Jökulsárlón · With kids

The wheeled boat that drives down the bank and floats off into the lagoon — the version to pick with children. 7,100 ISK for 13 and over, 3,500 for 6–12s, free under 6, with school and group rates lower again. The zodiac alternative is faster, wetter and closed to under-10s.

A 75-minute zodiac trip for 11,300 ISK, April to November, minimum age five, twelve people to a boat with warm flotation suits provided. Departures are from the reception behind the FROST restaurant, then a ten-minute gravel walk down to the dock — not a pushchair route.

Víkurbraut 9: a 25-metre outdoor pool opened in 2009, with a children's pool, hot tubs, a steam bath, an ice bath and sheltered space to sit out of the wind. Weekdays 06:45–21:00, weekends 10:00–19:00, the same hours summer and winter. An adult ticket was 1,450 ISK in 2026; swimsuit or towel hire is about 1,035 ISK each.

The S1 glacier loop is 4.1 km and takes an hour to ninety minutes; S2 to Svartifoss and back is 5.8 km and about two hours. Both are graded easy and both end where they start, which matters with children. Skaftafellsstofa is open all year for maps, toilets and a warm room.

Nineteen kilometres from Höfn and three off the Ring Road: four hot tubs, a sauna and a bar looking straight at Hoffellsjökull. Open 10:00–21:00 May to September and 12:00–21:00 in October, November and February to April, with the last booking at 19:00. Free if you are staying there; their own site lists 4,900 ISK for visitors who are not.