Laugavegur — Attraction in Reykjavik

If you're in town, chances are high that you will walk this street. We came down from the Hallgrímskirkja and had some time left.

It's filled with lots of shops from fashion, sports gear, arts & crafts to the big chains. Lots of restaurants, cafés and quirky bars as well. Surely at night this is a very lively place. But we prefer it more quiet nowadays and came here in daytime. And it was pretty quiet, despite it being a pic-perfect sunny day. It was ok. But streets like these in big towns are all a bit the same. Didn't really do it for us. Surely a must-do for first visits. But nothing to come back to. At...

Laugavegur has become a disappointment year after year. It's filled with souvenir shops stocked with overpriced, imported products, restaurants serving costly yet mediocre food, and bars where you hesitate to buy a second round because the first one nearly drained your account. There’s no real justification for this. Taxes? Plenty of countries with higher taxes manage to keep things more affordable. Wages? Many of the people working in these shops, bars, and restaurants are often paid under the table.

I could go on, but I’ll stop here and just hope that, someday, a real shake-up will set things...

This street is a wonderful main street with interesting stores perfect for all your gift buying needs, restaurants, galleries. On my must go list was to the Blue Lagoon store to buy some mud masks. The Dill Michelin star restaurant (definitely make reservations in advance and have some room on your credit card) was an unforgettable restaurant featuring food you may have had and never have but all prepared with care and amazing flavors. Just incredible.

Coming back from Dill around 9:30 pm at night, there were a number of people out and about on the street and it...