Reviews for The Rough Guide to Iceland

The average rating for The Rough Guide to Iceland based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2015-03-05 00:00:00 Hartmut Henkel I will refrain from rating this book til I get back from Iceland and can tell you how correct the information was! The book is formatted well, I appreciated the information included, especially the historical and saga excerpts. I only read the first third of the guide since that covered all the areas I will be visiting. This time. :)

Review # 2 was written on 2013-05-28 00:00:00 Alexander Haun Decent guides to Iceland are thin on the ground, and this looked to be my best bet for a three-day stopover in the country. I drove around using a map and this guidebook, mostly. While there were aspects of the guide that I enjoyed, such as the synopses of Icelandic sagas, it could use some updating and fact checking as there seemed to be more than the usual quota of inaccurate information. I worried needlessly over taking a road described as rough, for example, that was in fact paved. The wrong street was listed as the ideal place to view the city and some admission prices had risen, which didn't particularly surprise me. However, what I found most annoying in working with this e-book was that the maps had very poor resolution when expanded on my iPad. As they were essentially unreadable without expansion, this rendered them useless.