Affiliate Disclosure

Plainly, and before anything else: Akureyri Iceland Tours may earn a commission when you book through a link on this site, at no extra cost to you.

What that means in practice

The tours listed here are sold through Viator and GetYourGuide. When you follow a link from one of these pages and go on to book, the platform pays us a share of its own commission. You pay the same fare either way; the price on the booking page is the operator’s price, not a marked-up one.

What we are not

We are not a tour operator. We do not run any of these tours, employ any of these guides or hold your booking. Your contract is with the operator, through the platform.

We have no connection with Visit Akureyri, the Port of Akureyri, Forest Lagoon, Earth Lagoon Mývatn, the town’s pools or museums, or any tour operator.

How tours get listed

Operators cannot pay for placement, position or a badge. A badge on a card is a measured claim: Top rated only on a tour rated 4.9 or higher, Best seller only on the tour with the most reviews, Best value only on the cheapest. Where a platform prints its own badge on a product that does not meet our test, it is dropped rather than relayed, and a badge naming the platform is never shown at all.

The featured tours at the top of the homepage are three different purchases at three price points, from three different starting points: the classic whale sailing from the town pier, a day to the waterfalls and the lake that collects you on your ship’s pier, and the lagoon ticket across the fjord.

Prices, ratings and how current they are

Prices, star ratings and review counts belong to the operators and were taken from their own listings on 23 September 2026. They move, and the figure at checkout is the one that counts. Every fare is quoted in US dollars because that is the currency the listings were captured in; nothing is converted at an exchange rate, and the prices you pay at a door here are quoted in krónur as the door publishes them. Fares are shown truncated to the whole dollar, the way the listings display them. Where a detail comes from a listing — a meeting point, an exclusion, a wheelchair line — it belongs to that tour and not to the town.

The facts about the town and the places the tours go are official: the town, the free buses and the tourist desk from Visit Akureyri; the fjord and the cruise berths from the Port of Akureyri; the waterfalls and the Diamond Circle from the North Iceland tourist board; the lagoon prices and hours from each lagoon; the climate from the Icelandic Met Office; and the road closures from the North Iceland board’s own road notes.

What we deliberately do not publish

• A private tour. The phrase is a common search and none of the tours captured here is private, so no page sells or describes one. The smallest group is an eight-seat minibus.
• A Diamond Circle tour. No tour here drives the whole Diamond Circle. The longest days cover three of its five stops and skip Ásbyrgi and the Húsavík end.
• Guaranteed northern lights. No one can promise them. The one guided hunt here does not either: it offers a second night if nothing shows.
• A step count for the church, or a parking fee anywhere. Neither is published by an official source we could find, and a figure repeated from other sites is not a fact.
• The tunnel toll in krónur. The toll is real and is paid online by licence plate; the price is the toll company’s to state, and we do not repeat it.
• A flight time or a road distance from Reykjavík. Both depend on the day and the route, and none is stated by a source we would stand behind.
• “The most powerful waterfall in Europe” as our own claim. The national park and the regional board call Dettifoss that, and we say that they do. The same goes for Húsavík as a whale-watching capital: an operator’s description, not ours.
• Time at a stop the listing does not state. Where a day gives a total duration and not the minutes at each stop, the card says only what the listing says.