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https://sagatravel.is/ This is the one I used. Make sure to use their contact form if you have questions, they seem more likely to respond that way than by direct email.

I got a response from them just last week, so they’re definitely still operating! If they’re not answering direct emails, try submitting your question through the contact form on their page. A lot of the Icelandic tour operators are smaller companies and only have 1-2 admin staff. I’ve never waited more than 48 hours for a response from any company, so I have a feeling that in your case, the email just slipped through the cracks. If you still don’t have any luck with IGT, Iceland Everywhere and Saga Tours are two other tour companies that I’ve been working with for our upcoming cruise and both have been really great.

@gnome12 dropped a link in the comment above, but if you're booking cruise-ship excursions, I emailed them at info@igtours.is and they were able to give me a full itinerary specific to my cruise, and offered a discount for booking more than one excursion with them.

I stayed with my parents at the Good Morning Copenhagen Star in 2018; it's not in either of your mentioned neighborhoods above, but you might be willing to consider it. We had a spacious corner triple, there was an elevator in the building, and the breakfast was very good. It's 2-3 blocks away from the central train station, 4 blocks from a Tivoli Gardens entrance, and there are supermarkets not too far away either. It's near some hostels, so you might encounter some drunk travelers on the sidewalks in the late evenings, but we didn't feel unsafe walking back late from Tivoli or from a quick trip to a supermarket. Connecting from the hotel to the port involved a light rail ride and then a bus transfer, but I found Copenhagen's public transit to be easily navigable, even with luggage, so I don't imagine you'd have a problem either.

Thanks for the resource! I'm going to add this to our roll call's website-- we have several passengers still looking for tours but the popular companies are all sold out.

there’s 3 of us! even without laundry, there’s never enough hangers. and I believe the ones on board are wooden hotel ones, which is not a good idea to drape wet clothing on them.

Iceland Everywhere has a Golden Circle tour as well. Many of the folks on my Iceland roll call are booked with either IET or Saga for most of our Iceland ports.

We are heading to Akureyri, Isafjordur, Grundarfjordur, and Reykjavik this July. Most of the tour providers our Roll Call forum booked with are sold out, and close to it, and we are still 2 months out. I wouldn't rely on being able to just join a tour at the ports.

We will be docking in Haugesund in July 2022. Our roll call forum has found 3 tour companies after much griping about the lack of things to do in the city (and that we're docking on a Sunday), and we're booked with Go Viking Adventures for their regional highlights bus tour. I hope this helps! CityTrain Sightseeing Go Viking Adventures Guide Companiet

We pack with doing in-room laundry in mind-- mostly lightweight, quick-dry clothes, or clothes that will hold up for multiple wears between washes. We bring a spare bar of white soap and wash the delicates and lightweight stuff in the sink for a 7-day, and hang up any "outside" clothes to air out for a day or two between wears. Make sure to wring your clothes out well and let them drip in the shower stall, and once they've stopped dripping, you can move them out to the main room. If you have a balcony and it's a nice day in port, hang your wet clothes near the balcony door so they'll get some sunlight, or even out on the balcony if you want to risk it (Princess discourages this); otherwise, turn the AC on to a reasonably low temp and your clothes will dry by the time you come back to your room after dinner. Make sure you bring hangers and clothespins for this-- we save the cheap hangers from dry-cleaning and get clothespins from the dollar store, and often leave them behind after a cruise. For longer cruises, there's no avoiding the laundromat, no matter how much sink laundry you do... we do all the same stuff, except we plan one laundromat trip, knowing that we can't wash jeans/sweatshirts/outerwear in the room. Try going during an early morning or a late night, or maybe the late night after a port day when everyone's tired from their excursions. Every 10-14 day cruise we've ever done has been near or full-capacity pre-Covid, so trying to get a machine took me back to my college days.

Pre-covid, I had no issue with filling mine with two tea bags and hot water from the buffet and taking it back to my room (or drinking it there!). I never tried using it at the coffee bar next to the International Cafe, though. I have not sailed during this pandemic era, so I'm not sure what the protocols are now or if they would let me use it at the buffet.