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Elding Whale Watching (Iceland)

Description: Tours head out from the old harbour in Reykjavík Iceland.

Newest Review: ... down and is gets a briefing and are told about the captain's system of alerting people where the whale is by saying 12 o clock (directly in front of the boat), 2 o clock etc, sea sickness tablets are handed out along with water. You then go downstairs and don a warm insulated lifejacket which makes you look like a spaceman, foolishly I dipped my hand in the pocket and found someones used ... more

... tissue but apart from this they were pretty cool. You then get out on the deck and fight for position, seemingly assuming you know where the whales will appear better than anyone else. There's a continuous spring of information coming out of the speakers (...more

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Elding Whale Watching (Iceland): Hardly a Whale of a Time! (607 words)
by - written on 14/05/09 (Very useful, 31 readings)
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Elding is the no.1 whale sighting tour company in Reykjavik, running boats from their harbour every couple of hours, you will likely be handed a leaflet at some point or another during your stay in Europe's most northerly capital city. Now unless you are a fish, it's not every day you get to see a whale so despite being on a budget trip, we were willing to fork out whatever it costed to see one. At 45 Euros per person (I recall it being more when we did it in 2007 though) it's not too dear for a one-off lifetime experience. We bought the tickets at a little kiosk and eagerly awaited the boat to arrive, like Russian babushkas at a tram people wanted ... Read the complete review