Who are the best luxury tour operators for Iceland?
By Richard Jasinski·Updated 4 November 2026
These 10 luxury tour operators publish an Iceland trip on their own websites with its length or its price. Of them, Quark Expeditions, SA Expeditions and Audley Travel have the most Google reviews. Which fits depends on how you want to travel; each card gives what the company's own website says.
Who are the best luxury tour operators for Iceland?
The 10 luxury tour operators below publish an Iceland trip with its length or price on their own websites; Quark Expeditions, SA Expeditions and Audley Travel have the most Google reviews. Choose by the way you want to travel, using each card's Best for label, then compare the published prices and how each protects your money.
Apsley Travel
- Best for
- Private trips planned to order
- Iceland
- Sells a week-long guided heli-ski trip at Deplar Farm in Iceland, priced from £15,000 to £35,000 per person.
- Website
- apsleytravel.com
Audley Travel
- Best for
- Private trips planned to order
- Iceland
- Runs a 9-day Classic Iceland self-drive tour from £4,895 per person; it also sells a 13-day self-drive tour around Iceland's ring road from £6,425 per person.
- Money protection
- ATOL number 4817 covers its flight-inclusive trips and ABTOT covers trips that do not include flights.
- Reviews
- Google: 4.4 out of 5 from 288 reviews; Trustpilot: 4.8 out of 5 from 5,084 reviews, newest 2 November 2026. Read 3 November 2026; each platform's figure stands on its own.
- Website
- audleytravel.com
Blue Parallel
- Best for
- Private trips planned to order
- Iceland
- Runs a 9-day Iceland Winter Luxury Tour covering Southern Iceland, Northern Iceland and the Blue Lagoon.
- Founded
- 2003
- Website
- blueparallel.com
GeoEx
- Best for
- Group departures and private trips
- Iceland
- Runs a 7-day custom trip, Iceland: The Wild South, from $20,750.
- Reviews
- Trustpilot: 3.4 out of 5 from 2 reviews, newest 9 December 2025. Read 3 November 2026; each platform's figure stands on its own.
- Website
- geoex.com
Ker & Downey World Travel
- Best for
- Private trips planned to order
- Iceland
- Runs a private two-week Ring Road tour around Iceland.
- Website
- kerdowney.com
Pelorus
- Best for
- Private trips planned to order
- Iceland
- Sells Fire, Ice and Four Wheels in Iceland at £20,000 per person for four adults; it also sells Summit to Sea Heli Skiing in Northern Iceland at £32,000 per person for four adults.
- Money protection
- ABTOT protects non-flight packages for Pelorus Adventures Limited.
- Reviews
- Google: 5.0 out of 5 from 4 reviews. Read 3 November 2026; each platform's figure stands on its own.
- Website
- pelorustravel.com
Quark Expeditions
- Best for
- Trips on ships it operates
- Iceland
- Runs a 12-day Iceland Circumnavigation voyage with helicopters, glaciers and volcanoes from $14,903 US per person.
- Money protection
- Is covered by the USTOA Consumer Protection Plan, which requires it to post US$1 million with USTOA to reimburse advance payments if it becomes insolvent.
- Reviews
- Google: 4.8 out of 5 from 604 reviews; Trustpilot: 4.9 out of 5 from 577 reviews, newest 24 October 2026. Read 3 November 2026; each platform's figure stands on its own.
- Website
- quarkexpeditions.com
SA Expeditions
- Best for
- Private trips planned to order
- Iceland
- Runs an 11-day Iceland self-drive adventure from $5,790 per person.
- Reviews
- Google: 5.0 out of 5 from 379 reviews; Trustpilot: 4.9 out of 5 from 1,304 reviews, newest 31 October 2026. Read 3 November 2026; each platform's figure stands on its own.
- Website
- saexpeditions.com
VBT Bicycling Vacations
- Best for
- Guided group trips
- Iceland
- Runs an 8-day Iceland guided walking tour by yacht from US$11,945 per person.
- Money protection
- Takes part in the USTOA $1 Million Travelers Assistance Program, which it shares with affiliates of Xanterra Leisure Resort Holdings, so recovery may be only partial.
- Reviews
- Google: 4.1 out of 5 from 48 reviews. Read 3 November 2026; each platform's figure stands on its own.
- Website
- vbt.com
Wexas Travel
- Best for
- Plans trips run by other companies
- Iceland
- Sells a 4-day tailor-made Reykjavik Summer Adventure from £1,340 per person including flights.
