About Whattodo.is

Who writes Whattodo.is?

Everything here is written and reviewed by the Whattodo.is editorial team. We live in Iceland, we work in and around the travel industry, and we drive the routes we write about — most often the South Coast loop between Reykjavík and Höfn through the winter. For safety-critical content we cross-check with local guides rather than relying on memory or a single source.

We are deliberately a local voice, not a generic travel aggregator. The test for every page is simple: would someone who actually drove that road last week recognise the advice as true?

How do we research and review each page?

Every important page opens with a direct, plain-language answer, then backs it up. For anything that changes — weather, road status, opening hours, prices, safety — we cite an official Icelandic source and link it at the point of the claim, so you can verify it against the live data yourself.

Each page carries a published date and a last-reviewed date, and we revisit pages when the season turns or conditions change. We would rather tell you to check the live forecast than pretend a static page knows today's weather.

What will we never do?

• Never fabricate live conditions or prices. We do not guess today's road status or weather — we link the official live source (SafeTravel, road.is, Veður.is) instead.
• Never use AI-generated photographs. Every photo on the site is a real, credited image — Creative-Commons licensed or our own. AI is only ever used for site chrome like the logo, never to depict a real place.
• Never take payment to rank a place higher. Recommendations are based on what we think is actually worth your time, not on who paid.

Which sources do we trust?

For live, safety-critical information we always defer to Iceland's official services, and we link them directly on the relevant pages:

Spotted something out of date?

Iceland changes fast, and so do we. If a page looks wrong or stale, trust the live official source linked at the top of that page first — and know that we update pages when conditions and seasons change rather than leaving them frozen.