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ExperiencesReykjavíkSecret Hot Springs of the Reykjanes Peninsula
🗝️ Hidden Gems 📍 Reykjavík, Iceland

Secret Hot Springs of the Reykjanes Peninsula

4.99 (187) · 5 hours · Max 6 guests
🏠 Locally owned👥 Small groups✓ Verified operator
Sigrún Jónsdóttir

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Sigrún Jónsdóttir

Search-and-rescue volunteer, raised in a Reykjanes fishing village

8 years hosting · Speaks Icelandic, English, Danish · Replies within a few hours

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The Blue Lagoon is a spa. This is Iceland. Sigrún grew up on the Reykjanes peninsula and knows the hot pots that appear on no map — a warm river bend behind a lava ridge, a stone-lined pool her grandfather helped dig, a steaming cove that fishermen have used for a century.

She reads the weather in the morning and picks the two best springs for the day. In her 4x4 you’ll cross lava fields and black-sand tracks between soaks, with wool blankets, dry bags and a thermos of cocoa that never runs out.

In winter, evening departures chase the northern lights from the water. There are worse ways to see them.

✨ Highlights

  • Two unmarked natural hot springs, chosen for conditions that day
  • Private 4x4 across the lava fields, max 6 guests
  • Wool blankets, towels and dry bags provided
  • Winter evenings: aurora watching from the water

✓ What’s included

  • 4x4 transport from Reykjavík
  • Towels, blankets, dry bags
  • Hot cocoa and kleinur (Icelandic doughnuts)

📍 Meeting point

Hallgrímskirkja main steps, or hotel pickup on request

“Iceland is not a checklist. It’s weather, soup, and knowing when to wait twenty minutes.” — Sigrún Jónsdóttir

What guests say

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Rachel K. Boston, USA
★★★★★

A hot spring entirely to ourselves while the aurora came out. I still don’t fully believe it happened.

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Chloe D. Paris, France
★★★★★

Not another human being in sight for five hours. Sigrún is the calmest, most capable person I’ve ever met.

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