Our first trip to Iceland was with
DCL for a Norway, Iceland, Scotland, England cruise.
@Calfan and
@CaliforniaGirl09 were on the same cruise. This was the summer of 2015 and Iceland was beautiful! We loved it and wanted to come back and see what it was like in the winter. So, we went again for Thanksgiving 2017 and I did post some pics on the old thread. I have linked those below.
This page has an excursion we did plus further down northern lights
https://www.disboards.com/threads/i-love-credit-cards-so-much.3528202/page-495
Pics from Reykjavik
https://www.disboards.com/threads/i-love-credit-cards-so-much.3528202/page-499
Icelandic ponies, and frozen waterfalls
https://www.disboards.com/threads/i-love-credit-cards-so-much.3528202/page-501
Blue Lagoon and ice cave
https://www.disboards.com/threads/i-love-credit-cards-so-much.3528202/page-502
I'm not gonna lie, it was bloody COLD!!!! Mind you we did Winter in Wyoming with
ABD and had temps below zero which felt less cold than Iceland in the 20s. Yes, it was 20 something in November. I wasn't using Instagram back then so I don't have pics from the Iceland trip there. They are all on FB. One of these days I'll get around to posting some latergrams LOL While Iceland in the winter is lovely and worth braving the cold to see the northern lights, you'd be doing yourself a disservice by not seeing it in the summer. That said, I think it's an easy trip to plan. We stayed at a Hilton in Reykjavik and were upgraded to club level since we were gold at the time. The Aspire card didn't exist back then. We ate most of our meals in the club lounge which was perfect! Food is expensive in Iceland. There are plenty of tour operators and lots to do.
I think you could knock out 2 birds with one stone and do both Hawaii and DLR. This is what we are doing with my family next summer. I've only got a week to work with. The plan is roughly to fly out on a Friday after work, arrive in LAX and transfer to DLR. Spend the weekend at DLR, fly out to HNL on Monday morning, stay 4 or maybe 5 nights at Aulani. Fly back to LAX on Friday stay one night fly out to Florida on Saturday so we have Sunday to recuperate. I'm only doing this because none of them are well traveled and I think putting them through 11 hours of flying all in one shot would be too much. So. I'm breaking it up a bit on each end. If it were just DH and I, we'd fly out straight to HNL and then back to LAX on Wed and stay 3 nights for DLR and then fly home.