This Viking beer, pictured here, will set you back around $8 in a bar. It used to be over $10, but the dollar (and the euro too) has appreciated against the local currency, so things are not as ugly as a year ago.
It’s a decent beer, but nothing special. It’s not any better than the 75-cent beer in Panama or the $1 or less ones you’ll find in some 30+ countries around the world. It doesn’t hold up well compared to the awesome $1.50 beers you’ll drink in the Czech Republic .
It’s not all about the beer, of course, but if a beer in one place is six or eight times what it costs in another place, you can bet hotels, taxi rides, museum admissions, and meals will also cost far, far more as well.
More on Iceland later though, beyond the prices. Great photos to come…
