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Originally Posted by Slacker
Hey Thor,
I'm heading to Iceland in March next year for 12 days or so. I'm on a tour for the first 5 and then I'm on my own afterwards.
My biggest question is related the cost of living. How expensive is to buy food/drinks/restaurants over there?
Thanks!  |
Cool, March will probably be pretty windy and chilly, around 5c max.
Rule #1: Always buy booze at the duty free, even if you don't drink, its ridiculously cheaper than in the country. Buy the max of what you are allowed!
Price wise, food can be done reasonably cheap if you are looking to do hot noodles and such, but reasonably you can get away with $20-40 CAD a day depending on what you are eating. A restaurant varies greatly, but like a decent burger place 20-30 CAD, Subway 15 CAD for a footlong and pop.
Again you can just go to a grocery store and buy some cheaper food, bread and such..
Drinks as in booze, well Beer you can usually get around 8-10 CAD for a big can of beer in most pubs and bars. There is happy hour but its ungodly early for Iceland partiers, around 5pm-7pm.
Oh and that, if you are going to the club here, most Icelanders don't even go out until 1am or later, and go home 4-6am. Because its so expensive to drink people pre drink and arrive quite out of sorts.
The best local and visitor english paper is the Reykjavik Grapevine, so do check it out.
http://grapevine.is/travel/