- Money protection
- Holds ATOL and ABTOT licences, but where it acts as agent protection comes from the tour operator or cruise line; no ATOL number is shown.
- Reviews
- Google: 4.6 out of 5 from 61 reviews. Read 3 November 2026; each platform's figure stands on its own.
- Website
- wexas.com
Which of these companies protect your money?
5 of the 10 name a scheme that protects guest payments on their own websites, such as ATOL for UK flight packages, ABTA or USTOA membership, or a trust account; the rest do not name one on the pages read.
- Audley Travel: ATOL number 4817 covers its flight-inclusive trips and ABTOT covers trips that do not include flights.
- Pelorus: ABTOT protects non-flight packages for Pelorus Adventures Limited.
- Quark Expeditions: Is covered by the USTOA Consumer Protection Plan, which requires it to post US$1 million with USTOA to reimburse advance payments if it becomes insolvent.
- VBT Bicycling Vacations: Takes part in the USTOA $1 Million Travelers Assistance Program, which it shares with affiliates of Xanterra Leisure Resort Holdings, so recovery may be only partial.
- Wexas Travel: Holds ATOL and ABTOT licences, but where it acts as agent protection comes from the tour operator or cruise line; no ATOL number is shown.
Which of these publish a price for Iceland?
8 of the 10 give a price in the line quoted on their card; ask the others for a written quote with the same inclusions.
- Apsley Travel
- Audley Travel
- GeoEx
- Pelorus
- Quark Expeditions
- SA Expeditions
- VBT Bicycling Vacations
- Wexas Travel
Which other companies on this page fit Iceland?
Quark Expeditions has the most Google reviews of the 10; these 4 have the most Google reviews of the rest.
- SA Expeditions: Private trips planned to order
- Audley Travel: Private trips planned to order
- Wexas Travel: Plans trips run by other companies
- VBT Bicycling Vacations: Guided group trips
Who to contact first
Start with the 5 companies on this page that name a scheme protecting your payments on their own websites, then add any other card that fits your dates.
What to ask each one to set out in writing:
- The exact Iceland itinerary by night, with each stay named.
- What the price includes and excludes, line by line: stays, guides, transfers, internal flights, park or entry fees.
- The deposit, when the balance is due and what you lose if you cancel.
- Which scheme protects your money and the number to check it.
Iceland tour operators: the questions people ask
Which luxury tour operators publish a price for an Iceland trip?
The cards above quote each company's own line on Iceland; the section on prices lists those whose line carries a figure. Prices are as published on 3 November 2026 and change with season and group size.
Is it better to book Iceland through a tour operator or direct?
A tour operator puts guides, stays and transfers into one booking and, where it names a protection scheme, protects your payments. Booking each part yourself means you arrange the guides, stays and transfers and check how each supplier protects your money.
How far ahead should I book a luxury trip to Iceland?
None of the facts on this page sets a booking window. Ask each company when its preferred stays and guides fill for your dates and when its balance is due.
Which of these companies protect my money if they fail?
5 of the 10 name a protection scheme on their own websites: Audley Travel, Pelorus, Quark Expeditions, VBT Bicycling Vacations and Wexas Travel. Check the number with the scheme itself before you pay.
Which of these have Trustpilot profiles?
4 of the 10: Audley Travel, GeoEx, Quark Expeditions and SA Expeditions. Each card gives the TrustScore, the review count and the newest review date, read 3 November 2026.
Which of these have the most Google reviews?
Quark Expeditions, SA Expeditions and Audley Travel, in that order. A count says how many people reviewed a company, not whether it fits your trip; each card gives the rating and count, read 3 November 2026.
Where can I check these facts myself?
Each card links the pages of the company's own website its lines were read from, with the date they were read.
How were these companies chosen?
Each one is in the Uncompromised Travel luxury tour operators table, built from the luxury tour operators ChatGPT names most often; its own website publishes an Iceland trip with its length or its price, in a line that names Iceland. A company is on the page because its published facts fit the question, never because it paid.
Is any company on this page paying to be here?
No. No company on this page is a partner of Uncompromised Travel; none paid to be on it.
Read next
Built to answer the question in the main heading. What is shown: what each company published on its own website, read on 3 November 2026, with links to the pages read, with its Google and Trustpilot figures where the listing carries the company's own name, from the Uncompromised Travel luxury tour operators table. Cards are in alphabetical order. Photos show the places named in their captions, not any company's trips. No company on this page is a partner of Uncompromised Travel. How this site earns · How we work.