The Northern Lights by Boat tour for tonight has been canceled due to unfavorable weather conditions.  Here are your options: Re-book your tour for the next available night. Exchange your ticket for a Whale Watching tour. A full refund of your ticket (please contact our ticket office to see if you are eligible for a refund) You can […]

WHALE WATCHING CLASSIC 09:00 It was a bit rainy and cold Saturday morning when we left the Old Harbour in Reykjavik. We were sailing a long time searching the bay and looking for the whales. We found 2 pods of white-beaked dolphins but the animals were super-shy and swam right away. Wet, cold, and tired we kept […]

Unfortunately, this was another unsuccessful Northern lights tour this month. With a predicted activity of 4 on the kp-index, the forecast was promising but the clouds were the problem once again. Every now and then some very faint activity seemed to appear but was barley visible to the naked eye and quickly faded again. For […]

If you wish to take a look at today’s pictures, click HERE    WHALE WATCHING CLASSIC 09:00 Today the sea had roughened up a little bit, and the brave passengers that decided to join us were in for an adventure. We had to sail out for quite a while until we managed to find a minke […]

The Northern Lights by Boat tour for tonight has been canceled due to unfavorable weather conditions.  Here are your options: Re-book your tour for the next available night. Exchange your ticket for a Whale Watching tour. A full refund of your ticket (please contact our ticket office to see if you are eligible for a refund) You can […]

WHALE WATCHING CLASSIC 09:00 The sea had finally calmed down a lot for today. That allowed us to sail out much further into the bay than yesterday. On our way out, we found a few white-beaked dolphins that swam happily around us a few times, showing us how curious they can be! A few of them even […]

    WHALE WATCHING CLASSIC 09:00 After several days of cancellation due to strong winds and high waves out at sea, we finally got the green light to go out into Faxaflói bay on our main boat Andrea today. There were still some waves but the sun was shining and the sky was blue! It […]

Blog After a few stormy days with lots of cancelled tours, the forecast looked promising enough tonight to give the northern lights a chance. Indeed, the sky was relatively clear and offered open patches between clouds throughout the tour. However, we waited for northern lights activity in vain. We still enjoyed being out at sea […]

Unfortunately our whale watching tours have been cancelled today due to inclement weather conditions – it is too rough to sail and we want to keep everyone comfortable on our tours!You can contact our reception team to rebook or for more information at info@specialtours.is or +354 560 8800. WHALE WATCHING CLASSIC 09:00 Tour Status: CANCELLEDSightings: […]

The Northern Lights by Boat tour for tonight has been canceled due to unfavorable weather conditions.  Here are your options: Re-book your tour for the next available night. Exchange your ticket for a Whale Watching tour. A full refund of your ticket (please contact our ticket office to see if you are eligible for a refund) You can […]