Stykkishólmur Swimming Pool

Admission was $13 Canadian basically. Super easy process, don’t be scared of the local pool! Bring your suit and a towel. Take your shoes off. Strip down. Put your stuff in a locker. Stuff your towel in a cubby hold. Shower naked. Put your suit on. Scamper out to a hot pool. Our host told us the water was really special with great properties for the skin but to avoid getting your hair wet in it. When you’re done, scamper back inside (I avoided the cold plunge lol), strip down, shower, dry off with your towel and put your suit through the super fast dryer. Reassemble yourself...

Pretty straightforward town pool. The pool was well heated and had quite a few lap lanes. They had a shallow kiddy pool with a box full of pool toys which was around 34c° along with two hot tubs, one was 36-38c° and the other was 38-40c°. They also had a small cold plunge pool which was 4-6c°. The locker rooms were clean and well kept and price of admission included a locker which used an interesting chip lock system. Price was somewhere around 900isk per adult if I...

Went with my wife and 3 kids so bought a swimming card as I was staying for a week, this was more expensive than paying for regular admittance. This is how you save money in every swimming pool in the county apart from this one. My Icelandic wife pointed this out to the man working there but he was unable to do the math. The pool is an average Icelandic pool. No one is making sure that the tourists wash themselves so there is a lot of chlorine...