Your own car from Denmark to Iceland: the 2027 sums

No total, and here is why. Smyril Line prices the Norröna by sailing date, cabin and vehicle in its booking engine only; on 1 November 2026 its prices page returned 404, the booking search looped through redirects, and the front page named three products, "Ferry Crossing", "Iceland with a stop in the Faroe Islands" and "Cruise", without a fare class or a figure. So the fare for a car and two adults, Hirtshals to Seyðisfjörður and back, is the one line this post leaves blank, and it is the biggest line. Everything else can be computed from dated figures, and it is below, so that when you have the quote you have the rest.

#Fuel, leg by leg

The twelve-day ledger assumes a foot passenger with two hire cars. With your own car the Danish and Faroese legs are the same and the Icelandic one changes shape: instead of ending at Keflavík on Day 12 it has to come back to Seyðisfjörður for the Thursday ship. The shortest honest version keeps Days 6 to 10 as written, Seyðisfjörður to Mývatn, Akureyri, Reykjavík, Vík and Höfn, 1,221 km, then drives Höfn to Seyðisfjörður on Day 11, 212.1 km and about 3 h 05 by OSRM, and sleeps there for the 10:30 sailing. Iceland is then 1,433 km, not 1,706, because the Höfn-to-Keflavík return is gone. All at the ledger's 7.5 l/100 km.

The Danish figure is an industry association's indicative list price; the Faroese one a single national posted price; the Icelandic one the mode of 75 capital-area stations, with a floor of 255.20 the same afternoon. None is converted into the others, because no exchange rate was read today and the site does not invent one.

#Tolls and fees with a published figure

Faroe Islands: 450 kr for the ledger's three days paying Tunnil yourself (Vágatunnilin 50 kr leaving Vágar, Eysturoyartunnilin 175 kr each way to Klaksvík, Norðoyatunnilin 50 kr leaving Klaksvík), online within six days or an invoice with 50 kr added; the tunnel-toll post on this site has the table. Iceland: Hornafjörður is crossed once on this loop rather than twice, ISK 1,500 (Vegagerðin, 31 August 2026); the Vaðlaheiði tunnel on Day 7 is paid afterwards at veggjald.is, which would not open today, so its amount is a check item. Denmark: the Storebælt bridge between Zealand and Funen is on the Copenhagen–Hirtshals road and its 2026 price page showed only return discounts (246 DKK evening, 346 weekend, for cars under 6 m, from 1 January 2026) and not the one-way fare; another check item. Foreign plates in Iceland and the Faroes are invoiced to the registered owner, so a Danish car pays as a Faroese one does.

#The days

This is the cost that is not in kroner. The summer timetable's return sailing leaves Seyðisfjörður on Thursday at 10:30, calls at Tórshavn at 03:00 on Friday and reaches Hirtshals at 12:30 on Saturday. Taking the car home therefore adds the Thursday-to-Saturday crossing and the Saturday-to-Sunday drive to Copenhagen: four days on the twelve, sixteen in all, with a second night at sea and the Faroes passed at three in the morning. The ledger's FAQ already says this; the table above is what it costs in fuel, about 36 litres more than the foot-passenger version in Denmark (the 480 km back from Hirtshals, which the table does not repeat) and nothing more in Iceland, where the kilometres fall.

#Against flying and hiring

The comparison cannot be finished here, for the same reason as the ferry line: no airfare and no hire rate were read on an operator's page today, and the site does not carry either as a number. What can be said is the shape. Flying puts you in Iceland on the first day and costs two one-way hire cars, one in Tórshavn and one from Egilsstaðir to Keflavík with a drop fee the ledger calls "not small". Driving costs the Norröna fare both ways, four more days, the fuel and tolls above, and gives you a car you know with a boot full of Danish groceries. Fill in three quotes, the Smyril Line fare for a car and two in the cabin you would accept, an airfare and a hire quote with its drop fee, and the sum is yours. The dated rows here will be wrong by the time you read them, which is why each carries its date.

#Sources

• Smyril Line, front page and products (no fares; prices page 404, booking search redirect loop), read 1 November 2026: https://www.smyrilline.com/
• Smyril Line, sailing schedule and check-in (2027 PDF, one-hour check-in rule), read 1 November 2026: https://www.smyrilline.com/sailing-schedule/
• Drivkraft Danmark, prices (petrol 95 18.49 DKK, diesel 20.69, "gårsdagens pris"), read 1 November 2026: https://www.drivkraftdanmark.dk/priser/
• Magn, fuel prices (95 E10 15.75 kr, diesel 16.61, from 23 October 2026), read 1 November 2026: https://www.magn.fo/oljuprisir
• bensinverd.is, capital-area prices (95 most common 284.20 ISK, lowest 255.20, highest 289.40, at 15:30), read 1 November 2026: https://bensinverd.is/
• Tunnil, English summary of tolls and payment, read 1 November 2026: https://www.tunnil.fo/english
• Vegagerðin, Hornafjörður toll from 1 September 2026: https://www.vegagerdin.is/en/about-us/operation/news/gjaldtaka-a-hringvegi-1-um-hornafjord-hefst-i-september
• Sund & Bælt, Storebælt prices (one-way fare not shown; return discounts from 1 January 2026), read 1 November 2026: https://www.storebaelt.dk/en/prices/
• veggjald.is, Vaðlaheiði toll (HTTP 404 on 1 November 2026): https://www.veggjald.is/
• OSRM over OpenStreetMap, Höfn–Seyðisfjörður and Copenhagen–Hirtshals, computed 1 November 2026: https://project-osrm.org/
• The twelve-day Iceland and Faroe Islands ledger on this site: /journeys/iceland-and-faroe-islands-by-ferry-12-days