town · Iceland · Golden Circle
On the route
- Time needed
- 30 min – 4 h
- Price
- Free — No charge to stop; the Secret Lagoon (Gamla laugin) is 4,500 ISK adult (secretlagoon.is, read 2026-11-01).
- Season
- Year-round; the Secret Lagoon is open daily 10:00–19:00 October to May and 10:00–20:00 June to September.
- Access
- Paved roads off the Gullfoss road; the Secret Lagoon car park is on the edge of the village.
- Checked
- 1 November 2026
64.131, -20.321 · Iceland
Flúðir
Photograph: Steam over the old pool at Flúðir with a small hot spring beside it — ezioman / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0 (CC BY 2.0)
Flúðir is a greenhouse village in the Hrunamannahreppur farming district, south of Gullfoss, and it earns a place on a Golden Circle route because of Gamla laugin, the old pool sold as the Secret Lagoon. Its operator says the pool was made in 1891 at Hverahólmi and reopened on 7 June 2014; it sits among small hot springs, one of them called Litli Geysir.
The practical line, read today on secretlagoon.is: open daily 10:00 to 19:00 from 1 October to 31 May and 10:00 to 20:00 from 1 June to 30 September, with 10:00 to 18:00 on 24 and 31 December. Adults 4,500 ISK, seniors 67+ and people with disabilities 3,300 ISK, children 14 and under a token fee, with at most three children per adult. Parking is for guests during opening hours only; no overnight parking or camping.
As a detour: Gullfoss to Kerið direct is about 48 minutes; via the Secret Lagoon it is about 68 (OSRM on OpenStreetMap), so the village adds around 20 minutes of driving to a Golden Circle loop that returns to Reykjavík by Selfoss.
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What you can do from Flúðir
- Secret Lagoon (Gamla laugin) at Flúðir
An 1891 pool among small hot springs, open daily 10:00–19:00 in winter, 4,500 ISK adult; about 20 minutes' extra driving on a Golden Circle loop.
lagoon / hot spring · Iceland1.5–2 h · Low costadds 2 h 35 to a day
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