Blue Lagoon: Blissful Bathing, Bloody Awful Toilet Doors

Privy Counsel HQ is cold as hell today, and we've been sitting here reminiscing about times when we have been warm in the past. For instance, the time when we were enveloped in the hot springs of Iceland! The Privy Counsel heartily encourages visits to the Blue Lagoon spa (or Bláa lónið, as the natives prefer calling it), and equally heartily disapproves of the showers at said establishment. If there is one thing the Privy Counsel most decidedly does not appreciate (apart from non-integrated taps, poor ventilation and, actually, a very large number of other things) it is fancy showers with water coming from the bloody ceiling, denying one the option of whether to wet one's hair and/or glasses or not. Also, the Privy Counsel's anonymous benefactor was irritated at being kept waiting with a herd of tourists until the clock struck 10:00 and the staff were allowed to let people in, saying it was "like queueing in the bloody Soviet Union".

However, the bathing experience is exactly what all the websites say it is - emphatically lovely!

So far, so unobjectionable

Mineral-enriched soap - why not?

 

We love the tap and the paper towels (although they're not, alas, unbleached)

AN ESTABLISHMENT CHARGING SUCH EXORBITANT ENTRY FEES SHOULD BE ABLE
TO AFFORD DOORS THAT GO ALL THE WAY TO THE WALL! EMPHATICALLY NOT OK!!!

Annoying: the water comes from the ceiling. Image from Travbuddy.

Our least favourite things were the doors and the showers. But everything else was lovely.
View a 360-degree panorama of the Blue Lagoon here. Get useful information from our dear friend Wikipedia here.

Blue Lagoon

240 Grindavík

Iceland

420-8800
http://www.bluelagoon.is/
http://www.bluelagoon.com

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