Day 1 – Flight to Iceland

Puffin Hard Landing in the Airport
Today we started out on our trip to Iceland apprehensive about flying on WOW airlines since it was our first time flying them and they are new and a heavily discounted flier with fares as low as $99 from Newark to Reykjavik. We booked through a travel agent so we don’t know what we paid but it was definitely the “no frills” plan. I later added one checked bag ($59.99 each way) and assigned seats ($6.99 per, each way), but it was a worth the price. Using the travel agent, as it turned out, was a big negative with WOW as I had to call their service center instead of using their website and that took hours to make those simple changes.

The actual flight itself was great. It was a new Airbus A321 which I think makes a daily run back and forth between Newark and Iceland. Of course you pay for everything. A soda, for example, is $3.29 which sounds expensive until I realized I had just paid $3.51 for one at the Newark airport.

The flight is only 6 hours which sounds great until you arrive in Iceland at 4:30am and you can’t get into your hotel room until 2pm.

Since the picture shows a Puffin, I think I should explain a little. Just like in Alaska, these cute, colorful little arctic birds also can be found in Iceland, but mainly on isolated islands. And even if you can’t easily see them, their image is everywhere. However, unlike in Alaska, you can actually find them on the menu here. We met one guy who actually paid $100 to have Puffin for dinner. No thanks!

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  1. UnknownFebruary 4, 2018 at 4:43 PM

    ...and what did you do from 4:30am til 2PM?????
    LOVEMOM

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