GOOD TO KNOW Here you’ll find the nitty-gritty nuts and bolts of life in the city. Although Reykjavík is a relatively small place, it may take some time to figure out how to navigate the city. Most of downtown can be covered by foot, but when you leave the centre things get a little trickier. DOMESTIC AIR TERMINAL Air Iceland maintains a domestic network based in Reykjavík with destinations around the island and links to the Faeroe Islands and Greenland.
BSI-BUS TERMINAL Take the bus to destinations all around the island.
TAXIS IN REYKJAVÍK Taxis in Reykjavík tend to be rather nice: Mercedes, Audis, etc. You can always pay with a credit card. Taxis are normally summoned with a phone call or go to a taxi stand.
Vatnsmýrarvegur 10, 101 Reykjavík +354 580 5400 | www.bsi.is
Hreyfill-Bæjarleiðir +354 588 5522
RIDE-SHARE A free site used both by drivers looking for passengers and passengers looking for rides. Great tool if you’re looking to get out of the city (or back) on the cheap.
Bifreiðastöð Reykjavíkur +354 561 0000
Reykjavík Municipal Airport +354 570 3030 | www.airiceland.is
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DEPARTURE Book your seat the day prior to departure. Your hotel or guesthouse can normally help you with this.
www.samferda.is FROM & TO THE AIRPORT Whether a local picks you up or you have your own rented car, the airport bus service is a normal straightforward option. You might as well consider grabbing a taxi that takes you from door to door. Duration 40 – 50 minutes driving through the glorious mossy lava fields of Reykjanes peninsula to the capital. FLYBUS (fugrútan) +354 562 1011 | www.flybus.is AIRPORT EXPRESS +354 540 1313 | airportexpress.is
DRIVING IN REYKJAVIK SPEED LIMITS On city streets the speed limit is generally 50kph / 30mph, unless otherwise posted. There are speed bumps, roundabouts and traffic cameras. SEATBELTS Wearing seatbelts at all times is mandatory and children under the age of five must be strapped into an approved child seat. PARKING Free parking can be hard to find in the city centre, and violators are towed away literally within minutes. The city uses both parking meters as well as dashboard slips for metered parking.
ARRIVAL Buy your ticket in the arrivals terminal or online.
CELL PHONES If you get caught using your cell phone while driving, you’ll get a ticket.
Flybus takes you from Keflavík airport to BSÍ terminal close to the city centre. Once you get to BSÍ, there should be taxis waiting to take you to your destination in Reykjavík. Some hotels provide shuttles from BSÍ.
DRUNK DRIVING If you are caught driving with a blood alcohol level of .05 then you will be charged with a DWI (driving while intoxicated) and your car will be impounded.
Airport Express takes you from Keflavík to the centre of Reykjavík at Hafnarstraeti 20, not far away from the main taxi-stand on Lækjargata.
RUSH HOURS While the idea of “rush hour” is relative in such a small city, Reykjavík is a car-based city and its major traffic arteries will fill up from 7:30 to 9:30 and 17:00 to 18:30.