Best Of Reykjavík Activities 2024: Best Place To Spend A Rainy Day

You’ve had your five a day (veggies/beers/panic attacks), now you gotta stay active. Whether it’s to get a dose of culture, hopping on a day tour or splashing around in your municipal pool, you can’t go wrong with our picks for Best Activities.

Best Place to Spend a Rainy Day

Noztra

Grandagarður 14, 101 Reykjavik

This is maybe the most zen indoor activity you can find on a rainy Reykjavík day. Over in the Grandi area, you can plonk down with some soothing music, order a hot cup of tea and paint some ready-made ceramics while gazing out at the sea. You don‘t need to fire up a kiln or do any of those fancy spinny plate ceramic moves. You just sit down, with your colours and mindfully paint little dots on a bowl you‘ll never use. Then the good people at Noztra will glaze it and bake it and, hey presto, a few days later you get your stupid little bowl that you somehow love more than most of your relatives. It‘s like a casino for chill, non-gambling adults. The panel got all quiet and dreamy just thinking about it.

Runner-Up:

Spilavinir

Suðurlandsbraut 48, 108 Reykjavík

The panel was still in harmonious agreement on the virtues of the Spilavinir board game oasis but we wanted to give someone else time in the centre of the spotlight this year. Spilavinir is, as its Icelandic name implies, a place to make new friends who love board games as much as you. Stacked with all the latest games and all your favourite classics, you are bound to find something to tickle your fancy here.

Runner-Up:

Útrásin Smash Room

Gufunes, 112 Reykjavík

This rage room can be found in Skemmtigarðurinn, an all-ages amusement park with some activities definitely appealing more to the adults. Getting a bucket of beers and some loaded nachos and smashing a roomful of wine glasses definitely counts as the latter. They also have axe-throwing, archery tag, paintball and minigolf. Let out your inner suburbanite and rage against that dying light…with a sledgehammer.

Previous Winners

2023: Spilavinir