Iceland Trip: My wife and I are planning a trip to Iceland in March of 2017. We leaning towards these two companies for our photo tour. Does anyone have any experience with either of...

PACSMAN Loc: MA

My wife and I are planning a trip to Iceland in March of 2017. We leaning towards these two companies for our photo tour. Does anyone have any experience with either of these? We're really not interested in renting a vehicle and wandering around on our own. Thanks in advance.

http://iceland-photo-tours.com/iceland-winter-aurora-photo-workshop/
http://icelandaurora.com/tours/winter-workshop-with-iurie/

mas24 Loc: Southern CA

You may want to do a uhh search on Iceland. Members who have already visited there, and posted incredible photos on this forum, this year, 2016.

PACSMAN Loc: MA

Thanks - I did that and also visit the forum every day and have viewed the posted images on Iceland but I am looking for anyone who has experience with the links posted.

mas24 wrote:

You may want to do a uhh search on Iceland. Members who have already visited there, and posted incredible photos on this forum, this year, 2016.

gwong1 Loc: Tampa, FL

I do not know of them but noticed that they use the some of the same guides. Gary

joehel2 Loc: Cherry Hill, NJ

I was in Iceland this past March 2016. http://arcticexposure.is/ is the tour company I traveled with. The operator is Skarpi Thrainson, a native born Icelander, and professional photographer. I had my first tour to Iceland with him in February 2014 and I traveled with him and Iurie Belagurshi in Sepember 2014. Iurie is the tour operator who runs the two companies in your post. If I went back to Iceland, I would go with Skarpi but you really can't go wrong with either of them.

Rickyb

Nordic Visitors is probably the best and most reliable of any. We had them 2 years ago and we went to Greenland also. This was in July. Why March?

joehel2 Loc: Cherry Hill, NJ

joehel2 wrote:

I was in Iceland this past March 2016. http://arcticexposure.is/ is the tour company I traveled with. The operator is Skarpi Thrainson, a native born Icelander, and professional photographer. I had my first tour to Iceland with him in February 2014 and I traveled with him and Iurie Belagurshi in Sepember 2014. Iurie is the tour operator who runs the two companies in your post. If I went back to Iceland, I would go with Skarpi but you really can't go wrong with either of them.

I just wanted to make it clear that the tours with Skarpi were tours for serious photographers; you are out before sunrise and back after sunset traveling to locations and shooting the entire day plus in March you will be out every evening after dinner chasing the Aurora.

PACSMAN Loc: MA

Thanks joehel2 - that's exactly the type of information we were looking for; all of the operators have nice websites, but we were looking for information from someone who had actually been on a tour. Many thanks.

joehel2 wrote:

I was in Iceland this past March 2016. http://arcticexposure.is/ is the tour company I traveled with. The operator is Skarpi Thrainson, a native born Icelander, and professional photographer. I had my first tour to Iceland with him in February 2014 and I traveled with him and Iurie Belagurshi in Sepember 2014. Iurie is the tour operator who runs the two companies in your post. If I went back to Iceland, I would go with Skarpi but you really can't go wrong with either of them.

sunrise101

Hello PACSMAN, check their guests testimonials here: https://iceland-photo-tours.com/testimonials/ :)

cosmo54 Loc: Easton, PA but will travel for photos

I would go with Skarpi again in a heartbeat!

plessner Loc: North Dakota

joehel2 wrote:

I was in Iceland this past March 2016. http://arcticexposure.is/ is the tour company I traveled with. The operator is Skarpi Thrainson, a native born Icelander, and professional photographer. I had my first tour to Iceland with him in February 2014 and I traveled with him and Iurie Belagurshi in Sepember 2014. Iurie is the tour operator who runs the two companies in your post. If I went back to Iceland, I would go with Skarpi but you really can't go wrong with either of them.

I was there with a group in Feb 2015 and Skarpi was our guide
did a fantastic job