Golden Circle and Secret Lagoon Combo Tour

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Top Attractions:

Golden Circle

Thingvellir National Park

Great Geysir & Strokkur

Gullfoss Waterfall

The Secret Lagoon - geothermal pool on the Golden Circle

Spend a day exploring the major landmarks of the Golden Circle and relaxing in the warm waters of a Secret Lagoon.

This tour combines sightseeing and relaxation in one package. You’ll visit the famous Golden Circle sightseeing route: Thingvellir National Park, Gullfoss Waterfall, and Geysir Geothermal Area. After exploring the highlights, you’ll end the day with a swim in the iconic geothermal pool, Secret Lagoon.

This is one of the most popular tours in Iceland. In 2024, it won the Tripadvisor Travelers’ Choice Best of the Best Award, based on a year of superb customer reviews.

Tour Snapshot

Duration

9 hours

Level

Easy

Availability

All year

Starting point

Reykjavik

End point

Reykjavik

Languages

English

Minimum age

6 years

What to expect

On tour

A guided tour of the Golden Circle sightseeing
Entrance fee to the Secret Lagoon
Free WiFi on the bus
English-speaking licensed adventure guide

Transportation

Transfer to/from Reykjavik in a minibus
Meet on location

Accommodation & Meals

Meals
We recommend you bring your own snacks
Accommodation

Route map

Use our interactive map to investigate the details of your adventure.

9 hours

Route Overview

Escape Reykjavik for the iconic landmarks of the Golden Circle and enjoy the country's legendary hot spring culture. You'll be accompanied by one of our friendly guides, who will take you back to a time when Iceland was young, to the birthplace of today's democracy, and bring you face-to-face with the raw power of nature.

It’s an excellent journey to book for any traveler who wants to see as much as possible in a single day. Check the itinerary below to learn more about what awaits you on this award-winning tour.

Starting point

Reykjavik

End point

Reykjavik

Thingvellir National Park

Thingvellir National Park is a famous UNESCO World Heritage Site, renowned for its unique history and geology. It is set on the famous Mid-Atlantic Ridge that marks the border between the North American and Eurasian tectonic plates. We’ll see this craggy, ever-expanding gap – the only land border between America and Europe! Iceland’s first parliament, Althingi, was held in these dramatic surroundings for centuries from its inception in 930 C.E. Stand on the spot where the Lawspeaker stood and look down on the flooded fissures and church below.

Departure from

Thingvellir National Park

Gullfoss Waterfall

Rated as one of the ten best waterfalls in the world, Gullfoss, or the “Golden Falls” is the crown jewel of the Golden Circle Route. Its frothy white waters flow from Langjökull Glacier and turn golden as they cascade down the emerald valley below. Gullfoss is undeniably one of the most iconic waterfalls in Iceland and the perfect way to finish our epic Golden Circle Tour.

Departure from

Gullfoss Waterfall

Geysir

The next stop on the Golden Circle is the Geysir geothermal area, where you can walk amidst the bubbling hot springs, boiling fumaroles, and erupting geysers. You’ll see the Great Geysir, a now-dormant feature that gives the area and all geysers their name, along with Strokkur, which regularly tosses boiling water and steam up to 40 meters into the air. Geyser eruptions are one of nature’s greatest shows and make for some of the best photos you will ever take!

Departure from

Great Geysir & Strokkur

Secret Lagoon

The Secret Lagoon in the geothermal village of Fludir is the oldest swimming pool in Iceland. Its warm waters remain at a constant 38-40°C (100-104°F) throughout the year, making it the ideal getaway for a relaxing soak amid stunning natural scenery. Expect to see moss-covered lava fields, wispy steam plumes, and a small erupting geyser while you bathe in its warm waters. We’ll sort out the entrance and transport so you can fully enjoy Iceland’s incredible hot spring culture.

Departure from

The Secret Lagoon - geothermal pool on the Golden Circle

Pick-up information

Pick-up begins at 08:00 am – we can pick you up from one of our designated pick-up points in the city.
The pick-up process can last up to thirty minutes – we greatly appreciate your patience.

Check out our list of designated pick-up points here.

Practical information

We recommend bringing warm and waterproof outdoor clothing, along with sturdy shoes. Headwear, gloves, a scarf, and warm layers will enhance your tour enjoyment. You’ll need a bathing suit and towel for the Secret Lagoon.

Meals are not included on this tour. You’ll have an opportunity to purchase food on the Golden Circle tour, or you may bring a packed lunch or a snack. If you add on an evening of Northern Lights, there will be time between the Secret Lagoon and the Aurora Hunt to make your own dinner plans in Reykjavik.

Your Day Tours

Your Day Tours is a family-run company offering small group adventures with a personal touch. Founded by three brothers and their father, they focus on creating fun, intimate day tours to Iceland’s top spots. With a maximum of 19 passengers per trip, you’ll enjoy a relaxed and memorable experience, complete with Icelandic music, local stories, and plenty of laughs along the way. It’s like exploring Iceland with family—only with a lot more glacier views.

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Packing list

Get ready for your trip, here are some items, you should not forget.

