Iceland with kids

[Newnormal99]

Looking at going to Iceland this summer with 2 kids age 14 and 10.

There are so many excursions and a limited amount of days - anyone been with this age and can say which were the biggest hits.

I'm thinking puffins and whales.....also thinking they would like a volcano.

@RomComPhooey

Thanks. I do desperately want to see that but I'm going to park it for another trip. I think it will just be too long a day and it seems there is a lot more I could do in that area.

I feel like I could fill 2 weeks with that I would like to see!

@PuffinShop

Driving in the Icelandic countryside is sooo much easier than in the UK, honestly. Assuming you are going in summer so you won't have to think about snow and ice and storms, and that you are sticking to the main roads. No motorways, no massive confusing roundabouts, hardly any towns even, nothing to obstruct your view. You'd have to try really hard to miss a turn because there aren't many and everything is well signposted in my experience. This pic is just off google images but it's mostly like this. The distances between things can be long, but it's so beautiful.

All of this. The ring road is like an A road in the Yorkshire Dales of Lake District, where there is a single carriageway going in each direction and the paved surface merges into moorland at each side. I can’t think of a single bit with poor visibility (unless you are unlucky enough to get fog, as we did one day) and everyone goes at a sensible speed. It was dead easy driving, especially if you hire an automatic. Hiring a car also means you’d be able to pop to local swimming pools, many of which have slides and ‘hot pots’ as well as laned swimming.

Did you book op.

We're looking at going in Feb half term and wondering about taking our 12 year old?!