We spent most of day two in Reykjavik going to the Blue Lagoon. Instead of booking through the cruise ship we made our own arrangements which included a shuttle from the BSÍ Terminal which was about 3k from our cruise ship, so we grabbed a taxi in the morning and have Icelandic Kroner, we hope, for the trip back.

We boarded the bus (which had free WiFi!) and made our way to the Blue Lagoon. A lot (most?) electricity in Iceland is geo-thermal electricity, where the natural geo-themal heat is used to heat water to generate the electricity. The Blue Lagoon is the run-off from a nearby power plant and originally the ponds were just a place to keep the water as it cools down. It felt that it was very touristy, but they are doing their best to make it work effectively. The ponds a very warm and quite heavy in minerals. I will admit I enjoyed the onsen in Japan much better than this essentially “tourist” trap and at €60 a person, it wasn’t a quick dip. It was relaxing though and at least we can say we did it!

We had booked into Q-Sine (produced cuisine), which we also had the Celebrity Millennium. It is an interesting concept of the restaurant, where the vast majority of dishes are “sampling” dishes intended to be shared. Think of it sort of as “world wide tapas” and they pride themselves in having cuisine from all over the world. We really enjoyed it on the Millennium and were looking forward to it on the Eclipse. They did not disappoint as they did have most dishes shared between our previous experience but also a few different ones. Since they have 20 and you might order 5/6 per sitting, we had a few that we hadn’t tried yet as well as a couple old favourites from our previous cruise. It was a gut busting amount of food though in the end and we also agreed to have a pudding, which we had found rather unspectacular on the Millennium, which again, we felt about the same here.