Private Icelandic Bar Crawl Experience

by Reykjavik Wayfinder · Reykjavík

  • Adults only

from €310.71 per person

Next departure: Thu 22 Oct

  • Duration

    3 hours

  • Difficulty

    Easy

  • Season

    All year

  • Starts in

    Reykjavík

  • Pickup

    Meet at the start point

  • Starts at

    Ingólfstorg

    Ingólfstorg, Austurstræti, Reykjavík, Iceland, Reykjavík

  • Guide

    Guided in English, Icelandic

  • Departs

    20:00

  • Minimum age

    20

  • Cancellation

    Free until 24 hours before

About this experience

A hand‑picked night out with a local who knows where the fun hides — and when it comes out.

Reykjavík doesn’t really do quiet nights. It does cozy chaos, excellent drinks, strange conversations, and a citywide agreement that tomorrow is someone else’s problem. This private nightlife experience drops you right into the middle of it — no schedules, no herds, no awkward “tour group” energy.

Your local guide designs the night around you. Think snug craft‑beer caves where everyone knows everyone, cocktail bars shaking Icelandic spirits with confidence (and zero chill), and late‑night joints where the music’s loud, the laughter’s louder, and the line between locals and visitors completely disappears.

These are not “Top 10 Bars You Googled.” These are places with personalities — where musicians unwind after gigs, artists argue about nothing and everything, and there’s always at least one gloriously odd Reykjavík character holding court at the bar.

The vibe? Flexible. Want to linger over a dangerously good drink? Do it. Ready to chase the buzz somewhere rowdier? Your guide already knows where to go. Along the way you’ll get stories, secrets, and just enough cultural context to understand why Reykjavík nights feel the way they do.

It’s not a bar crawl. It’s not a history lesson. It’s a private night out where the city lets its hair down — and invites you to do the same.

What to Expect

  • A private, no‑rules (okay, some rules) night out
  • Bars with character, not clichés
  • Great drinks, great stories, questionable decisions (the good kind)
  • Reykjavík nightlife, fully unfiltered

Description from the operator, Reykjavik Wayfinder. Prices and availability in the booking panel are live.

Where you go

  1. Lemmy
  2. Aegir Brugghús
  3. Ölstofa Kormáks & Skjaldar

Included

There are drinks included and some bar snacks aswell.

Not included

Tips are always appreciated, never expected. If you wish to tip your servers or the guide then feel free to do so.

Good to know

There is a short walking distance between the bars so dress accordingly with the weather conditions in mind.

This a private tour and we can customize the tour for your needs, just let us know.

Cancellation for this tour

Free cancellation until 24 hours before departure; no refund after that. If the operator cancels for weather or safety, you get a full refund or a new date.

If the weather cancels this tour

Iceland's weather is real. What usually stops this one is a forecast the operator judges unsafe. Here is exactly what happens to your booking.

  1. 1Reykjavik Wayfinder decides, and tells us. Operators cancel when it is unsafe or pointless, and we back that call every time — we do not ask them to run anyway.
  2. 2We contact you by email, and by phone if your tour is the same or next day. You choose: another date if there is one you can make, or a full refund. There is no fee and nothing to argue.
  3. 3The refund goes back to the card you paid with, through Stripe, usually visible within a few working days. If this tour was one of several in your booking, the others are untouched.

What you do not get is the day back. If this is the only free day in your plan, put a spare day next to it — the planner leaves days free with the rest-day option. And if you want out because the forecast looks bad, that is your own cancellation: free until 1 day before departure, the operator's policy after that.

Questions on the day: [email protected] · +354 497 1373. How cancellations work in Iceland →

Who this is not for

  • Not for families with children under 20 — the operator will not take them, even with a parent.

Read off the operator's own conditions. If none of it applies to you, this is a good one.

Why we list it

Reykjavik Wayfinder is one of 204 operators we work with — chosen for reliability, honest descriptions and how they treat guests when weather changes plans. We don't list everything; we list what we'd book ourselves. The six checks every operator passes →

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Hotels

Where to stay for this tour

From the cheapest to the top end of what is near Reykjavík, from our hotel partners. Rooms are booked on our hotels site.

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Pairs well with

Add any of these to this tour and 3 % comes off both at checkout — about €11 on the cheapest pair. One basket, one payment, however many operators they come from.

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€310.71 per person

Book Thu 22 Oct · €310.71