The Guide to Iceland (the Thermal Spa, the Reykjavik Hotel, the Grindavik Hotel, the Northern Lights, the Icelandic Horses, the Food, the Buses and the Flight) from Pearl Escapes 2012

By Pearl Howie

Whether or not you see the Northern Lights in Iceland it's still an incredible escape, and some things you can do in Iceland whatever the weather. (According to the Icelandic there is no such thing as bad weather, just the wrong clothes.)

This guide will take you to some incredible hotels in Reykjavik and Grindavik, to The Blue Lagoon and another, only in Iceland experience, riding Icelandic horses through lava fields.

I used to get extremely burned out in my old job and couldn't even handle finding and booking a hotel and flight or finding what to do when I did take time off. So, I thought "wouldn't it be awesome if someone would write a guide that just gave you one perfect escape; the perfect hotel, spa, flight and restaurant."

So that's what I did. (Only in this guide you get at least two hotels. This is Iceland, it likes to break the rules.)

• Language: English
• Publisher: Lulu.com
• Release date: Aug 6, 2016
• ISBN: 9781326756963

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The Guide to Iceland (the Thermal Spa, the Reykjavik Hotel, the Grindavik Hotel, the Northern Lights, the Icelandic Horses, the Food, the Buses and the Flight) from Pearl Escapes 2012

The Guide to Iceland (the Thermal Spa, the Reykjavik Hotel, the Grindavik Hotel, the Northern Lights, the Icelandic Horses, the Food, the Buses and the Flight) from Pearl Escapes 2012

By Pearl Howie

Copyright © Pearl Howie 2016

All rights reserved

ISBN 978-1-326-75696-3

The moral right of the author has been asserted

Introduction

Hi there, I'm Pearl Howie (aka Pearl Escapes) and this is my guide to Iceland and The Blue Lagoon (actually, scratch that it should be The Blue Lagoon first and then Iceland).

I used to get extremely burned out in my old job and couldn't even handle finding and booking a hotel and flight or finding what to do when I did take time off.  So, I thought wouldn't it be awesome if someone would write a guide that just gave you one perfect escape; the perfect hotel, spa, flight and restaurant.  So that's what I did.

I also realised, as I dipped my toe into spas, that there was so much confusing information online about massages and treatments.  I started writing my own guide, researching each experience personally, travelling around the world.  I can now say that I am one of the world's top spa experts and my book The Guide to Massage, Spa Treatments and Healing from Pearl Escapes 2016 is the most accurate resource in the world to my knowledge. 

This year (2016) I experienced such a profound healing in a native American spa that I had to come home and write a self-help book free Feeling Real Emotions Everyday - a full colour photographic book which is out now.  I'll soon be touring; talking about the book and researching more incredible experiences around the world.

So many times I talk to people about spas and travel, often they are called to a particular area, and I say Oh yes, I've got all the details of the hotel, spa, restaurant and everything in my massive books about escapes and spas… but they really want just the bullet – just the retreat or escape in a box that I started creating in 2010.  So I'll be releasing all of these guides just as fast as I can (the older ones will be free ebooks!) so I hope you'll check to see if there's a guide for your next trip too.  (For the regions and escapes included in my full guide please look through the list at the end of this book.)

I have been so blessed to visit so many incredible places around the world and experience healing masters at work and I'd very much like to share that wisdom with you.

Iceland Spa and Hotel Break

Explore the lava fields astride an Icelandic Horse.

Melt into the Blue Lagoon with an in-water massage.

Discover the magic of Iceland's hidden folk and delight in the Northern Lights (if they'll let you).

Warm your feet while you share a Skyr Cake and an Irish coffee with your friends.

Spa break approximately £488 per person for the flight from London Heathrow to Reykjavik Keflavik Airport, 1 night at Blue Lagoon Clinic (entitling you to 2 days entry into the Blue Lagoon and use of private lagoon) two people sharing, in-water massage and 1 night at Northern Light Inn two people sharing (including breakfast at both hotels): As at March 2012

About Our Trip to Iceland

It’s amazing the number of things you can do in Iceland; whale watching, horse riding, visit waterfalls, see geysers, swim in the Blue Lagoon, visit volcanoes, trek across lava fields, snorkelling, rafting, superjeep treks, visit museums, galleries and churches, snowmobiling, puffin trips, sea kayaking, glacier hikes… and it's amazing how few of these things you can do when the weather is bad or you come at the wrong time of year. 

This is the challenge when planning your trip, (especially with us as we all wanted to do different things and were flying back at different times), so I took my usual approach to planning