About Iceland Saga Travel

Iceland Saga Travel, LLC (IST) is the US expert for travel to Iceland. IST offers you the wonders of Iceland and its people…all year round. IST is here to help plan and customize your trip to Iceland. IST also specializes in travel to Greenland and the Faroe Islands.

IST plans, coordinates and books trips and tours for individuals, families, groups and businesses. IST provides services to travel agencies on behalf of their clients.

IST has relations and cooperative agreements with:

• 32 general and specialty tour operators throughout Iceland
• 37 hotel chains and individual hotels across Iceland
• 29 guesthouses, over 100 farm accommodations, and 26 youth hostels
• 4 car rental companies
• 3 bus companies
• 4 Destination Management Companies

...and many special organizations such as the Iceland Tourist Board, the Blue Lagoon, LTD., the Iceland Symphony Orchestra, the Iceland Dance Company, the University of Iceland, Icelandic Farm Holidays, Icelandic Youth Hostels, The Icelandic Travel Industry Association (SAF), the Iceland Convention and Incentive Bureau, Reykjavík Spa City, The Saga Center at Hvolsvöller and many other services and facilities.

IST plans, coordinates, and books...

• transportation to and from Iceland on Icelandair, the national air carrier
• transportation within Iceland by air, bus, rental car, boat, bicycle, foot or licensed tour operators
• accommodations at hotels, guesthouses, farms, youth hostels and/or camping grounds
• sightseeing from day tours to multi-day guided tours
• activities including:

  horseback riding, river and sea fishing, whale watching, river rafting, super jeep excursions, mountain climbing, hiking, skiing, dog sledging, hunting, swimming, tax free shopping, symphony, opera, theatre and ballet tickets walking tours and pub-crawling

• special interest group tours such as:

  cultural, historical, religious, educational and literary tours, farm living tours, health spa packages, bird watching and whale watching packages, photography tours, geological and geothermal tours, horse treks, salmon and trout fishing, religious and spiritual retreats, floral and horticultural tours, eco-tours, mystical/ghost tours

• meetings, incentives, conferences and conventions for businesses, professional groups and non-profits
• trips beyond Iceland to:
  • Greenland, the Faroe Islands, and the rest of Scandinavia all on Icelandair, Air Iceland, Atlantic Airlines and Air Greenland

IST handles all bookings and payments and provides its clients with prepaid vouchers for use on trips ranging from bus transport to and from the airport to a visit to the island of Grimsey north of the Arctic Circle. IST can plan trips in detail from arrival to departure or just arrange an air/accommodation package. IST can pre-book restaurant reservations, symphony tickets, bus passes, mobile phone rentals, limousine services, spa reservations, etc. Once travel plans have been booked and paid for, IST will provide the client with city and country brochures, maps and guides as well as a detailed itinerary.

Iceland Saga Travel, LLC is a limited liability company and is owned and operated by Robert D. Felch of Nantucket, MA. Mr. Felch first visited Iceland in 1965 and has been a student of the country's history, culture and tourism business for over 35 years. Mr. Felch has visited Iceland many times over the past five decades and lived in Iceland for two years in 1975-76. During this time Mr. Felch worked on a farm in the north of Iceland, worked in a factory in Reykjavík, Iceland's capital, and attended the University of Iceland where he studied the Icelandic language. Mr. Felch also studied Old Norse, Icelandic literature and history at Cornell University in 1973-4.

In between Mr. Felch's visits to Iceland, he worked for 23 years in corporate America, spending 20 years at Chubb & Son, Inc. as an executive. He also helped his family operate several family-owned retail travel agencies over a 30-year period. He has been active in the local community serving as President of the Chatham Township Historical Society from 1995 to 99 and serving as Senior Warden of St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Chatham from 1995 to 2001. Mr. Felch has been married to Marianne D. Hutton since 1979 and they have two children, Sarah and Dean. Mrs. Felch and Sarah are engaged in the daily operation of IST. The offices of IST were relocated to Nantucket, MA, in September 2002.

Iceland Saga Travel, LLC. (IST) has a contractual agreement with Icelandair/USA as a tour provider. IST is a member of The Wonders Of Iceland Tour Operators Group. In addition, IST has executed partnership and vendor agreements with all the major tour, transportation and accommodation companies throughout Iceland. IST offers services through licensed and approved vendors with whom IST management has met and tested offered services. Mr. Felch will run and guide selected tours to Iceland several times a year during the off-season.