartment: KeflavÃk duty-free on the way in, then VÃnbúðin.</p></article> 156 <article class="info-card info-card--good"><h2 class="info-card__title">3. Swim in the local pool</h2><p class="info-card__text">About 1,500 kr for the best thing Iceland does, versus ten times that for a lagoon. Heated, outdoors, in every town, and the hot tub is where the country talks. <a href="/pools">The pools our editors picked</a>.</p></article> 157 <article class="info-card info-card--good"><h2 class="info-card__title">4. Get the Orkan card</h2><p class="info-card__text">12 kr off every litre at most Orkan stations, free, in your Wallet in a minute. <a href="/fuel">Today's prices by chain</a> are on our fuel page, so you'll know where it pays.</p><p class="faq__ctas"><a class="faq__cta" href="https://www.orkan.is/english/apply-for-orkan-discount-card?extId=L0AHSX6&campaignId=006P2000017AUTJ" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Get the Orkan card, free</a></p></article> 158 <article class="info-card info-card--good"><h2 class="info-card__title">5. Take the Flybus, not a taxi</h2><p class="info-card__text">3,999 kr to the BSà terminal versus about 22,000 in a taxi. In town, walk; the city bus is 690 kr a ride. Outside town, split a rental with the people you came with.</p><p class="faq__ctas"><a class="faq__cta" href="https://icebreaker.tourdesk.is/Tour/Item/15504/1/flybus-airport-to-bsi" data-td="15504-1" target="_blank" rel="noopener sponsored">Book the Flybus</a><a class="faq__cta" href="https://www.gorentals.is/icebreaker" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Rent a car, 5% off</a></p></article> 159 <article class="info-card info-card--good"><h2 class="info-card__title">6. Data, not roaming</h2><p class="info-card__text">Roaming from outside the EU/EEA costs a fortune. The SÃminn eSIM in the app is 3,000 kr for 10 GB over 30 days, or unlimited in Iceland for 14 days, on the widest network in the country.</p><p class="faq__ctas"><a class="faq__cta" href="https://vefverslun.siminn.is/en/esim-starter-pack-icebreaker" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Get the SÃminn eSIM</a></p></article> 160 <article class="info-card info-card--good"><h2 class="info-card__title">7. The free stuff is the good stuff</h2><p class="info-card__text">The tap water is among the cleanest in the world; never buy a bottle. The northern lights are free (<a href="/aurora">tonight's odds</a>). So are the waterfalls, the black beaches, the walk around the pond, and watching the weather change four times before lunch.</p></article> 161 <article class="info-card info-card--good"><h2 class="info-card__title">8. Book tours through the app</h2><p class="info-card__text">Same price as the operator, no marketplace mark-up, secure checkout through TourDesk, and the weather-cancellation refund is the operator's. If the weather cancels, you get your money back.</p><p class="faq__ctas"><a class="faq__cta" href="https://icebreaker.tourdesk.is/Tour" target="_blank" rel="noopener sponsored">Browse all tours</a></p></article> 162 </div> 163 164 <h2 class="cp__region">Free, and worth the trip</h2> 165 <p class="cp__now-sub">The parking machine may want a few hundred krónur. Nothing else does.</p> 166 <div class="info-cards"> 167 <article class="info-card"><h2 class="info-card__title">
167Harpa</h2><p class="info-card__text">The concert hall on the harbour. Walk in, ride the escalators, stand inside the glass honeycomb at sunset. Free, and better than most paid views.</p></article> 168 <article class="info-card"><h2 class="info-card__title">HallgrÃmskirkja and the Sun Voyager</h2><p class="info-card__text">The church is free to enter (the tower is not, and the view from the steps is most of it). The steel ship on the shore is a ten-minute walk away, on the way to Harpa.</p></article> 169 <article class="info-card"><h2 class="info-card__title">Grótta lighthouse</h2><p class="info-card__text">The end of the Seltjarnarnes peninsula: seabirds, a foot-warming pool by the beach, the best northern-lights spot inside the city, and a wind that will renegotiate your hairstyle.</p></article> 170 <article class="info-card"><h2 class="info-card__title">Reykjadalur hot river</h2><p class="info-card__text">An hour's hike from Hveragerði, 45 minutes from ReykjavÃk, to a river you sit in. Free, apart from the parking. Bring a towel and a sense of humour about the changing situation.</p></article> 171 <article class="info-card"><h2 class="info-card__title">Ãingvellir, Seljalandsfoss, Skógafoss, Reynisfjara</h2><p class="info-card__text">The big South Coast stops are all free to visit; you pay to park, not to look. At Reynisfjara, stay well back from the water. Sneaker waves are not a metaphor.</p></article> 172 <article class="info-card"><h2 class="info-card__title">Kolaportið flea market</h2><p class="info-card__text">Weekends by the old harbour. Free to enter, full of wool, vinyl and fermented shark you can smell from the door. The lopapeysa here costs less than in the shops.</p></article> 173 <article class="info-card"><h2 class="info-card__title">NauthólsvÃk geothermal beach</h2><p class="info-card__text">A warm lagoon on a real beach. Free in summer; a small fee for the hot tub and changing rooms in winter, when the locals go for the cold dip and the bragging rights.</p></article> 174 <article class="info-card"><h2 class="info-card__title">The pond, the valley, the hill</h2><p class="info-card__text">Tjörnin downtown (the ducks are locals too), Elliðaárdalur valley with its salmon river and waterfall inside the city, ÃskjuhlÃð forest under Perlan. All free, all a bus ride or a walk from the centre.</p></article> 175 <article class="info-card"><h2 class="info-card__title">The sky</h2><p class="info-card__text">Northern lights from September to April, midnight sun from May to July, and weather that changes four times before lunch. <a href="/aurora">Tonight's odds are here.</a></p></article> 176 </div> 177 178 <h2 class="cp__region">How expensive is stuff?</h2> 179 <p class="cp__now-sub">The price cards from the app, cheapest first. 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