There are additionally submerged therapy choices, with in-water massages and ‘float remedy’ offering the chance to to absorb all of the experience of ‘bodyworkers’ with out having to depart the lagoon.
If that every one sounds far too enjoyable, you may name on any member of the infinitely-attentive – but on no account intrusive – crew of hosts to e-book you on one of many many exterior excursions, starting from helicopter excursions of the Reykjanes Peninsula to guided images excursions, volcano excursions, snowmobiling, snorkelling among the many subaquatic sizzling springs at Kleifarvatn lake and ATV adventures.
We opted for the latter one morning, and rapidly discovered ourselves motoring throughout lava fields, black sand seashores and insanely lunar-like mountainscapes earlier than stopping-off to heat our freezing fingers in a type of puffs of volcanic steam; the unmistakably eggy sulfur odor being the one factor to carry you again to actuality throughout an in any other case completely otherworldly expertise.
Whether or not you spend your days white-knuckling your manner across the island’s out of doors exercise scene or soaking the day away within the lagoon, your worked-up urge for food is in no hazard of being left wanting.
With a comfy, universally dressing gown-clad breakfast served within the sunken foyer seating pre-sunrise (worry not the lie-in was protected – dawn is not till 11am in December) and afternoon tea served day by day in the identical spot, different mealtimes supply up the spectacular alternative between the spa restaurant (serving an distinctive burger), Lava restaurant (relaxed eating with beautiful views out onto the shores of the Blue Lagoon) or the jewel within the crown: Moss restaurant.
Having been awarded a Michelin star earlier this summer time, Moss, led by Head Chef Aggi Sverrisson, sees 5 and 7-course set menus take you on a various tour of the heritage of Icelandic delicacies.
Switching effortlessly between meals from the mountains to the farmlands, by way of rivers and oceans, dishes are nearly Oscar-worthy of their visible theatrics, with dry ice tumbling over salt-fresh prawns and perfectly-seared beef served atop a smoking lump of genuine volcanic rock.
After heading again by means of that vast-yet-cosy foyer to our room on the ultimate night time, we acquired our first much-anticipated ‘wake-up name’ whereas packing. The Northern Lights had lastly appeared.
