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Travel to Keflavik, visa requirements / Get around / Keflavik attractions and sightseeing / Shopping, Keflavik souvenirs / Good restaurants and cheap meals / Keflavik nightlife, bars, clubs and pubs. / Hotels, youth hostels, lodging / Get outKeflavík (pronounce it "kep-la-vik") is a town in Southwest Iceland that is home to the country's international airport. The population is approximately 13,000.
Travel to Keflavik - Visa Requirements
Keflavík International Airport (Icelandic: Keflavíkurflugvöllur) (IATA: KEF) (ICAO: BIKF), [1]. Keflavik is easily accessible from the airport. Simply follow signs indicating "Keflavik." The airport is about 5 km away from the town proper.
Tours and Getting around Keflavik
The town itself is small and easily explored on foot.
Keflavik tourist attractions and sightseeing
Whale watching tours leave from the harbor. These tours generally last about 3 hours and see dolphins, orca, minke and humpback whales. There is also a festival of lights in late August. Numerous walking paths lead out from town, including a stone path along the water that meanders several miles past seabirds to the lighthouse on the point.
Keflavik souvenirs and shopping
Keflavik Restaurants: cheap, moderate and expensive
Keflavik nightlife, bars, clubs and pubs
Keflavik cheap and luxurious hotels, youth hostels and lodging
- Hotel Keflavik, [2]. Offers a full gym, wireless internet, a restaurant/bar, and free transfers to/from the airport (the hotel will pay for the taxi ride). Rooms are clean and comfortable, and the staff is friendly and helpful. Cheaper rates can be obtained via internet booking on the hotel's web site.12.480 (winter) and 16.640 (summer) when booked online.
- Flughotel, (next to the Hotel Keflavic).
Get out
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