In addition to being affordable, these provide a pleasantly authentic Icelandic experience, allowing you to rub elbows with Icelanders who come home from work or school, grab a towel, and head to the pool. Many have a wide variety of pools, saunas, steam rooms, and waterslides. Every community of even a few hundred people seems to have scraped together the funds for their own well-maintained pool complex, often with a (warm) lap pool and at least one or two smaller hot pools (called "hot pots"). While those baths have big marketing budgets and attract lots of international visitors, they're rarely frequented by Icelanders - who know that you can bathe in equally luxuriant 100☏ water for a fraction of the price, albeit in simpler surroundings, at one of the country's many thermal swimming pools (sundlaug). Other tourist-oriented bathing experiences include the Secret Lagoon, a simple but cleverly marketed bath a short drive from the Golden Circle route. And a new facility called Krauma is being developed at Deildartunguhver in West Iceland. Some bathing experiences cater primarily to tourists, chief among them the heavily advertised "premium baths." The most famous of these is the Blue Lagoon near Keflavík Airport, but a similar (if smaller) version is Mývatn Nature Baths in North Iceland - a must for those doing the Ring Road.Ī less impressive premium bath is Fontana, which is handy to the Golden Circle route. Iceland has a wide range of options for enjoying its relaxing (and, yes, slightly stinky) thermal waters.
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