What to bring (Required)

Warm outdoor clothing
Sturdy shoes
Swimming suit
Towel

We're here to answer your questions

The pickup time is stated on your voucher and therefore we recommend you to review your voucher carefully. We ask all participants to be ready from the start of the pickup time indicated as you may well be the first pick up of the day. Please be at your assigned location at the right pick up time that you chose when booking the tour.

Wait for your guide at your assigned pick up location.

Have your email and phone number listed with us so we can contact you if we run into any trouble finding you.

View our pick-up locations in Reykjavík.

Alcohol is prohibited on all of our tours before and during activities. If we find the participant to be intoxicated, we will prohibit them from taking part in the activity.

After the activities of the day are finished then you are more than welcome to have a drink and relax.

Yes, we do have a tour into Langjökull Ice Cave that has no minimum age and it is a fantastic option for the whole family. As a Whale Watching with our partner company Special Tours, enjoyable tour for a family traveling with young children, these guys have an enormous success rate in seeing whales (upwards of 98% in the summertime).

If you want to explore parts of Icelandic Highlands than we have our magnificent Landmannalaugar Safari tour that also offers you to bathe in natural hot springs. Almost all of our jeep tours are suitable for children over the age of 6 years old. Then we also have a relaxing experience that we highly recommend, our Golden Circle & Secret Lagoon tour.

We reserve the rights to adjust the itinerary and/or take different routes depending on conditions. Your safety is our number one priority.

Please read more information in our terms and conditions in regards to this matter.

Yes, we have specially trained and certified guide on all of our tours, expect on our self-drive tours.

All of our tours are English guided.

No, for all your questions and concerns you would need to contact our customer service.

In Iceland, the standard is 230V and 50Hz and we use F-type power sockets and plugs. If you are visiting from the UK, USA, Canada or other countries using a different voltage, Hz or plugs, therefore, we highly recommend you to bring an adaptor.

We have four different categories that help participants to get a better understanding of what to expect from the tour. The categories are Easy, Moderate, Challenging and Demanding. All of our tours are rated to make it easier for you to find a tour that suits you.

For further information about the difficulty ratings and descriptions.

You can book almost all of our trips here on our website. You will find a booking window on each tour page and the best and safest way is to book and pay is directly through our website.

1. You can pay directly through our website. That is the easiest, safest and fastest way to reserve and pay for your adventure. If you choose this way then you will receive a voucher as a confirmation via email. Which you will need to bring with you on your trip.

2. You can pay via phone, our phone number is +354 562 7000. Please be noted, however you pay, you will always get a voucher. It is important to have your voucher ready for your tour so please remember to print it out or make sure that you can show it through your electronic device.

You will receive a confirmation email after you have made the booking. If you think that you have made a booking and haven’t received an email confirmation then you may please contact us via email with an inquiry through our contact form, and we will figure it out together.

All charges are made in the tour operators currency: For tours in Iceland it's Icelandic krona, ISK, but for tours in Canada/Greenland it's either USD or CAD.

On Adventures.com you can view an estimate of prices in EUR and other currencies. This is only to help you understand the approximate price.

Your credit card will always be charged in the operators currency.

Keep in mind that your card issuer may charge you a foreign transaction fee.

We do not require minimum participants on most of our tours but there is a minimum of 2 people for a few of our trips. If you are traveling solo and interested in a tour that requires more than 2 participants than we can take down your information and contact you if more people book the tour.

We can arrange private departures as per customer request. Almost all of the tours that we offer can be arranged as a private tour. If you prefer to have a private tour arranged than you may feel free to contact us through email info@adventures.com

Unfortunately, we don’t have any waiting list for our tours. Availability is found on our website in the availability sheet where all updates will automatically be made to the sheet listed in each tour description. We have a variety of different adventure tours around Iceland so there is a big chance that you find a similar version of the tour that you were originally looking for.

If your tour that you have booked is canceled on our behalf than you will receive a 100% refund. The refund process is different depending on the way you booked the tour.

If you booked the tour through our website then we will start the refund process as soon as we know if you will not be rescheduling and you will receive a separate email with a confirmation about that your refund has been processed.

If you booked the tour via booking agent than you will need to contact them directly to receive the refund. We will confirm with them about your canceled tour and then the refund process will start on their end. Extreme Iceland only receives the payment when the tour has finished, that means that your payment still remains with the booking agent and therefore, the refund can only be processed directly from their end.

The minimum age requirement is decided by our operational managers and is dependent on each activity and its difficulty ratings and can, therefore, vary between tours We put great value towards safety for our customers and the minimum age policy falls under this. Therefore we can not accommodate a person that has not reached the age limit on the tour.
We ask you to try to understand that this is based on safety procedures and we can therefore unfortunately not make any exceptions on this rule.

We can unfortunately not accommodate you and your group if the number of your group extends the number of available seats left on the tour. Our website shows the correct number of available seats left. It is impossible to squeeze additional participants onto sold out departures as we have really strict policy measures as to how many participants are assigned to each guide on our tour departures. Therefore we hope that you understand as this is of course done with our customer's safety in mind.

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