After spending all day navigating The Golden Circle on our own by car, we still had enough time to make it to The Blue Lagoon before we boarded our flight at midnight to return home. Luckily, The Blue Lagoon Spa is open till 11pm in August so this was a nice relaxing way to end our trip in Iceland and it's only 12 miles from the Keflavik Airport so it would make sense to visit this spa either before or after leaving the airport.
The Blue Lagoon is one of the most visited places in Iceland. As you can see, the water is a milky pale blue color that is caused by silicate minerals in the water. When we first drove up to the general area of The Blue Lagoon, B and I were in awe at how surreal this water looked. It's practically glowing. The Lagoon is a manmade geothermal runoff of the visible adjacent power plant. The water is delightfully warm with areas you can move to that are even warmer. The water is renewed every two days.
Guests can float around the large spa and even apply some of the complimentary silica mud to their faces which will leave your skin feeling soft. There is a swim up bar featuring drinks like beer and Skyr smoothies and a person walking around offering to take a free photo of you enjoying your time in the Lagoon for free!
The Blue Lagoon is not cheap. In August, it costed us 40 euro just to enter The Lagoon. We had to buy a towel and robe which was another 5 euro each and you can buy several other add ons. You can also buy massages and spa masks, but like I mentioned earlier, you can use the silica mud for free in the actual lagoon.
Guests use wrist bands to keep track of all of their purchases so that you don't have to worry about carrying around a wallet. All guests must take a shower before entering the lagoon and Americans might be a little squeamish that most of the people are naked. But trust me no is looking so relax.
Though I think The Blue Lagoon is pricey overall, I really enjoyed my time at this spa. I'd go again if I ever find myself in Iceland. It's an experience of a lifetime and one I think not to be missed when visiting Iceland. You can also walk around before you enter The Lagoon and take pictures of some of the other parts that are not made for swimming. The terrain is absolutely unreal with the soil in this area being black with bright green moss. The last image is one of the sun setting before we hopped on our flight back to Germany.
Hell yes! Pity to hear it is so expensive though.. but seems like one of those things you should do if you visit Iceland. Your last photo - WOW
ReplyDeleteThe Blue Lagoon is beautiful but when we were there we had more fun finding and soaking in the "hot pots" located on farms all over the country. Donations were always optional and the scenery was most often incredible and we were usually the only people taking advantage of these local "spas". It's a shame BL charges so much but then again, being so close to the airport, it's a great way to make a huge profit.
ReplyDeleteI really wish that I would have had a chance to take a dip in one of the natural springs.
DeleteOne of the reasons I want to visit Iceland is to go to the Blue Lagoon! It looks so gorgeous! And I love how they say the water is 'healing' and you can use the mud, etc. I'm so surprised to hear people are naked! So weird!
ReplyDeleteNaked in the showers, but it's quite common all over Europe.
DeleteLovely. This is one place I didn't go too in Iceland - I had already bathed in a couple of lagoons and I couldn't justify spending the money.
ReplyDeleteYea, if you already got to go in some of the natural ones, that sounds nice. We didn't have time to do that unfortunately.
DeleteI was just there in June. I loved the Blue Lagoon. It was so beautiful and the water was amazing.
ReplyDeleteGreat post.
Debi
Look at that water! BEAUTIFUL! Wow! :)
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What an amazing experience, topped off with a fantastic sunset. I don't fancy slapping any of that mud on my face though. :/
ReplyDeleteLooks "cool"!
ReplyDeleteLooks like it was worth the price! Beautiful photos :)
ReplyDeleteOpen till 11pm is so awesome especially when there's hardly any night time! The Lagoon looks so fun, it's on the bucket list.
ReplyDeleteI've seen the Blue Lagoon but didn't enter as it was planned to be a low-cost trip. Iceland is beautiful, but you can't call it cheap for sure ;)
ReplyDeleteThis looks amazing!! Great photos!! Have never been to Iceland, but when I go this Blue Lagoon will definitely be high up on my list!
ReplyDeleteI'm going in a couple of weeks :) I'm very excited :) I'm going straight from the airport to the lagoon, so should be a good relaxing start to my trip :) I heard that buying the products is cheaper in the airport tho'?
ReplyDeleteNo idea, I think the products are way to expensive. You can slap some of that silica mud on your face for free in the lagoon :)
DeleteHi it's Christa, host of the Sunday Traveler, I just wanted to pop in and say thanks for joining in on the fun! Iceland seems like a popular destination lately and I've always wanted to go there so I LOVE seeing all these amazing photos. The Blue Lagoon is definitely on my must do list and to take in that sunset, amazing!
ReplyDeleteoh man this looks absolutely beautiful!! i guess i just expect travel in europe to be expensive in general so nothing comes as too much of a shock to me. :) iceland is definitely next on my international travel list. *crossing fingers* we will make it happen for 2015.
ReplyDeleteOoooh I miss this place (even though I've only been there for a total of two hours). It's just so wonderful!
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