Thread: looking for Iceland suggestions

Yeah, we went about a year ago.
Liked it a lot!
We hired a car and went into Reykjavik for a little bit, then drove the Golden Circle, and down to the southern coast near Vik.
You will see all the highlights on those routes, including Gullfoss, Seljalandsfoss, Skógafoss, Geysir, Kerid Crater, and the black sand beach in Vik.
We did not go, but this park is supposed to be nice as well: Thingvellir. It is close to all the other places.
It was simple to drive over there, and often we went awhile without seeing any other cars. The roads are well maintained, but there are a lot of dirt roads too.
It is mandatory to buy volcano ash insurance for the car hire. To fuel our compact car, it was about $70.

We did not do the Blue Lagoon. I would like to do that in the future. However for this trip, we were short on time, and wanted to focus on nature. Blue Lagoon is man made, and is considered a big tourist trap.

This is where we stayed and it was a nice hotel: Hotel Hafnarfjordur a family apartment hotel in Reykjavik / Hotel Hafnarfjordur

I see you are going in the fall, so you should be ok by then, but be advised that Iceland is experiencing a huge influx of tourism, and they do not expect to have enough hotels to meet that demand.
Iceland "sold out" this summer? - Iceland Monitor