FROM BARCELONA TO KEFLAVíK AND RENTAL CAR IN ICELAND

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Day 1: PASSANANT - TÀRREGA - BARCELONA - KEFLAVÍK

12 in the morning, the alarm sounds. It took us more than 30 minutes to get out of bed. Today is a special day, not because we have a heart attack weekend, sleeping only 3 hours and exhausted (although this is not the case in this travel diary), but because today is the day that begins one of the trips what we had more desire to do for years. Today we will fly from Barcelona to Keflavík where we will pick up our rental car in Iceland and our travel to Iceland for free.

We can really say that the day has started at 3 in the afternoon, eating in one of our main restaurants in Tarrega, where we have paid a good tribute to then go to wash the car, put gas and go to the airport of Barcelona , where we will leave our car in the usual parking of Aparca i Vola, where with the premium service we come to find the car, after a call, to Terminal 1 which is where our flight from Barcelona to Keflavík.

Barcelona Airport Road

Here we make a small paragraph and we remind you that if you want to travel to Iceland, it is best to organize it with time if you want to reduce costs, such as on the flight, that if you book it in time, you can find very competitive prices such as this offer of Best flight we published a few days ago.

It is 5:45 p.m. and we are already at the airport. We have much more time than we needed, but today we have advanced the day a little by eating faster than expected.
After checking the only suitcase we carry, even though we have to wear winter clothes, we get ready with a single suitcase and a small hand bag, we pass the controls and go straight to eat something and cool off with ice cream.

Airport of Barcelona

We don't know very well why, but increasingly, in our travels, time flies by at the airport and almost without realizing it, they announce our boarding gate. The flight from Barcelona to Reykjavik, is about to leave.

About to board the flight that will take us to Iceland

We got on the plane thinking of those waiting for us in Iceland, having luck with time (we have more to cross our fingers) and hoping to see the incredible moon that looks today from the plane.

The little more than 4 hours and a half that lasts flight from Barcelona to Keflavík we spend them sleeping, it is impossible not to close our eyes after the weekend we had, so we did not hear anything until they announce that we are about to land and we can see through the window an orange horizon, touched by the sun that It makes us fall in love We are in Iceland !!!

Arriving in Iceland

It is 1 in the morning and although this piece of story would already belong on August 12, we continue writing it here to give it the continuity that we believe is more practical when it comes to reading.

After picking up the suitcase and checking that the 13 degrees advertised on the plane are really cold and force us to put on our coats, we stop to change money at the office on the left hand side of the airport exit.

Waiting for our bags at Keflavík Airport

The change is 149.82 crowns, so we change the total amount of money for hotels that we have to pay in cash and go directly to the Avis office, where we have to pick up the car rental in Iceland.
Currently and after many trips to the back we recommend, if you do not want to pay commissions when taking money from ATMs abroad and always have the current change, use the N26 card to pay and the Bnext and Revolut cards to get money in the ATMs They are the ones we use, They are free and will save you a lot.
You can find more information in this article about the best cards to travel without commissions.

Behind the exchange offices are the counters of all car rental companies. At this time it is clear that both parties are looking forward to finishing the paperwork soon, so after giving us the explanations about the contract and the vehicle, in less than 10 minutes we already have the keys to our rental car in Iceland.

We had been told that the use of GPS in Iceland is not very widespread, so there are times that car rental companies include it for free in the rental. We have asked and ask for 98 euros, so we declined the offer and we stayed with our magnificent application CityMaps2Go that has served us so much in all our trips.

More practical information to prepare your trip to Iceland
- 50 things to see and do in Iceland
- 10 essential tips for traveling to Iceland
- 10 essential places to see in Reykjavik
- The 5 best excursions from Reykjavik

We pick up the rental car in Iceland in the parking lot in front of the airport exit, checking it before to make sure everything is fine and that it doesn't happen to us as it happened in Munich, where we had a small mishap on our return.
We put the GPS of the mobile and we went out to the road with an incredible moon by our side that accompanies us the 5 minutes it takes to reach G. G. Guesthouse, where we will stay today, where they are waiting for us to show us the facilities.
If you do not want to rent a car or want to take it in Reykjavik, you can book your transfer to your hotel here.
From now on the hotels with shared bathroom will be a constant on our trip to Iceland and the truth is that seeing this first, we believe that it will not pose any problem.
Accommodation prices in Iceland are inexpensive and if we didn't want to go camping and not leave a kidney, the accommodation option went through the shared bathroom.

You can get an idea of this that we tell you if we tell you that The average price of accommodation in Iceland, with shared bathroom and breakfast included, is 100 euros per room.
After seeing the prices and having everything reserved, comparing prices, we believe that the best option if we want to save money, is to take a package like "Iceland completely at your own pace" with which it is clear we will save money and time.
It's 2.30 in the morning, it's time to sleep and rest that Reykjavik is waiting for us tomorrow, predictably with a sunny day.