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Well if you are flying on United like us, the check in counter doesn’t open until 8am. We could have slept another 45 minutes to an hour longer. It only took 45 minutes to get from the cruise terminal to the airport and was an easy process.

The Einar Jonsson Museum and Sculpture Garden is across the street from the church. We were going to skip it but I quickly looked at reviews on Trip Advisor which were very positive so we decided to pay to go in. It was definitely worth it from our perspective and cost about $11/person after we calculated the cost in US $. My husband usually doesn’t care too much for art museums but liked this one. Sculptures To go downstairs to see most of the sculptures, you had to take these curvy steps. The upstairs area had displays of the furnishings of the artist and his wife. Most sculptures were inside but you could access the few sculptures outside without having to pay.

We continued walking to Hallgrímskirkja Church which is the largest church in Iceland. We passed displays of tempting pastries at a bakery along the way. And an interesting looking building. There were WCs outside of the church as they had no public restrooms in the church. Waffle stand. There was no fee to go inside the church but you can pay to go in the tower of the church but we chose not to do this.

Next, we walked down the street to the Sólfar (Sun Voyager) sculpture. When we got to the sculpture, there was a woman standing within the sculpture taking selfies. There were probably about 20 of us waiting for her to move so we could take photos of the sculpture. She didn’t budge for awhile and finally a man gestured to her that she needed to move and pointed to all of us waiting to take photos. But she still didn’t move so someone offered to take a photo of her and the sculpture which finally got her to move. We were laughing so hard as we couldn’t believe how long she stood in place taking multiple selfies and possibly a video while we all waited. 🤣 I should have taken a photo of her and the waiting crowd but missed my chance.

Yesterday morning we took a free shuttle bus from the cruise port to the Harpa concert hall. Our bus also shuttled passengers from Coral Princess. Harpa is a beautiful building.

Here are a few taken the first morning at breakfast. The buffet area was quite crowded when we were there. They do have outside seating with overhead heaters.

Thank you for following along. I believe the scenic cruise into Geiranger started about 8 or 9 am on this itinerary as we didn’t arrive there until before 11am. It is spectacular and is like an excursion just by being on the cruise. Have a great cruise!

Thank you! We were really lucky with the weather and had a great time!

Great suggestion. We are on a US based air carrier and preorderd our meals although I’m sure I ate so much the past two weeks I need to adjust back to normal eating. 😄

I can’t comment on the tour but hope you have a great cruise! We loved Prima and the service and food were fantastic!

The line to disembark was really short at about 6am. Have a wonderful cruise!

Well it’s that sad time to report that we are off the Prima waiting on the bus to go to the airport.

Thank you for following along. Yes, 2026 seems too far away I am still working on learning how to properly pronounce all the port names and spell them correctly.

When my husband told guest services about the “joke” it was considered to be so bad they wanted to contact security. He said no, it needs to be handled within the cruise director staff for their inappropriate response. We know English is their second language and know they are trying so hard. Maybe they didn’t understand how bad this “joke” was?

We were at the Majority Rules game before Essence Duo played again. With Majority Rules, if you are the last team to turn in your answer, you have to dance, tell a joke, sing or be a sad flamingo. It was fun to watch the singing and dancing from the members who were late. A man said he wanted to tell a joke. The joke was one that was horribly demeaning to women. If told at my work or my husband’s work, it would likely result in immediate termination as it was that bad. It got worse as the cruise director staff running the game laughed at the joke and asked if the team should get a point for the joke. We thought they should have said it was inappropriate and the joke should be awarded no points. Only one team cheered but everyone else was speechless. The cruise director staff said the team should get an extra point for telling the joke. We spoke to the cruise director staff after the game to say that joke was horrible. They said they can’t control what people say and they left quickly acting like we were wrong for saying something. My husband waited in line at the guest services and the people working at guest services agreed it was very inappropriate and said it needed to be reported to Alvin the cruise director and they got him on the phone to hear my husband. Alvin said he wound talk to the staff members on how to respond to something Ike this in the future. It was like we went back 40 years and made it acceptable to act like women I would not cheer for one of our sons to make those comments. And any woman who worked in the 70’s, 80’s or 90’s or beyond or before can tell if their own yucky situation of things like this happening as if it was nothing and no big deal.

Current situation. Essence Duo playing in Syd Norman’s for three sets tonight. We said we should go back to the cabin early tonight to get sleep since we have an early wake up. But knowing we have a 6 hour flight, 4 hour layover and a 4 hour flight, we have plenty of time to sleep. Syd Norman’s is a great venue for Essence Duo. He is fantastic on keyboards and singing and her voice is amazing. They start vacation tomorrow. We have the Majority Rules game show before their next set.

I heard about the ice cream and will need to try it. We are going to come back and take a cruise from Reykjavík. The ones going from Reykvavik to New York with four times of pushing the clock back one hour looks good to us. We just are so spoiled after being on Prima which we loved that Star doesn’t seem as appealing.

It was a great cruise and is one of our top 3 NCL cruises taken. We have an 11am flight and plan to disembark between 6-6:30am Hopefully this document below will help you see different options. We did see a woman disembark with her luggage this morning.

In addition to having lunch at the Local today, we also stopped by one evening for a late night snack. We also went there for breakfast one morning when we woke up late on a sea day and missed the breakfast hours for all locations including the buffet. My husband loves the beef chili. Today’s soup of the day was chicken tortilla / my favorite. I like the chicken salad sandwich but the burgers looked good I blame the soup for the reason why I could barely eat much of the sandwich My husband got a hot dog anyways. It was great today and the hot fudge sundae was delicious.

We arrived in Reykjavik early this morning and will stay overnight. Crew don’t have to be back on until 2am.

We are on the cruise shuttle bus now and had planned to have lunch at the Local today. We passed on getting the famous Iceland hot dog as there was a decent line and we weren’t too hungry for a hot dog.

If we go to Bruges again, I’ll try to find the French fry museums. Sounds interesting to me, too.

We are sad today is the last day. It has been a wonderful cruise and the weather was much better than I expected. Vigur Bird Island looks like a great option for Isofjordur. I’m glad to hear your husband had a great time. We may have been at Palomar at about the same time. When we were leaving the spa yesterday afternoon, we saw the people who brought in several cocktails per person and were drinking them while it the pools. That is something I haven’t seen before in the spa. I’m sorry to hear you were impacted by someone with a lot of perfume. Enjoy your last day! Thank you for contributing to this review. I enjoy hearing about your experience. Feel free to share more with photos when you get home.

Good morning from rainy Reykjavik. The forecast says it should be cloudy for most of the day and then rain again in the evening. A few days ago, we canceled the 8 hour excursion we had scheduled today as we both did not like the idea of a long bus ride on our last day. We plan to go on a cruise that starts in Reykvaik in the future and will likely rent a car to see the sights. We had a nice leisurely breakfast followed by trivia with a Starbucks drink. We are about to go explore Reykjavik and it looks like the rain has stopped for now.

There is an Ambassador on the cruise who has been on Prima since April in Miami. She is disembarking in Reykjavik before cruising with her family later this year. She said she has more than double the number of points needed for Ambassador.