Calls here run roughly six to ten hours and almost everything sold runs three to four, because the whole local trade is built around getting you back. Coaches wait outside a terminal with one exit; the boats are ten minutes further round, and one of them is the thing people cannot find. Ships with a long call have room for more than one stop, and the Isafjordur Iceland tours built around a full day are the ones to read next.
The lowest fare here and the shape a six-hour call is built for: three and a half hours, ninety minutes at the waterfall, and a coach waiting outside a terminal with one exit.
From $81 per person
Free cancellation up to 24 hours ahead.
Sold as a shore excursion and behaves like one: the coach meets the ship, the waterfall and a farm fill three and a half to four hours, and there is a German-speaking departure as well as English.
From $152 per person
Free cancellation up to 24 hours ahead.
Pickup and drop-off at the cruise port are inside the fare, and the stop at the fall is the longest any coach here offers at an hour and fifty minutes. Coffee or tea at the farm.
From $154 per person
Free cancellation up to 24 hours ahead.
Pickup at the harbour, all fees and taxes covered, and travellers describe the coaches as seconds from the ship and clearly marked. Forty-five is the cap.
From $82 per person
Free cancellation up to 24 hours ahead.
Collects you at the ship itself and turns inland along the Djúp instead of south: half an hour at the Hvítanes seal haul-out and three quarters of an hour in Súðavík.
From $151 per person
Free cancellation up to 24 hours ahead.
Three hours after humpbacks from the red boathouse on Ásgeirsgata, which is a short walk round from the pier — allow twenty minutes rather than five to find it.
From $111 per person
Free cancellation up to 24 hours ahead.
Six minutes' walk from a ship docked alongside and about one from a tender, and the operator's own directions are the clearest of any trip here. Three hours, two of them ashore.
From $229 per person
Free cancellation up to 24 hours ahead.
The short slot: two hours, a cap of six, and a meeting point at the cruise dock beside a sign and the bikes. The only guided way to see the town rather than the region.
From $169 per person
Free cancellation up to 24 hours ahead.
Four hours and eighteen travellers, with photo stops along the fjord road and an hour and a quarter at the fall. The right length for a call of eight hours or more.
From $179 per person
Free cancellation up to 24 hours ahead.
Every trip here states its length. Set them against your all-aboard time before you book.
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A trip sized to your ship's clock. Calls here run roughly six to ten hours and almost everything sold runs three to four, which is not a coincidence: the whole local trade is built around getting you back aboard. You will find the coaches directly outside the terminal, which has a single exit, and travellers consistently describe the signage as clear enough to walk straight to.
The boats are the exception. They leave from the old harbour a few minutes further round, and one of them is genuinely hard to find. That is the single thing worth planning for here, and the map page exists because of it.
The standard shape leaves you hours of margin on a normal call, and that margin is what you are buying.
Not the terminal, your ship: the seal tour and one of the farm tours both state pickup and drop-off at the vessel, so you do not walk anywhere at all.
Calls here do get dropped for weather. Every trip listed below refunds in full at 24 hours, and travellers describe operators going further than the terms required when a tender could not run.
Which matters at the waterfall, where the car park fills in waves as the ships unload. If you can pick your departure, you want the first one.
| Booked independently | Booked through the ship | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | From From $81 a head | Usually higher |
| Group size | 6 to 59, and stated on every card | Set by the line |
| If you are late back | Your problem | The ship waits |
| If the call is cancelled | Refunded at 24 hours on all but one | Refunded by the line |
| Departure | Often earlier, which empties the waterfall | With the group |
| Where it meets | Outside the terminal, or the harbour | The gangway |
| Margin needed | Yours to build | Built in |
The honest answer is that you are trading margin against insurance. On an eight-hour call your three-and-a-half-hour trip has hours of slack and booking independently is comfortable. On a six-hour call with a tender you are tighter, and the line's guarantee is worth something to you. The cruise passenger post works through both.
Dynjandi, by a wide margin. The waterfall is an hour south on Route 60, it charges nothing to visit, and five of the trips below go there. That concentration is worth knowing about, because the coaches are timed to the ships and the car park at the far end fills in waves.
Work back from the all-aboard, not forward from the gangway. Every trip states a length and none states a margin.
Ask the night before whether you are tendering. It changes every walking distance in town; the Vigur operator quotes six minutes from a dock and one from a tender to the same pier.
Do the boat first if you are doing two things. A cancelled sailing still leaves the afternoon coach available; the reverse is not true.
Dress for wind. The warmest month here averages 9.9 °C, and the weather page covers the rest of the year.
Anyone with a call under about five hours who has already seen the waterfall. The round trip south does not compress, and two free hours on foot round Neðstikaupstaður and the old harbour is a better use of a short call than three hours in a coach.
Anyone staying in town rather than passing through. These trips are sized for a ship, which means they leave when the ships do and go where the ships go. With a car and two days the unguided options reach more for less.
Anyone travelling with someone who cannot manage steps and wants to be on the water. All three boats board by steps with a handrail and none has a ramp, so the road trips are the ones that work.
Checked on 5 September 2026. Hours, fares and road conditions belong to the bodies that publish them and they change with the season. The official pages are the place to confirm before you travel.
Free cancellation up to 24 hours ahead on every trip listed here.
See Top ToursEvery trip named here is set against the rest on price, hours and what the fare covers at Isafjordur Tours.